June 6, 2026

Kimmel Tops Post-Colbert Ratings Snapshot; Nikki Glaser, Marc Maron and More on Comedy

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Johnny Mac reports a first post-Colbert late-night ratings snapshot from Nielsen live-plus-same-day data for Monday June 1, 2026: Jimmy Kimmel leads with 2.185M viewers and 295K adults 18–49 (up 53% total viewers and 178% in 18–49 vs June 2, 2025), followed by Jimmy Fallon at 1.3M; Comics Unleashed draws 628K, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 612K at 11:00, Late Night with Seth Meyers 790K at 12:37, Byron Allen’s new 12:30 show 419K, and Nightline wins that slot with 819K. From The Hollywood Reporter roundtable, Nikki Glaser discusses wanting to be liked while saying “awful things,” and Marc Maron defines his audience and being both progressive and “dirty,” while Leanne Morgan avoids politics. Harlan Williams talks about stand-up immediacy and staying away from politics, Tim Hawkins and Jeff Foxworthy discuss clean comedy and club work, Brian Stack reflects on influences, Conan characters, and adapting to political satire, and Toronto comedian Olena Fox shares influences and rituals.

00:00 Late Night Ratings Update
01:52 Nikki Glaser on Being Liked
02:57 Maron and Morgan Talk Audiences
03:41 Harlan Williams on Silly Comedy
04:24 Clean Comedy and Club Life
05:21 Foxworthy on Small Clubs
06:14 Brian Stack on Conan and Colbert
08:17 Toronto Comic Olena Fox Spotlight
09:06 Wrap Up and Share the Show

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Callaroga Shark Media. I I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news from Latenighter dot com. We have our first

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ratings snapshot post Cobert Ooh do you think finished? First?

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Of course, Jimmy Kimmel did. Now, this data is from

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last Monday, the first time that everybody was live and

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things were kind of fair late night or sales US.

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According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Jimmy Kimmel

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dominated the hour with an average two point one eighty

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five million total viewers and two hundred and ninety five

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thousand in the eighteen to forty nine's Boy Boy Is

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only old people like me are watching these things? I

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mean two ninety five in the eighteen of forty nine's Wow. So,

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comparing Monday June first, twenty twenty six to Monday June second,

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twenty twenty five, Kimmel was up fifty three percent in

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total viewers and up one hundred and seventy eight percent

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among adults eighteen to forty nine. So at eleven thirty five,

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Kimmel had an eight point three share average two point

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oney eighty five million viewers. Fellon in second place with

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a little over five share and one point three million viewers.

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Comics unleashed six hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers. Now,

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before you're like, that's not a lot of people, The

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Big Fancy Daily Show with Jon Stewart had six hundred

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and twelve thousand viewers at eleven o'clock and then at

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twelve thirty seven a m. Late Night with Seth Myers

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seven hundred and ninety thousand people, and the new twelve

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thirty Byron Allen. Thing funny you should ask, that's now

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the twelve thirty show four hundred and nineteen thousand people.

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Nightline is winning that time slot with eight hundred and

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nineteen thousand more. From that Hollywood Reporter Comedian roundtable that

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we were picking at yesterday, Nikki Glazer, the Hollyood Reporter writes,

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this is the hollered reporter speaking recently defined her aspirational

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self as follows. I want to be someone who's smart

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and effable and adorable and likable and seems nice, but

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it's saying awful things. They asked Nikki, did they miss anything?

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Glazier said, wow, I didn't practice that before I said it.

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I do want to be liked by everyone because it's

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a sickness, but I also want to say things that

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make people feel less alone. I always felt like it

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was weird. No one was really an example of that

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on TV, the people that were my role models. And yeah,

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I want to be effable because it makes people treat

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you better and give you more money for things. I

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don't actually want to be ft. I want to be

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clear about that. I don't want to be She's getting

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a little coarse here. I just want the stuff that

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comes with people wanting to feels weird to say that.

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But who doesn't want to be liked. I've read the room,

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and when you look prettier, people are nicer to you.

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Maren wade in and said, effable is good. I think

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I want people to like me, but I see you

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don't want them to work for it for a bid.

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I'm also very clear that not everyone's going to this.

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Part of me thinks I'm from everybody, but I know

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that's not true. The Hollered reporter, we're asking the comedians,

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who are your people? How do you define your people?

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Maren said, it's multi generations of handringers, sensitive, creative, angry

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people that feel like they don't have a voice in

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the world. A lot of them politically active or at

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least engaged and want to feel a little better. Holly Reporter,

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Where won't your audiences go with you? Maren, I push

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a la leak because I get labeled as this progressive.

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I'm a progressive person, but I'm also an old, dirty man.

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I mean, I've been in this business a long time

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and half of it was drunk. There's a part of

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me now that I have this following of sensitive, socially

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concerned people that wants to be like, yeah, but I'm

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kind of dirty. You still like me now. Leanne Morgan said,

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I don't think I'm qualified to weigh in on politics.

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Nobody wants to know what I think, and I don't know.

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Half the time. I'm just sitting here thinking about how

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to get through menopause. Harlan Williams having a bit of

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a moment. He's been around forever, but he was on

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Rogan recently and the spokesman caught up with Harlan Williams.

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He said, you tell a joke, can you get your

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result instantly in the moment versus waiting for years to

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see a finished animated film. I wanted that immediacly. I

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wanted that instant feedback, so I knew that's stand up

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was the right fit for me, so I could get

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that really quick turnaround on my product. I don't like

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to get too serious because to me, comedy is silly

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and fun. I don't want to talk about politics or

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abortion all that stuff. I'd rather talk about a frog

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jumping around on a beg of doritos, or something stepping

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outside of a predetermined routine. It's like I'm almost entertaining

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myself when I don't know where it's going. I think

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the audience picks up on that energy that I'm amusing myself,

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and so they're amused. It's infectious and it's fun. Tim

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Hawkins told The Christian Post there's guys who were entrenched

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in the industry and in the world's entertainment business. It's

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a dirty place. We're finding that out with certain files

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in a certain way the world works. Comedy's a lot

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of fun, but you'd be surprised it did a little

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bit of club work. Starting out was a very depressing place.

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It was filled with drug addicts. It was filled with

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depress people. A lot of comedians just have issues. We're

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not the most positive people in the world. All the time.

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These entertainers are realizing there's more to it and that

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they've been down these roads and it doesn't end in

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a fun place. It doesn't end in a good place.

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It's like, well, what are the answers. I think it's

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encouraging and the more clean performance succeed that helps guys

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like me. It's really kind of a team thing. There's

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more opportunities if you're clean. He named check Nate Brighetzi

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and Leanne Morgan. There are a lot of people out

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there that can connect and relate to what I'm talking about.

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We're not out clubbing, We're home doing family stuff. People

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laugh harder when they can relate to what you're talking about.

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Be the same person you are in your living room

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making your friends and family laugh. Jeff Foxworthy works clean.

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He said he was shocked when Fox Nation agreed to

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bring his act back to smaller clubs. Jeff said, there's

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just something about that beer smell. I spent so many

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years in them, and when it's working on new stuff,

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I never do it in a big place. It's always

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a little place. Because stand up is intimate. I want

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the audience actively involved in it. I'm talking to them,

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is this funny? Is it not funny? And I've had

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a lot of people that were there for those nights

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in the small club saying that was probably my favorite

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night of stand up because I got to be part

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of it. Jeff explained, I wasn't just receiving. I'm watching

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you thinking, how do we make this better? If you

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do it well, it looks like you just walked on

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stage and thought of it that day, which works in

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the break room when you shared experience in history with

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each other, But when you're on stage or in front

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of strangers, you have to work it. You have to

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be a fishing at it. An example of that the

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Redneck jokes, he said, the redneck jokes help me to

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be efficient as a writer because I had to create

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an entire joke in one sentence because they were one lighters.

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All right, here's a leftover from Cole Bear week. This

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guy is Brian Stack. He was a writer on The

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Late Show and for Conan. He caught up with Chicago Magazine.

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He talked about his influences Good List here Letterman hit

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me really hard in college at a younger age was

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things like SETV, Early SNL, Steve Borton, Richard pryor Peter

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Seller's Monty Python Great List. The conversation moved to Conan

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being silly for silly's sake, and some of the characters

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Conan would do Chicago mag liked already. Kendle the ghost crooner.

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Brian Stack explains that just popped into my head one day.

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Rockefeller Center had been around since nineteen thirty, and these

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old singers like Bing Crosby were there, and I thought

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a lot of the views from back then wouldn't be

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acceptable today. What if there was a guy whose views

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weren't even acceptable in his own time. I was trying

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to make it clear that Artie Kendall was a monster

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who had been murdered because he was awful. I love

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doing all the silly characters at Conan, but I'm grateful

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for some of the newer challenges that I had at

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Stephen's show, and learning from people who were so brilliant

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political satsire. It was never my strong suit, so it

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was interesting and fun to try and develop that voice

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war but it was an adjustment, especially when Trump came along,

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because that caught us all so off guard by how

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much we had to think about one particular guy They

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then talked about Conan's nine month run on The Tonight Show.

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Stack said, as happy as I was for Conan, they

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got the opportunity to do the show they'd always wanted

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to do. I always felt like we were all better

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suited to something that was on a little bit later,

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had a little bit less of a high profile. I'll

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chime in, and I think in retrospect that's crystal clear.

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Conan once said that the Tonight Show's like a big,

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beautiful ship that's a little hard to maneuver. It moves

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very slowly, and it's very large and bulky. When we

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got to the TBS show, it was more like being

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on a little cigarette both that can flip around and

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do whatever you want. I think that's where we felt

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more comfortable. I don't remember anyone imposing anywhere strictions on

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us at the Tonight Show, but there's something about it

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as an institution that made us so little self conscious

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about some of the stuff we were trying. So while

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I wish Conan had gotten a shot at the Tonight

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Show that we all know he deserved, and the time

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to develop it the way the other host did, I

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always loved the freedom to mess around like we're up

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in an attic and no one's paying attention, and the

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Toronto Guardian does this serious tragedy plus time where they

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talk it to local Toronto comedians. One local Toronto comedian

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is Olena Fox, known for bold, sex positive storytelling and

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sharp Eastern European honesty. Her influence is Matt Rife for

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his fearless crowd work, Louis c k for turning personal

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life and relationships into sharp comedy, and of course the

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Ukrainian women who survived everything and still make jokes. Favorite

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comedian right now. I'm really inspired by Matt Rife for

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his stage presence in crowd interactions, and Chay Durina for

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his disgusting but delicious humor pre show ritual lipstick, Deep Breath,

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and an internal pep talk, which is, Elena, you survived

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immigration and divorce. You can survive people looking at you

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