Late Night News: TDS & @Midnight

[PGage]

Matt Belloni at Puck News last night had two items on late night shows:

1. Litigation is on the horizon between Hassan Minhaj, who believes he had an enforceable oral contract to take over TDS prior to the Strike that CC breached after the New Yorker story was published on 9/15, and CC, which says that while they were close to a deal, they were still completing their due diligence and had not closed a deal, oral or otherwise. Or maybe cool heads will prevail and they settle on a payoff. I have not followed the details of the Minhaj situation, but from afar do not understand the fuss; has any other comic gotten in trouble because elements in the set up for their punchlines were not literally true? Are we meant to believe there really was a family vaudeville act called The Aristocrats who performed disgusting sexual and scatalogical acts on each other?

2. @Midnight host options down to three: Ricky Velez, X Mayo, Taylor Thompson. Belloni did not note that Velez was on the at home Covid Colbert show this week, and maybe that bit about Velez taking over the hosting of that episode with Pete Davidson was meant to signal that he would soon be hosting the show following Colbert. For me it was painfully unfunny, and more of a reason to go with one of the other two candidates.

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[Diner]

I'm guessing you mean Taylor Tomlinson, a comic who was recently on the Fly on the Wall podcast, and not Taylor Thompson.

[Steve Timko]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:13 AM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have not followed the details of the Minhaj situation, but from afar do not understand the fuss; has any other comic gotten in trouble because elements in the set up for their punchlines were not literally true?

A couple of comics said Minhaj made up stories not for me humor but to make himself look better. Self aggrandizement was the teal crime, not fibbing.

[M-D November]

Assuming he meant Taylor Tomlinson, I feel like she'd be a good choice.  I've enjoyed her Netflix standup specials.

[Kevin M.]

I consider her more social than political. I like her, but I don’t know that she’d shine as the host of TDS. 

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[PGage]

You are correct.

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[David Bruggeman]

The listed names are for whatever the @midnight show is going to be.  I think Tomlinson would be a better fit for this program than for TDS, but I think her level of success as a comedian could price her out of whatever salary CBS is wanting to pay for the host.

David

[Kevin M.]

Yep. My bad. Taylor is too good for midnight. That show’s original host proved a lobotomized hamster could host that show.  

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[Brad Beam]

As announced on what Craig might now call the Xy-Box, Taylor Tomlinson has been named the host of "After Midnight" (né "@Midnight").

https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1719885689062350989

[PGage]

I guess I will get her last name right now (especially because, a long long time ago, during my mother’s first marriage, that was my last name too).

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[Mark Jeffries]

At 11:37 in the Central and Mountain time zones.

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