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After Midnight Has Gotten Weird in the Best Way


If you’re a fan of off-kilter late-night TV but not watching it, you’re missing out.

After Midnight ’s dedicated talk-show portion is a reliable highlight, because even when the questions and answers seem prepared ahead of time, the lack of rigid game structure gives the comedians lots of banter opportunities. “And then right before the face-melting climax at the end on the fourth day, an angel comes down from heaven — Gabriel — and he shoots fucking heroin in your arm and he says, ‘Good luck now, fucker!’ And he leaves, and then you have an orgasm for 15 minutes while your eyeballs fall out of your head.” “I don’t think there’s any universe where we’re still doing bits after that,” fellow contestant Thomas Lennon chimes in when Tomlinson tries to move the show along. Lennon immediately makes the game overtly sexual; Tiana freaks out at the loss of her sight, prompting the other comedians to prank her; and Arguello goes full Conan O’Brien on Hot Ones, rubbing the liquids all over her chest and stomach.

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