Late Night Trump 2.0: Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert

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How are we doing? How are late-night hosts coping with the fact that they’ll have to star in Trump’s comedy again, going on for about 4 infinities? In the words of Dorinda Medley: “No good, bitch.” “Late Night with Seth Meyers”, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, “After Midnight”, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, Daily show And Jimmy Kimmel Live! all included segments addressed to the audience immediately after the election of Donald Trump and the concession of Kamala Harris. The hosts balanced between their own desperation and the role of the Guy who tells us jokes so we can sleep. That’s how we all do it.

“Fine!” This is how Seth Meyers began Late night. Meyers also joked about going to an election watch party. Can you imagine? He said watching the results come in was “like Christmas Eve: If you know that on Christmas morning you’ll either wake up to find that Santa has left presents under the tree or find that Santa has just poured a huge mess down your fireplace.” » Meyers said it is a privilege to do his job, even under these circumstances. “It’s a joyful place to work,” he said. “We won’t let anything take that joy away, even if we don’t talk about things that aren’t particularly joyful.” Meyers said the show’s mission is to find laughter and joy: “Let’s go, dammit.”

Lydic got his second bite of the apple of despair because Jon Stewart was on the air last night. Lydick called the world a “waking nightmare.” “It seems at this point that it’s starting to look like we’ll get each other first before we get our first female president,” she said. “The first Amish president, the first Wahlberg president. Hey, there’s no rule that says a dog can’t be president.” Also? the rules about who can or can’t be president seem to be constantly changing, that’s all.

Tomlinson began by expressing her condolences to everyone who has a birthday this week. “I will say that I am honored to be on television while women are still allowed,” she said. Tomlinson said she started rewatching Game of Thrones calm down, “Maybe this will give me some perspective.”

Colbert began by admitting that things were “not very good” for him. But he also expressed gratitude that he has a job and surrounds himself with so many funny people. “Some people told me, ‘Sorry, you’ll have to perform tonight,’ which was very nice of them. But I don’t have to do a show. I have a show tonight,” he said. “I’m so grateful to be with all these talented people.”

Jimmy Fallon compared Trump’s re-election to people going back to “their crazy ex.” He said, “No matter who you voted for, we can all agree: It’s going to be a tough Thanksgiving.” Fallon said it was a huge comeback “for the man who never left.”

Jimmy Kimmel Live! began with a cold open in which Kimmel said he was fleeing the country. Kimmel said last night was the worst Taco Tuesday of his life and that Trump is like Emperor Palpatine: “He’s old, he’s evil and he keeps coming back with no reasonable explanation.” Kimmel also said his son screamed “Fuck!” when he learned that Trump had won.