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Switch edition between U. Asia Global. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. Basic cable, however, is getting ready to say goodbye to one of its hall-of-famers. However, COVID has obviously curtailed comedians from gathering in sweaty clubs and basements, so Winstead followed another path. She set up a comedy special with audiences in kayaks in Minnesota and with small groups around socially distanced campfires.
The pair talk white supremacy, community policing, violence against women, particularly Black trans women, and how white folks can better advocate for communities of color. All of which is playing in the same ballpark as her co-creation, now hosted by Trevor Noah.
Celebrity is a waning currency. Whether via a podcast or a magazine, the removal of an audience leads to more authenticity from those few celebs that are actually interesting. The rigermorole of the armchair carousel is unsatisfying compared to it. Monologues are built around current events, from the mundane and silly to the deadly serious. Because of this structure, they have no choice but to make politics a fixture on the show, which transformed from asset to liability in Rather, comedy has the ability to speak truth to power rather than an obligation to.
Late night has always favored a centrist approach to everything, a slightly liberal both-sidesism that criticizes politics while simultaneously downplaying its significance in order to maximize ratings.
But the Trump era rendered soft political comedy fruitless. It was the administration that turned the apolitical political. Like the average citizen, late night could not ignore the outright fascism dominating the news cycle. Their attempts to address these topics usually come off as tone deaf or eye-rollingly vapid. Now in the Biden era, people are trying to slip back into their apolitical bubble. They can go back to not knowing what the president does every day or who the Secretary of Transportation is.
He's a valued WarnerMedia property, on the billboard next to Batman and Friends. Will Ferrell came closer to the mark in his Zoom appearance on Thursday.
Funny to imagine that desperate flailing, though it's more timely to worry about what a streaming berth can do to a once-brilliant creative mind. O'Brien's hero David Letterman looks like he's having fun at his Netflix celebrity praise summits, so that makes one of us. Literally, though. To clarify: Even if he didn't look it, O'Brien certainly felt comfortable at some point. No man wears a denim jacket without believing in himself a little too much.
These final shows had a leisurely nothing-to-prove quality, old friends onstage chatting through one actual marijuana haze. On Wednesday, Dana Carvey strolled in wearing your dad's roomiest track jacket and consulted some nominally handwritten notes for new material.
The vibe was very much "filmed podcast," which is how a lot of expensive content nodes feel lately. O'Brien kept telling the TV audience to check online for the uncut episodes. Thursday's finale stretched past an hour to accommodate a few clip reels and a more-cute-than-funny cameo by Homer Simpson. O'Brien wrapped the night by thanking everyone he possibly could. This was an obviously sincere act of cosmic gratitude, and only a monster could protest.
It did sound like one of those laundry-list Oscar speeches where the winner winds up thanking their agent's second assistant. Oddly, the most classically O'Brien-ish moment of the finale was medically unplanned.
Climactic guest Jack Black walked onstage with a cane, having sprained his ankle rehearsing an elaborate musical number. It was hilarious watching Black and O'Brien try to explain this confusing series of events, partially because you couldn't tell if the explanation was itself an elaborate bit.
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