Inside Late Night with Mark Malkoff - Late Night Last Night: Oct. 20, 2025

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Welcome to Late Night Last Night, your daily recap on everything important that happened in Late Night TV the previous evening. Host Jon Schneider takes you through the biggest storylines from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Daily Show.Today's show: October 20th, 2025

From late-nighter.com, it's late night last night with John Schneider. And now, here's John. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Late Night Last Night here on this Tuesday, October 21st, to talk about everything that we saw in Late Night last night on Monday, October 20th, and it was another fun night in late night to kick off the week. We have four shows on the air this week. So on NBC, we have the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. We have late night with Seth Myers, both returning after one week off.

We got The Late Show with Stephen Colbert over at CBS. And at the Daily Show, John Stewart is back for this Monday. And we'll have a fun week at the Daily Show with making their return after a week off as well. But tonight we're going to start over at the Tonight Show. and we'll talk about what we saw from Fallon, who is returning from a week off. He spent the week in Scotland, so there's some really fun articles about that over at late-nighter. And then he's going to talk about the No Kings rally that occurred this weekend all over the United States. And this is a huge topic of late night throughout all of the shows.

So you'll see, if you watch any of them, a lot of jokes about the No King's rallies that took place all across the country, as well as the freeing of George Santos. And that gave us our first really big moment last night on late night where we saw John Lovitz make his return to the Tonight Show to play George Santos. He previously played him on January 20th, 2023, in a pretty big moment there on the Tonight Show. So here comes the return of John Lovitz, where I'll play you this clip. George Santos. Hello, James. It's great.

Now, I just want to say this is a pre-recorded John Lovitz, who has come. coming in and doing the remote interview as George Santos with Fallon, as opposed to the last time where John Lovitz appeared live or appeared on the Tonight Show, actually on the couch opposite of Fallon in 2023. Be on your show. By the way, I'm loving your monologue, and you know I never lied. Oh! Well, we appreciate you being here.

I'm sure you're very busy. Oh, I've been incredibly busy. I just finished a photo shoot for a movie. where I play Bruce Springsteen. Oh, it's going to be a massive hit. Massive, like you know what. Yeah, I love this, by the way, from John Lovitz, who was best known for playing that liar character,

Tommy Flanagan on Saturday Night Live. And when Santos was pretty big in the news a couple of years ago, I was feeling that S&L should have brought Lovitz in. I know Bowen did a very good job on Saturday Night Live for that, but John Lovitz did a fantastic job on The Tonight Show. continues to do it here in this interview. Now, are you thankful that Trump, are you thankful to Trump for commuting your sentence? Oh, I'm incredibly thankful. I find the president so wise and stunningly handsome.

Forgiveness is the only path forward, you know, Jimmy. I learned that for my great, great grandfather, Jesus. And by the way, that won't be the only time we'll be talking about Jesus for what happened in late night last night, so put a pen in that. I think that's enough. Clearly, you haven't learned your lesson about lying. Now, is there anything you'd like to say before you leave? Not saying. Just a little number I wrote while I was in

prisons about looking forward to the future. We're going up, up, up. It's going to be going. No, no, no, no, stop, so, get out of here. There you go. John Lovitz, as George Santos appears in the Fallon monologue. So that was a great time. Always good to see John Lov, It's we get Oscar Isaac as the main guest on Fallon last night. He's promoting Frankenstein.

It's his sixth time on the tonight show. The last time was in 2024. He'll talk about working with Guillermo del Toro on the movie and how the last time that he was there, his son Eugene, came out between commercial breaks and played on the drums with Questlove. And this is a really fun story where he's going to say that Questlove actually sent his son a drum kit. They're going to show the picture of his son playing on the drums. and that now he started a band at home with his son called Fleece,

and that his younger son wants to be in the band as well. So it is a really nice story here. He's then going to go on to play one of the songs that he worked on with his son called Dam Tour with the Roots. So I'll play a little bit of that so you guys get the full picture of what I'm talking about here as Oscar Isaac plays with the Roots. Let's be the damn tall. I'm mad.

You think it is a place. You get locked on the world. You think it is a race. I'm going to drum on the rain on top. I'm going to drummed to the rain that claps. I'm going to drum. I'm a man it up. I'm a drunk.

Come on. Yeah, it was really cool. Just an awesome moment there with Oscar Isaac and the Roots playing the song for his son that he came up with his son. So that was one of my favorite moments on late night. nights after the commercial break they're going to play the random instrument challenge this is the game where instruments are like littered throughout the stage and then they have to pull one randomly and play a song and the roots have to guess which song that oscar and jimmy are playing on those instruments we also have malala who's promoting her new book finding my way on fallon it's the first time she's ever

been on fallon she was previously on colbert back in his first month in 2015 but it's great to see malala make her way over to this night show and she's going to talk about her pen collection and going to parties after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, loving John Sina and doing wrestling moves with her brother, and the school for girls that she opened as well. So really great interview there from Malala promoting Finding My Way, her new book. Audrey Hobart is the musical guest who performs Sumi on Fallon.

A pretty good musical performance there as well. Pretty theatrical and performative stuff there from Audrey Hobart, who is on her phone at the start of the musical performance, and then switches over to singing. So great stuff there from Audrey Hobart. Still on NBC, right after that, we get late night with Seth Myers, where he's going to talk all about the No Kings protests and the New York mayoral election in the monologue. In a closer look, he's going to talk about Trump's approval ratings and we'll do a lot of comparisons of the Tea Party protests in 2009 to the No King's protests. So that's a good one.

If you want to go check that out, Jesse Plemons is his main guest on the show last night. He is there to promote Bagonia. This is his fifth time on the show, and the last was in 2024. They do talk about how much Jesse's grandmother loves Seth whenever, Jesse goes on that show. They show some pictures of Jesse back when he was in Like Mike. And then when they come back from Commercial Break, Jesse actually praises a closer look and talks about how much that he loves that segment.

Aaron and Sarah Foster, the producers of Nobody Wants This, are the next guests on set. And they were last there in March of 2015. So you have to go back over 10 years to the last time they were there. And Seth's going to show a picture of that last interview. They talk about having dinner with Seth's wife tonight, or last night. So that was a fun moment there to see how close some of these people truly are to each other. And they'll talk about being at the Emmys, of course, and their podcast and how Seth Rogen won an Emmy and their reaction to that. So good interview from Aaron and Sarah Foster making their long-awaited return to late night with Seth Myers.

Over at CBS, Colbert is back for another week, and he's going to go all in on the No King's protest and talk about all the people who dressed as inflatable dinosaurs, and he's going to discuss the AI video of Trump dropping poop on the citizens of the U.S. And he's going to thank CBS for allowing him to show the video. So here's a bit of from that monologue of Colbert talking about this. I want to take a second here to thank CBS for letting us show that video on television because some networks are not showing that video because it's so disturbing.

There's rational reasons to not show that video. But I think we're way beyond rationality of this point. So thank you, CBS. Thank you. Thank you. There are so many disturbing things about this video. So yeah, way beyond rationality. Thanking CBS.

This is an interesting moment there. He's going to continue to talk about the video and things that he doesn't love about that video and he has a good lie near the end of it. ...themselves on peaceful protesters. He is a one-man hate march. I mean... I mean, does he have a late-night show we can cancel?

Yeah, good question. Good stuff there from Cold Bear. He has Jeremy Renner on as his first guest of the night. Jeremy Renner is there for the second time. The first real interview, he did sort of this just one question bit back in 2019, but they talk about how nice it is to finally get to meet each other and have him on the show. He's going to talk about his show on Paramount Plus, the mayor of Kingstown, and he'll talk about his famous accidents that, if you know Jeremy Renner,

have heard interviews with him. You definitely know about that. Corrine Jean-Pierre is the second guest, who was last there in 2022. When she was there last, she was talking about. speaking for Biden, and now she's there to speak for herself, because she just wrote a book about how the two-party system isn't working. And to me, this was one of the best interviews, if not the best interview in late night last night. It's a very interesting discussion on Biden's mental acuity and whether he aged or not. It actually gets a little contentious. I mean,

all with respect, but Stephen actually ends the interview by saying, you know, we're never going to agree with each other on this. And the fact that I'm glad, but the fact is that I'm glad that you came here tonight. I mean, he's talking about how he raised $25 million for Biden and I guess the disappointment in what he saw in the debate. So that was something that I think was a really fascinating moment in late night. Laura Bonanti is also going to be there. And if you are not a regular Colbert viewer, you may not know that Laura Bonanti, who actually stars in Renner's show, but, you know, by coincidence, I guess, is there that night to talk about her speech to the military as Melania. And this is the 26th time.

we get Benanti on the show. She comes on very often, at least in the first administration for Trump. That was a pretty frequent thing, but she just came back, I think, in March, and she's coming back again here last night to play Melania Trump in a segment before Renner came on as the first guest. So that was another fun moment, similar to the Lovett's moment on Fallon this time on Cole Bear. Over at the Daily Show, it is Monday. So John Stewart is hosting the show. He gets a standing ovation when he announces that Bernie Sanders is the guest on the show tonight. he talks about the no king's protest and how Republicans were saying that the worst type of people will be there and he shows clips of people doing jazzercise and all of that. He's going to do a

surprise inspection on the Declaration of Independence, a really good long monologue from John Stewart. And then he's going to end it by playing a game, who said it, Trump or Jesus. And he will give a couple quotes from Jesus and then he will give this quote. I did try and fuck. Please wait till after I finish the quote Before you walk in your Please, I did try and fuck her She was married And I moved on her very heavily

Who do you think? Do you think that was Jesus or Trump? I took her out furniture shopping She wanted to get some furniture. I said, I'll show you where they have some nice furniture ma'am please respect the other contestants I moved on her like a bitch but I couldn't

don't boo it could be Jesus and you are risking eternal life but I couldn't get there and she was married then all of a sudden i see her she's now got the big phony tits and everything she's totally changed her look end quote lock it lock in that one was drunk yeah that was really funny honestly the whole lead up to it because he was really going in on the No King's protest and then transitions over to this game. And I thought that that ending was

hilarious and his interactions with the audience. He will then bring in Bernie Sanders, who's there to talk about his book, fight oligarchy. And they've had many conversations before. So the chemistry between John Stewart and Bernie Sanders was electric, talking about the 200,000 people in Washington that Bernie was speaking to for the No King's protest this past weekend. And I thought it was a fascinating interview. He actually talks about how Trump took some of his idea as Bernie does and how there's a lot of problems on the left and they need to find the right leadership. I think this is a fascinating conversation, whether you are on the left or on the right just to hear Bernie and John Stewart talk about the lack of leadership and finding a new

leadership in the party. So one of my favorite interviews on The Daily Show in a while hearing Bernie talk to John Stewart last night. But it was a great night to start the week in late night. Overall, personally, I love getting to see John Lovitz make his return as George Santos. After he did the first time. It was such a hit. And I was surprised they never brought it back. So I'm glad with George Santos coming out of prison that they're going to have John Lovitz make an appearance last night and maybe we'll see him again. So that's always a good one. But throughout late night, we had a lot of great moments and I hope you enjoyed our coverage of everything that we saw last night. So of course, I will be back tomorrow to talk about everything we saw in late night

tonight where Jimmy Fallon's going to have Charlie Puth and Jacob Allorty and Alan Iverson, who has a new book on the Tonight Show. Stephen Colbert is going to have Michael J. Fox on the show. Seth Myers is going to have Larry David, so it'll be great to get to hear from Larry. And Michael Costa will be hosting the Daily Show for the next few days, so we'll be talking about that as well. Mark Malkoff has a great new interview out now on Inside Late Night, his interview podcast here at the Late Nighter Podcast Network where he interviewed David Ritz, the co-author of his new book about Johnny Carson's 100th birthday. So to talk about that book that he just released and everything that went into it and all of the other books that David Ritz has authored or co-authored,

it was a great, great interview. So go check that out now over at the Late Nider Podcast Network feed either on YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. So on behalf of everyone here at Late Nighter, my name is John Schneider, and we will see you tomorrow. Have a good one.