Who is On Late Night Tonight in Comedy: Week of June 14, 2021

Published by Ernie Tripper at June 14, 2021

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Who’s on Late Night Tonight in Comedy?

This week, Conan loads up on comics, Colbert has a reunion, and Edgar Wright gives Seth a ‘Spark”.

Each late night that passes is one more late night until Conan calls it quits on his TBS show. It’s hard to believe, but by the end of next week, Conan O’Brien will no longer be part of our late night landscape. So it makes sense that Team Coco continues to load up the last weeks of his schedule with the very funny people that Conan enjoyed the most.

Monday night, the week starts off with Patton Oswalt as a very special guest on “Conan.” Patton has given Conan O’Brien some of his funniest episodes, and touching ones as well. It was on “Conan” where Patton chose to appear just months after the loss of his first wife, true crime author Michelle McNamara. It was amazing watching Patton turn a horrific tragedy into raw comedy. You can read more by the IBang’s Rachel Crowe about the evening on “Conan” when “Patton Oswalt humanized the unthinkable“.

The rest of the week on Conan is booked with some of his favorite friends. On Tuesday, you can see the best guest in late night television, Martin Short, on Conan. That should be brutally funny. Then on Wednesday, it’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star JB Smoove on Conan. And finally on Thursday, watch for Mila Kunis to wrap up Conan O’Brien’s penultimate week.

Of course, there are other late night hosts out there planning a lot of comedy for this week too. On Monday, Stephen Colbert welcomes two giants of comedy. He’ll be reuniting with his old boss from “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report“, Jon Stewart. Whenever Stewart stops by the Late Show, it’s always a social media frenzy the next day. Also on Monday, Stephen Colbert welcomes Saturday Night Live legend Dana Carvey to the Late Show. It is indeed “party time” and yes, it will be “excellent.”

Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel has booked the Butterscotch Stallion himself, Owen Wilson on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Owen is the star of comedy movies like “Wedding Crashers” and “Zoolander“, plus he’s co-starred Wes Anderson ensemble comedies including “Bottle Rocket,” “Rushmore,” and “The Royal Tenenbaums“, but this time, Owen doesn’t have a new comedy promote.

He’s co-starring in the new Marvel Comics television action series “Loki” on Disney+. In the new comic book series, this Loki is the alternate timeline version of Thor’s adopted brother and the “god of mischief.” Owen Wilson adds some comic relief to the show as Mobius M. Mobius an agent for the Time Variance Authority which handles criminals messing with the timeline. Episodes of “Loki” are available now on Disney+.

On Wednesday, it’s one of those late nights when hosts collide. The host of Late Night, Seth Meyers, will be a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. The two former Weekend Update anchormen from Saturday Night Live will be sitting down together to compare notes. Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of SNL, the Tonight Show and Late Night, must have really had to call in some favors to pull this off.

Thursday, catch a nap that afternoon, so you can stay up to watch Late Night with Seth Meyers. First up, Seth Meyers welcomes one of the break-out stars of this past season of Saturday Night Live, featured player, Bowen Yang.

For one of his summer projects, Bowen is starring in “Hot White Heist”, the scripted action-comedy podcast coming soon to Audible. The six-episode podcast features an all-queer cast led by Bowen Yang. The comedy is about a gang of LGBTQ notables attempting to rob a sperm bank in a heist where they steal the government’s top secret stash of spunk.

Along with Bowen Yang, “Hot White Heist” also stars a who’s who of the queer community including Abbi Jacobson, Jane Lynch, Margaret Cho, Bianca Del Rio, Peppermint, Tony Kushner, John Cameron Mitchell and Alan Cumming who directed all six scripted episodes. The Audible original “Hot White Heist” will be available for streaming (eww) on Thursday, June 17th.

As they say in late night television, and that’s not all! Also appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday evening is a top comedy movie director who doesn’t do a lot of American talk shows. Edgar Wright is the guest we’re talking about who’s directed films like “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” and “Baby Driver” as well as directing his pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the Three Flavours Cornetto comedy trilogy consisting of “Shaun of the Dead” (2004), “Hot Fuzz” (2007), and “The World’s End” (2013).

Edgar Wright’s latest film offering is “The Sparks Brothers.” It’s a documentary about real-life brothers Ron & Russell Mael who formed the ever-evolving band “Sparks” in the late ’60s and found success in Europe during the mid-’70s. The glam-rock, art-pop duo are billed on the Focus Features’ site as “your favorite band’s favorite band” and are described as “successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time.”

Many comedians contributed their own feelings about “Sparks” for Edgar Wright’s cameras in the film including Mike Myers, “Weird Al” Yankovic Jason Schwartzman, Scott Aukerman, Fred Armisen, along with Wright’s frequent collaborators Simon Pegg as the voice of John Lennon and Nick Frost as the voice of Ringo Starr.

Of course, this is a film about a rock band, so it does include several musicians, producers, deejays and writers who were influenced by the Mael Brothers’ showmanship and music, such as Flea, Steve Jones, Beck, Björk, Jane Wiedlin, and Todd Rundgren along with many, many more. “The Sparks Brothers” directed by Edgar Wright, opens in limited release this Friday, June 18th.

Finally this weekend, you can catch the Real Time with Bill Maher Summer Finale on HBO on Friday night. Then, SNL has a great repeat from this past season with Carey Mulligan hosting a Saturday Night Live replay with musical guest Kid Cudi.

Enjoy your week. And remember if you’re trying to beat the summer heat, come inside and watch some late night TV. It won’t make you any cooler, but at least no one will ask, “hot enough for ya?”