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Are you ready to hear about a climate conference that will change nothing?
The COP26 conference dominated the late-night monologues this week, with a little Kyrsten Sinema thrown in for spice.
If you like bureaucratic deadlock, this was the topical comedy week for you.
You know, that time with the attempted kidnapping and theNatalie Portman movie.
Thats probably why the things that worked best this week were mostly just people vibing together.
In-person interviews have again become the norm in late night, and the energy is great.
Heres who vibed hardest this week.
The problem with much political humor is that, rhetorically, it doesnt know what its doing.
The back half of this discussion of homelessness was decidedly the latter.
John Oliver was specifically chiding allegedly liberalNIMBYsin deep-blue enclaves.
If it made someone squirmy to be called out by HBO, so be it.
Yes, even Antarctica!
Get on it, ViacomCBS!
Paramount+ always needs new shows.
His vibe is so incompatible with the format.
The big audience, the shiny floors, the grand spectacle of it.
Pera read from his new book and presented a pilot that Adult Swim passed on.
Oh, and hes a Supreme Court justice, but the real drama is in the cars.
They got in, got out, and it wasnt my problem anymore.
These may be the two most relatable feelings, existentially, weve got going right now.
Nobody feels adult enough to be doing all … this, and nobody chose to enter this reality.
