Will DiGravio

New York

Assistant Editor at Cineaste Magazine

researcher & fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, et al. | asst. ed. @cineaste_mag | PhDing @UvA_Humanities | @thevideoessay

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Late Night Last Week: John Mulaney Loses Fight to Teens, as Oliver and Nathan Fielder Look to the Skies

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Will DiGravio

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Late Night Last Week highlights some of the best late night TV from the previous week. In this week’s late night TV recap, John Mulaney gets his ass kicked by three teenagers, Nathan Fielder wants you to take him seriously, and John Oliver tackles the need to support air traffic controllers. On May 28, the fight to end all fights occurred. It began weeks ago, on the eighth episode of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.
Carson and Rickles Horse Around With Olympian Olga Connolly

4 weeks ago | latenighter.com | Will DiGravio

A genuine, dangerous spontaneity is what made Don Rickles one of the greatest late night television guests of all time. Who else entertained at such a high level? And who else did so consistently, and for so long? Rickles always walked on stage to the matador’s theme, “La Virgen de la Macarena.” His arena was the dangerous spectacle of his own act.
Late Night Last Week: Jon Stewart Hates CNN's Book-Plugging, Shaq Gives Fallon's Audience Shoes, and More

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Will DiGravio

Every week, Late Night Last Week highlights some of the best late night TV from the previous week. In this week’s late night TV recap, Jon Stewart tackles the Biden book being pushed by CNN, Shaq gives away some shoes, Lisa Gilroy hosts After Midnight, and John Mulaney tells an Uber joke. For decades now, few institutions have been more at the center of Jon Stewart’s comedic crosshairs than the 24-hour cable news channel.
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Pee-wee Herman Takes Letterman for a Drive in the Country

1 month ago | latenighter.com | Will DiGravio

There was no time of the day that Pee-wee Herman couldn’t entertain on television. But it was in late night, specifically Late Night with David Letterman, that Paul Reubens truly launched his character into the zeitgeist. Reubens’ affable Pee-wee, who presented like a childish Mister Rogers but possessed a wit worthy of Paul Lynde, was developed in the wake of his rejection to join the ill-fated 1980-81 season of Saturday Night Live.
Late Night Last Week: NBC Honors Joan Rivers, John Oliver reacts to HBO Max Name Change, and More

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Will DiGravio

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Every week, Late Night Last Week highlights some of the best late night TV from the previous week. In this week’s late night TV recap, NBC pays tribute to Joan Rivers, John Oliver reacts to the HBO Max news, Desi Lydic makes her Tonight Show debut, and Ronny Chieng explores the limits of effective altruism. The case for organization was made no greater than on Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute.
Charles Barkley and Snoop Dogg Took DNA Tests to Prove Who Was Blacker On Lopez Tonight

1 month ago | latenighter.com | Will DiGravio

Why should Maury Povich have all the fun? That seemed to be the impetus behind a recurring bit involving DNA tests on George Lopez‘s TBS talk show Lopez Tonight. This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to December 2010, when that bit had its greatest payoff thanks to a pair of big name guests. Any list of the most underrated shows in the history of late night would have to include Lopez Tonight. It is the show that paved the way for Conan on TBS.
Late Night Last Week: Late Night Reacts to the First American Pope

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Will DiGravio

Every week, Late Night Last Week highlights some of the best late night TV from the previous week. In this week’s late night TV recap, we round-up reactions to the elections of Pope Leo XIV and highlight John Oliver’s recent monologue on the work of the right-wing, religious organization Alliance Defending Freedom.
The Night Johnny Carson Gave His Audience the Middle Finger

1 month ago | latenighter.com | Will DiGravio

This week on The Late-Night Time Machine, we travel back to June 13, 1979, and the Burbank set of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carnac the Magnificent was behind the desk, and a joke was about to flop. Johnny Carson was known for being a good sport when a joke didn’t land—as he proved earlier that same year when a fly interrupted his already spoiling monologue.
Ramy Youssef's #1 Happy Family USA Is a 21st Century Coming-of-Age Sitcom

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Will DiGravio

When a new work of art has a certain relevancy to the front page of the day’s newspaper, it is often too easy to get lost in drawing connections—or in commenting on how a work meets the moment, celebrating the foresight and serendipity of something that seems to speak directly to the zeitgeist. #1 Happy Family USA is one such work. Sometimes the possibility that a show’s greatness would be true regardless of its prophetic nature gets lost in that praise.