NY-Based Late Night Shows Eschews Live Audiences Due to Coronavirus

[zoaster_toaster]

In response to growing concerns over the spread of coronavirus, late-night shows based in New York - The Late Show, Late Night, The Tonight Show, Full Frontal, Last Week Tonight, and The Daily Show - will tape episodes without live audiences https://t.co/CEnFvsA2e6
- Vulture (@vulture) March 11, 2020
In light of the coronavirus outbreak, NBC, CBS,

Comments

[thejoker]

Maybe Colbert will be funny again without relying on clapter

They should just cancel until further notice; I’m sure staff would prefer to not deal with the daily commute into Manhattan right now

[littleorcs]

For real (said staffer)

[littleorcs]

That is... actually not true. Most of the people on late night shows are staffed. Crew is mostly union.

[picturemegone]

that's going to be awkward but it's the best thing to do or just cancel tbh

wtf is going on He was reading off a teleprompter. How did he get so much shit wrong?

🚨The White House is currently walking back *three* false policy announcements Trump made during his nationally televised address. pic.twitter.com/W1WbWCygGI
- Corey Ciorciari (@CoreyCiorciari) March 12, 2020

[tifag]

Because Stephen Miller doesn't know how to write a speech to save his life.

[daijouboo]

That new yorker article about him was super illuminating. I loved the part where DHS resorted to having policy meeting in a SCIF so he couldn't interfere. He operates purely on bombast and trolling. It seems like everyone except 45 and jared reaaaaaaaally hate him.

[ms_mmelissa]

Because everyone working for him is as much of an idiot as he is. Even the intro/outro technical parts were poorly timed and went on a lot longer. He stared at the screen waiting for the cue that he was live and then they told him he was out and kept broadcasting.

[zoaster_toaster]

Also troublesome:

BREAKING: A staff member in Sen. Maria Cantwell’s Washington, D.C. office tested positive for coronavirus, the first positive test tied to Congress. The individual was symptomatic, Cantwell requested tests for other staffers
- Natalie Andrews (@nataliewsj) March 12, 2020

[picturemegone]

damn that's not good

[ohwutevernvm]

Ruh Roh

[swissbeauty23]

oh shit

[champagnexdream]

I'm supposed to fly to Boston Friday night and then head to NYC next Wednesday and fly back to Florida on the 22nd and really considering canceling my trip but I don't want to overreact. :[ Ugh IDK what to do. What would y'all do?

[soavantgarde]

Yeah fuck the people in high risk groups she’d give it to I guess!

[sandstorm]

Hmm, yes, completely not my intention to say 'spread it to others'. I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.

[thebadunkadunk]

The poor staffers who will have to still laugh for Jimmy Fallon