Best Late-Night TV Moments Of 2017
THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN
THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN
There's no stopping Corden from trying to sing with the best of 'em. And while the host typically holds his own, he found himself struggling to compete with Adam Lambert during a Queen frontman battle.
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THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN
As if the Stranger Things kids weren't freakishly talented enough! Earlier this fall, they joined Corden for an infectious medley of Motown classics.
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LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS
Meyers fought back when master of deflection Kellyanne Conway attempted to move past questions about Trump's alleged ties to the Kremlin, just hours after the infamous Russian dossier first surfaced online.
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LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS
Meyers was joined by former Weekend Update co-anchor Amy Poehler to reprise their signature "Really!?!" segment. The topic: a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar that got flak for having the titular, ill-fated character resemble President Trump.
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THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
With the help of Chance the Rapper, Ziggy Marley and bandleader Jon Batiste, the man formerly known as "Stephen Colbert" recreated the opening title sequence from the beloved children's show Arthur.
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THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
How's this for your moment of Zen? Colbert reassembled "the best f—king news team ever," gathering Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Rob Corddry and Ed Helms for a Daily Show reunion.
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THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON
The Peanuts got Riverdale'd in this spot-on parody of the CW drama, featuring cameos by KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Madelaine Petsch and Cole Sprouse.
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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE
Bee issued a PSA at the height of the Harvey Weinstein scandal to advise all men against exposing themselves to unsuspecting colleagues.
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THE PRESIDENT SHOW
Trump took viewers on a tour of his New York City. Along the way, he got really excited, then really sad about a big truck that "goes honk honk!"
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Master of None's Aziz Ansari cut deep with a razor-sharp stand-up set, which not only referred to Trump as the "Chris Brown of politics," but alleged that a subset of his supporters — aka "The Lowercase KKK" — were responsible for starting a "casual" white supremacy movement.
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CONAN
Tom Cruise was excited to put his own spin on Carpool Karaoke, or even better, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. Instead, O'Brien suggested they take things back to basics and "just drive" — and that's when things got awkward.
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THE RUNDOWN WITH ROBIN THEDE
The former Nightly Show head writer made quite the first impression, with a cold open that found her abandoning her core principles to impress an attractive Trump supporter.
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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
Oliver best summed up the current mired-in-controversy administration when he coined the term "Stupid Watergate: a scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate, but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything."
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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
Amid this deep-dive into nepotism within the Trump administration came the reveal of Gilbert Gottfried's Jared Kushner's totally real speaking voice — and you can't prove otherwise!
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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE
One needn't keep up with the Kardashians to have enjoyed this hilarious interview, which found guest host Jennifer Lawrence fangirling over Kim Kardashian for a full 18 minutes.
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Melissa McCarthy never quite topped her first appearance as then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, when she called for the complete and total ban on "radical moose lambs."
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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE
black-ish's Tracee Ellis Ross used her turn as guest host to dispense some helpful advice to the "handsy" men of Hollywood.
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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE
Kimmel had a moment this year, to say the least. Since first addressing newborn son Billy's health scare back in May, the ABC host has consistently used his platform to speak out against efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In December, Billy made his late-night debut as Dad made a tearful plea to the nation's political leaders to renew funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which at that point had gone more than 70 days without Congress' approval for additional funding.
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THE OPPOSITION WITH JORDAN KLEPPER
The day after the Nov. 5 mass shooting at a rural Texas church, Klepper began his show by attempting to find that day's newspaper on his desk. It was lost among a sea of other newspapers from just this year, all of which detailed different mass shootings. "We have to do something about... this desk," he deadpanned. "I don't care whose problem it is, I just want the problem fixed!" Something tells us he wasn't referring to the mess in front of him.
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THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH
The June acquittal of Philando Castile's shooter, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez, hit Noah like a ton of bricks. What followed was an especially thought-provoking monologue that pondered what it would have taken to convince a jury that Yanez shouldn't have fired his weapon five times, let alone once, if not the disturbing dashcam footage.