The very best moments from this messy year of late night political comedy

There are a lot of jobs that got harder and scarier in 2020, and let's be honest — "late night show writer" is way down on the list. Just about everyone who's paying attention is burned out and bummed out, and it was often clear that comedians and writers were struggling to come up with witty new ways to say "This is not normal." (If you saw Late Night's interminable Sea Captain bits starring an oil painting in Seth Meyers' in-laws' den, then you know.)

But in a year that was constantly, genuinely terrifying — from the crumbling of our democratic institutions to a global pandemic — and also often deeply absurd, late night shows reinvented themselves. Suddenly transported to garages and home offices, the late night shows managed to create moments that found clarity, lightness, edification, and yes, laughs, in the bleak pandemic-election hellscape.  Read more...

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