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The late-night girlies need a break.
The gloves are coming off, the edges are fraying, and the vibes are generally off.
This week in late night, we saw a lot of hosts on their last nerve.
Will it be the size of a silver dollar, or big like the one in the Batcave?
Evidence for this theory that we are in a cutaway-gag sliver of the multiverse abounds.
The late-night hosts seemed to be feeling the strain of reporting on joke news more than usual this week.
Here are the most unhinged moments, ranked in descending order of hingedness.
Their worst jokes were read, critiqued, and attributed.
Michael Keaton Takes His Time onLate Show
Michael Keaton remains ungovernable.
A few weeks ago,his prop comedy won late night.
And just like every time Keaton does a talk show, the man refused to sit down.
Late-night writers generally celebrated at yet another inroad to make ivermectin jokes.
But Jimmy Fallon didnt count on his audiences ambivalence toward Facebook during his October 5 monologue.
When he mentioned the companys stock tanking, it sounded like maybe one-fourth of the audience applauded it.
Fallon disrupted his jokes to react.
In his mind, that news shouldnt be awoo, it should be anaww!
Like … true, but also, you good?
TheLate Late ShowCrew Squares Up
This list could be allLate Late Showmonologues, if were being honest.
Nothing makes one go, Hey, is everyone doing okay?
quite like the show CBS has chugging along at 12:35 a.m. Then they got into a fight about how long the show takes off in the summer.
It was Bravo-level messy.
October 5s monologue was less drama, more hyper kids not ready to fall asleep at a church lock-in.
