Inside Late Night with Mark Malkoff - Late Night Last Night: Oct. 21, 2025

Episode Date: October 22, 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 21st, 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 Wednesday, October 22nd, to talk about everything that we saw in late night last night on Tuesday, October 21st, and it was a very interesting night over. at NBC where they had the debut for the return of the NBA on

NBC. So we had two games on NBC last night with the NBA season kicking off between Houston and Oklahoma City and that went to I think double overtime and that followed with the Lakers and the Warriors which actually started on Peacock but because of

the NBA the Tonight Show and late night were delayed and it was originally we were going to have Fallon, I believe they scheduled it to start after 1 o'clock. It actually started at 129 a.m. Eastern. So, you know, very early morning, Fallon and early morning, Seth Myers,

with Seth starting at 231 a.m. Eastern last night. So that's the big story. That's something to watch, especially as the NBA is back on NBC and maybe affecting some of you watching the Tonight Show or Seth Myers. My understanding is that the YouTube videos with the clips for these shows were posted at their regularly scheduled time. So I guess you could really watch the full episode of these shows even before watching it on network television.

So it is a fascinating thing that is happening over at NBC. But let's start with Fallon. And we will talk about Alan Iverson as one of the guests on Fallon last night. So very famous NBA Hall of Famer, who has a new book, Misunderstood. He's going to open up the show with Jimmy doing a fun bit about his famous, like, practice and rehearsal line. they're going to do a new opening montage for this episode, similar to what they do sometimes when they have the NFL on NBC,

where they're going to have an NBA-themed opening montage for Fallon last night. Then for the monologue, he's going to do a lot of jokes about NBA players like Victor Wehman Yamma and then talk about, talk to Tariq, and do a song about the NBA teams to catch people up on which teams are in the NBA right now. The major political story that Fallon is talking about last night is the White House East Wing Renovations, which is the main topic across all late night shows last night as the demolition has become on the East Wing. So he covers it just a bit.

The other late night shows will talk about it a lot more. The main guest on Falun last night is Jacob Allorty, who is promoting Frankenstein. It's his fourth time on the show. The last was in 2024. He's going to tease Euphoria Season 3 just a bit. He can't talk about it too much, but I'll talk about it a little bit. We also have Alorty talking about being in 11 hours of makeup for Frankenstein. so really impressive stuff.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that movie, especially after seeing Alorty in this interview. And then Charlie Puth is the second guest, but he's going to basically do a sketch with Fallon, an interview with Fallon, and then a musical performance. So he's really the one that's sort of taking over the Tonight Show last night as a guest.

He's promoting his new album, Whatever's Clever. And it's the seventh time for him on Fallon. Last was in 2023. So they're going to do a sketch called 100%, where they're playing teenage boys, hanging out on the couch and introducing new words. At one point, a school crossing guard's going to come in and they're going to do the whole six seven, six seven.

So it's a little bit similar to what we saw on Saturday Night Live last weekend, where we had that podcast sketch with the 12-year-old boys and then James Dawson Johnson's Trump comes in. So in this case, it is just the two teenage boys in their own YouTube show, almost like a Jarrett's room thing that Fallon used to do on Saturday Night Live, but here's a little bit from that. No, that feeling when you're at a restaurant and your friend orders something that you almost ordered and at first you're jealous but then you realize you actually love what you're eating

so you learn how to cook it and you make it for your dad and he's like wow I'm really proud of the adult you're becoming yeah what's that called scorn skimk scorn

yeah it's just teenage boys with all these new words and making fun of that Charlie Booth was fantastic he's going to talk a lot about how in his music video for his new song changes is, he is revealed that he's expecting a baby in March with his wife. So that was really cute.

He also will be making some TikTok music. So he makes TikTok music as Professor Puth, where people send in, like, lines and he turns them into songs. So he's going to do that with a line that Jimmy records, and he makes a remix of it. He adds in a beat, and it's a really cool thing to see just how talented Charlie Puth is. And then Alan Iverson will come on as the third guest, talking about his new memoir, Misunderstood. He's never been on Fallon, but he was on Cold Bowl. very back in 2016. He talks about loving Michael Jordan and playing against him and obviously the

return of NBA on NBC. He will talk about his mom who was in the audience and met Jimmy beforehand and Jimmy shows the playing card that AI's mom Anne gave her of Anne Iverson prior to the interview. So it was a cute moment there for Alan Iverson with his mom. Over at Seth last night, which started again at 2.31 a.m. Eastern, it's Tuesday. So there's no a closer look, but he's going to do his monologue on the White House Demolition. And then he's going to lead off with a new segment called Crazy Days, but it's going to really lead into the

Leave him alone guy. That's the John Lutz character who's going to be there to defend RFK Jr. So it's always great to see Lutz. Leave him alone! Yeah, this is the last time he did this bit was about Elon Musk back in June, but happy to see Lutz there. His main guest on the show last night was Larry David, who

is promoting the 25-year anniversary curb book called No Lessons Learned. It's the fourth time for Larry on Seth's show. He thinks the audience applauding him when he comes in was a phony reaction. So it's a very Larry David bit. They look at a video of his daughter, Kazi, on the show, making fun of Larry on late night shows.

And then he tells a really good story about how his mom thought that he was never going to be a successful comedian. And he always wanted to prove to his mom that people found him funny. So when his mom was headed towards her deathbed or on her deathbed, he went up to her and said that Johnny Carson asked him to be on the show, on the tonight show. And I thought that was just like such a funny story, just the timing of that and the way that Larry told it was a good, it was like, you know, he's self-deprecating about how he's not a good late night guess, but I actually thought he was a really good one last night on Seth Myers. Joel Kim Booster is going to be on the show. He's promoting the third season of a lute.

It's the second time for Joel on the show. Last was in 2019. He talks about having a voice in K-pop Demon Hunters and how people who or kids are obsessed with the character that he plays, even if it's just for a brief bit in K-pop Demon Hunters. He's also going to talk about his upcoming bachelor party where Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are part of his groomsman group and they're going to be actually going to a gun range. So he's excited to see Bowen and Matt shooting guns. So, yeah, that was a fun story from Joel.

And then he actually talks about John Lutz playing his dad in Lute. So a good connection there with seeing Lutz at the beginning of the show. Diane von Furstenberg is the fashion designer, is the third guest on set last night. There's six time on the show. And she talks about hating Halloween because, you know, coming from Europe, She doesn't, they don't have it over there and how she was awarded the 2025 pack in New York City icon of culture. So that is what happened last night on set.

Let's go to CBS and talk about what happened on Colbert, where he is going to be talking more about the ballroom demolition. And he's probably the one that gets into it the most, along with Michael Costa at the Daily Show. They talk about how Trump really lied about what this would entail. They'll go do a flashback to a press conference where he's talking about how nobody will even notice the construction because, the demolition will take place mostly inside and you won't see it, but really they flashed to what happened yesterday with the East Wing, very much destroyed. And then he's going to talk about the three weeks of the government shutdown. So still a lot of bits about the shutdown. Then he's going to do a whole bit on AI, not Alan Iverson, but artificial intelligence, and talk about

how that has been affecting everybody. Michael J. Fox is the main guest on Colbert. This is a pre-recorded interview that he did with Michael J. Fox, that he's going to flash to. he's promoting Future Boy, which is like the Back to the Future memoir. It's the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future. So it's a sit-down interview, and he's going to talk about this in honor of Back to the Future Day and as well as his foundation for Parkinson's, then all the money that he's raised. It's the first time for Michael J. Foxx on Colbert, so it was a great conversation. And we also have Jeff Tweedy there as well.

That's the Wilco front man who's going to talk about his new album, Twilight, Override, and then perform a couple of tracks. Over at the Daily Show, Michael Costa is taking over the anchor, for the next three days. So he is there. He's going to do the headlines. He has a great joke about who is destroying the White House. He says, is it bin Laden and sons just with the construction that's being done?

That's crazy. Ronnie Chang is going to appear as well in the headline segment. He's going to talk about the leaked Republican text messages. And he's saying how, you know, these people should no longer be racist by text. They should just say it in person. And then he starts prodding Costa to be racist with him. So it's a good chemistry bit between. Michael Costa and Ronnie Chang.

The main guest on The Daily Show is Catherine Bracey. She's the founder and CEO of Tech Equity to talk about her new book, World Eater, is how venture capital is cannibalizing the economy. She'll tell a story about how living in San Francisco when Uber came over, how people revolted and how she's trying to explain to people the world of venture capitalism and how they tend to take advantage of companies by forcing them to grow too fast. So it's an interesting conversation from Bracey with Costa. And then Desi Lydick will be there to do a segment in the show.

she's going to speak to Joe Sims, the co-chair of the Communist Party, because all of the, you know, people who are saying that Mamdani is a communist might not be accurate. So she goes directly to a communist to see if Mamdani qualifies. And apparently he does not, according to Joe Sims, the co-chair of the Communist Party. It's a very funny five-minute bit there from Desilidic, which I encourage you to go check out. So overall last night, I feel like the major story, just from a macro perspective of late night was the tonight show and late night starting so late. I'm so curious to see how the reaction to these shows, even though not everybody watches them on network TV, them starting so late, like, what is the reaction to that? How does, how the ratings get affected by something

like that? Is this going to be a thing all season long? Do the guests maybe, um, do people maybe not want to go on the shows because people are watching these ones less because they start later? I think it's a fascinating conversation that will keep an eye out now that the NBA has returned to NBC. So we'll see what happens from there. But I'm very excited to come back to you again tomorrow to talk about everything we're going to see in late night tonight, where we have Fallon having Adam Brody on the show. So that'll be a great interview. Stephen Colbert's got Emma Stone. Seth Myers is a reuniting with Maya Rudolph on there. So I'm excited to see if Maya and Seth have any bits that are planned for the show here tonight. And then over at the

Daily Show, Brian Holliday is the guest with Michael Costa. So I'll be back tomorrow to talk about everything that happens on this Wednesday night. But for everything happening here over at the Late Nighter Podcast Network, we encourage you to go and listen to Inside Latey with Mark Malkoff, where he has a great interview with David Ritz, his co-author on the Johnny Carson book that he has just put out as available as of yesterday in honor of Johnny Carson's 100th birthday, which I believe is taking place tomorrow. So definitely go check out that one along with the other interviews Mark has from this season of Inside Late Night, and I will be back tomorrow to talk about everything.

from late night to night. So on behalf of everyone at late nighter, my name is John Schneider, and we will see you next time. Have a good one.