Before we get into the best late-night moments of the week, we need to address the worst late-night moments of the week — which was any time an audience reaction really oversold a joke. When Stephen Colbert recapped the Trump-Elon drama ? Exhausting. When the After Midnight audience reacted to Etsy Witches? Sounded like the paid audience on The Nanny . The one time an overly enthusiastic audience made the show better this week was the audible gasp during Dakota Johnson’s interview on The Tonight Show . But Johnson is always going to lean into the weirdness; it’s kind of her thing .

Clapter has been an ongoing issue in comedy (especially political comedy, which late night often is), but it’s been particularly bad this year. Or not even clapter — that comes at the

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