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This week saw a preponderance of old-school late-night segments across shows. We got two Broadway songs (see below) as well as cooking segments on Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. And Jimmy Kimmel pranked Guillermo in a way that also harkened to older, meaner prank TV. All these throwbacks had one thing in common: not being topical political humor. I think that’s going to be a through-line of this Trump presidency. The information overload has already happened. We can’t pay attention to every bad thing, and it doesn’t actually help the oppressed to wring one’s hands and boo. (Looking at you, Colbert’s performative audience.) Help where you can, learn what you…
