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As the year comes to a close, we get wistful here on late-night television. Jimmy Kimmel said it best during his Thursday-night monologue<\/a>. \u201cIt can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels and that it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy, too.\u201d The main point of late night at this current moment in history is catharsis, and it\u2019s very useful to a lot of folks.<\/p>\n On Wednesday<\/a>, Stephen Colbert spoke to Kumail Nanjiani, specifically about how he closed his Vulture No. 1 Best Stand-up Special of 2025<\/a> Night Thoughts. He tells the audience, \u201cShit is fucked up, and you\u2019re going to be okay.\u201d Then he makes the audience say it back to him. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing here on late night. At its best, we\u2019re acknowledging the fucked-up shit while also reaffirming the inevitable okay-ness that is always to be. It\u2019s very Alexander Pope<\/a>, this thing the talk shows now do. Here\u2019s who kept hope springing eternal this week in late night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This is one of the best \u201cClubhouse Playhouse\u201d segments we\u2019ve gotten from WWHL in a while. Kerry Washington performs Mary Cosby\u2019s fart monologue from RHOSLC, and it brings the pathos. Is it because Cosby provides such fecund soil from which a performance may spring? Is it because Washington, a vet of the Shondaverse school of monologues, can make even the most insane stakes emotionally resonant? No, idiots. It\u2019s because farts are funny but also deeply, deeply human. The entire Bravo project is displaying-while-interrogating the self-image of rich women. How better to puncture a performance than with a big ol\u2019 fart?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Because The Tonight Show doesn\u2019t include a star\u2019s entrance in its YouTube clips, the Marty Supreme ballheads (Is that what they\u2019re called? Either way, I\u2019m terrified) appear behind Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet completely without context and completely unacknowledged. It only adds to the surreality of Chalamet earnestly speaking to camera about how Marty Supreme is his life\u2019s magnum opus, how we all need to dream big, how he\u2019s cognizant of all the opportunities he\u2019s been given, and how we should go see Marty Supreme Christmas Day. It\u2019s so true: Marty Supreme Christmas Day. Marty Supreme Christmas Day. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s penchant for pranks is well known. His \u201clook at this dumbass\u201d schtick on Hollywood Boulevard is also quite established. But when Mark Hamill gets involved, it\u2019s magic. Hamill stood by his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and punked people like they were on Punk\u2019d. The whole thing lived and died by his likability, and thus, it fucking soared. The man is a national treasure and the best Joker by far<\/a>. When Hamill referenced his own first gig as a girlfriend of Susan Dey on The Partridge Family, I plotzed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n David Letterman is back on late night all the time. You know what\u2019s exciting and novel? Seeing his bandleader back on the shiny floor. Paul Shaffer backed Darlene Love, alongside Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, in a rendition of \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d on The Tonight Show. And that rocks. Firstly, because Love needs her Christmas checks; keep \u2019em coming, or else. Secondly, because it\u2019s huge to see Shaffer backing someone again on late night. He\u2019s an incredible second banana \u2014 whether it\u2019s to David Johansen<\/a>, Bill Murray<\/a>, the Green Goblin<\/a>, or in this case,\u00a0the original queen of Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Before this \u201cDay Drinking\u201d segment began, I said to my partner, \u201cI\u2019m not sure this is going to work. Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s persona is maybe too controlled to be fun in a day-drinking context.\u201d Well, shut my mouth, because Seth Meyers really rose to the occasion. In some of these segments, he\u2019s the straight man to a more boisterous drunk \u2014 your Will Fortes<\/a> or Lizzos<\/a>. But if someone needs to be Boo Boo the Fool, Meyers will don the dunce cap forth-fucking-with. Meyers and Carpenter became a perfectly crafted duo, a Nick and Nora Charles for the 21st century. And kudos also to the Late Night props team for burning so many bridges with the undrinkable novelty liquors they used. Eggo booze sounds disgusting.<\/p>\n