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If you want to get really good at compartmentalizing trauma, study late-night comedy.

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Late night during the week of a national tragedy is complicated, to say the least.

At least the guests were loose, bringing a chumminess that was a balm during a rough week.

St. Patricks Day, usually a holiday to celebrate surrounded by people, went mostly unobserved.

Here are the late-night highlights.

Sometimes you just want to be really mean, and this segment does that well.

As McHale and OBrien said in the interview, they are real-life frenemies.

But the interview provides more delights than just Oliver being a bee in corporate Americas bonnet.

We get a true understanding of how different Fallons life is from ours.

The phrase I met this famous dog backstage at a Kevin Hart concert obsessed Oliver.

He started interviewing Fallon, getting more details on the surreal demimonde of fame that is his life.

It rolls around in his head like the famousLewis Black horse college bit.

A tour de force guest spot from someone who knows the format well.

Once again, Seth Meyers is proven extremely shrewd for making stars of his writers.

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