Spring is ending and summer is beginning, baby! Let's talk about all the goings on in late night. CORDEN is set to leave in a year; DESUS & MERO lose a weeknight; KIMMEL mulls an exit; MYERS is at an all time high; RUFFIN gets locked behind a paywall; FALLON fights for online views; COLBERT lives in the front of the pack; BEE gets poignant; OLVIER continues telling the same joke; & NOAH gets his audience back!
Episode 209 - Late Night Report Card: Summer 2021
Everyone's favorite periodical special episode of this show is back: Late Night Report Cards! CONAN O'BRIEN is leaving the nightly late night game while TREVOR NOAH and JIMMY KIMMEL take the summer off. SETH MYERS, DESUS NICE & THE KID MERO, and SAMANTHA BEE are killing it by being malleable. JIMMY FALLON and STEPHEN COLBERT welcome back the warm hug of the audience. JOHN OLIVER is trapped in a void of jokes. And AMBER RUFFIN and JAMES CORDEN just want to have silly, silly fun. Plus, as LILY SINGH and HASAN MINHAJ leave the late night world, newcomers SAM JAY and ZIWE FUMUDOH join the fray with unique takes on the tired genre.
Episode 149 - I'm A Young Boy
Welcome back to the show you forgot you subscribed to! This week is jam packed with coronavirus news because this mess is getting more seriouser. Concerts and conventions are closing down for the year. Gaming activities and movie premieres are a no go. Even late night is forgoing audiences or shows all together. Listen (or watch if you're on YouTube) as Chad sloppily covers this growing pandemic.
Reggie Fils Aime joins Gamestop board: https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/9/21172177/reggie-fils-aime-joins-gamestop-board-of-directors-nintendo
Pete Butteigeg to host Jimmy Kimmel Live: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/entertainment/pete-buttigieg-jimmy-kimmel-live/index.html
When a movie is a movie theater movie: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywoods-new-dilemma-is-a-movie-worthy-movie-theaters-1283514
Online screeners more trouble than DVD screeners: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/emmys-tv-academy-fyc-screeners-dvds-netflix-1203529370/
Cancelling events for coronavirus save lives: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/10/21171481/coronavirus-us-cases-quarantine-cancellation
Coronavirus hits the entertainment industry: https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/10/21173376/coronavirus-cancel-movie-hollywood-bond-mulan-sxsw-coachella-hanks-quiet-place
Episode 72 - Murder on the ESPN Morning Show Express
In this week's packed episode, Chad covers DREW MICHAEL's novel new HBO special; how self-congratulatory MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is; Jimmy Kimmel's response to Megyn Kelly's pointed comments about the Oscars ratings; ESPN retools GET UP and gets rid of JEMELE HILL for good. Plus, more personal stories about Chad's past!
Jemele Hill and ESPN part ways, "amicable"
Watch EMMA WILLMANN'S Netflix special on THE COMEDY LINEUP out August 31st! And ALLISON RASKIN'S GOSSIP podcast on Stitcher!