Day Eating With Seth Meyers: The ‘Late Night’ Host Counts Down His Top 10 Pizza List
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large If you haven’t noticed, we’re in the middle of a media apocalypse. Newspapers are dying, websites that filled that void with top-notch journalism have gone away and the outlets that are left still struggle to attract audiences and make a difference as social media and bad-faith cable networks pollute the public discourse.
Thank goodness for the late-night talk shows, many of which are giving us some of the best news analysis and criticism out there — better than any of the hopelessly misguided news outlets that are still trying to report on politics like things are normal.
Once a former president incites an insurrection, refuses to accept an election result and then becomes a 34-time convicted felon, well, nothing’s normal.
At least series like “The Daily Show,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” are telling it like it is. (And quite honestly, so are Stephen Colbert and the Jimmys — both Kimmel and Fallon.) In the case of Meyers, if he wants to blow off a little steam by day drinking with celebrities, I say, let him.
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