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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/YouTubeBill Burr is drawing high praise for absolutely roasting HBO late-night host Bill Maher during a recent exchange about the Israel-Hamas War and college protests, prompting observers to applaud the acid-tongued comic for “shutting down an incredibly self-important” Maher.During a recent appearance on Maher’s podcast Club Random, in which the 68-year-old Real Time star smokes weed and drinks while whining about “woke” liberals with his guests, Burr stunned the host by declaring cancel culture “over” and that “no one cares anymore” about it.“That’s so not true, either one of us could get canceled in the next two minutes,” Maher exclaimed.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Walt Disney TelevisionRob Marciano, the veteran ABC News meteorologist who provided weather updates for Good Morning America and World News Tonight, has been fired by the network, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Daily Beast.ABC News gave Marciano the boot on Tuesday following complaints from multiple network staffers over his behavior, sources noted. Marciano’s allegedly aggressive behavior, as Page Six reported last year, had resulted in the weatherman being “banned” from the GMA studio for roughly a year. An ABC News spokesperson declined to comment on Marciano’s firing. Puck first reported on Marciano’s exit. “He was found to have done something … that was improper, but he was punished for it, and they still haven’t let him return,” a network insider told Page Six last year. The outlet reported that Marciano was barred from the set after making a colleague feel uncomfortable.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Sean Zanni/GettyMAGA cable network Newsmax is attempting to force longtime Trump friend and billionaire grocery store magnate John Catsimatidis to testify in Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit alleging the right-wing channel knowingly peddled election lies.The cable outlet also names Catsimatidis’ media companies, Red Apple Media and WABC Radio, in its petition to enforce a subpoena.According to the petition, obtained by The Daily Beast and filed Monday in the Supreme Court of New York County, Newsmax is seeking to depose Catsimatidis to ascertain why he and his radio station have not been named in Dominion’s defamation lawsuits about the 2020 presidential election.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNCNN anchor Dana Bash decimated her colleague David Urban on Sunday when he insisted that pro-Palestinian protests outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner received no cable news coverage.“You were inside drinking!” Bash shot back after Urban, a CNN senior political commentator, claimed he never saw CNN’s reporting on the demonstrations.During Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, Urban was part of a panel that discussed Saturday evening’s dinner, otherwise known as “Nerd Prom.” At one point in the conversation, the former Trump campaign adviser contrasted President Joe Biden’s struggling poll numbers with the specter of “liberal elites” bashing conservatives at the D.C. gala.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNCNN anchor Dana Bash decimated her colleague David Urban on Sunday when he insisted that pro-Palestinian protests outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner received no cable news coverage.“You were inside drinking!” Bash shot back after Urban, a CNN senior political commentator, claimed he never saw CNN’s reporting on the demonstrations.During Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, Urban was part of a panel that discussed Saturday evening’s dinner, otherwise known as “Nerd Prom.” At one point in the conversation, the former Trump campaign adviser contrasted President Joe Biden’s struggling poll numbers with the specter of “liberal elites” bashing conservatives at the D.C. gala.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNCNN anchor Dana Bash decimated her colleague David Urban on Sunday when he insisted that pro-Palestinian protests outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner received no cable news coverage.“You were inside drinking!” Bash shot back after Urban, a CNN senior political commentator, claimed he never saw CNN’s reporting on the demonstrations.During Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, Urban was part of a panel that discussed Saturday evening’s dinner, otherwise known as “Nerd Prom.” At one point in the conversation, the former Trump campaign adviser contrasted President Joe Biden’s struggling poll numbers with the specter of “liberal elites” bashing conservatives at the D.C. gala.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Drew Angerer/GettyFormer CNN star and ex-Meta executive Campbell Brown sparked confusion this week by saying she was going to Israel, where it would be safer for her Jewish children than her native Upper West Side, amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests against the war in Gaza.Brown’s husband Dan Senor, the former Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq chief spokesman and Mitt Romney foreign policy adviser, reacted to his wife’s X post with an emoji-filled tweet expressing solidarity with Israel.While Brown’s tweet (and her husband’s reaction) seemingly suggested they are uprooting her family for a move to Israel, a source familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that the ex-CNN anchor was merely traveling there to celebrate the Jewish high holiday of Passover and is not permanently moving there.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The HillRight-wing commentator Bethany Mandel on Wednesday blamed “hot mic” remarks made by a left-leaning host for her now-infamous inability to define the word “woke” on live TV, claiming she was thrown off by “nasty” comments made about parents minutes earlier.“Just before we went on air, Briahna Joy Gray was on a hot mic,” Mandel tweeted. “I heard her demeaning parenting in general in colorful and nasty terms, stating parents only have kids in order to perpetuate their own narcissism.”She continued: “As a mom of six, including a newborn, this threw me off just a bit. Not an excuse, just a reality. I’m human!”Read more at The Daily Beast.