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Late Nighter Roundup-Friday, July 17th, 2026 [1]

['Greg Dworkin', 'Meteor Blades']

Date: 2026-07-17  

It’s about as good as it gets right now. No Colbert, of course, but the rest of my regular Late Night roster has new content up, which I’m pretty grateful for in mid-July.

Late Nighter

Chloe Fineman Departs SNL After a Seven-Season Run

Saturday Night Live is losing one of its most prolific impressionists with Chloe Fineman leaving the legendary sketch show ahead of the show’s 52nd season. A gifted sketch performer who came to SNL in 2019 following stints at The Groundlings and the UCB, Fineman made her mark on the show with her pitch-perfect portrayals of Britney Spears, Scarlett Johansson, and Timothee Chalamet. In all, she’s appeared in 135 Saturday Night Live episodes, playing key roles in some of the show’s buzziest sketches including “Bridesmaid Speech” (aka “Domingo”) and “Traffic Altercation,” alongside Mikey Day. ✂️

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More Late Nighter

Laura Benanti Says Doxxing Led Her to Pause Late Show Melania Impression

I’ll let you click through if you want to read it. I do want to say that Benanti’s Melania impression was always a highlight and I’m reading it, but I don’t expect everyone to want to take the time. Let’s just say it was pretty bad and the doxxer is a scumbag.

Late Lighters

Seth Meyers:

Jimmy Kimmel:

Jimmy Fallon:

The Daily Show:

There’s no Phoebe Bridgers doing yet another rendition of Lost Boys this morning. Sorry.

This came in after publishing time yesterday, so I held it back for today. I don’t like editing diaries after they publish.

This is the latest one I could find this morning:

I could make entire diaries of Benanti doing Melania Trump. She’s hilarious!

This content has not been previewed. Watch it at your own risk. I’ll reply in the comments if anything worthy comes up.

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