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Everyone but Seth Meyers was off last week in late night. Every year, Late Night front-loads content, then vacays the following week \u2026 which means the Meyers family\u2019s annual Thanksgiving reunion never makes it onto this column. Sad! This year, he had all of his lobby babies<\/a> on the show as well as his parents and brother. (Yes, I know only one of them is a bona fide lobby baby<\/a>, but what am I supposed to do \u2014 learn their names? Grow up.) It was so cute seeing how each one dealt with the spotlight and audience attention. And any time Hilary Meyers is on the show, it\u2019s a treat. Her \u201cDay Drinking\u201d<\/a> remains S-tier.<\/p>\n The other big late-night news happened on Jimmy Kimmel Live! As announced during Thursday night\u2019s monologue<\/a>, Kimmel is the third-most-Googled guy on the planet this year. He acknowledged that it\u2019s a dubious honor at best, considering the most-searched person is singer\u2013murder suspect D4vd<\/a>. No. 2 is Kendrick Lamar, who, as Kimmel put it, \u201cmurdered Drake this year at halftime of the Super Bowl.\u201d Later in the monologue, Kimmel expressed surprise that he beat Diddy in the Google searches. I can explain that, Jimmy: Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, f.k.a. Puff Daddy, f.k.a. P. Diddy, has really bad SEO. No one moniker can generate enough clicks, and it makes him seem less important to analytics. Kimmel thanked his No. 1 fan, Donald Trump, for making him so newsworthy<\/a>. Expect a tirade on Truth Social any minute. Until then, here were the best moments on late night this week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Daily Show has been doing the \u201cKo$ta Doing Business\u201d segment for a while, and it\u2019s dependably fun. But this particularly festive edition just hit a little better. I think it was Michael Kosta\u2019s insanely loosey-goosey, Andrew Dice Clay\u2013evoking delivery \u2014\u00a0a lot of yelling \u201cOh!\u201d and leaning weird. It spoke to the bravura that masks the financial and emotional insecurity this time of year. If you don\u2019t have a work Christmas party to attend, this is like a microdose of seeing co-workers let loose in ways that will haunt you into the New Year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On Busy This Week, host Busy Philipps and Henry \u201cNicest Guy in Hollywood\u201d Winkler competed to see who could say the most nice things about Bryce Dallas Howard. She has been a guest on the show, and she\u2019s Winkler\u2019s goddaughter. Her lovely children, her parenting skills, her charming husband who was great on later seasons of Fringe \u2014 it all got shouted-out. Until Philipps mentioned that Howard has somehow never seen an episode of her dad and godfather\u2019s show, Happy Days. \u201cShe\u2019s dead to me,\u201d Winkler said. \u201cI don\u2019t even know her name.\u201d That\u2019s showbiz for you, I guess.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A snippet of Monday night\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Behind Me?\u201d Tonight Show segment broke containment from late night into the larger discourse, and people could not handle it. Some said the concept of three Labubus doing the 6-7 at a McDonald\u2019s drive-through was (1) proof the world ended in 2012 and we live in hell now, (2) gas-leak culture, and (3) a wild place to debut a fuck-ass bob<\/a>. But what it actually was is the props budget being put to good use. This isn\u2019t even that crazy of a \u201cWhat\u2019s Behind Me?\u201d for The Tonight Show to stage. This segment is always great because it\u2019s the last two brain cells of a writer dying, and now that\u2019s the props guy\u2019s problem. It has to cost a certain amount of money, what with the rotating platform and multiple Labubu costumes. The celeb-guessing is irrelevant compared to the insane tableau vivant the extras perform. What matters is that we are seeing money on that screen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Look at this goddamned pro make a Manhattan without breaking eye contact with Stephen Colbert. Look at her explain a needless branding change while adding vermouth to rye. Look at The Late Show for knowing a Manhattan is best with rye and not bourbon. This is classy TV, folks. When we lose Colbert, we will be losing a dignified fella in late night. We need those to balance out the \u201c3 Labubus Doing the 6-7 at a McDonald\u2019s Drive-thru\u201d of it all. The whole thing works only as a juxtaposition, like Hieronymus Bosch\u2019s The Garden of Earthly Delights.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Paul Anka not only guested on Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show, but he wrote the fucking theme song. Carson actually guested on Anka\u2019s show before he ever took over The Tonight Show. And when Carson was picking his new theme song, he went with the guy who gave him a job \u2014 and who gave him a writing credit on his own theme song, thus ensuring residuals upon residuals in perpetuity. Late-night geek Jimmy Kimmel made sure to ask Anka about all that when the singer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night. And Anka had anecdotes aplenty \u2014\u00a0and jokes. Ancient jokes that he probably did in Vegas in the \u201960s, whose writers are long dead. And you know what? They still worked! Hearing Paul Anka make jokes about tits and PMS, which were outr\u00e9 in the Sands lounge in \u201973 but now are pretty chill, it just warms the heart.<\/p>\n