Gabby Windey’s Post-Traitors Press Tour Won Late Night This Week

It was a sleepy week in late-night TV, what with all the daylight being saved. Seth Meyers called out daylight saving time during “Ya Burnt!” and he was right to do it. Didn’t one legislative body vote to get rid of that shit years ago? Why not do it in the name of efficiency or whatever? As long as we’re chopping willy-nilly in the government.

The other big news story for the week was the stock market. It’s bad! Perhaps that’s why Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney chose “Lending People Money” as the theme for the new L.A.-less format’s debut. Perhaps that was a mistake. The sketches were so on-point this week (see below), it made the calls flop even harder. It’s hard to be funny about someone else’s personal tragedies, which most of the calls inevitably were. Make fun of your own misfortunes — like Joan Baez did when talking about crashing her Tesla over and over again. Baez was a delightful guest this week in late night. But who else crushed it this week? Let’s find out.

Shout-out to Researchers

Have I Got News for You is often burdened with, well, the news. It’s a bummer time to be alive, so HIGNFY is often making jokes at a disadvantage. But their research team is incredible. The work they put into their take on “Two Lies and a Truth” is impressive every week. And this week, they found the Chester Cheeto commercial that may or may not live in Andrew Cuomo’s head rent-free, and inspires him to call himself a “cool dude in a loose mood.” Andrew Cuomo thinks he’s Chester Cheeto, and that is indeed news for me.

Not the Bayang!

Look, when an inanimate object has hair, I’m laughing. After Midnight continues to innovate in the space of truly stupid games for its comedian contestants. This week, Brendan Scannell, Michelle Collins, and Kurt Braunohler had to give three random things DIY bangs — bangs with a backstory, mind you. Everyone acquitted themselves wonderfully, but the MVP was Collins, who disclosed that she cuts her own bob. That’s an incredible slay. I salute you.

Three Perfect Entrances

Someone’s movement coach is paying off! And by “someone,” I mean Parker Posey, John Mulaney, and Jack Quaid. On Monday, Mulaney was Jimmy Kimmel’s first guest. He came in hot, running to the couch and only briefly stopping to shake Guillermo’s hand. It was weird energy, and IRL buds Mulaney and Kimmel made a meal of dissecting it. Then Quaid (Kimmel’s second guest of the night) beat Mulaney’s time to the couch and shook Guillermo’s hand even more vigorously. But the best entrance of the week went to Parker Posey on Late Night and her drape-y scarf-blouse situation. She was doing some real “Stevie Nicks’s Fajita Roundup” prop work. Posey asked Seth Meyers what vibe she was giving, hoping to hear “Endora from Bewitched.” But it was really more Gena Rowlands on the poster for Opening Night. Cinematic!

John Mulaney’s New Set

Lots of lamp murders.#EverybodysLive
Wednesdays at 10PM EST/7PM PST pic.twitter.com/3NTj3flqLm— John Mulaney (@mulaney) March 13, 2025

The de–Los Angelesification of John Mulaney’s talk show is sad. The specificity of engaging with one particular city motivates some of the best of Mulaney’s work. Oh, Hello wouldn’t work if it was about two old men in Lansing, Michigan, ya know? But at least in introducing his new set, Mulaney had one last Los Angeles movie parody in him. As lamp murder after lamp murder took place through Mulaney’s telescope, the Body Double theme played in my head. (And before we’re off the first episode of Everybody’s Live, I want to demand Netflix put the “Willy Loman Focus Group” sketch on YouTube. I want to ruin a Gay-Guy Music-Video Night.)

Gabby Windey Is a Star, Dammit. A Star!

Robby Hoffman will have to settle for being the Hot One in the couple, because Gabby Windey is the funniest person currently living on the planet. Windey was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Watch What Happens Live this week in a post-Traitors victory lap around NBC properties. And at every one, she made a direct plea to camera for the network to giver her her damn money! Windey on WWHL was especially delightful, as she explained very basic Bachelor shit to Andy Cohen as well as coming up with her own Housewives tagline: “I’m quick to cut people off, but I love to scissor.”