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We dont talk about live audiences enough here at This Week in Late Night.
They change the tenor of every segment of every show.
Remember during lockdown when these guys were stuck in their houses or doing shows for the crew?
The late-night studio audiences are all over the place.
They can be fawning (e.g., still chanting Stephen Colberts name to this day) or withholding.
Seth Meyers does the best job of getting a laugh out of a non-laugh.
Hes the most meta-aware host, commenting on whether jokes hit or miss all the time.
That technique and the dressed-down attire definitely make him seem like the most loosey-goosey of the hosts.
Jimmy Kimmel papers over silences, or throws to Guillermo if need be.
I think thats why hes still the Oscars host hes unfazeable.
I mention all of this because the biggest moment in late night this week was actually an audiences silence.
When Anne Hathaway asked theTonight Showaudience if anyone had readThe Idea of You,she got total dead air.
Fallon steered the ship back on course, making a self-deprecating (audience-deprecating?)
remark that his audience doesnt read at all.
In that spirit, here are some other moments of awkward audience interaction this week in late night.
Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert Tied for Weirdest Whoo!
Audience members love a good whoo.
Some can get overexcited and whoo where perhaps they should not.
The two best premature whoos this week happened Monday night.
Meyers got a weird pop for Boeing airplane parts, and Colbert had one on myocardial infarc.
Guest Chemistry onWWHL
ThisWWHLsegmentwas fascinating because it was about weird audiences.
(On Weird Audience week how did they know?)
Cmon, Kyra this was a joke.Later in the ephe saidDark Palewasnt nominated for a Grammy because hes gay.
The pan could not be deader.
Cutest Audience Goes toThe Tonight Show
You know that meme about thelittle German boy?
Well that little German boy was onThe Tonight Showthis week, and Fallon gave him a hat.
And the boy who received a … vegetable hat on day three charmed me.
He was so happy to be given a hat way too big to fit into his luggage.
Side note: What is that hat?
It kind of looks like a piranha plant fromMario, but maybe its a tomato?
