I am an enormous fan of late-night, but primarily through YouTube. I agree, Kimmel and Colbert were the best. Seth used to be, but I think he had some writer turnover, and he is not as effective as he was.
Kimmel is excellent. As a side note, when Conan was cancelled, he paid his entire crew's salary, or something to that effect, until they got a new gig. He is in a whole other class than the others. His podcast is also excellent. Watch the Kevin Nealon ones in particular, but they are all good.
Jon Oliver is also amazing, but another class yet again.
Then the grand-master Jon Stewart. At least we get him once a week. His podcast is also excellent and dives deep with great guests.
It's actually a really rich milieu currently. People are just ingesting it in new ways.
The attentive reader will see Fallon was not mentioned. That is enough said about that.
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