Late Night TV Needs to Change

me: im doing the main network hosts on air to narrow it down you guys: you forgot this host that isn’t on a network or isn’t on the air!!!

"I am overjoyed to see a YouTuber and a woman of color in that slot. That's awesome! Now please be funny!" Couldn't have said it better myself.

I didn't like how Lilly just conveniently forgot a number of important pioneers of color on TV (including Oprah) to make herself seem like more of a big deal. Don't erase people who paved the way for you in a much harder era.

Jimmy Kimmel is like that one uncle who says something offensive and then laughs as everyone is uncomfortable. Also, he managed to make Markiplier visibly annoyed. That is a feat within itself.

Absolutely agree about Fallon—not too bright, but harmless/fun. Not a comedy god but doesn’t deserve the level of hate he gets

I remember reading a comment that Lily Singh was the equivalent of a company turning their logo into a rainbow for Pride month

“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.” - Conan O’Brien

One other thing to mention about Conan is that he fully paid his entire staff out of pocket when he was in between jobs. That’s admirable

I’ll always appreciate how lighthearted and harmless Jimmy Fallon is. His guests always appear to have fun and stay relaxed, and he clearly cares about the people he interviews

"He'll never be alive again" Money hungry corporations with 3d hologram technology and no morals: well yes but also no

The time that Kimmel laughed while Megan Fox was basically telling him straight out that she was being sexualized by men in Hollywood when she was 15 years old made me instantly hate him.

In his podcast Conan said that when he was starting the show he would wear himself out trying to make the couple hundred people in the live audience laugh so that when the show would start for millions of people he would already be sweating and tired. I think thats what makes Conan so special, he just wants to make whoever is in front of him laugh and we’re just lucky it gets filmed.

This is such an interesting video to watch two years later, post-pandemic. I only watch Seth Meyers, and during the pandemic he has doubled and tripled down on including his writers and staff as such an integral part of the show. The show never felt more intimate than when Seth was yelling at the crew about how Scollins wrote X bad joke and you can just hear the cackles of individuals more than just of the crowd of an audience. Adding Wally as a mainstay to the on-camera cast is such a weird and pleasant thing I don't even know how to put into words what it feels like. Not to mention the interaction with the online audience because that's the only feedback he can get. It feels like Seth Meyers has really transitioned into a newer era of late night while keeping the bones of the old format the same.

The sad thing is that when Lilly's show is cancelled which it will, is that she'll just say the world wasnt ready for a female POC as a late night host and it will take even longer for more diversity to come to a dying genre

Conan is amazing because he changes with the times and the joke is always on him, he’s like an anti boomer

I know what Jimmy meant! A nap is different from a REM deep sleep. Yes they are both ultimately sleep and it sounds really stupid on the surface, but there is a difference!

I totally understand the nap vs sleep thing. Waking up from a good nights sleep is wonderful. Waking up from a nap is hell on earth. Mouth dry, nauseous, not knowing where tf you are for a second, what time is it, and then the realization that you’ve ruined your sleep schedule.

If they wanted a gay woman of color who is actually funny to host a show, they should have gone with Wanda Sykes.

Graham Norton show is definitely the show where celebrities just go on to "have fun and have a good time"

The thing I liked about Craig Ferguson was that he found the right balance of being funny himself, while not overshadowing his guests, and, like Conan, was secure enough to often make himself the joke, while again not overdoing it. It genuinely seemed like his guests enjoyed being there.