Episode 238 - Late Night Report Card Spring 2022

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!

• CBS to experiment with late night after Corden exit

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.

• Sam Bee, Desus and Mero, and Seth Meyers strive without audiences

• Seth Meyers on CBS Sunday Morning

• Seth Meyers Q&A with Deadline

• Kimmel and Colbert congratulate Conan

• A bad article about Conan's ratings going into the end of his TBS show from The Wrap

• Dave Itzkoff's interview with Andy Richter

• Josef Adalain's exit interview with Conan

• The Daily Show heads to summer break, returns in fall with new look

Episode 184 - My Favorite Kardashian

Celebrity profiles can be windows into your favorite personality's life. This week's show features two of them. Why? I don't rightly know. But I'm powerful excited they exist. Also old timey speak apparently. Plus: AMAZON gets into podcasting; SAG-AFTRA healthcare cuts; and WARNERMEDIA changes up theatrical and streaming windows by making them one in the same.

• Amazon may buy Wondery podcast network

• SAG health care cuts

• Discovery streaming service

• Nielson study shows less diversity on TV

• Warner Media movies to hit HBO Max and theaters day and date

• Harry Styles profile on Variety

• Stephen Colbert profile on Vanity Fair

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Episode 34 - Fallon v Colbert: Dawn of Ratings

Chad gives his thoughts on The CW's DC Comic TV show crossover, "Crisis on Earth X." He also comments on how much he continues to dislike so-feminist-it's-anti-feminist show "Supergirl" and the wasted time on "Arrow" character Felicity. The main topic covers Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert's supposed late night ratings battle even with Fallon in a different (non-political) league. Case in point: ratings for late night are dumb.