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Its just nice to see a late-night comedy showdenying Haley a platform, ya know?
Heres what really zinged on late night this week.
All are artists who use(d) their bodies as the prop in the prop comedy.
Loftusbutt-chuggedInfinite Jestand ate too many hot dogs in pursuit of adeeply American truth.
GG Allin took his body so far that even his funeral was a gross-out affair.
And Guillermo Rodriguez forced multiple football players to contemplate his belly button.
Guillermo went to the Super Bowl media day, and he made a 49-layer dip of the experience.
First, he tried to razz Nolan into being definitive about his art.
Light work, no reaction: Nolan wont be goaded into expressing authorial intent.
Nolan was on board completely.
Things dont get truly serialized until like7anyway.
Nolan trying to gently onboard Colbert into theFast-iverse is very much like metalkingTwilight,and I love thatMr.
No-Chairshas been made relatable to me.
Meyers does a lot of things phenomenally.
But something that he must collab with theLate Nightbooker on is getting authorsespecially fiction writerson his show.
Alan Cumming (see below) was onThe Tonight ShowandWWHLthis week, for example.
So getting a literary-fiction author whos willing to say capitalism sucks on-air is something to be lauded.
Alan Cummings Naughty Little Secrets
This clip coasts on Cummings charm.
When its true, he kind of demurs, but when its false, hes a brazen liar.
It could be calledCumming Clean,and it could shoot in bars late at night likeInsomniacused to.
Get at me, BBC America, who I presume is the most likely target for this idea.
1.After MidnightDoes Prop Comedy
I am really grooving on whatAfter Midnightis becoming.
And its no coincidence that its gelling process truly took hold when the show had aRuPauls Drag Racealum on.
First she asked if he was all right, if that was edible food.
Then she shouted, This is a show!
Thisisa show, Taylor.
Thats variety TV at its essence, baby.
