In the UK, Jack Whitehall has amassed quite the following and, as such, is trying to make headway on this side of the pond.
He’s already got a late night appearance on Corden, and now, he has just performed his first stand-up set on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
From the sound of those applause breaks, Whitehall might be well on his way to growing a U.S. fanbase
The brilliant Kurt Braunohler does his subversive version of a late night talk show complete with animals, nudity, and more.
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Frequent bit player at Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show’s newest contributor, Michelle Wolf, makes her latest late night stand-up set about the positives and negatives of a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. Somehow, she makes that seamlessly tie in with Amelia Earhart and short men.
Over the last few years, there have been several multi cam sitcoms that were cancelled in their first season. In fact, it was so many that it left many wondering if multi cam was on its way out as a viable comedy series format.
The Carmichael Show has proven otherwise and Jerrod Carmichael offered some insight on why that might be during his appearance on last night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.
In case you haven’t noticed, Michelle Wolf will be joining what is still a pretty stellar collection of Daily Show contributors.
Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Jordan Klepper, Ronnie Chieng, Desi Lydic, Al Madrigal, John Hodgman, Aasif Mandvi, and Adam Lowitt are the current members of the “best f#@king news team”, which is already pretty impressive.
Now they’ll be getting even better with the addition Wolf as a contributor and writer. She has been a highlight of Late Night with Seth Meyers with all of her segments and characters that have been featured throughout.
Whenever Wolf’s Daily Show debut is, be sure to catch it.
Nate Bargatze returned to The Tonight Show, as he’s one of Fallon’s favorites, to perform his latest stand-up set.
Starting off, Bargatze touched on his personal experience with flying, then succinctly explained the thought process behind many dumb people who like Donald Trump/Drumpf.
Josh Gondelman has been well deserving of joining the late night ranks of stand-up comedians and his first set on Conan backs that claim up and then some.
If you really dug Josh, it might be a good idea to get his newly released album, Physical Whisper.
Cameron Esposito is a shining beacon both as a comedian and a person. She has so much going on between developing her own show and having a special come out on Seeso that it makes us 2016 might be one banner year in many banner years that Cameron has coming.
So, it comes as no surprise to us that she nailed her Late Late Show set sporting a great white leather biker jacket and talking about her dear, wonderful wife.
Fox will finally be joining the ranks of late night once again, this Saturday, March 12th, with a brand new sketch show, Party Over Here.
Alison Rich, Nicole Byer, and Jessica McKenna along with the guidance of The Lonely Island and Paul Scheer are going to bring what seems to be a more fast paced, fourth wall-breaking version of sketch to television.
Get your first look at what they all have up their sleeve here.
Conan managed to break another stand-up that deserves a spotlight into the late night circuit with Portland’s own (by way of Texas) Shane Torres.
Shane not only gives a solid debut, but some solid advice to deal with dead relatives’ unfinished business.
Having short form in late night seems to be the order of the day for cable networks. Adult Swim has only grown bigger over the years, but the History channel has their Night Class and now, TruTV is showcasing short form content on Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack.
Get a taste, pun intended, of what Late Night Snack will have to offer, as picked by the one and only Rachel Dratch, with this prank Screen Test, a sketch from one of our longtime favorites, Lost Moon Radio, and a music video from NYC’s Austin Martinez dedicated to pretending to sleep.
If you’re more than intrigued like we are, watch the premiere of Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack this Thursday, Mar. 3rd at 11PM on TruTV.
Carmen Lynch is the latest stand-up to perform on Conan and not only does she garner applause breaks throughout, but shows that there is original way to talk about a topic that’s overly commonplace in stand-up, dating.
Coming from a personal place, Carmen along with Rust presents a unique comedic perspective on that awful thing comedians refer to as dating (amongst other manly topics), especially since her height in particular didn’t do her many favors in regard to any romantic chase.
Kristen Schaal, after her interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, made sure that her appearance was extra special by making the audience in attendance at Studio 8G, the happiest audience in the whole entire world.
So, one by one, she went through the crowd with a bunch of marriage proposals. Yes, it’s proposals and not just one proposal.
If this doesn’t brighten your day, then, well, we’re not sure what we can do for you.
Before you knew her as Chloe O’Brian from 24, Mary Lynn Rajskub was on stage as a stand-up comedian. In fact, any time she has had away from the show over the years, she has stepped back up to the mic.
So, we’re not surprised to see her on The Tonight Show do a stand-up set last night rather than not sitting on the couch and chatting with Jimmy or winning puppies from a quiz.
As cute as puppies can be, we prefer this much more.
Two different generations of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart got to go head-to-head in the recurring Friday Night Fights segment last night as John Hodgman and Late Show host Stephen Colbert made arguments for who would win in a fictitious battle (ex. Big Foot vs. Tooth Fairy).
For those familiar with Tournament of Nerds, you know the drill.
Did you know that a shout-out can take a really aggressive, dark turn?
Thanks to Will Ferrell, they now can be that and more. Watch him do just that on last night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.
As of this post, Adele Carpool Karaoke is almost at the 70 million view mark on YouTube, which, according to Deadline, is now the new pinnacle of viral late night clips.
For decades, the format of the late night talk show had pretty much stayed the same with all the trappings of monologues, well tailored suits, desk pieces, celebrity guests, bands.
Now, in the 2010s, the tried and true format of late night is no longer tried and true. Rather than hanging out and hearing the crazy stories of famous people, viewers of late night seem to want to see something crazy actually happen on the show and perhaps only that.
James Corden took over The Late Late Show from Craig Ferguson only last year, relatively unknown in America, and has now scored a viral video that has out performed all the silly games that Jimmy Fallon, the late night leader pretty much from his start at The Tonight Show, plays with A-listers pretty much every night that he tapes an episode.
When Corden inherited The Late Late Show, there was scarcely any online presence for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as brief out-of-context interview clips were the only thing that would CBS would bother uploading on to YouTube. There is a reason that Corden went from pretty much zero to 70 million hits in a matter of a months.
The Internet and, more specifically, YouTube and social media, have commodified late night TV into more of a spectacle than it ever was. Remote segments, games, trips outside the studio are all things that are resonating with the current landscape of late night. Adele singing and joking around with James Corden being the most watched late night YouTube clip perfectly illustrates this change.
Such things specifically include Conan O’Brien doing any of his segments out in the wild or going abroad, Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle, the pranks that Jimmy Kimmel hatches or his ongoing faux feud with Matt Damon, the deep segments on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that are uploaded early Monday morning. You’ll note that you’ve probably seen all of these an almost innumerable times on your various social media feeds, both in embedded video and in .gif form.
Sure, Letterman used to throw random things off of a roof and Leno used to find dumb people out on the street who didn’t know what we’d all assume is basic common knowledge for JayWalking. However, in 2016, you don’t have to watch all of The Late Show or The Tonight Show just to get to watch those segments or bits. At any time of the day, you can watch just those specific parts, over and over and over, and nothing else.
With this being the case, many of those aforementioned late night tropes like the opening monologue of topical jokes and desk pieces are slowly fading in relevance in favor of what makes for the most viral sounding headline.
When Conan does entire special episodes where he travels to remote locations, it more resembles something that Anthony Bourdain would do rather than The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
Last Week Tonight, @midnight, and now, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all offer something also atypical of what late night has been for so very long by trading chats with celebrities for dozens more topical jokes that aren’t merely delivered while standing on stage without a video package to throw to. Their success is signs of the winds of change at 11PM onwards.
With all of that being said, the old guard late night talk show is, for now, still in tact. Stephen Colbert is, in a surprising turn from The Colbert Report, presenting a very high brow, well executed version of the traditional late night talk show. In fact, Colbert pulls off many feats as a late night talk show host, especially when it comes to who he books and how he interviews or interacts with who he books, that his competition cannot because they’re off focusing on all the things mentioned above. Whether he can ascend to the top of the mountain of late night like his predecessor David Letterman did and stay there has yet to be seen, but Colbert definitely has the brilliance to do so.
Oh yeah, because of Trevor Noah, Larry Wilmore, and Samantha Bee, there is finally more than one late night show right now not hosted by a white guy.
Though they’re inevitably some doubters and skeptics, all these new trends are probably for the best. When it’s easier to watch live TV and stream content on the Internet on the same device (and that’s probably pretty soon), know that late night is only going to get more shaken up.
Last Week Tonight finally returns this Sunday on HBO, so host John Oliver stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers.
On top of previewing what the gang at Last Week Tonight will be up to now that the 2016 Presidential Race is well underway, Oliver gives a great outsider perspective of how transcendent the Super Bowl is as well as questioning why Coldplay was there.
Thank goodness Sunday is only a few days away.
Conan remains a champion of a stand-up comedy on late night where it’s sparing elsewhere. The other time honored late night tradition of having comedians return to perform is something else that Conan and company thankfully hold up.
Sharp, seasoned veterans like Adam Cayton-Holland make it worth Conan’s while.
Watch his 2nd Conan set here.
(via Splitsider)
Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger, Ryan Perez, Marques Ray, Danny Jelinek…
…Lauren McGuire, Yamara Taylor, Carl Tart, and Rachel Lee Goldenberg are the additional writers/directors/cast of Party Over Here on top of The Lonely Island, Paul Scheer, and Nicole Byer/Alison Rich/Jessica McKenna.
That’s some of UCB and Funny or Die’s best that make this new late night sketch series at Fox even more enticing.
(via The Wrap)
So, it’ll be Fallon and Meyers to at least 2021 on NBC’s late night block.
Jimmy Fallon has already got reupped to host The Tonight Show until 2021 and, as announced at the TCA Press Winter Tour, Seth Meyers who follows him as host of Late Night will stick with him in the 12:35AM slot for the next five years.
Above all else, this move still keeps it all of NBC’s late night fare in the Lorne Michaels-SNL family well into the future.
Sure, David Cross talked about Todd Margaret, With Bob & David, and his upcoming stand-up tour in his interview last night with Seth Meyers.
What was more fascinating to us is the pose-for-pose challenge that Cross posed to Meyers who stood up/sat down/laid down to.
Legendary Canadian sketch group Kids in the Hall reunited on Late Night with Seth Meyers and swapped stories about working under Lorne Michaels, how forward their show was, etc.
They went on tour last year and we can only hope that they’re going to get together again for more projects in more of 2016.
Jamie Lee got to perform the first stand up set in all of late night this year and absolutely did not disappoint.
She was on last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden and you can see why, regardless of anything else happening in 2016, that Jamie and stand up comedy have started off this year quite nicely.
While Star Wars: The Force Awakens is poised to break every box office record known to man this weekend, it is still legal, as Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have been saying, to see both Sisters and Star Wars in the same weekend.
To hit that point home, the entire cast of Sisters including Ike Barinholtz, Rachel Dratch, and Maya Rudolph on top of Tina and Amy as well as writer Paula Pell went on Late Night with Seth Meyers and voiced various Star Wars action figures to say why you should go see Sisters.
Indeed, they do make a great case for seeing both.