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Florida delegate Dianne Krumel from Pensacola shows her support for Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the start of the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

Trump butts in: The best late-night jokes about the DNC, Night 3

June 11, 2018 at 9:29 p.m.

Wow. President Obama on Wednesday night keynoted the Democratic National Convention. Bill Clinton spoke the night before, Michelle Obama the night before that. Who can the Democrats possibly get for...

Healing the Bern: The best late-night jokes about the DNC, Night 2

June 10, 2018 at 11:10 a.m.

Tuesday was a history-making day at the Democratic National Convention: Meryl Streep gave a performance that will not earn her an Oscar nomination. Oh, and the Democrats became the first...

Convention chaos returns: The best late-night jokes from the DNC, Night 1

June 25, 2019 at 6:41 a.m.

Delegates booing the name of the nominee. Party leadership in disarray. The enduring words of Michelle Obama. This wasn't the Republican National Convention redux. It was, instead, the Democrats' version...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

And now this: John Oliver returns to take on the Trump convention

June 11, 2018 at 9:01 p.m.

And on the seventh day, John Oliver had his say. The British comedian, star of HBO's "Last Week Tonight," was silent during last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland because...

Law enforcement officers take protesters into custody July 20, 2016, in Cleveland during the third day of the Republican convention.

‘The Trumpening’: The best late-night jokes about the RNC, Night 4

August 21, 2019 at 7:19 p.m.

Donald Trump on Thursday night accepted the nomination of the Republican Party to be president of the scorched hellscape that is the United Yet Cowering States of America. That, at...

Steve Thompson, Senior VP of Capitol and Programatic Planning at Lincoln Park Zoo shows off the new penguin house which will have views of the penguins both in and out of the water.

Lincoln Park Zoo sets return date for penguins

December 17, 2018 at 5:45 p.m.

After five years gone, the penguins' return to Lincoln Park Zoo is imminent.At a hard hat tour Thursday of a new zoo habitat for a new species of penguin, the...

‘The Red Convention’: The best late-night jokes about the RNC, Night 3

June 11, 2018 at 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday's Republican National Convention coverage, comedy edition, saw some new players enter the fray, and by "fray" I mean "basketball stadium where people lustily boo the second-place candidate." Conan O'Brien...

Melania, Melania, Melania: The best late-night jokes about the RNC, Night 2

June 10, 2018 at 10:41 a.m.

You could teach a comedy writing class by analyzing the late-night shows' response to Melania Trump's Monday night Republican National Convention speech, which spent most of Tuesday turning into the...

Colbert for the win: The best late-night comedy from the RNC, Night 1

June 10, 2018 at 9:21 a.m.

The big comedy news on the first night of the Republican National Convention wasn't Donald Trump taking the stage to Queen in his quest to rekindle American exceptionalism -- "to...

Trevor Noah and ‘The Daily Show’ lead the fray in convention coverage

March 29, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

How do you wring comedy from an infomercial? That's the test the nation's late-night shows will take beginning Monday as they attempt to bring satirical perspective to the quadrennial conventions...

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