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Welcome back to the first post-Olympics week of late-night TV. Jimmy Kimmel Live! took the most advantage of the \u2019lympos this week by interviewing Chloe Kim<\/a> and asking the hardest questions. Namely, \u201cDo you know where you are in the sky?\u201d about figuring out where to land while snowboarding, and how to know when someone has made an AI version of you. And the answers were (1) No, but I figure it out before I land, and (2) Fashion. Look it up, darling.<\/p>\n But when it comes to which show had the most eventful Olympics hiatus, it had to be The Late Show, which stood in defiance of Brendan Carr\u2019s interpretation of equal-time rules<\/a>. Stephen Colbert asserted that he could interview who he wishes. CBS said, \u201cWell \u2026\u201d Colbert\u2019s show countered, \u201cSo that\u2019s a no? So we\u2019ll put an interview on YouTube and note that it\u2019s on YouTube because you said we can\u2019t air it?\u201d CBS responded, \u201cWell \u2026\u201d And so on and so forth for one calendar week. It resulted in continued equivocations from CBS and boffo YouTube hits for The Late Show. But the problem with Donald Trump is that he keeps moving the conversation. Last week, Colbert was the pioneer; this week, he\u2019s doing the last live Late Show ever, something one can\u2019t help but think of in retrospective terms. It\u2019s a humdinger, but one Stephen Colbert will soon be free of<\/a>.<\/p>\n The zoomer-lingo-explainer segment (whose name has changed enough throughout the years that they had to comment on it) has been a stalwart Late Show desk piece for years now. It\u2019s what Eliana Kwartler probably put on her dating writers\u2019 room pitch deck, which she made Stephen Colbert read ahead of his show\u2019s cancellation. Kwartler used her time on the Ed Sullivan stage perfectly.<\/p>\n A hearty thank-you\/fuck you to Jenny Slate for opening up the world of \u201cPeter Pan fails\u201d YouTube to me. The full acting out of a specific high-school-production version of Wendy was absolutely diabolical. Late Night With Seth Meyers had its 12th anniversary this week, and it\u2019s beautiful that the breakout moment was from a former Saturday Night Live performer \u2014 specifically a former SNL performer being meaner and more specific and sharper than they were on SNL. It\u2019s an entire show made of \u201cSecond Chance Theater.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Not since the one-two punch of Mike Myers\u2019s and Guy Branum\u2019s memoirs have I learned so much about the Canadian parliamentary system. Desi Lydic invaded Jon Stewart\u2019s night of The Daily Show to fujoshi out<\/a> and and slam Canada in the wake of it losing our international hockey\/government\/gay-sex competition. Since the U.S. won the gold medal, it also won \u201cbest government\u201d and \u201cperson who tells the ambiently homophobic \u2018deez nutz\u2019 jokes about the losing team.\u201d Every detail of Canadian\/American (and the slash here is intentionally indicating a romantic relationship<\/a> versus a friend or co-worker vibe) civics was sillier than the last. Shout-out to Lydic for taking the joke as far as it could go and no further. Shout-out to Stewart for following up this gorgeous set piece with a killer joke about the Iraq War being sold on a \u201cMarty Supreme\u2013level press tour.\u201d<\/p>\n More like the State of the P.Union, am I right? Because it stinks? The best Trump comedy for this deeply unpopular and interminable SOTU was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! They just condensed it into one big beautiful super-cut. The editors on JKL! are the tightest on late night, and they hone it every \u201chave you ever noticed local-news anchors say the same thing?\u201d montage they do. If anything, they are too powerful at this point.<\/p>\n What a gift to have Tracy Morgan promoting a new show while his SNL pal Jimbo is hosting The Tonight Show. Morgan disregarded every anecdote setup during his The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins<\/a> press tour. He\u2019s gonna talk about impregnating Cher and being afraid of AI, and you\u2019re going to like it! Fallon 100 percent knew to get out of Morgan\u2019s way. It was a really special interplay to behold. This was two old pals knowing exactly how to approach each other, like Christmas With the Martins and the Sinatras<\/a> for Tina Fey fans \u2014\u00a0if only because Tracy Jordan being Cher\u2019s secret baby daddy feels like a season-five 30 Rock joke.<\/p>\n