After months of pandemic broadcasting, late-night hosts like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon have moved back to their regular studios.
The show will maintain a presence via social media during the summer, with work from its team of producers and faux correspondents.
He has held forth from an apartment, rather than the show’s New York City studio, and tried to address political and cultural matters.
People are allowed to live in completely different realities, and what that creates is uncertainty that I think it’s already uncomfortable for human beings, because you do’t get to establish what your base level really is.” The effect of holding forth without a live audience, he suggested, has changed the format.
The host cited a desire to spend time with his family and fill-ins included Amy Schumer, Tracee Ellis Ross, Anthony Anderson, Sarah Cooper and Billy Porter.
Conan O’Brien, who is set to end his run on WarnerMedia’s TBS later this month, welcomed a live crowd back to his program last night, and Stephen Colbert returned to live-audience production on CBS on Monday for the first time in 15 months.