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Tuesday April 15 2025

2 weeks ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Jed Rosenzweig |Nick Riccardo

Jimmy Kimmel Live!ABCLuke Bryan, Minka Kelly, Dirty HoneyThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonNBCNikki Glaser, Randall Park, Bozoma Saint John, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (R 3/24/25)The Late Show with Stephen ColbertCBSDavid Oyelowo, Finn Wolfhard, OK GoLate Night with Seth MeyersNBCNick Kroll, Britt Lower (R 1/23/25)After MidnightCBSAndy Richter, Guy Branum, Tien Tran (R 3/10/25)The Daily ShowComedy CentralNimesh Patel, host Ronny Chieng
SNL's 25th Anniversary Cold Open Set the Bar Impossibly High

2 months ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff |Bill Brioux

The eve of Saturday Night Live’s once-unthinkable 50th anniversary recalls the time the venerable series staged its once-unthinkable 25th anniversary. The task for any such momentous landmark is to craft the perfect opening—a sketch that combines nostalgia for past glories, a welcome glimpse of returning legends, and somehow sums up what makes Saturday Night Live such a comedy institution while ramping up audiences’ expectations for what it could be in the future. So, no big deal, right?
Thurs Night Monologues: Trump's Valentine to Putin

2 months ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff |Bill Brioux

Thursday was all about anticipation for late-night hosts. Not only is tomorrow Valentine’s Day, it’s also the eve of peace talks between the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine about Russia’s illegal invasion of that vital U.S. ally. Which makes it a little strange, according to most hosts, that Trump seems to have given away literally all leverage to Russia while appearing to shut out the invaded Ukrainians entirely. Weird. For those jokes and more, here’s our Thursday rundown.
Weds Night Monologues: President Musk and His Little Friend

2 months ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff |Bill Brioux

After an Oval Office press conference from Elon Musk with Donald Trump sitting quietly to the side did nothing to quell those rumors about who’s actually running the government, late-night hosts had a field day evaluating what seemed to them like Musk’s performance review of a sullen employee. Add in the usual roster of gags concerning another day’s dysfunction in Trump world, and a little drop-by from some old friends, and it was a jam-packed night. Here’s out Wednesday rundown.
Tues Night Monologues: Bragg-ing Wrongs

2 months ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff |Bill Brioux

Tuesday night saw this week’s reduced complement of late-night hosts pitching in to tackle some of the Trump administration’s most recent sideshows (plastic straws, rewarding blatant corruption, “owning the libs”), suggest Valentine’s Day alternatives (no Subway, dude, c’mon), and continue the Philadelphia Eagles’ righteous Super Bowl beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs–in joke form. Here’s our Tuesday rundown.
Mon Night Monologues: Sawing Off the Judicial Branch

2 months ago | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff |Bill Brioux

Monday was once again catch-up day for late-night hosts, a task made exponentially more difficult since Trump began his second term. Being off since Thursday means they have to pack in yet another weekend’s complement of executive orders, baffling and/or alarming social media posts, and the newest looming constitutional crisis into a single Monday monologue.
Thursday January 30 2025

Jan 23, 2025 | latenighter.com | Jed Rosenzweig |Will DiGravio |Dennis Perkins

Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC Pamela Anderson, Will Sasso, the Weeknd The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon NBC Pete Davidson, Sadie Sink, Olivia Tiedemann The Late Show with Stephen Colbert CBS Nicole Kidman, Jacob Soboroff Late Night with Seth Meyers NBC Will Forte, Conner O'Malley After Midnight CBS Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme, Peaches Christ Watch What Happens Live Bravo Austen Kroll, Patricia Altschul The Daily Show Comedy Central Vince Beiser, host Michael Kosta Gutfeld! Fox News Kat Timpf,...
Weds Night Monologues: Tick-Tock, TikTok

Jan 16, 2025 | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff

With everything from the heated confirmation hearings of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, to SCOTUS doing porn (you know what we mean), to a possible ceasefire in Gaza, to the looming end of TikTok, there was no shortage of topics for late-night hosts to uneasily joke about on Wednesday. Here’s our round-up of the night’s best lines from across the dial.
Tues Night Monologues: Secretary of Defensiveness

Jan 15, 2025 | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff

The contentious conformation hearings for Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth took up plenty of monologue space on Tuesday, as hosts dove into Democratic lawmakers’ attacks on Hegseth’s lack of qualifications and long history of sexual and workplace impropriety, while Republicans rallied to defend this first of Trump’s deeply problematic nominees. Meanwhile, Starbucks is now charging you to use the bathroom. Here’s our round-up of the night’s best lines from across the dial.
Mon Night Monologues: Flaming GOP Hypocrisy

Jan 14, 2025 | latenighter.com | Dennis Perkins |Mark Malkoff

Jimmy Kimmel’s return to the airwaves set the tone for Monday’s monologues, as most hosts continued to urge their fellow Americans to help those affected by the devastating California wildfires—even as they lambasted Republicans for politicizing a still-happening mass tragedy. Here’s our round-up of the night’s best lines from across the dial.