**Jimmy Fallon’s K-Pop Demon Hunters: How Late Night TV Met Global Fandom** Alright, folks, buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the whirlwind that is Jimmy Fallon’s K-Pop Demon Hunters, the internet’s latest obsession that’s got us all doing double-takes and triple-checks on our Spotify playlists. If you’ve been living under a rock (or just haven’t…
The Curious Global Footprint of Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife (Yes, That One) PARIS—On paper, Molly McNearney is simply the co-head writer of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the woman who married a man famous for pranking children into believing their Halloween candy has vanished. Yet in the grand, malfunctioning kaleidoscope of international celebrity, her name now pings…
Late Night’s Borderless Reign: How Suits, Sarcasm, and Studio Applause Became the World’s Shared Lullaby By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent Somewhere between the midnight muezzin’s call in Jakarta and the 2 a.m. clink of last-call glasses in Reykjavík, a curious planetary ritual unfolds: millions of humans—jet-lagged consultants, insomniac medics, and doom-scrolling teenagers—queue up the same…
**The Gentle Art of American Apology: Jimmy Kimmel’s Global Comedy Empire** While the world burns through its third year of what historians will generously call “unprecedented times,” one man in Hollywood has perfected the delicate balance of making Americans laugh at themselves while collecting enough international goodwill to qualify as a minor diplomatic asset. Jimmy…
The Curious Export of Greg Gutfeld: How America’s Snarkiest Late-Night Host Became a Global Rorschach Test PARIS—On a rain-slick Wednesday in the Marais, the barman at Le Mary Celeste muted France-Inter mid-interview with Emmanuel Macron and flicked on the subtitled feed of “Gutfeld!” The move drew zero protests; the patrons—mostly advertising strategists pretending to read…
Jimmy Fallon, the Man Who Laughs So We Don’t Have To By Our Correspondent in the Global Chuckleplex Somewhere between a toothpaste commercial and the last helicopter out of Saigon sits James Thomas Fallon, the American talk-show host whose nightly giggle-track is beamed to 176 territories and, according to UNESCO’s most recent cultural-risk index, “poses…
