Prominent creators such as Kenya Barris, Gloria Calderon Kellett and John Ridley discuss the effects of the coronavirus crisis on TV diversity.A Zoom conference call with “Late Night” staff. Top row: Zoie Mancino, left, Michael Shoemaker, Chelsea Alonzi, Erica Schechter. Middle row: Alex Baze, left, Emily Erotas, Sal Gentile, Michael Wightman. Bottom row: Seth Meyers and Melanie Wohr.
Even though Ruffin has had a few recording snafus, she thinks filming sketches at home has at least one benefit: “You are not about to fail real hard in front of 200 people. If it stinks, it will stink privately.” Producing the show remotely, without an audience rendering instant judgment, has enabled more offbeat humor, according to Meyers: “Now ultimately the only taste we have to run it past is our own, and we can let the audience judge us silently from a distance.”
Normally, “Late Night” has a daily dress rehearsal at 4:30 p.m., where jokes are tested in front of 40 or so tourists plucked from the lobby of 30 Rock. It’s a process that usually weeds out “any real esoterica or odd jokes that only make us laugh,” Shoemaker says, because “an audience that we pull that are half Swedish don’t know the references. Now the dumbest stuff makes it.
“I feel like it’s a great time to take chances,” says Ruffin. “All it has to be is funny to Amber Mildred Ruffin and Seth Adam Meyers. There used to be a real huge barrier between me and national television. Now it’s just Seth.”Meyers gets on Zoom again “so the hair and makeup can take a look at me and make sure I don’t look too much like a weird ghost,” he says. “In the early days it was like that scene in ‘The Twilight Zone’ episode when the girl takes off her bandages and everyone screams.
Who cares?
No one cares about late night TV anymore. It won't be saved by shooting it in the attic of your mansion.
This will show all the prepackaged media talking heads what it takes to build an audience and be accountable to them. YouTube creators have been doing this for a decade now. The difference will be that YouTube will prop up mainstream and hamstring independent creators
Ironically celebrity culture is dying a slow painful death.
What a weird way to say, no one is still watching.
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