May 18, 2026
SNL Finale, McCartney, Letterman’s Warning & Rogan Concern Over This Past Weekend's Theo Von
Will Ferrell Hosts SNL, Paul McCartney Performs, and Late-Night Shakeups Johnny Mac recaps a Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Will Ferrell with Paul McCartney as musical guest, including a Trump-and-“Jeffrey Epstein” cold open, a Chad...
Will Ferrell Hosts SNL, Paul McCartney Performs, and Late-Night Shakeups
Johnny Mac recaps a Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Will Ferrell with Paul McCartney as musical guest, including a Trump-and-“Jeffrey Epstein” cold open, a Chad Smith-as-Ferrell bit, the annual Jost/Che joke swap, and McCartney performing “Band on the Run” and “Coming Up,” with speculation around extended credits for executive producer Lorne Michaels. He covers Theo Von dismissing Joe Rogan’s mental-health concerns, Jim Gaffigan releasing an audio version of his bourbon-themed set, and reports that Pete Davidson and Elise Hewitt split while focusing on their daughter Scotty Rose, alongside Davidson’s real-estate sales. Other items include Triumph on Stavy’s World, a rumor about Shane Gillis in a Drake video, a planned Weird Al Broadway musical, Strike Force Five ratings and podcast talk, David Letterman’s comments on late-night’s future, Brian Stack on writing at The Late Show/Conan, Jon Stewart criticizing Apple TV, and the BBC announcing new and returning comedy shows.
00:13 SNL Cold Open Recap
01:06 Will Ferrell Host Bit
01:49 Jost Che Joke Swap
02:15 Paul McCartney Performances
03:07 Lorne Michaels Farewell Hints
03:41 Theo Von Rogan Concern
04:11 Jim Gaffigan Bourbon Set
04:24 Pete Davidson Split Details
05:46 Triumph on Stavys World
06:14 Drake Album Shane Gillis
06:28 Weird Al Broadway Musical
07:29 Strike Force Five Ratings
09:03 Kimmel Summer Off Debate
10:28 Letterman on Late Night Future
11:36 Brian Stack on Writing
14:31 Emmy Blotnick Release
14:36 Jon Stewart vs Apple
15:20 BBC Comedy Funding Fight
15:56 BBC Comedy Festival Lineup
16:24 Wrap Up and Sign Off
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Caloroga Shark Media.
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Hey, busy Monday, on a busy week. I am Johnny
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Mack with your daily comedy news. It was Saturday Night Live.
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Your host Will Ferrell, musical guest Paul McCartney. Wasn't Lorne
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Michael's last episode. We will find out. In the cold open,
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President Trump was visited by a ghost played by Will Ferrell.
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Do O, don't worry, Donald, it's me your best friend,
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Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jeffrey, but I thought you were dead.
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I am, remember I killed myself.
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Now. Interestingly enough, they posted that at eleven forty eight
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on the official SNL account. I mean, it just shows
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you how things have changed. You don't even need to
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watch the show. I watch, I quote unquote watch SNL
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mainly through the clips on Sunday mornings. All right, so,
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ladies and gentlemen, Will Ferrell, But at center stage, it's
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not Will Ferrell. It's Chat Smith from the Red Hot
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Chili Peppers pretending to be Will Ferrell.
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It really feels like coming home. Hey, hey, shoot me,
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what the hell do you think you're doing. I think
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I'm hosting the show.
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You're not the host, I am, You're Chat Smith of
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the Red hot Chili peppers.
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No, shut up, shut up? Everyone shut up?
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What the hell is wrong with you? He pushed me
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down backstage, and I tell Hord Waurn had to give
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me mouth to mouth.
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Jo Justin Chay did the annual joke swap, and I'll
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tell you what I mean. It's always funny. I went
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to pull the clips, and then anything I pulled, I'm like,
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you know, comedy, there's context, and if I just start
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playing like, oh, I thought this call of Joe's joke
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was funny. Out of context, it's just not gonna be
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good for me. So I'll just refer you to the
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internet if you want to find those. This's just in isolation.
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It just doesn't work. Your musical guest, Paul McCartney Ringo
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Star did not show up, so Paul did not collect
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the three thousand dollars from fifty years ago. Here's a
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little clip of Band on the Run We're pay Money
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Quack the songs one set to the second. Paul is
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almost eighty four years old, his voice not quite what
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it once was, but I did notice a different trummor
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on Band on the Run. I've seen Paul live many
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times over the years, and his this drummer has been
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doubling his voice for decades, but this was a different drummer,
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so I don't know if that affects things or not.
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On the end credits, Paul played coming Up Now. There
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were some comments on the end credits that maybe Paul
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was overshadowing the cast saying goodbyes, like was it Cam
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Patterson's final episode of SNL. I think we know the answer,
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but I believe coming Up was the first song Paul
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played on SNL and perhaps the last song Paul plays
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on SNL. Eagle eyed watchers noticed that the credits hung
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for a really long time, saying executive producer Lauren Michaels
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as Paul McCartney sang us out, Does that mean anything?
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Time will tell. In other news, THEO Vaughn is shutting
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down concerns raised by Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is worried
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about THEO Vaughan's mental health. On a recent Joe Rogan Experience,
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Joe shared concerns about Vaughan's recent behavior, including comments tied
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to suicide and Theo's use of selective serotonin reputake inhibitors
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common known as SSR eyes. The ovonne has responded and said,
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this is mostly cap sad to see this kind of stuff.
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I'm doing great and I'm a human being, which is
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a rocky ride. But I'm doing fine. Thanks. Hopefully THEO
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is doing okay. Jim Gaffigan announced that the digital version
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of his Bourbon set. Remember that he did a special
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bourbon themed comedy set late last year. I think that
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was well. That is now available on audio wherever you
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listen to your digital comedy Sad news. I don't like
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this one. I'm not gonna gossip corner this one because
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this is just terrible and there's a baby involved. Pete
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Davidson and Elise Hewitt have split. Initial reports said there
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have been points where they've split and gotten back together.
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get back together. Davidson and he would have a daughter,
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Scottie Rose born December twelfth, twenty twenty five. Scotty, named
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after Pete's father, Scott Matthew Davidson. That's just all around, said,
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I don't even know what to say. Pete Davidson sold
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his Staten Island apartment at a four hundred thousand dollars
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loss one day before the rumors emerged that he had
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split from Elise. The New York Post reported that a
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deal closed on May thirteenth, final sale price eight hundred thousand.
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Pete had paid reportedly one point two million in December
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twenty twenty. Meanwhile, Pete's trying to sell that house in
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North Salem, New York. First less that at two and
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a half million, then dropped to two point twenty seven million,
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dropped again in April to two point one point five
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million asking price. This brings us back to the rumored split.
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on Scotty working out the best co parenting situation as
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the top priority. An insider told The Sun Pete is
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selling his properties, including his upstate home in his Staten
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Island apartment, to open up funds as they move forward
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and figure out the next steps. Pete has been traveling
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so much for work, but at least was craving more
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support from him at home after the daughter was born.
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It is very hard for him because obviously he has
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to work to make money. Something more fun than those
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last few stories. Triumph the insult comic dog shut up
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on Stove's World.
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Everyone calls you stave baby, Am I correct? That's right, Triumph,
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I understand that's because you look like someone rolled an
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infant around the.
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Barbershop for.
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Right.
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That's actually not right.
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I'm keyding Iikey thikey. You're so likable. That's why you're
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a hit. You know, you have this magnetic personality in you,
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and not just because your body has its own gravitational pull.
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Drake's got a new album out. It's called Iceman. Why
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are you bringing that up? Johnny mack Well, Joe Listen.
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Mark Norman on their show Tuesdays with Stories said that
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when Drake was up shooting a video in Toronto, so
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was Shane Gillis. Is Shane Gillis and a Drake video
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Stay tuned. Hey, everybody, just take my money. They're making
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a weird Al Broadway musical. I'm there, just just take
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my money. It's called Dare to Be Stupid, The Weird
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Al Musical. The musical shockingly features the songs of weird Al.
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One of the folks attached to this is Anthony King,
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who worked on a Beetlejuice which was fantastic. We are
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told the musical feature songs including white and Nerdy, Amish
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Paradise eat it smells like Nirvana and like a surgeon.
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What no fat? When you're only having seconds, I'm having
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twenty thirds. We're not gonna have that line in musical.
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Mister Yankovic, in a statement said, ever since I was
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at middle aged man, I've always wanted to be part
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of the New York theater community. Plus, the one thing
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people always say about Broadway is that it's severely lacking
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and weird al based entertainment, and I think this musical
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should fix that problem immediately. Producer Greg Noble said, Beneath
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the Absurdity and the Joy is a show about creativity, individuality,
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and the freedom to be unapologetically yours. We couldn't be
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more thrilled to be working with Al and Gang to
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bring weird Al's singular word to the stage. Can't wait.
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Most of this week we'll talk about Stephen Colbert, except Friday. Friday,
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we're just going to talk about Byron Allen. I guess
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last week when the Strike Force five of Folks showed
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Ouk cut by the way, did you listen to the
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Strikeforce five podcast? It sounded like garbage. I was so
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offended by this that I had to I wrote about
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it on my substack. Just guys record these things properly.
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What are you doing? It sounded horrible last week on
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the Light Show. These strike Force five guys showed up
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late night. Reports that preliminary Nielsen Live plus same day
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data said the episode drew two point eight one to
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nine millions total viewers and a whopping two hundred and
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thirty one thousand people between eighteen and forty nine. Now
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let's break that apart. Let's do lazy Matthea. So we
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have two point eight million people and we subtract two
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hundred and thirty one thousand, So that's like two and
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a half million people that watch the show are over
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forty nine. It's old people like me or presumably seven
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year olds. I mean, no events. That's why this thing
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isn't going on. Everybody's ancient like me. I'm seven years
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out of that demo already. Boy, that happened fast. I
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remember being sad that day. I graduated the eighteen to
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forty nine's and again the twenty five to fifty fours. Yikes. Anyway,
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two point eight one to nine million total viewers was
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the Late show's largest live plus same day total viewer
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audience since January twenty sixth, which was a Sunday night
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episode that aired after the AFC Championship game. For normal episode,
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you'd have to go back to October twenty twenty four.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was the guest Late Nighter, says
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the last time they looked and extended YouTube upload of
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theirppearance racked up three point two million views. After the show,
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Jimmy Kimmel was asked if they will do more Strike
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Force five podcasts. Jimmy said, I can't imagine not keeping
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doing it. The appearance on the air with Stephen went
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so well and was so much fun, it made me
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think we should do them in front of a live audience. Now,
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what's interesting is if you listen to the dynamic and
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everybody's saying the same thing, there's clearly a gang of four,
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plus Jimmy Fallon like Falin's like doing his own thing.
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He doesn't fit the vibe the other guys. You know,
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like in every group, there's like the friend that everyone's
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picking on. I feel like that's Fallin. So while it
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wouldn't shock me if there are some live shows, and
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Seth and Oliver already do things together regularly, I don't
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see Fallon being part of it. Maybe I'm wrong. As
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for the end of the Late Show, Kimmel said, people
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are going to be losing jobs. Where do you go
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if you write jokes for a living. During the appearance,
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Jimmy Kimmel joke you could host my show. That started
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a rumor that that would actually happen. But Late Night
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of reports, to my personal disappointment, that Jimmy Kimmel is
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taking the summer off. I personally think that that is
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a strategic mistake. That Kimmel should stay in the chair
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this summer. Again, as I said before, I don't want
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to work the summer either, but boy capture that audience.
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But the guestsos are actually starting pretty soon as soon
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as the Knicks win the NBA Championship, where maybe someone
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else does. As soon as the Knicks win the NBA
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Championship and the NBA Finals are wrapped up, kim will
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be taking the summer off, and Late Nighter says most
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of the guest hosts are already lined up. Strategic mistake, guys.
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Friend of the show, Jason Zenniman, writes for The New
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York Times. He asked David Letterman if David Letterman has
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a favorite memory from the Late Show. Dave said, the
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band had barely quit playing and they dismantled the set
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and there were dumpsters on fifty third Street. I remember
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that happened. That was ugly, and I walked out of
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the building. I saw the detritus and the debris of
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my life at CBS being tossed into the dumpster. Now
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that's not a pleasant memory. I don't know. Talk to
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somebody else. Yikes. Jason asked Dave about Late Night and said,
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we still have Jimmy presumably kim Ol, we still have seth.
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It's not completely dead on arrival, but I'd be surprised
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if it lasts more than a year or so. But
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it's such an easy, soothing format that it's got to
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stay on. Jason apparently reacted the same way I did.
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You'd be surprised if Late Night survives another year, Letterman, Well,
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maybe specific shows. I don't think it'll ever go away
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because it's just the best. It's humans talking to humans.
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Interesting tidbit here. Zinnemann asked Letterman, could you imagine having
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Jay Leno as a guest on Dave's Netflix show. Dave said,
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we think about it from time to time. This is
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not a bad idea and answer your question. Of course,
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I would love to. I'm sorry, did I say love?
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Of course, I can imagine heavy Jay. I mean when
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I was a kid, he was the funniest man in comedy.
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So just based on that alone, why wouldn't you boy?
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Can we make that happen? That would be amazing. Chicago
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Magazine caught up with Brian Stack, who has been with
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The Late Show since twenty fifteen. Prior to that, he
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wrote with Conan. Stack said the program's cancelation lester I
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was a shock, but the mood has been very positive overall,
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despite everyone's sadness about it coming to an end. While
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I'm proud of certain jokes and bits I've tossed in
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over the years, I think the most fulfilling thing for
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me has been when I'm aster performing character or do
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voice of that help bring other writers' ideas to life.
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