{"id":47712,"date":"2025-04-16T04:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/late-night-revels-in-harvards-rejection-of-trumps-demand\/16\/04\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T04:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:55:31","slug":"late-night-revels-in-harvards-rejection-of-trumps-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/late-night-revels-in-harvards-rejection-of-trumps-demand\/16\/04\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Revels in Harvard\u2019s Rejection of Trump\u2019s Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night\u2019s highlights that lets you sleep \u2014 and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/arts\/television\/best-movies-on-netflix.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">50 best movies on Netflix right now<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-142ffca1\">What, Like It\u2019s Hard?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, the Trump administration announced it would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/us\/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">freeze $2.2 billion in multiyear grants<\/a> to Harvard after the private university refused to implement requested changes to its hiring, admissions and curriculum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ronny Chieng adopted a Boston accent on Tuesday\u2019s \u201cDaily Show\u201d to express that Harvard was fighting back \u201cwicked hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-1ggt3fz etf134l0\">\n<p class=\"css-12wzsk6 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe finally found a force more powerful than Trump\u2019s hatred: Harvard\u2019s love of sending rejection letters.\u201d <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u2014 RONNY CHIENG<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12wzsk6 evys1bk0\">\u201cHey, Trump administration, now you\u2019re just like the rest of us because you just got rejected by Harvard.\u201d \u2014 <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">STEPHEN COLBERT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1ggt3fz etf134l0\">\n<p class=\"css-12wzsk6 evys1bk0\">\u201cFolks, as I mentioned before, it\u2019s Tax Day or, as billionaires call it, \u2018What?\u2019\u201d <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u2014 STEPHEN COLBERT<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12wzsk6 evys1bk0\">\u201cDoes anyone even work at the IRS anymore? 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Our IRS office downtown \u2014 they turned it into a Spirit Halloween store.\u201d <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u2014 JIMMY KIMMEL<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3f07bc9e\">The Bits Worth Watching<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The actor Finn Wolfhard reflected with Colbert on 10 years of filming \u201cStranger Things\u201d ahead of the Netflix show\u2019s final season, on Tuesday\u2019s \u201cLate Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1f978490\">What We\u2019re Excited About on Wednesday Night<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No stranger to late night, David Letterman will appear on Wednesday\u2019s \u201cEverybody\u2019s Live with John Mulaney.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/16\/arts\/television\/late-night-trump-harvard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night&rsquo;s highlights that lets you sleep &mdash; and lets us get<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/late-night-revels-in-harvards-rejection-of-trumps-demand\/16\/04\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/16\/arts\/16latenight\/16latenight-facebookJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}