silly season

noun

a time of year, usually in midsummer or during a holiday period, characterized by exaggerated news stories, frivolous entertainments, outlandish publicity stunts, etc.:
The new movie reminds us that the silly season is here.

silly season

a period, usually during the hot summer months, when journalists fill space reporting on frivolous events and activities

First recorded in 1870–75

Going by the spate of recent commentary on the stock market, we’re in the midst of silly season.

Silly season has started—and both parties are trying to fund-raise off the fringe.

Would such a move even be possible in the hottest days of the silly season?

Mark McKinnon on the end of silly season—and the battle ahead.

The Shroud is generally lumped in with silly-season subjects, such as Atlantis, yetis, and UFOs.

Stanley Crouch tries to make sense of the White House silly season.

But as all such diplomatic flurries do, this one will pass, leaving the flatness of the silly season upon us.

We'll look after ducal mansions in the silly season, when everybody's out of town.

Speaking generally, the cold weather may be said to be the “silly season” of the bird world.

Those newspaper fellows got hold of it for the Silly Season and ran it to death, but it's the best possible place in the world.

The papers teemed with letters—it was a kind of Indian summer of the silly season.

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