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As America slowly crawls toward fully reopening, late night is starting to change.
This week, a studio audience returned toThe Tonight Show,with a vaccinated audience of 58 essential workers.
Weird is the new normal, and heres how late night made that work for them.
Benny the Butcher Talks Bubble Guts With Desus
How many late-night shows include discussion of courtroom-related stress diarrhea?
Not enough, thats how many!
Desus Nice did a solo interview withGriselda Records own Benny the Butcher to promote his new album.
To be brief: When youre anxious, the body wants to poop out as much weight as possible.
Get Minnie Driver to a Set, Now!
Is there anyone more charming than Minnie Driver?
I would argue no.
Each lil anecdote theSpeechlessstar put forward onThe Late Late Showwas more delightful than the next.
She sneaks onto sets whenever she can because she loves showbiz so goddamned much!
Pursuant to that, she tried to sneak into the background ofAlexanderin fullPhantomgarb!
She got repped because her sober rave buddy put in a word for her!
And her London teen-boy impression is adorable as heck.
Nobody gets way, way too into a game like Fallon.
And the live audience spurred both him and Cohen on, as the two both claimed total reality-TV expertise.
Stephen Colbert Explains Comic Books
Leave it to ur-nerd Stephen Colbert to do the bestSnyder Cuttake of the week.
Colbert subbed himself in for Jesse Eisenberg, playing Luthor with the same lil stinker energy.
Only this time, Colbert poked fun at the identical assassins Deadpool, Deathstroke, and Deadshot.
Comics fans have been annoyed by these dudes since the 90s, when they pulled anArmageddon/Deep Impacton superhero comics.
Colberts Luthor also took time to explain the IP tango Marvel characters have been going through lately.
I, for one, completely forgot about theFantastic Fourmovies.
Thanks, Stephen, now were all JDs in entertainment law.
It had to be acknowledged.
There are, in fact, organizations that help give inner-city youth the chance to ride a horse.
Make it happen, CBS!
