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Golbert Show is coming to an end. Soun hello. I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Friend of the show,
Jason Ziddiman writes for The New York Times. Jason asks
the question, what do we lose when the Late Show
goes away? Jason writes, Ever since Bette Miller made Johnny
Carson sniffle with a farewell song, I have that on VHS.
It's upstairs somewhere the VHS's label Johnny's Last Jam, which
is what TV Guide called it on their cover that week.
Ever since Bett Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a
farewell song, the long emotional goodbye has become its own
late night tradition, clowing to some moving to others. It's
enough of a recognizable trope to be a reminder that
with CBS's cancelation of The Late Show, we're losing not
just Stephen Colbert, but also an institution. You know, now
that this thing is right in front of us, it
really is weird that this show's just going away. I mean,
Dave up on it the other day, gave it a
little bit of legacy, Like, like, I never really felt
like the Late Show had the weight of the Tonight Show.
But when I saw the two hosts together, and then
you imagine a future where Colbert hosts another five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years, and then someone else takes it over. I
mean it was thirty years. It's weird that that's gonna
be on, and that that just putting on Byron Allen,
which somehow just feels worse than if they like completely
punted and were like, Eh, we're just gonna run NCIS reruns.
I digress. Zenman points out, believe it or not, the
Late Show will been on the air longer than the
coarsin version of the Tonight Show. It's giving ahead Zenmun rights.
When Conan O'Brien quit The Tonight Show on twenty ten,
Jerry Seinfeld poked fun at the idea of late night tradition.
Jerry told Bill Carter, how do you not get that
this whole thing is phony? There's no institution to offend
Zinneman rights. I've long been sympathetic to Seinfeld's position, Comically
exaggerated as it may have been. A healthy art form
requires dynamism and new blood. No institution ever made me laugh,
And yet as the Late Show approaches its end, I
find myself as sentimental as the guest singing melancholy melodies.
What exactly are we losing with the end of the
Late Show? Jason takes us back to the origin of
the Late Show. If you listen to me every day,
you're probably familiar with the story of Letterman and Leno.
Jason wrights fairly. With the diminished state of late night
in today's fragmented culture, it might be hard to understand
the passion behind this competition between men in suits joking
at desks. But make no mistake, it was the Kendrick
Lamar Drake drum of its day. Late night host to
find sensibilities inspired toxic fandoms. Take me Jason for example,
Back then, on the cusp of college, I assumed anyone
who preferred leto was not worth knowing. Yeah, I mean
I was heavy team Letterman and Boy. When Day was
on at eleven thirty that first year, I watched it,
and then I don't know if I watched any of
the remainder I've spoke about this before. It just became
establishment Letterman and I like the counterculture Letterman at twelve thirty.
Be careful what you wish for. I always wish the
show had been on earlier. Oh, as you know, I
don't read these things ahead. I like to react. Jason wrote,
the Late Show meant an earlier to times, a lot
for Letterman, but it signaled something broader than that, a test,
a public taste, a chance for justice to be served,
a cause to get behind. Jason talked about going to
see Letterman back in the NBC days. The line outside
had the feel of a tailor Swift concert. The crowd
responded to every joke. At Fever Pitch, I was surrounded
by fellow true believers. Steven Colbert is a very different
performer from Letterman, but when he got the job as
Letterman's successor at The Late Show, it represented a kind
of continuity. Since it was built in opposition to its
NBC rival, The Late Show was both an institution and
anti institutional. Colbert kept that dual spirit alive. The most
obvious way Late Show remained counterprogramming involved current events, while
the Tonight Show, led by Jimmy Fallon since twenty fourteen,
has aimed for light a political fair. Colbert has responded
to our moment by becoming forceful in his comic attacks
on President Trump. Talk show hosts like Letterman have always
made fun of presidents, network executives' bosses, something Colbert became
too portisan and predictable to be funny, But even if true,
this was an attempt to not just engage with our
politicized era, but also to fill the role of topical hosts.
In a recent GQ interview, Obert said he was more
conservative than people think. Jason says, I believe him all
all very sad time does more Sean though. Nicki Glazer
will be the headliner at this year's Gator Growl. This
announced by the University of Florida. Gator Growl is the
school's annual student run event. So in the span of
a week here we've gone from Nicki Glazer's soft campaigning
to host the Oscars to hosting the Gator Growl. The
event is Friday, Actober ninth. Students can get early access
to tickets beginning today. Chelsea Handler is not holding back
when it comes to modern romance. She was on Howie
Mandel's podcast. She said it's very hard in today's world
to meet straight guys that have their stuff together. Something's wrong.
I don't know what's wrong. I think with dating apps
and social media, there's just so much abundance and so
much choice that nobody really feels like they have to
lock it in. They could swipe through fifty women a day,
so they're not making the effort that people used to
make to date. Meanwhile, Handler herself said, I wouldn't say
I'm in a relationship. I would say I'm dabbling in
different areas of my life. I don't like to be
tethered to one person. You may recall ten seconds ago
I told you Chelsea was commenting on men's swapping through
fifty pictures in one day. Chelsea said, I love the
idea that I don't have to check in with anybody
about anything I do. I don't have to consider or
consult with anyone if I want to get on a
plane and go to Paris, which I'll do at a moment's notice.
Marcelo hernane has got a big fluff piece in GQ
titled How Marcello Hernanez Became the Boy Prince of Comedy. Guys,
is Marcelo Hernandez the boy Prince of comedy? Clearly, the
answer is no, What are we basing that on that
he does Domingo. Come on, stop. Keenan Thompson describes Marcelo
Hernandez and says he's just a very bright soul, loves
to laugh and loves to find what's funny about each laugh.
He likes not only laughing, but finding a formula to
what's making us all laugh. I'd say, oh, this guy
serious about comedy. Well, the formula is he does Domingo
and characters very similar to Domingo. They point out he
is speaking voices far less theatrical, his Latino accent much
more faint than the way he often talks in his comedy.
He says he's in a circles keeping him humble. My
friends are not like every Sunday being like, dude, you
killed it last night. Once in a while you get that.
But that's nicer than anything, but it motivates the work
a little bit too. Wow. I didn't realize he's been
on the show for four seasons now and the boy
Prince of comedy has done what again in four seasons.
Ashley Pitty and Jane Wickline are more memorable. Come on, guys.
He gets asked for a lot of selfies and says,
the only thing worse than taking pictures is when no
one wants one. Now, GQ says, being around Hernandez a
clearest day extrovert feels like hanging out with the Tasmanian
Devil if Taz had more polished comedic chops Stavarro's Hawkius
just so happens to walk by, s ays GQ, and
Hernanez frantically waves him down. When Halkius recognizes this isn't
some crazy fan of his podcast, but rather fellow comedian
Stavarro stops Spideriff for a little bit. He's asked about
being a heart throb, and he says, how do I
feel about being a heart throb? Grateful Late Nighter had
some odds on who may leave and who may return
for SNL season fifty two. They say, most likely to depart,
Cam Patterson odds of returning minus four hundred. Most likely
to return, Ashley Padilla. I think everybody agrees she was
season one's MVP. And this reminds me because someone else
pointed this out. You know who was on this season,
bow and Yang? Remember bow Anden Yang walked around a
Christmas time to go do something else? How's that going?
John McGinley has a pitch for Scrubs Season eleven slash two.
By the way, we've learned that there will be ten
episodes in the upcoming season. McGinley said, I think it'd
be awesome in the revival of Scrubs. It'll never happen
because we're up in Vancouver. But if Hugh Jackman came
and was sick and he had to come to the
hospital and Doctor Cox would be like, what the f
That would be genius. That'd be so great, you know,
would be really good. Doctor Cox has become sick and
season ten, Cox gets a kidney problem, so he's going
to be a patient for a while. Now, what would
be genius is if Hugh Jackman was in a bed
next to him in the hospital and they were just
chirping away. McGinley explained why doctor Cox hates Hugh Jackman.
It all comes from the writer of the show, Bill Lawrence,
is jealous because Hugh Jackman is a great actor. He's
a great singer, he's a great dancer. He does Broadway musicals,
he does Marvel, he does everything, and Bill Lawrence is
jealous of him. So we made doctor Cox jealous of that.
That's where it comes from. I've never met Hugh Jackman.
By all accounts, he's the nice guy on the planet.
He's very handsome, but I'm not jealous of you. That's
all Bill Lawrence and Bill Lawrence had fun with that.
Cox wonders about the new dynamic between his character and
j D. McGinley said, as we see in the eighth
episode of the new season, the last thing on earth
that doctor Cox wants is to expose JD to what
I think Doctor Cox perceives as a fatal malady. And
he doesn't want to drag JD down with him until
he realizes he's so scared and us to tell JD
for the first time in ten years, I need you
and to me, it's the best episode we ever did,
next to one. Brendan Frascher came on. We were all
crying on the set and the camera picked it all up.
It's very moving and I didn't see that one coming.
He explained how his return happened. They called me because
I was doing the Steve Carell Show and currently with
what those guys were in Vancouver shooting and I was
in Burbank and Zach called and I said, I have
a great story idea, and I'm like, what because in
the first episode, I give Zack the hospital, I make
him the new chief of medicine. So I didn't know
I were going to reintegrate doctor Cox from the show.
Rooster stopped and I could go back up to Vancouver.
McGinley says his idea for Cox's return was very different.
I thought, what if we make Cox the worst patient
in the history of patience, you know, somebody who just
wants to micromanage everything. But Zach said, even better, let's
make them really sick and scared. That was great. I
think my job with Zach in that episode, and I'll
say to him a couple of times, is to protect
him from what's going on with me. I want to
protect you from this. This isn't your journey, this is
my descent to this malady. That's really rich to say
to somebody. I mean, we mostly only say that to
who our best friends or people in our families. We
could try, but it's a big thing to try and
protect someone. And so for Cox repeatedly in that episode
saying I'm trying to protect you from this, that's as
good as it gets. And that is your comedy news
for today, We'll see you tomorrow.