"The network late-night shows have returned from summer hiatus - something that The Late Show reminded us is actually a new season of late night. You never think about late-night TV having seasons. It's constant and cyclic and intermittently makes you cry, like menstruation. But the cable shows - your WWHLs and HIGNFYs, are still on a break. Still, it was good to get the boys back in town to cover Trump not dying."
"Speaking of rambunctious audiences, the crazy laudatory-clapping disease has infected the Jimmy Kimmel Live! audience over the break. Maybe everyone was just excited to get Kimmel instead of a guest host. Maybe Kimmel's backing of Colbert in the Emmys race is paying off with the audience. Either way, Kimmel didn't seem to love it, and he tried to shut it down. But people were too excited that late night was back. Baby."
"He pointed out how many white-guy corporate logos still have not been erased by the woke mind virus, and wow, it is wild seeing them all together. Kimmel is consistently good at long-list comedy; his supercuts of politicians saying dumb shit are always timed just long enough to work. Ditto for this seemingly endless list of white corporate mascots. And the segment taught me something new: The NBA logo is white and named Jerry. The more you know."
Network late-night shows have returned from summer hiatus while cable late-night programs remain on break. Audiences returned exuberant and sometimes unruly, treating late-night as an emotional-release valve. Stephen Colbert had to chastise an audience for booing the fact that the president was not dead. Jimmy Kimmel confronted excessive clapping and tried to quiet an overenthusiastic crowd. Kimmel ran a segment on the Cracker Barrel logo controversy and compiled long-list comedy of white corporate mascots, noting the NBA logo as white and named Jerry. Colbert teased a final-season mystery by asking, 'Who stabbed Louis Cato?'
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