DAVID LETTERMAN: AMERICA’S LATE-NIGHT EXPORT THAT TAUGHT THE WORLD HOW TO YAWN IN SARCASM By our man in the cheap seats, somewhere over the Pacific The first time a bar in Reykjavík stayed open past 2 a.m. to simulcast “Late Night,” the locals thought Letterman’s gap-toothed grin was a US dental-insurance commercial. By the second…
The Last Chin Standing: Jay Leno and the Global Afterglow of American Late-Night There’s a moment, somewhere between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Japan, when exhausted cargo-ship crews tune their shortwave radios to whatever English chatter they can catch. Over the crackle drifts the unmistakable drone of Jay Leno—still yukking it up about…
Late-Night Joust in the Imperial Court: How One Jimmy-Barb at Charlie Kirk Echoed from Sacramento to Singapore By the time the sun rose over the Yellow Sea, American late-night host Jimmy Kimmel had already weaponized sarcasm against Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk—again. The quip, delivered in the velvet-curtained sarcasm factory Kimmel calls a studio, went…
The Kimmel Conundrum: How a Late-Night Punchline Became a Global Barometer of American Decay By “Jet-Lagged” Jonah Verhoeven, Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent If you had told the ghosts of the Cold War that, three decades after the Wall fell, the free world’s most exportable cultural product would be a 56-year-old Brooklyn wise-ass named Jimmy Kimmel,…
