Overview
- Glaser used her opening monologue to target topical media controversies, focusing on CBS News and the Epstein files.
- She mocked the Warner Bros. Discovery sale chatter with a mock auction line, asking if anyone would bid $5.
- Referencing the Epstein materials, she joked about heavily redacted lists and quipped that the Justice Department won Best Editing.
- She labeled CBS News “America’s newest place to see b.s. news” and handed it a sarcastic “Most Editing” award.
- TheWrap connected the barbs to Skydance’s $8 billion Paramount purchase, a $16 million 60 Minutes settlement with Donald Trump, a promised ombudsman, and Bari Weiss’s editor-in-chief appointment, as the telecast aired on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ Premium during Glaser’s second straight year as host.