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This was a weird week for late-night television.
That meansLast Week Tonightgot two victory laps in the same week.
PlusThe Daily Showteased …something.
To paraphraseThe Amber Ruffin Show, its been a crazy week in late night.
Lets find out what happened.
The final game is still called FTW, which took years off my life when I saw it.
But on the whole, funny people saying funny things is still funny.
Will the show be bad once non-comedy celebs are doing the quipping?
Taylor Tomlinson is settling into her hosting role nicely.
She does a really good job transitioning from reading teleprompter to ad libbing with guests.
Thats a hard skill to pick up!
She also excels at laughing at the guests jokes.
I wonder how much of the vetting process was just seeing who could sustain a fake laugh the longest.
Having the losing contestant do a Notes App apology is a nice touch.
One of the first jokes inAfter Midnightwas a referendum on late night itself.
Kurt Braunohler said Tomlinson would win the Emmy for Only Female Late-Night Host, which is quite the bummer.
HopefullyThe Amber Ruffin Showwill come back.
Also, maybeThe Daily Showcould go to a woman?
As we saw with the strike, that has real consequences.
The budgets are different, and daytime shows are less likely to be union.
Even the union oneswere pressuredto break the picket line.
Speaking of daytime talk shows …
Awards!
The critics like Kellyoke enough to nominate Clarkson, but not enough to give her a statuette.
The Daily Showtook Outstanding Variety Talk Series, which Oliver discussed with Kimmel on Tuesday night.
And then they moved you out of our category, he said to Oliver.
We all lost again.
Now they know theyre third, tops.
Whats Going on WithThe Daily Show?
Will there never be a permanent host?
Will the correspondents take over and share the responsibility?
That could be fun.
They were propulsive hosts, shifting the balance of power between host and correspondent.
That was a nice change of pace.
The only person who can soothe the beast is Seth Meyers.
Get her day drinking, stat.
