Day four of the quarantine and self-isolation means that the late night TV talk shows are experiencing what a lot of us have been experiencing: kids climbing all over us while we’re trying to get things done. Our late night heroes who normally bring us the funny and interview glamourous celebs under flattering lights have had to lock up their filming studios to stay home amid social distancing practices, but the show, as they say, must go on. Even if that show is taped on an iPad mounted on a plant stand (Colbert), or by your wife (Fallon), or via video chat (Kimmel).Jimmy Fallon started off his quarantined
Tonight Show episode in his living room where his kids played chiming instruments (Questlove would be proud) as Jimmy came into view by sliding down a slide. Wait... Jimmy has a slide in his living room? A freaking slide! But they weren’t as generous as his normal studio audience, when he asked them if they liked a joke, and they said with absolute certainty, “No.” Out of the mouths of babes, Jimmy…
A dispatch--er, we mean, interview--from Lin-Manuel Miranda confirmed that the Broadway and film stars are dealing with the same stuff, too. Jimmy sat down (via videochat, of course) with Lin-Manuel as part of his push to encourage viewers to support Broadway Cares and Equity Fights AIDS. After casually talking about his Grammy like it was a piece of mass-produced art from IKEA, Lin held up a drawing clearly done by his five-year-old son. "Check out this legit good pigeon drawing!" he said. Yup, we're there too, Lin.[video_embed id='-1']Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah shoot late shows from woodshed and couch, respectively[/video_embed]On the other side of late night, Colbert continued his “elements” style monologues
for The Late Show, (
Monday was water in a bathtub;
Tuesday was a fire-pit) and came to us from an air-based location (his solarium). He took a
note from Seth Rogen and went in on
Cats, specifically, the internet rumour that there is a "
butthole edit" of the movie
Cats (which was rumoured to have been edited to remove all traces of that area). “Somewhere out there, there exists a butthole cut of
Cats starring James Cornhole, Dame Judi Stench, Sir Ian McSmellin’, and of course, Anus Elba. Get well soon, Anus.” Okay, we’re gonna need a minute.Kimmel spent most of his
Jimmy Kimmel Live ‘minilogue’
video-chatting with Guillermo and trying to convince him to take social distancing seriously and not got to 7-11 everyday. “You’re a national treasure, we have to keep you safe... I’m going to call you back after this and yell at you,” Kimmel quipped.
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee is also filming from home--and by "home" we mean a shed in the middle of the wilderness. Social distancing on fleek, Sammy Bee. Redubbing her show "Beeing At Home with Samantha Bee," she admitted that all the other late night hosts have fabulous, flashy, spacious homes, but unlike them, she can chop wood, thank you very much. Hacking away at one solitary piece of wood with an axe almost bigger than her, Sam swears like a sailor. "Ugh, I literally almost chopped my own leg off," she moans before finally splitting that pesky log wide open. Honestly, this is the content we need more of.
While Sam reserves her 'gramming for calling out the American president, the other three hosts continue to ruminate on home life, with Jimmy singing
hand-washing instructions to his two little angels, Kimmel was enjoying the wonderful world of
baking (bake it til you make it, bud), and Colbert realized the pain of
jigsaw-puzzlin’ when you have a wee little pupper. Celebrities: they’re just like us![video_embed id='1924213']BEFORE YOU GO: Seth Rogen live-tweeting ‘Cats’ is the content we need right now[/video_embed]
