Ronny Chieng dissed new fitness plans from the Trump administration for travelers in American airports: “We can’t even walk to the gate. They had to invent floors that walk for us.”

“Call me a boomer, but these participation trophies have gone too far,” Stephen Colbert said before presenting himself with the First Annual Stephen Colbert Joke Prize.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” became a flashpoint about free speech in the country after it was temporarily suspended this year.

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President Trump expressed his love of “Phantom of the Opera,” got in more digs at Jimmy Kimmel and joked — perhaps — about adding his name to the arts center he has taken over.

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The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.