Kimmel Renames Band / Klepper Sets New Daily Show Special / SNL Ratings Tick Up

PLUS: Malala-Fallon TikTok tops 100M views.

View in your browser Wednesday November 19, 2025 Jimmy Kimmel Live! Renames House Band 'The Cletones' After Cleto Escobedo's Passing Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned this week with a small but notable shift in the show’s opening credits. Read more The Daily Show Sets New Jordan Klepper Special, 'Give the Man a Prize' Jordan Klepper is once again putting boots on the ground for The Daily Show, with the longtime correspondent delivering a new standalone special for Comedy Central next month. Read more SNL Ratings Tick Up With Glen Powell and Olivia Dean First on LateNighter: It was another up week for SNL, as the legendary sketch show continued to grow audience following last month’s all-time low opposite Game 7 of the World Series. Read more Malala Helps Push Fallon to 100 Million TikTok Views Malala Yousafzai's unexpected turn in a “Beez in the Trap” trend video has pushed The Tonight Show to its latest viral milestone. Read more Weekly Ratings: Kimmel and Colbert Trade Wins at 11:35 Powered by a big Monday Night Football lead-in and an emotional tribute to his late bandleader Cleto Escobedo, Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished the week No. 1 in the demo. Read more Inside Late Night: Brian McCann on Writing, Performing, and Warming Up for Conan O'Brien This week in a new episode of Inside Late Night with Mark Malkoff's Brian McCann discusses his Conan O’Brien years—from Chicago improv roots to becoming a key figure in O'Brien’s comedy universe Read more Seth Meyers Mocks Trump's Latest Attack: 'They Said My Name on TV!' Seth Meyers used Monday night’s "A Closer Look" to address Donald Trump’s latest weekend broadside—a new Truth Social post calling the Late Night host "talentless," accusing him of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and urging NBC to fire him. Read more SNL Screen Time Report: Glen Powell and Olivia Dean (S51 E6) Who got the most and least screen time on last weekend's Glen Powell-hosted SNL? LateNighter's Mike Murray and his trusty stopwatch have all the answers. Read more WATCH: Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim Reteam for Beauty Ad Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim aren’t done writing sketches together. The former Saturday Night Live castmates wrote and star in a new ad for beauty brand Merit. Read more Spon-Con Watch: Jimmy Kimmel Live! for Slice Soda Jimmy Kimmel Live! took another trip back to the '80s Tuesday night, debuting a totally tubular brand integration for soda brand Slice. Read more Around the web: Kimmel Mocks Trump’s Call to Review ABC’s License “I don’t know,” Kimmel said in his Tuesday monologue. “The last time your FCC guy looked at that didn’t go so great for you.” Sarah Sherman's HBO Special Gets a Date and a Trailer Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh, the SNL star’s first-ever stand-up special, will debut Friday, December 12 on HBO and HBO Max. Watch the trailer David Letterman Interviews Jim Downey The legendary late-night comedy writer paid a visit to Letterman’s YouTube channel to talk SNL, Norm Macdonald, and his stint as head writer for Late Night with David Letterman in the early ’80s. Got Feedback? If you like what we’re doing, or if there’s something we could be doing better, we'd love to hear from you. Simply respond to this message or use our feedback form. This email was sent to mediayenta.comedy@blogger.com  Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here Not seeing our emails? Add newsletters@email.latenighter.com to your safe sender list, or if you have Gmail, simply drag and drop one of our emails from the Promotions tab into the Primary tab. © 2025 Snugglefish Media, LLC, All rights reserved. 1812 W Burbank Blvd # 7225, Burbank, CA 91506-1315 Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use