The Banter Long Read: In the wake of the 2016 election, stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt wrote a sobering status on Facebook that I've been thinking about a lot recently. Oswalt (whose new special, Annihilation, is streaming on Netflix now) has always been something of a polymath, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 20, 2018

Because appointment television is rapidly dying - and being equally as ruined by spoilers on social media (you people are animals) - there's a good chance you missed Samantha Bee's brutal "Not The White House Correspondent's Dinner" special on Saturday night by either living ...read more

• By Mike Redmond
  May 1, 2017

In case you missed yesterday’s inaugural installment of a new nightly feature we’re testing at the Banter, I’m an idiot who’s going to try and recap the one thousand developments festering out of the current administration with stunning regularity. Will I hit everything? ...read more

• By Mike Redmond
  Nov 9, 2018

A big round of applause for Samantha Bee for this gem:  In response to it being International Women's Day, the president tweeted out the following: Which is of course why he has called women fat, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals, talks about grabbing them by their genitals, has ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 8, 2017

As the Republican Party grapples with the very real prospect that Donald Trump will be their nominee for the presidency, other candidates have been busy plugging themselves as sensible moderates in a field of loonies. Marco Rubio is the frontrunner, but John Kasich is regarded ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018