James Franco had another uncomfortable late night interview, this time with Seth Meyers.
Meyers opened the chat by saying that many women had an issue with Franco wearing a Time’s Up pin at the Golden Globes on Sunday, given their experienc…
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2017 was the year late night grew up, and we did too
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In an earlier, better time, late night was the place where smart comics got to write mostly meaningless jokes about transitory crap.
Ah, what an era.
2017 didn’t change all of that — there will always, sadly, be space in our culture for James Corden sing-a-longs — but it did force late night comics to lean in one two directions. Either they could take the easy breezy hair-fluffing Jimmy Fallon road and be ridiculed by rose emojis on Twitter, or they could go the Jimmy Kimmel route and wonk it out on national television.
Most chose the latter, to the benefit of their profit margins and ratings and sometimes, even, get ready for it — the American people. Read more…
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Jimmy Kimmel has taken several opportunities this year to cast aside humor and use his platform to discuss a serious issue close to his heart: healthcare.
On Monday night Kimmel carried a very special guest on stage — his seven-month-old son Billy, who had just undergone his second open heart surgery last week.
Kimmel had recently taken time off from hosting to stay with Billy while he recovered, leaving celebrities like Chris Pratt, Tracee Ellis Ross, Neil Patrick Harris, and Melissa McCarthy to host the show in his absence.
In a heartbreaking 15-minute plea for better healthcare back in May, the late night host and father of four tearfully revealed his youngest son was born with congenital heart disease Read more…
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