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The 96th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, featured its share of political satire and celebrity reactions. During his monologue, Kimmel poked fun at Alabama Senator Katie Britt's rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address, likening her to Emma Stone’s character in her film Poor Things. FILE - Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit in New York, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, that…

The youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate, and the first from Alabama, chose a long-sleeved green blouse for the biggest speech of her political career. The centerpiece was the crucifix pendant hanging from her necklace, which would occasionally flicker when Sen. Katie Britt shifted her weight. This wasn’t by accident: What better way to communicate trustworthiness to evangelical voters than a cross?Britt’s melodramatic delivery of the State of the Union rebuttal last week was widely panned on social media…

A sex trafficking survivor whose story was used by Sen. Katie Britt during her disastrous State of the Union rebuttal called the senator’s characterization of her story “unfair.”  On Thursday, Britt said in her State of the Union rebuttal that during a recent visit to the southern border, she spoke to a woman who was “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12.” Britt blamed President Joe Biden for the woman’s plight. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely…

Republican Sen. Katie Britt, who delivered her dramatic rebuttal to the State of the Union in an angry whisper from her kitchen, refused to admit she told a story of a sex-trafficking survivor in her speech that misled the audience to believe it took place in the U.S. under the Biden administration. Even when questioned about it on Fox News, Britt refused to acknowledge she wrongly tried to link the story to President Joe Biden. During Britt’s speech, she told a story of a woman she spoke with who had been “sex…

Josh Brolin, the “Avengers: Endgame” actor riding high (on a worm, even!) on the success of his latest film “Dune 2,” proved a reliable “Saturday Night Live” host for the third time. Is he the most dynamic guest host ever to appear on the show? No. Is he the funniest? No, but he’s clearly got a great sense of humor and a willingness to shed his vanity that goes a long way on a sketch show.In this outing, Brolin shed more than his vanity: in his monologue, he stripped down to his underwear and took a dip in an ice-filled…

"That was honestly some of the worst acting I've ever seen, and I've seen me," Colin Jost joked Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s verbal blunders and the GOP’s State of the Union rebuttal by Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Reacting to how Trump had criticized President Joe Biden’s address to Congress Thursday, writing on Truth Social that “the words are not flowing smoothly out of his mouth,” co-anchor Colin Jost said in jest that “we can’t all speak with the…

Saturday Night Live‘s cold open was indeed what many had asked for: a biting parody of Alabama Sen. Katie Britt‘s cringey rebuttal to President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address Thursday. SNL‘s Britt, played by Scarlett Johansson, told viewers from the start that for the next few minutes, she would be “auditioning for the part of scary mom” and “performing an original monologue called ‘This Country Is Hell.'” “My husband, Wesley, and I just watched President Biden’s speech, and what I saw was the…

Until Katie Porter won her congressional seat in 2018, being a Democrat in Orange County was like rooting for the Angels: Someone has to do it, amirite?Republicans had held a majority of my home county’s legislative, congressional and supervisorial seats for decades. They maintained a robust ecosystem of candidates, funneling activists onto school boards and party committees to learn how politics works before moving on to higher offices. The GOP way took Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the White House, the latter…

The ritual surrounding the annual State of the Union is never complete until the president’s opposition has presented its rebuttal — occasionally in an embarrassing manner.  Katie Britt, the junior Republican senator from Alabama, delivered the GOP’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address on Thursday. Her impassioned, breathless speech — delivered at times in an ASMR-esque whisper from what appeared to be her kitchen — ended up feeling more like a rejected audition tape for a supporting role on “Grey’s Anatomy”…

Donald Trump didn’t write Katie Porter’s requiem post on social media. But throw in a few misspellings and capitalized letters, and he very well could have.“Because of you, we had the establishment running scared,” she told supporters of her unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid in a statement Wednesday night on X. This, Porter continued, despite her being massively outspent on TV and facing an “onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”That word — rig — suggesting there was something illicit, fishy or not…