I watch all of the late night talk shows every night (Fallon, Kimmel, Colbert, and Corden while he was on). It was fun for a long time watching Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers tear he who shall not be named (and his cronies) apart each week, calling him out on his lies, but like Stephen Colbert said in one of his monologues last week, I'm so tired of him now. I just want him to lose and be forgotten about so the entire country can move on from this divisive state we're all in. I am just about fully drained at this point and I can't take much more.

The only one I may still be able to watch is Jimmy Fallon since he at least does a mix of jokes in his monologues and doesn't focus on just one thing. I wish Conan was still on the air, he and Andy were always good for a laugh.

Is anyone else feeling this way lately?

Does anyone know why closer looks segments have been so limited this year? There's been weeks between them and now it seems that there's only two each week. That's part of my husband and I Friday night ritual to watch them and it's a bummer that we have been able to as often as we normally would.

Odd situation…I’m watching all the nightly talk shows and for the last couple months, I’ve noticed an above average (avg being 0…) number of guests promoting children’s books they’ve just published.

I didn’t watch nightly talk shows last fall so I’m not sure if it’s a seasonal thing or not but is this typical for actors to put out children’s books each fall or is there something else going on because I mean seriously…Anyone who knows prompt engineering and ChatGPT can write a children’s books…what’s going on????

Any thoughts on who has the best musical, performing guests, occasionally performing at the end of the show? I usually watch Colbert and Kimmel and Kimmel seems to get more popular acts, where Colbert seems to get more sophisticated and sometimes folksy talent. Kimmel's guests play on an outdoor stage in L.A. with young crowds partying in the California sun and Colbert has an indoor N.Y. City stage in a colder venue and we don't see much of the crowd, but some audience shots from earlier appear to be an older crowd. Any thoughts?

I was pretty stoned watching his podcast for the first time because he interviewed Tony Angelo (motortrend, YouTube), and maybe it's because I'm old and he's old but I wanted to share and hear others opinions. I was always a big fan of Conan. And I think Tosh has Conan level talent.

Try Some More News. My husband and I call him YouTube John Oliver. There are some random bits for humor but I love his commentary and the subjects this team brings forward to discuss.

I got confirmed tickets, but do I still have to get there early if they oversell? What was the experience like and was it worth it?!

I have really only just watched Myers, Colbert and Oliver (Noah would be on the list, too, but now I guess its just, whoevers taking over for him in the meantime? Lol i wish he would come back)

This is driving me crazy. In the days following the Harris-Trump debate, I remember watching some late night or comedy show sketch of some male host interviewing a spoof "member" of team Trump who was explaining Trump's debate claim of having "concepts of a (health care) plan". The comedic aspect was that the latter spoke perpetual layers of meta, saying things similar to having the idea of thinking of preparing of proposing (and so on...) about the concepts of a plan. I want to say it was on Kimmel, Jon Stewart, or Seth Meyers, but I carefully scrubbed through all their (and even Colbert's and Fallon's) recent episodes on Hulu and YouTube since the debate, and I could NOT find this sketch. Anyone remember seeing this sketch and can positively identify its origin? Thanks in advance.

I wonder if the shows could make some extra cash if they released footage of their house bands' whole performances the next day behind pay walls. Not a lot of people would subscribe I guess, but some surely would, like me! I imagine such a thing would be cheap to produce since they already have the footage and music rights. Sometimes it's like torture to only hear bits of the songs that these great bands play during commercials! On my mind this week for obvious reasons.

Does anyone know when the first  appearance of the Dancing Itos on the Tonight show was? My google-fu wasn't able to find any date for when they first appeared.

Now it’s just a special host now and then, and anyone know when Jimmy will be back?

If you don’t know, this is Benny Johnson https://youtube.com/@bennyjohnson?si=6hYA2cpL3MtsmaQt

Am I the only one who can’t stand the Amber Says What segment? How is her yelling “whaaaat” into the camera for 10 minutes funny? It seems like such lazy writing/comedy.

When I say I pray for the downfall of modern late night every day I need everyone to know I’m never talking about John Oliver.. NEVER EVER.. I hope they keep that man on a car battery I need my eps

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