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Sept. 28, 2026

Nikki Glaser Apologizes, Taylor Tomlinson Explains After Midnight Exit

Nikki Glaser Apologizes, Taylor Tomlinson Explains After Midnight Exit

Johnny Mac covers influencer Brielle Adams-Wheatley’s Instagram call-out of a standup bit attributed to Nikki Glaser about Adams-Wheatley (a trans creator born with no limbs); Glaser apologizes in messages, says the joke was inaccurately described but still “dumb,” and says she’ll remove it. He highlights Yakov Smirnoff on Joe Rogan describing his family listening to Voice of America, fear in the USSR, and leaving after a Jimmy Carter grain-for-exit deal. He discusses Taylor Tomlinson’s new book excerpts about quitting After Midnight after years of overwork, not calling Stephen Colbert first, CBS refusing a fill-in host when she was sick, and his theory that dropping 12:30 may have influenced broader late-night decisions. He plugs his new podcast Is Late Night Dead?, notes Seth Meyers’ NBC comedy The Game Room, reports Colbert’s marquee name removal, previews Netflix’s Hot or Cold with Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade, and discusses UK Celebrity Traitors comedians while asking for American casting ideas.

00:20 Nikki Glaser Joke Fallout
02:20 Yakov Smirnoff on Freedom
05:27 Taylor Tomlinson Quits After Midnight
09:18 Is Late Night Dead Podcast Plug
10:07 Late Night Updates and CBS Marquee
11:16 Netflix Hot or Cold Preview
12:46 UK Celebrity Traitors Comedians
13:38 Who Should Do US Traitors


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Calaroga Shark Media.

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Called out Nikki Glaser over a stand-up joke via Instagram stories,

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as one does. Now, relevant to the details here, Adams

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Wheatley was born with no limbs and is trans. Stay

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with me. A fan messaged Adams Wheatley on Instagram to

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say they had attended Nikki Glaser's show in Ridgefield, Washington.

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and felt that Adams Wheatley should know that she was

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being referenced in the set. The fan wrote, Adams Wheatley

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asked what had been said. The fan described the joke

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according to the third party of the article John is

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cribbing from said the fan said Nikki Glaser said. So

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let's put a major asterisk out here, okay? But that

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version of the story has Nikki Glaser saying something like,

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She said that you already have a hard life with

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no limbs, but still decided to transition. Then something about

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how you had to since you rubbed your penis off

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with the way you drag yourself across the room. Again,

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that is attributed to Nikki Glaser. I was not in

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the audience. That got booed during the performance, according to

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the recap I'm reading from. Adams Wheatley then posted the

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conversation to her Instagram story, tagging Nikki Glaser and asking,

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Why are you making comments about what is or isn't

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in my pants? Glazer responded, apparently, it's a dumb joke.

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In messages later shared by Adams Wheatley, Nikki Glazer apologized

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and said she should have reached out before including her

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in the routine. We were told Nikki Glaser wrote, Nikki

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also addressed the framing of the joke, writing, Nikki then

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ended her message saying she would remove the joke from

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her set moving forward. Very interesting. I found this next

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clip super compelling. I kind of wanted to lead off

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with it, but the way podcasts work, you got to

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lead with the tabloidy stuff. This one is a little

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more serious, but I found it super compelling. This is

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Yakov Smirnoff on the Joe Rogan experience. The topic, Yakov's

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father listening to the Voice of America. What did he

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get out of listening to Voice of America? Like what

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was he, did he talk about it?

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Yeah, yeah. I would then start also waking up and

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listening and it would be just, standard American thing. Give

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me you're tired, you're hungry, you're poor, something like that. And,

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you know, and they would that there's a Statue of

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Liberty waiting to greet you if you come to the

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United States. And he would always say, you know, this

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this would be something that I would love you to experience.

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And and my mom was she hated that because she

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was afraid that we'll get in trouble. And so she

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didn't want to even talk about this. So if I

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drew a picture as a kid, I would draw a

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picture of Statue of Liberty. And she would like, don't

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do that. Don't let anybody see this. We'll get in trouble.

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And when, after I experienced the cruises and got to

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know this different environment, I came home and I go, mom, dad,

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I think we should consider tried to get out of,

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and mom was like mad at my dad. And my

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dad stood up, which was good for him at that time.

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Normally he would just be quiet, but he said to

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my mom, Clara, don't you, would you like your son,

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when he is my age, sit there by the radio

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and listen to Voice of America, hoping, wishing that he

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would be doing something like that? or would you like

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him to be in America doing this? And my mom

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kind of went, you know what's going to happen when

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we apply for a visa? People who consider your friends,

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they will cross the street, and they will not want

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to talk to you and be seen with you, and

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you're going to go through hell. And my dad said, yeah.

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We will. And she said, well, if you're willing to

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do it, so am I.

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Smirnoff went on to say Jimmy Carter wanted to see

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some human rights in the Soviet Union and the Soviet leadership.

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They were starving. They didn't have food. So they needed

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food from America. So Jimmy Carter made a deal that

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we're going to give you green and you allow people

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to get out. And that's how we were kind of

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exchanged for some wheat. You know, that's how we got out.

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Joe Rogan said, wow, sometimes you need to be reminded

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how fortunate you are. You know, Americans in particular are

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You know, it's not our fault. People become accustomed to

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where they live, and they think this is normal, which

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is one of the reasons why this push towards communism

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among young people is so infuriating to me. But the

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solution is not to make the government decide who gets what,

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because they never decide the right way. Taylor Tomlinson has

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a new book. She's making the rounds. We'll be talking

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about her a lot as she does the publicity. The

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Daily Beast zoned in on the part where Taylor Tomlinson

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tells Stephen Colbert, hey, I don't want to do the

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1230 show anymore. Taylor explains in the book why she

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chose to step down from, I'm trying to remember what

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the show was even called. John, you host a comedy podcast,

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I can't remember, later, later, after midnight, after midnight. That's

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what it was called, after midnight. Taylor Thomas has said,

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I realized this wasn't just a bad year, a tough moment,

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a difficult chapter. It was the inevitable result of a

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decade of overworking myself. Quitting the show was one of

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the hardest decisions I've ever made. Nearly 200 people worked

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on After Midnight. My leaving could jeopardize a job they loved.

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I almost stayed for that reason alone. Let me jump

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in here because I have talked about this on the

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podcast before, but. I'm heading somewhere with this. So here's

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what I have floated as a theory. And before I

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float my theory once again, if you've heard this before,

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I am not blaming Taylor Tomlinson for anything. Did I

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say that clearly enough? Okay, but here's my theory, all right?

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So CBS is sailing along. You may recall they had

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renewed the 1230 show with Terri Lynn Thompson. They wanted

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it back, and she had said yes. Then a couple

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weeks later, maybe a couple months later, she stepped down.

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And then they decided, huh, what if we didn't have

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a 1230 show? And my theory is because of that,

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that made them go, huh. What if we didn't have

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an 1130 show, which led to Colbert's demise? Because stay

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with me. Assuming you take at face value that Colbert's

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show was really expensive, etc., etc. So what was the plan?

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Were they going to have Byron Allen at 1130 and

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Taylor Tomlinson off on an island at 1230? Or would

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they have moved Taylor Tomlinson to 1130, which is probably

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a less expensive show to produce than Colbert's was, and

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Byron Allen at 1230? So I think there might be

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a butterfly effect. Again, I am not blaming Taylor Tomlinson,

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but I think her decision to walk away maybe perhaps

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possibly led to executives who came to terms with the

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idea of not having a 12.30 show and then somebody going, huh,

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what if we didn't have an 11.30 show? I've been

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in a lot of conference rooms with media executives, and

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I think maybe perhaps possibly that could have happened. Not

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blaming Taylor Tomlinson. Taylor says she didn't talk to Stephen

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Colbert before deciding to quit, and she later regretted it

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when he called. She said, I spent that call with Stephen, Mr. Colbert,

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not sure how to address him, crying and apologizing before

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I got off the phone, shaking with shame. I felt

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awful and guilty and yet again disappointing. Yeah, she probably

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should have called him if he was the godfather of

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the show. Yeah, that's bad for him. She continued, I

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understand why he was upset. He had told me to

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call him if I ever needed to talk about anything,

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and I hadn't called him about this. I wasn't trying

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to blindside him. I was just afraid to bother someone

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so important and busy. This is why we have agents.

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Agents do this sort of thing. Taylor, you know this. Taylor,

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agents do this. Colbert discovered the star on social media,

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telling Entertainment Weekly in 2024. When she was just starting out,

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the algorithm started feeding her to me years ago. I

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remember thinking, who is this special woman? Taylor said when

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Colbert got the news, it must have been infuriating and confusing.

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Watching someone you believed in, someone you would hire for

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what is objectively a dream job, throw it away. Nobody

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just walks away from a television show. Yes, Tomlinson wrote...

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She wrote that the biggest change she needed was for

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CBS to allow a fill-in host when she was sick.

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She said, I was told CBS would just play a

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rerun and the crew would lose a day's work. So

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regardless of my health, I never missed a day. She concludes,

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what's the quote? You can't set yourself on fire to

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keep others warm. Some days this comforts me. Other days

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I think I should have gone up in flames.

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Wow.

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All right, so this brings us to I've Started Another Podcast.

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It is called Is Late Night Dead? Hopefully the title

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tells you what it is. It debuts Sunday, in its

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own feed. It is called Is Late Night Dead? I

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will eventually repurpose the episodes as bonus episodes in this feed.

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But for now, it's its own thing. And I'm eventually

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going to explore the premise of Is Late Night Dead?

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But I'm using the punchy title to get people to

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sample the show. I'm waxing poetic about my love of

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late night. And my love of late night all starts

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with Late Night with David Letterman, the 1230 version. And

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that will be this weekend's episode. So this week, I

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don't solve the question. is late night dead this week

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I wax poetic about late night with David Letterman so

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please follow the podcast is late night dead now as

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for the late night franchise itself the 1230 NBC show

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hashtag make a 1230 great again I have many times

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spoken about how I just don't feel like Seth Meyers

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is the worthy successor to David Letterman and and Conan O'Brien.

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I'll leave Jimmy Fallon out of it. He had a

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cup of coffee there. But I just don't feel like

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Seth is late night-y, you know? If Seth was doing

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his thing at 1.30 or on another channel, fine. But

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it just doesn't feel like the late night franchise to me.

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I want somebody who's out there, like a Chris Fleming

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or a Robbie Hoffman would be amazing at 12.30.

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Come on.

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Anyway, Seth Meyers is back to work on Late Night

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with Seth Meyers. Hashtag make 12.30 great again. He's also

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working on a new project with NBC called The Game Room.

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It's a half-hour workplace comedy called The Game Room, and

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we're told the log line is under wraps because, you know,

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you wouldn't want that to leak out. And over at

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Colbert's Old Haunt and David Letterman's Second Haunt, or Third

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if you want to count the morning show, CBS has

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taken down Stephen Colbert's name from the Ed Sullivan Theater.

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The marquee that had said Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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now says Ed Sullivan Theater, which people are outraged about,

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but I don't think that's crazy. I am tremendously excited

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about this. If you watch Last One Laughing UK, you

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know how funny Bob Mortimer is and you know how

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funny Richard Ayoade is. Now, what if we put them

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together on a show called Hot or Cold? This is

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heading to Netflix of all places. Hot or Cold is

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set inside a mysterious institution where contestants tackle challenges with

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no obvious logic. That's a lot of fun. The premise

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takes the classic childhood guessing game and hands it to

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adults who Netflix says really should know better. Players get

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no instructions. Their only guide is the room itself, which

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glows red when they're getting warmer and blue when they're

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getting colder. I love it. Bob Mortimer said, Spending time

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with Richard Ayoade is one of my all-time favorite things

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to do, closely followed by playing hot or cold, so

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this has worked out brilliantly. Love that quote. Ayoade, best

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known for the IT crowd or IT crowd and the

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former host of Travelman, which is just a If you've

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never seen that, go on Amazon, look up Travelman. So basically,

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Richard Ayoade goes somewhere, usually in Europe, for a long

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weekend and is not impressed by any of it. It

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is one of my favorite pieces of television. I love

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him so much, and he should be the next Doctor Who.

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Can we all agree on that? How do we make

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that happen? Richard said, It's been instructive to participate in

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something as binary as this. Okay, that sentence alone, if

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you're ever like, what kind of humor does Johnny Mac like?

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That's it. That sentence about hot or cold, although I

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prefer mild temperatures. That is wonderful. Right there is everything.

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Hot or cold coming soon. to Netflix. James Acaster has

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suggested that having a lot of comedians on UK Celebrity

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Traitors could become a problem as the comedians could become

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obvious suspects.

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Celebrity Traitors on BBC One and on the Pirate Ship,

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if you know what I mean. I might go out

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to sea and watch an episode or two. Just saying.

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Although I think Peacock actually shows those. No, no, no

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Pirate Ship. Sorry. Subscribe to Peacock like a good, honorable citizen.

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That's all you have to do to watch UK Traitors. Anyway,

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I'm all into it. Episodes will air, at least in

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the UK, two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.

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Some of the comedians include James Acaster, Joanne McNally, Joe Lycett,

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Rob Beckett, Miranda Hart, and Romesh Raganathan. Acaster joked about

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the odds being stacked against the comics. He said, even

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though it could obviously easily be three people who aren't comedians,

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meaning the traitors... I don't know how it works out,

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but if math turns against us, we're in big trouble.

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So here's my question to you guys. Who would be

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good on American celebrity traders? So I put some thought

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into this. And I think you need a specific kind

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of comedian. Like the Austin guys, even if you got

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them to do it, they're not going to take it seriously.

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Like Tom Segura is not going to take celebrity traders seriously.

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So I'm like, who would take it seriously? So you

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need somebody like Jim Gaffigan, I think would be great

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at celebrity traders. Mulaney might actually buy into it. Controversial

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manga comedian Nate Borghese would probably be really good at it.

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So I think you need that type of comedian. Let's

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hear when Carlos Mencia, too. He's been very interesting in

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the press.

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I don't know.

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So go on the Facebook group, Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

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Tell me who would be good for American celebrity traders, comedians.

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And that is your comedy news for today. I'm going

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to go change outfits, even though I'm recording a bunch

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of these in a row. So those of you watching

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on YouTube aren't like, hey, does he ever shower? I shower,

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just not during a marathon recording session. See you tomorrow.