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Borky Won Late Night This Week
Plus Jeremy Strong and Jimmy Kimmel never getting on the same page and a classic showbiz tale from Billy Crystal.
Colin Jost seems almost dedicated to tanking his interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers.He comes in hot with a long rant about mannequins being hotter than they used to be, then calls the audience nerds for knowing the answers to his Pop Culture Jeopardy! Sorry to every other late-night show, but I’m not sure anything could ever be funnier than a person being named “Borky.” Every other clip this week has a classic talk-show vibe: mismatched guest-host interactions, a stand-up doing their material sitting down, Howard Cosell. One guy is pitching the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard, and you’re all dying laughing and waiting for the head writer to go, “Okay, but we can’t use that, so let’s move on.” But how After Midnight innovates in the space is they go “Fuck it, Borky on network TV.”
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