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With the Winter Olympics looming and two-week preemption ahead, NBC is keeping its late-night shows on the air tonight, even as most of the genre goes dark for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers will air new episodes, making NBC the only broadcast network programming originals in late night on the holiday. (Gutfeld! on Fox News will also produce a new episode at 10:00pm.)
Elsewhere, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Daily Show are all dark. The two broadcast shows will air repeats, while Comedy Central is filling The Daily Show’s 11:00pm time slot with an episode of Family Guy.
The scheduling split reflects a broader shift in how late night treats the holiday. Though all of the shows aired new episodes last year (which coincided with Donald Trump’s second inauguration), The Daily Show has otherwise been dark since 2021. Colbert’s Late Show followed suit in 2024, while 2026 marks the first year Jimmy Kimmel Live! has taken the night off.
Though they’re keeping the lights on tonight, both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers will be off the air for two weeks beginning February 9, when NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics preempts its late-night lineup.
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