5. Jimmy Fallon
Like Corden’s show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon also had a bit tailormade for climate change that he didn’t use. Fallon has done a few Hot Ones segments, a comedy series where celebrities eat increasingly spicy hot wings. (YouTuber Sean Evans is the creator and regularly does the series on his own.) But sadly he did not roll out a Hot Ones segment. Too bad, it would’ve been a perfect chance to sit down with noted climate guy and Southerner Al Gore or perhaps Stacey Abrams or even guest Jane Goodall.
Fallon went the cheap joke route and was generally meh. Cheap jokes are still an improvement over pretending random electric boats being tested in the Netherlands will save us and doing sexism, though. The bottom three confirmed all our fears about how the late-night shows would handle climate change.
Hot Burn: “Some people are sad summer is over. But good news, thanks to climate change, it’s not.”
Cringe line: “Some people are sad summer is over. But good news, thanks to climate change, it’s not.”
