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5 Lessons Late-Night TV Can Take From John Mulaney’s Talk Show


What worked, what didn’t, and what can the normies take away from it?

Elvira) and Mulaney’s real-life hypnotherapist bumped up against comedians including Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld, who gushed flop sweat while having to talk about stuff that wasn’t promo or stand-up disguised as banter. There’s a Carson episode on Tubi that is just (1) Johnny making fun of a guy for creating an elaborate domino-scape, (2) watching the dominos fall, (3) an Emmys recap, and (4) Truman Capote describing a murder someone confessed to him at a party. In Challengers, all Tashi wants is to see some good fucking tennis, whichis defined as a real conversation between two people where both parties understand each other perfectly through movement and physics.

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