"This morning, yet another new Democratic candidate pushed his way into the clown car," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show, welcoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to the race — kind of. "You hear the hometown crowd warmly receiving that," he joked as the audience groaned. "De Blasio's announcement was met with a resounding: 'Really? Why?'" One poll found that 76 percent of New York City voters didn't want de Blasio to run, and "it's not like de Blasio's popular outside of New York City, either," Colbert said, pointing to a New Hampshire poll in which de Blasio got 0 percent support.
De Blasio's top campaign priority, at least as laid out in his launch video, is putting "working people first" — and Colbert finished his thought: "Except the working people of New York, because I'm going to spend the next two years not becoming president."
In Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel groaned at de Blasio's "Con Don" nickname for President Trump. "He really puts the 'blah' in de Blasio," he said on Kimmel Live. "Maybe he's running for president so he can get away from all the people who hate him in New York. I really don't know what Bill de Blasio is thinking — he has no chance of winning." He compared de Blasio's campaign to "the saddest birthday in town," with props.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
But it's not just de Blasio. "At this point, announcing you're running for president is like announcing you're running a 5K," Kimmel said. "Good for you. No one cares. Don't post pictures. There are now 23 Democrats in the race, and unless one of these guys has a dragon we don't know about, I don't know how any of them come out of this alive." Watch him switch to mocking another "beloved New York City politician," Anthony Weiner, below. Peter Weber
-
What to know before turning to AI for financial advicethe explainer It can help you crunch the numbers — but it might also pocket your data
-
Book reviews: 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief' and 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run'Feature The search for a headache cure and revisiting Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album on its 50th anniversary
-
Keith McNally' 6 favorite books that have ambitious charactersFeature The London-born restaurateur recommends works by Leo Tolstoy, John le Carré, and more
-
Florida erases rainbow crosswalk at Pulse nightclubSpeed Read The colorful crosswalk was outside the former LGBTQ nightclub where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting
-
Trump says Smithsonian too focused on slavery's illsSpeed Read The president would prefer the museum to highlight 'success,' 'brightness' and 'the future'
-
Trump to host Kennedy Honors for Kiss, StalloneSpeed Read Actor Sylvester Stallone and the glam-rock band Kiss were among those named as this year's inductees
-
White House seeks to bend Smithsonian to Trump's viewSpeed Read The Smithsonian Institution's 21 museums are under review to ensure their content aligns with the president's interpretation of American history
-
Charlamagne Tha God irks Trump with Epstein talkSpeed Read The radio host said the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could help 'traditional conservatives' take back the Republican Party
-
CBS cancels Colbert's 'Late Show'Speed Read 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' is ending next year
-
Shakespeare not an absent spouse, study proposesspeed read A letter fragment suggests that the Shakespeares lived together all along, says scholar Matthew Steggle
-
New Mexico to investigate death of Gene Hackman, wifespeed read The Oscar-winning actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their home with no signs of foul play
