# Who is ready for the return of the Late Night talk shows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, trump\ **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019 "2023-10-02T19:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/1 "2023-10-02T19:30:11Z")
I missed Stephen Colbert so much this summer, with all the craziness of Trump. I watch a bit of Fallon, but not the Late Late - I can’t stay awake that late. Actually, I generally record Colbert, plus a few other shows, and watch them when I wake up at 2:00 or 3:00 am. Insomnia sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/2 "2023-10-02T19:31:05Z")
John Oliver had a new episode of Last Week Tonight yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/3 "2023-10-02T19:35:38Z")
I saw that! I love him as well. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/4 "2023-10-02T19:54:16Z")
We’ve been waiting impatiently for their return! We usually watch Colbert the next evening on Paramount Plus, and that used to be our mainstay for evening TV. Since the strike, we’ve been watching shows from our childhoods (Mission: Impossible, the Andy Griffith Show, and Get Smart currently) and family or workplace sitcoms we didn’t see the first time around. I must say, I’ve been getting a tiny bit nostalgic for the pre-streaming days when you could just put the TV on a channel and watch whatever came on. Then I try it with an over the air station and remember about commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/5 "2023-10-02T20:00:17Z")
Yeah, I miss Colbert. I need someone to come into my house four time a week, review the day’s right-wing idiocy, and repudiate it in amusing fashion. (Also other varieties of idiocy, but RWing is presently the most threatening to civilization). Looking forward to the return. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/6 "2023-10-02T20:02:08Z")
He starts tonight in case y’all don’t know! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/7 "2023-10-02T22:01:55Z")
Excellent, I was wondering how quickly he would be back. I missed Last Week Tonight. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/8 "2023-10-02T22:26:36Z")
We watch Colbert and Kimmel’s monologues and Myers’ “Closer Look” segments the following night. (Don’t like Fallon.) And Oliver’s show too, all on YouTube. Glad to have them back! It’s been a long, mirthless summer. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/9 "2023-10-02T23:57:25Z")
I’m not, mostly because the last seven or eight years have pretty much killed my interest in all those shows. Though I guess the writers have had plenty of time to think up more ways to make everything about Trump all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/10 "2023-10-03T00:07:00Z")
CNN used to have a recurring segment called “Late Nite Laughs” where supposedly it was taking short jokes/segments from late night shows and airing them, presumably for levity, and yet every single time it was just the same political jokes. It was always so boring since they weren’t actually funny jokes just quick zings. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/11 "2023-10-03T00:44:04Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I’m not, mostly because the last seven or eight years have pretty much killed my interest in all those shows. Odd. The last seven years made them much better for me. Oliver was savage in his return. His segment on corporate-run prison health care was a kick in the stomach. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/12 "2023-10-03T01:49:25Z")
I really miss Colbert but even more so Seth Meyers. I’m sure they’ll have some good “So did anything interesting happen in the past five months?” jokes. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/13 "2023-10-03T01:51:47Z")
Meyers is definitely trying to catch up. Hess doing a full episode of “A Closer Look,” with no guests. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/14 "2023-10-03T02:53:04Z")
I’d expect Colbert to do at least two monologues to catch up on the events after all this time. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/15 "2023-10-03T11:41:58Z")
And he did! He did highlights for each month. And he actually said “Trump!” I was surprised at that. I really liked him substituting viewer’s nicknames for him, when he refused to say the Orange Shitgibbon’s name. But I guess that joke has sailed. His one and only guest was Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and he was amazing as usual. I love him! ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/16 "2023-10-03T13:38:31Z")
Not me. I haven’t watched them in years, they’ve become too political. Back in the day you didn’t even know what the hosts’ political leanings were. And I don’t stay up that late anymore! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/17 "2023-10-03T14:03:56Z")
I can’t wait to get home from work and watch them later. I’ve really missed Kimmel. I’m a new fan of Colbert. I love John Oliver, but don’t have HBO or whatever he’s on. Very glad they’re back. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/18 "2023-10-03T14:19:45Z")
John Oliver is on YouTube, too. Delayed, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/19 "2023-10-03T15:20:15Z")
We are looking forward to them being back. We got a bit of relief listening to their podcast, Strike Force Five, over the last several weeks while we were out walking and hiking. We were nearly fall down laughing at many points. [https://strikeforcefive.com/](https://strikeforcefive.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019/20 "2023-10-03T16:42:21Z")
I have generally watched Stephen Colbert the most out of the current crop of late night hosts, although I’ve always felt a little disappointed that he has never hit the heights of his previous work. I would watch Meyers more, except I know that “A Closer Look” is more or less guaranteed to be Trump-focused and I just don’t need that. I hardly ever think about tuning into Fallon or Kimmel. I used to like Fallon a lot, actually, but somehow he stopped being interesting to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-ready-for-the-return-of-the-late-night-talk-shows/991019.md?page=2)