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We all feel neck-deep in the apocalypse, dont we?
Late night is supposed to comment on the times.
By exaggerating reality, comedians highlight what they think is important.
But how do you exaggerate the unexaggerate-able?
How do you heighten what is already the peak of bullshit?
Late-night jokes so often go something like A?
That would be like if B did C in a D!
Weirder stuff is required.
Comedy is found in the specifics.
Its a lesson hammered home in every writing and improv class.
Nine Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.s is funnier than some seafood restaurants.
Saying Hyundai Elantra is funnier than car, and sometimes gets you paid by Hyundai.
Someone died on the eve of their wedding; that kind of thwarted joy is comedy poison.
It ruined Eddie MurphysHaunted Mansionmovie, and it ruins this Closer Look.
Some things you cant joke directly at.
Then there are details too absurd to support comedy.
For example, thepipe bombs were made in Florida, because of course they were.
They also had Larry the Cable Guy/ISIS meme stickers on them.
This is a specific detail that a writer would toss out as hacky, too on-the-nose.
Pipe bombs labeled git er done fail to get er done.
To take a stab at top such a thing would be folly.
Like how Trump is getting policy ideas from Steven Seagal.
You know,special U.S.Russian envoySteven Seagal?
Every week we say things cant get worse or weirder, and every week they do.
Every week we say that every week we say that!
You cant mock such beliefs with our normal tools.
When confronted with unending cruelty and nonsense, the only recourse is to respond with equal nonsense.
Kevin Nealon gets it.
Sometimes things are rough, and you need an emotional support baby.
Men working, wearing Baby Bjorns, and getting emotional fulfillment from being caregivers.
Either way, they stumbled into a surreal image of gender-flipping and the gnarly facts of the body.
Its wild that we all used to be that little and vulnerable.
Social conventions and routine fail to hold back the universes entropy.
And late night is 100 percent social convention and routine now.
It happens because its always happened.
Regardless of what happens in the news, late night will put a shiny veneer over it.
Yes, Trump-tousling Jimmy Fallon is our generations Harold Pinter.
Arent we lucky to be in showbiz?
We are all Dianne Wiest inHappy Days,and today is a happy day if we say it is.
