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Lets take a minute to honor the art of the interview.
Getting the anecdote out of someone even someone whowantsto tell the dang story can be a challenge.
Its like if the jester also had to make the court laugh at the kings jokes.
Jingly hats off to the jesters of late night.
Larry Olivier is right up there with Marty Scorsese and Steve Sondheim as nickname flexes.
Its always a delight to see.
Amber Ruffin and Alex Edelman
Who among us cant recognize Jon Hamm by his dong?
The teasing she gave Edelman was just the right mix of mean and impressed.
And everyone got a chance to dunk on Michael Ian Black for not knowing Woo-Hah!!
Got You All in Check.
We can all bond over loving Busta Rhymes.
Flipmode is indeed the greatest.
Seth Meyers and Bernadette Peters
Seth Meyersis trulywhoever you want him to be.
Bernadette Peters came in full grande dame of the stage, and Meyers matched her energy perfectly.
They cant stop laughing, which makes me unable to stop laughing, until were all fucking dead.
Jon Stewart and Tim Walz
These boys put the theater back in political theater.
They both threaded their particular needles so brilliantly.
Jon Stewart wasnt giving softball questions he had stuff to check the campaign on but Walz had good responses.
Were a lot of those response semi-redirects to the stuff hes supposed to be talking about?
But that is literally his job right now.
Stewart pushing back on the Cheneys endorsements felt like some classicDaily Showshit.
And when Walz said the Harris-Walz administration wouldnt take foreign-policy notes from them and Stewart whispered …
It felt …responsible?
Good job, boys.
