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22.06.2023 - 17:53 / variety.com
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The decision to realign “variety talk” and “variety sketch” this year into “talk” and “scripted variety” didn’t do much to change that. If anything, it further narrowed the field, as perennial variety talk winner “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” has now been kicked over to scripted variety. As a result, my colleague Clayton Davis counts only 14 series eligible for the outstanding talk nomination. And it’s not much better in scripted variety, where just 10 shows appear to be eligible.
The realignment ultimately didn’t do anything other than pit perennial winners “Last Week Tonight” and “Saturday Night Live” in the same category. It did nothing to address the gripe I hear about the most, that mismatched headline-based and variety-based late night shows shouldn’t compete. Instead, it’s made things more confusing. Sure, it wasn’t fair for daily talk shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to go up against weekly news-centric shows like “Last Week Tonight.” But the new John Oliver vs. “SNL” matchup makes even less sense. If anything, pitting “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Late Late Show with James Corden” against “SNL” would be more fitting. Those shows boast a lot more scripted variety tidbits than “Last Week Tonight,” including sketches and sweeping comedy musical numbers. Meanwhile, if there were ever a group of shows cut from the same cloth, it’s “The Daily Show,” “Last Week Tonight” and “The Problem with Jon Stewart.” Oliver sits behind a desk and reads satire in the same vein as “The Daily Show” “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” As a matter of fact, all Oliver does on “Last Week Tonight” is talk — which may make it the purest “talk” show in the running. And yet,
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