Not last night but the night before I dreamed that my friend Susan took new living accommodations in a big shared house where she was sleeping on a mat on the floor at the end someone’s bed. Instead of saying I was proud of her, like I knew I should, I said she could probably find a better living situation. I knew immediately that this was wrong. But she and I have reconciled about this in real life and everything is fine now.

Somehow after that dream, or as I was waking up, I started ranking late night talk show hosts. Late night talk show hosts must be on my mind lately with Colbert getting fired, and I just watched an episode of his when I was at my parents’ house.

Seth Meyers I like because we saw him live when we were in New York. He talked to Paul Rudd when we saw him so that was a famous person, even. Most recently though I saw him on tiktok talking ALL CAPS to Pamela Anderson, who was just lovely and only talks in small caps, I guess. I wanted him to Shhhh just a bit.
I only watch Jimmy Fallon when there are BTS members appearing, because he is their late night talk show host of choice. That’s all I really have to say about him, EXCEPT that he has a flavour of ice cream named after him that comes in a dairy-free version and it is very tasty. I guess it’s named after his show, actually, but I call it “Jimmy Fallon Flavoured Ice Cream.” I liked Jimmy Fallon more when he did the news on SNL. But he’s nice to the BTS members, so.

 I forgot about Jimmy Kimmle. Kimmel? He’s been around a while. I’ve watched compilations of his feud with Matt Damon. Funny.

I never watched Craig Ferguson until he was finished his run and then I went on a spree watching all of his content on YouTube. He has several things going for him that i enjoy: he is basically completely unhinged. Did he ever have a script? Who knows. I don’t think so.  But also he featured a pantomime horse with an accompanying song and dance that the host and guests would do when ever it appeared. I don’t even have words to express how much I love this, although I have Youtube history showing how many instances of this I have watched.

I would watch Conan O’Brian waaaaay back in the day when he was on at 12:30 am. Also unhinged. Sometimes I would laugh a lot. Mostly it was an accomplishment to be awake that late. I recently watched his special for getting the Mark Twain award for being a particularly funny american. It was a good time.

Colbert is the best when he talks about Lord of the Rings, or when someone tries to best him in LOTR trivia. There’s something else I like too, but I can’t remember. When I was watching just recently I was like OH, this is him doing that thing he does. I wonder what it was. Probably something smart. My parents record him and watch while eating dinner, that’s when I was watching, so maybe it wasn’t Colbert that I was impressed with so much as it was roast chicken dinner with corn and caesar salad, and I got to eat all of the caesar salad because no one else wanted any!

And then David Letterman. I like that he has the kind of humor that is straight-faced and entirely disinterested or indifferent. For some reason in the mid-90’s he was on at 3:30 in the afternoon on channel 6 so my brother I I would watch and do homework (or not? maybe? I don’t remember him ever doing homework, but I might have.)