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White House Dismisses SNL Premiere’s Trump Satire as “Watching Paint Dry”

The cold open riffed on perceived pressure on late-night shows by casting FCC chair Brendan Carr as the president’s enforcer.

Colbert’s Post-Cancellation Monologues Heighten Merger and Free-Speech Scrutiny