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Oct 30, 2024 | 
checkyourfact.com | Jennifer Wood
An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a headline from LateNighter, a site that covers late night TV-related news, that reads “Molly Shannon: Catholicism is a cancer, destroying the progressive society we built.” Verdict: False This image has been digitally altered. The genuine article it was edited from can be found on the LateNighter website and has nothing to do with Catholicism.
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May 3, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jennifer Wood
Jimmy Kimmel just made history. On Thursday, the late-night host was as surprised as anyone else when his name was brought up during Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, which had him feeling “very excited, I’m very proud, I’m exhilarated even,” as he told Thursday’s audience. “From here on, we aren’t just following the Donald Trump drama in New York, we are part of it now,” said Kimmel of his unexpected name check. “We are part of the official record of The People vs.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Wood
Given the speed at which the news cycle is moving these days, it would be impossible for a late-night host to take a two-week vacation and not miss some pretty major stories; like a former president dozing off during a certain, historic criminal hush-money trial—and more than once. It’s a lesson Seth Meyers learned the hard way this month, but he was back with a vengeance on Monday and ready to recap all the wildest news stories he missed.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Wood
That Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president’s antics in recent years.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
latenighter.com | Jennifer Wood
When someone drops an F-bomb on Saturday Night Live, it’s generally pretty newsworthy. But for some viewers, “the ‘GD’ term” is equally offensive. That’s the lesson Brooke Germain, an editor at The Nevada Sagebrush, learned when she filed a Freedom of Information Act request to receive all complaints that the FCC had received about SNLgoing back to the start of 2023. She has since posted the full file to the public records platform MuckRock—and, well, there’s a common theme.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Wood
On Tuesday, former National Enquirer chief David Pecker testified for the second day in a row as the first witness in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. While the headlines practically write themselves, it turns out that having a Pecker on the stand wasn’t even the wildest part of this week so far.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
latenighter.com | Jennifer Wood
Stephen Colbert is hitting the road. The Late Show host announced Wednesday night that he’s packing up his desk and suits and making his way to Chicago the week of August 19, where he’ll broadcast his show from the Windy City’s famed Auditorium Theater—a landmark venue that first opened its doors in 1889 and is “so creatively named,” joked Colbert. Of course, the timing of Colbert’s road trip is important, as it just happens to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
latenighter.com | Jennifer Wood
Late night’s current era of good feelings was on full display last night as Seth Meyers (taking advantage of a two-week break from his own show) sat down with Jimmy Kimmel for his first-ever appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Meyers—who Kimmel introduced as a “hardworking American treasure” whose own show “airs the minute ours ends over on NBC”—surprised the crowd as well as Kimmel by wearing a suit for the occasion, which is something you’d never see on Late Night.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Wood
Barely 10 seconds into walking onstage on Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel was ready to begin dishing out the arsenal of jokes he had at the ready following the news of O.J. Simpson’s death. First, he interrupted the live audience’s applause to offer a heartfelt thank you for their support, given that “it was a tough day. God, I miss O.J. so much—already! I really do,” he said.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
latenighter.com | Jennifer Wood
David Letterman’s albatross has been lifted—and it’s now living its best life in Connecticut. The albatross, in this case, is the iconic blue-and-yellow Late Show marquee that hung outside New York City’s Ed Sullivan Theater for two decades. “A year or two ago, we realized we had this big hunk of plastic with the Late Show sign on it,” Letterman explained in a new video he posted to his YouTube channel Wednesday.
