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The big news in late night this week was covered succinctly by Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night<\/a>. Brendan Carr\u2019s FCC is still twisting its panties over the existence of talk shows (don\u2019t worry, Netflix wants to make them all video-only \u201cpodcasts\u201d<\/a>). This time, Carr\u2019s freak-out was an attempt to stretch the FCC\u2019s equal-time rules to apply to talk shows \u2014 both late night and daytime. Will we see Trump in the Spirit Tunnel in 2028? Only time will tell. \u201cI want to just point it out because it is another example of this administration trying to squash anyone who doesn\u2019t support them by following the rules,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd we know how much respect these people have for the rules.\u201d Kimmel then cut to a Truth Social post where Trump floated a fourth term in office; never mind that a third would be illegal. Cool, cool.<\/p>\n These shows really do give voice to people who feel pretty voiceless at the moment. The catharsis provided for the audience of The Late Show when Bernie Sanders is the guest can\u2019t be overstated. The gleeful \u201cYEEEAAH!\u201d scream<\/a> of the woman who was big-upping Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s canvassing team was unreal. Or when Tommy Brennan played the clip of the ICE agent eating it on Minnesota ice over and over again on \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d<\/a> People screamed in glee every time \u2014 to the point you couldn\u2019t hear the people in the video doing the exact same. Here\u2019s where we found group catharsis or escape this week.<\/p>\n It has been so gratifying to watch the wider world learn what Bravo fans (and anti-Zionists) have known for a while now: Michael Rapaport sucks<\/a>. Johnny Weir threw great shade on Watch What Happens Live Tuesday night, perfectly warping a \u201csay three nice things\u201d challenge to all be low-key insults. When the nicest thing you can say about someone is \u201cHe\u2019s recently learned what commiserate means,\u201d it\u2019s over. Also, crazy Bumpit on Weir; looking forward to some more interesting hairpieces this Olympics season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The best moment from last year\u2019s SAG Awards (we don\u2019t have to call them the Actor Awards yet, do we?) was Harrison Ford pulling focus<\/a> during Jessica Williams\u2019s \u201cI am an actor\u201d speech. And whoever was selling Ford kooky socks at Paul Smith agreed, apparently. Williams recounted the time Ford called her post-SAGs on The Late Show, and she and Colbert swapped Ford anecdotes. In private, he does a lot of hand talking \u2014\u00a0who knew?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Full disclosure: I grew up in Indiana, and this football win means a lot to people I know on Instagram. But we\u2019re not here to discuss college football, per se. We\u2019re hear to see, essentially, a stupid human trick. Hoosiers QB Fernando Mendoza smashed vinyl records with a football, and it rocked. It\u2019s just cool to see a physical feat that neither you nor anyone you\u2019ve ever met can do. It\u2019s what\u2019s motivating that guy to climb that building<\/a> today on Netflix. Humans are weird and they do weird shit with their weird bodies, and it\u2019s neat to behold.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s the way Cue Card Wally runs over to taste-test the two sandwiches from Molly Baz and Seth Meyers. Wally Feresten was the impartial judge of a sandwich draft Baz devised between her and Meyers. The two sandwiches did both look tasty, and the competition was spirited and playful. But the heart of the piece was a guy stoked to eat two sandwiches. Peacock should green-light Somebody Feed Wally<\/a> posthaste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Imagine a legend in your field approaching you with the salutation of \u201cWassup, Choppy?\u201d What do you do? Mary J. Blige was faced with that predicament when recording with Aretha Franklin. Apparently, it was a compliment, like she has the chops? It\u2019s unclear. Blige shared her memory of recording \u201cDon\u2019t Waste Your Time\u201d with the Queen of Soul, who came in hot before Blige\u2019s mother showed up, \u201cand shit cooled off real quick,\u201d Blige said. \u201cMy mother said, \u2018You know that\u2019s my baby?\u2019 And so the rest is history. She and my mother became cool. But it didn\u2019t stop Aretha from being mean.\u201d This is the kind of legendary tea we go to WWHL for. It\u2019s the raison d\u2019\u00eatre of the show, and it fulfilled its purpose Monday night.<\/p>\n