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First we need to shout out an amazing new graphics package The Daily Show<\/a> worked up for coverage of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It\u2019s gorgeous, it\u2019s fearmongering, and it gets the job done. The folks at TDS realized that hysterical coverage of Mamdani from right-wing news outlets was going to be happening on the regular, so they wanted to be ready. And I\u2019m sure the same team also made the supercut of ICE-agent bloopers<\/a> on Wednesday night. Watching fascists eat it on Minnesota ice is so pleasurable, and that pleasure is compounded when it\u2019s edited well.<\/p>\n Clip-package editing is such an unsung facet of the late-night televisual arts. My favorites have to be the folks at Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> They cut so frenetically. People act like a talk show is just talking, but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s also show, you know? It\u2019s the razzle-dazzle you get when union crews do the absolute most as quickly as humanly possible. I salute you.<\/p>\n It was very nice of Noah Wyle to take time out of his busy \u201cwinning<\/a> every<\/a> award\u201d<\/a> schedule to do a pretaped sketch for Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wyle parodied the very sound medical advice of our current administration \u2014\u00a0our new inverted food pyramid, winning the war on meat, things of that nature. He joked about 5G conspiracy theories, astrology\u2019s validity as a science, and what the correct level of -biotic one can attain by taking pro- and antibiotics at the same time. That one is actually medically proven<\/a>. This clip was so entertaining, it broke containment from regular late night and got clipped\/reposted into The Pitt side of TikTok<\/a>. Good job, Dr. Robby.<\/p>\n I will be so sad when the press tour for The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a> is over. Amanda Seyfried has been an absolute pleasure to have in class on talk shows<\/a>. This time, she went on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to (1) bully Colbert into having her back on one more time before the show wraps, (2) lament the fact you can\u2019t own a monkey in the state of New York (she\u2019s checked), and (3) info dump about Ann Lee and how she was \u201cfucking incredible.\u201d<\/a> Oh, and (4) cast Colbert as undead Meryl Streep\u2019s love interest in Mamma Mia Number Three-a. Wait, wait, also, (5) dunk on awards shows. Queen.<\/p>\n Hooray for stand-up on late night! Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez advertised his new special, American Boy, on The Tonight Show by doing a tight five from it. His observations about the barbarity of women\u2019s beauty regimens aren\u2019t exactly new, but they are acted out with enthusiasm and verve. His mime work of clipping a bodysuit in place (all up in milady\u2019s gooch) is highly evocative. It\u2019s like I was there. In the gooch, desperately trying to clip. Also, the way he ends by saying, \u201cPlease watch it,\u201d is adorable.<\/p>\n These two play a powerful parasocial game. Kristen Wiig on Late Night With Seth Meyers has all the chumminess of Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor having a kiki<\/a> at the Golden Globes. They\u2019re two old friends catching up, and now you the viewer are an old friend too. Remember playing demented parlor games that Wiig made up? Such good times. There was more to this clip, but I really want to focus in on the first segment about Kristen Wiig as GM of all Meyers family parties. Her games sound amazing, and I want to play Under the Blanket immediately. And again, no, it sounds like a sex thing but it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n Boston: It\u2019s a fertile source of drama but also comedy. This is well-worn territory, sure. One of Jimmy Fallon\u2019s most enduring SNL bits was the Boston Teens<\/a>. And Seth Meyers\u2019s Boston Accent\u2013trailer<\/a> sketch on Late Night is an all-timer. Still, having Ben Affleck (raised in Falmouth), Matt Damon (Cambridge-born), and Jimmy Fallon (grew up in New York State, gifted impressionist but stolen valor all the same) say every single town and city in Massachusetts fucking hits. Affleck especially appears to enter some sort of Masshole flow state hitherto unknown by man. He rattles off the towns kind of like he\u2019s Hamilton in Hamilton? It works, is what I\u2019m saying. His barbaric yawp of \u201cYarmouth!\u201d would make Walt Whitman (died in Camden) proud.<\/p>\n