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Late Night With Seth Meyers Delivers the Best Topical Comedy for This Moment

This week, Seth and his team ran the table while the table was actively on fire.

I want to quickly shout out the return of Ariana Grande (Jimmy Fallon’s Teri Garr) to The Tonight Show, the way Jon Stewart called out his performative audience woo-ing on The Daily Show, the chemistry of the My Momma Told Me podcast co-hosts on After Midnight, and the deeply stupid pun businesses of “FaceButt” and “WhatsAss” in this week’s “ Meanwhile … ” for Stephen Colbert. Monday’s “A Closer Look” segment also threaded a seemingly impossible needle: How do you, as a progressive-leaning person, address the stunning loss last Tuesday without shitting all over trans people? It was mostly lovely banter about how McLendon-Covey is a goddamn treasure and a TV institution at this point, but there was a slight aside about Catholic saint Denis of France that I will be thinking about for months and perhaps years in the future.

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