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After Midnight

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After Midnight	comment	After Midnight, stylized as @fter Midnight, is a Panel Game on CBS hosted by stand-up comic Taylor Tomlinson, in which three comedians compete in a series of internet-themed and social media-themed improv games, and earn points for their joke answers. If this format sounds familiar, it should — it's a revival of Comedy Central series @Midnight, brought back to fill the timeslot after the conclusion of The Late Late Show With James Corden (and thus The Late Late Show as a franchise). The show premiered on January 17, 2024, six and a half years after the original ended, with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as the lead-in (like the old days of the original show following The Colbert Report), and the premiere had panelists Aparna Nancherla, Kurt Braunohler and Whitney Cummings, who have all been contestants on the original version.The format from the original show, while now extended to a full hour, remains essentially the same. Rapid Refresh is still around in the form of the Group Chat, Hashtag Wars also remains, and the show still concludes with For The Win (FTW), the final game where the audience applause chooses a winner out of the remaining two contestants. They compete for a completely random and anticlimactic prize, such as a creepy doll Taylor's sibling gave her, a package of socks, a broken rolling chair, a page from Taylor's old diary, or in one case, Taylor's father's approval. ("It's rare, but winnable.")The show also introduced the arbitrary Talk Show Portion, a Stylistic Suck of an interview segment created solely to spite internet trolls complaining that the show wasn't another late night talk show. Said segment slowly evolved over time to add little doodads, like a tiny model couch to sit on Taylor's podium, and a mug for Taylor to drink from through the segment. Despite its origins, it became a mainstay, as an opportunity to let the panelists banter a bit and riff off Taylor's weird, nonsensical questions.This version has a game usually played mid-episode that allows contestants to go out on the floor and do something more physical, like recreate meme images, dig through garbage to find Taylor's phone charger, or give a guided meditation.
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After Midnight / int_19f8dabe	type	Victory Pose
After Midnight / int_19f8dabe	comment	Victory Pose: Usually the episode's winner just pumps their hands in the air, but Zach Noe Towers' epic Darkhorse Victory, over heretofore dominant Beth Stelling, results in him outstretching his arms and doing a perfectly flamboyant spin, and he earned it.
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After Midnight / int_1ab65185	type	That Reminds Me of a Song
After Midnight / int_1ab65185	comment	That Reminds Me of a Song: The Super Bowl special brings on internet sensation Marc Rebillet for "After Midnight's first ever halftime show" and it's an improvised EDM track about all the different things that happen in football, delivered in stream-of-consciousness as only Marc Rebillet can.
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After Midnight / int_1e68311c	type	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction
After Midnight / int_1e68311c	comment	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction: The first episode had a session about questionable cooking methods - one video was about what can only be described as the X-rated version of Saltbae, which got this reaction out of everyone.
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After Midnight / int_1ee33a59	type	Sequel Series
After Midnight / int_1ee33a59	comment	Sequel Series: To the original @Midnight, with frequent guests of the original showing up here, as well as some more recent faces in comedy, Taylor included.
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After Midnight / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
After Midnight / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The second episode has a game about figuring out what movie a dodgy review is about, and the first one just says "this happened to my buddy Eric".
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After Midnight / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
After Midnight / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: Brendan Hunt on the February 26th, 2024 edition is asked during the Talk Show Portion what's missing from his life. He casually replies "living parents," breaking the audience's hearts. Thankfully, Marc Maron helpfully(?) chimes in next to him:
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After Midnight / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
After Midnight / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When contestants are shown a video of a truck souped up with absurdly huge monster truck wheels, Guy Branum and Lisa Gilroy stare in awe, while Marcella Arguello is just throwing ass to the hip-hop song playing in the background.
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After Midnight / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
After Midnight / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Occasionally someone who is not a panelist will show up just for a specific segment. The Super Bowl special stopped halfway through so the panelists could watch a "halftime show" from improvisational musician and Youtube sensation Mark Rebillet. The March 4th, 2024 edition had a special Talk Show Portion hosted by Survivor's Jeff Probst. Of course, it became the Tribal Council Portion.
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After Midnight / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
After Midnight / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: That's kind of Esther Povitsky's whole schtick — little cutie pie with a tiny voice who's mean and judgmental — so of course she plays into it on her appearance.
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After Midnight / int_331e80a0	type	Disapproving Look
After Midnight / int_331e80a0	comment	Disapproving Look: The episode where they played Awaken The Cursed Furby, the opening jingle of which ends with a shrill, screeching noise that visibly spooks Taylor, who gives a look at the audience that screams what the hell was that.
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After Midnight / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
After Midnight / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: The Group Chat is always the first segment. For the first few months, Hashtag Wars was always the second, until they started doing it after the Talk Show Portion.
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After Midnight / int_3adca595	type	Namesake Gag
After Midnight / int_3adca595	comment	Namesake Gag: Ahead of Super Bowl LVIII, Taylor brings up "prop bets," which are bets not on the outcome of the game, but on strange things like "will Reba McEntire show cleavage while singing the national anthem." (That was really bet on, by the way.) Taylor asks what other prop bets they could make, and Pete Holmes gives us this gem:
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After Midnight / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
After Midnight / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Inspired by internet trolls who blasted the show initially for not being another late night talk show, Taylor started the Talk Show Portion, an interview segment with the three contestants that's usually as inane and arbitrary as possible. At the very least, it's just something else for comedians to riff off of, and at most it's an opportunity for a contestant to promote a current project.note Taylor once tried to promote her own comedy special during this segment, but cringed so much in doing so that she openly begged the contestants to plug their own projects so she doesn't "feel perceived." Taylor has even spelled out explicitly that she never had any interest in doing a talk show.
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After Midnight / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
After Midnight / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The Talk Show Portion is this. Taylor goes down the panel and asks pointless questions of each panelist, and it usually goes nowhere. Eventually, it settled into a bit of a breather segment that allows the panel to riff off each other for a bit. Invoked in a segment on the February 12, 2024 edition where the contestants have to perform "weaponized incompetence" which is a term usually used for male partners in relationships who intentionally do a poor job doing housework so they never have to do it. Riki Lindhome sweeps up a pile of dirt by... doing a stripper routine only interrupted by blithely sweeping the dirt once, right into the front row of the audience. Vinny Thomas folds laundry by... just making a bag out of one of the clothes and shoving everything else inside. The worst by far is Rob Huebel, who has to clean spilled ketchup off a table, and does so by licking it off his fingers (see Running Gag). Taylor's horrified reaction indicates that this was probably a mistake:
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After Midnight / int_4345806d	type	Black Comedy Burst
After Midnight / int_4345806d	comment	Black Comedy Burst: The first episode has a session called "Is This Still Cool?", which starts out with the subject of animal print wear.
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After Midnight / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
After Midnight / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: January 30, 2024's edition had a game called Better Life/Worse Life, where contestants are shown TikToks of some very eccentric influencers, and have to elaborate on why their lives are better or worse than them. The last one is a shirtless, muscle-bound guy in white jeans spraying perfume on himself. Jerry O'Connell chimed in proclaiming his life was better than this man's, by taking off his shirt and showing off his dad bod while dancing to the same stock music. Arden Myrin and Mary Lynn Rajskub get on the floor and do the worm around him just to be a part of... whatever this is, and thus everyone gets points. Jerry is made to take off his shirt again for a later segment.
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After Midnight / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
After Midnight / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The simple-looking yet dynamic set, with the big flip-phone main monitor, surrounded by translucent glass panels and lights that change vibrant colors depending on the situation.
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After Midnight / int_4aa62032	type	Scully Box
After Midnight / int_4aa62032	comment	Liz Miele, who invoked a Scully Box for her episode, drags it around with her all show, even for games in front of the podiums, with no effort whatsoever to hide it from the cameras.
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After Midnight / int_4ae4e6e1	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
After Midnight / int_4ae4e6e1	comment	Popcultural Osmosis Failure: Tig Notaro's February 28th, 2024 appearance sees her fall victim to this repeatedly. Taylor makes a reference to the Baha Men's "Who Let The Dogs Out" which Tig tries to pretend she gets, and fails when Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin call her out for this trope. Tig then proceeds to whiff on references to Hocus Pocus and CatDog, to everyone's amusement.
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After Midnight / int_507ac08d	type	Blunt "No"
After Midnight / int_507ac08d	comment	Blunt "No": Esther Povinsky competed while 8 months pregnant, so Taylor brings this up in the Talk Show Portion:
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After Midnight / int_5744f019	type	Lucky Charms Title
After Midnight / int_5744f019	comment	Lucky Charms Title: Still has the @ symbol in the title, but it's more or less The Artifact, as it's still pronounced "after."
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After Midnight / int_58ee8b0d	type	Celebrity Impersonator
After Midnight / int_58ee8b0d	comment	Celebrity Impersonator: Wayne Brady, on the Super Bowl special, does his thing by improvising a slow jam In the Style of Super Bowl LVIII halftime performer Usher, complete with Usher's choreo. It's a song about apologizing to fellow panelist Kevin Smith for having never actually seen his movie Clerks. Kevin doesn't mind one bit because he's being sung to by Wayne Brady. Played for Laughs especially on the February 9, 2024 edition where contestants are asked to impersonate Cher calling Paul Giamatti. That's no problem for openly gay Nico Santos and Billy Eichner, since that's been a stock impression for gay entertainers for decades. However, Pete Holmes admits he can't do Cher, so he does Paul Giamatti answering the voicemail instead. It's immediately pointed out by Taylor that it sounds the same as his Bill Burr, and an offended Billy is forced to address the elephant in the room:
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After Midnight / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
After Midnight / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: Happens occasionally, such as when Jerry O'Connell took off his shirt and danced as the answer to a question, leading to Arden Myrin and Mary Lynn Rajskub dancing around him, ending the round in complete chaos. Taylor gives them all points anyway. A game from the February 8, 2024 edition deserves special mention. All three contestants had to give speeches through TikTok voice filters, and Taylor had to identify which contestant gave which speech. Of course, creative forgot to factor in contestant London Hughes and her very identifiable British accent, and the game completely falls apart as London chews out the crew over it. Taylor keels over laughing once she realizes there is no saving this disaster of a segment.
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After Midnight / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
After Midnight / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The show is on at 12:37am EST.
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After Midnight / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
After Midnight / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Doug Benson, as usual. A game was played on the January 23, 2024 edition where Taylor plays a clip from a random old VHS tape, and afterward a panelist has to buzz in with what the next line could be. One was a PSA with a mom telling a son "Getting high is artificial. Any fool can get high." Doug is practically salivating ready to buzz in with the next line. One round involves Taylor showing panelists rather odd recipes being made in TikTok videos. The first one is a pineapple pizza made on a watermelon slice. (With barbecue sauce!) Adam Ray can't help but chime in:
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After Midnight / int_6f064059	type	The Points Mean Nothing
After Midnight / int_6f064059	comment	The Points Mean Nothing: Taken to the extent of Self-Deprecation whenever Taylor or a contestant points out that the show is "a fake game show."
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After Midnight / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
After Midnight / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs especially on the February 9, 2024 edition where contestants are asked to impersonate Cher calling Paul Giamatti. That's no problem for openly gay Nico Santos and Billy Eichner, since that's been a stock impression for gay entertainers for decades. However, Pete Holmes admits he can't do Cher, so he does Paul Giamatti answering the voicemail instead. It's immediately pointed out by Taylor that it sounds the same as his Bill Burr, and an offended Billy is forced to address the elephant in the room:
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After Midnight / int_766ab9d0	type	Dark Horse Victory
After Midnight / int_766ab9d0	comment	Darkhorse Victory: Still happens sometimes. Being a big name, or even having a particularly dominant performance during the show, does not guarantee a win. Maria Bamford uses Loophole Abuse in the elimination round to get to FTW over Wayne Brady, the centerpiece of the show up to that point, and Maria would go on to win. Monet X Change spamming the button in the elimination round puts her from last place to first, even if she has to make a fool of herself in doing so, and she goes on to win. Beth Stelling, and her wicked wit and cheeky grin, had almost complete control over her episode, only to lose to Zach Noe Towers at the very end.
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After Midnight / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
After Midnight / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: It isn't bad enough that Fortune Feimster gets eliminated and has to give the usual losing speech; no, Taylor then finds a baby picture of her in a bonnet and puts it on the screen for all to see.
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After Midnight / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
After Midnight / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Downplayed, Taylor doesn't invoke this nearly as often as her predecessor did, save for one occasion where she said that in rehearsals, she found a game's rules complicated enough that she made the game worth 200 points instead of 100. She'll also award points in the Talk Show Portion if someone says something clever or interesting enough, even though it's not supposed to be a competitive segment.
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After Midnight / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
After Midnight / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Played for Laughs by a few eliminated contestants. Marcella Arguello is tasked to give an award show acceptance speech for losing, and it quickly becomes Inelegant Blubbering and a Troubled Fetal Position on the floor, with occasional whines and outbursts from the floor as Taylor tries to carry on... and she's still on the floor whining right through the end credits. Since Wayne Brady happened to lose on the Super Bowl special, Wayne has to give a "loser's press conference." Using the cadence of a bitter football player, he proceeds to blame everyone else but himself for his failure, and even takes questions from the audience just so he can offer more excuses, before storming off the set. Classic Wayne.
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After Midnight / int_808324e1	type	The Runner-Up Takes It All
After Midnight / int_808324e1	comment	The Runner-Up Takes It All: As the person eliminated is given some kind of punishment — really just a prompt to make up some kind of losing speech or skit — it's been argued by viewers that the real winners are the ones who get a whole segment to themselves on the way out, and they're often more memorable than FTW. The episode with Esther Povitsky isn't memorable so much for her winning the episode, as it is for Kurt Braunohler's infamous phone call to his family to tell them he lost (which, to Taylor's horror, made his daughter upset for real). Maria Bamford once sacrificed some points to Laurie Kilmartin just so she could do an elimination... and go home early, of course.
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After Midnight / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
After Midnight / int_823c6e3e	comment	@midnight veteran Marcella Arguello appeared on January 25, 2024, and was eliminated before FTW, so Taylor instructed her to deliver an "acceptance speech" for losing. Marcella, one of the least subtle comedians in America, takes out a folded up paper despite saying she never expected this, descends into Inelegant Blubbering, yells at the backstage crew trying to play her off, and eventually collapses on the floor in a weeping, wailing mess, right through Taylor introducing FTW. When the show comes back from commercial, Marcella is still on the floor.
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After Midnight / int_839be725	type	Lady in a Power Suit
After Midnight / int_839be725	comment	Lady in a Power Suit: Taylor's pantsuits became an instant trademark.
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After Midnight / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
After Midnight / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: @midnight was no stranger to drag performers as contestants (Katya, Ginger Minj, Alaska Thunderfuck and Willam Belli had all done the show). For this version, drag queens as contestants have included Insult Comic Bianca Del Rio, whose revolting sense of humor brings down the house, and Monet X Change, with a giant wig of braids and a razor-sharp wit of her own.
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After Midnight / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
After Midnight / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: As time went on, the Talk Show Portion developed some little additions, like a cheesy 80s-sounding theme song, and a tiny model couch that Taylor puts on her podium (dubbed the "training couch"). Taylor eventually added a big coffee mug with the @M logo on the side that she holds during her questions... and by the end of the first segment with it, Taylor immediately gets sick of just holding a heavy mug the entire time. She solved this later by switching to a smaller teacup. Monet X Change is in the elimination round, in last place behind Adam Ray and Rob Riggle. Desperate to get into FTW, Monet spams the buzzer as much as possible to get enough points, except half the time she doesn't even have an answer and just blurts something out in the heat of the moment. Taylor and Adam are dying laughing. Subverted when this gambit actually works, and Monet goes on to win the episode over Adam.
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After Midnight / int_91814d2c	comment	Speed Round: Hashtag Wars is still this, and sometimes there's another game of this nature in the elimination round.
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After Midnight / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
After Midnight / int_966da803	comment	Adam Pally steps all over Ron Funches' return episode on March 6, 2024 by asking about the logistics of the show's title and refusing to let it go for the entire show, until Taylor resorts to taking points away from him whenever he starts rambling on about it again. And even when he's eliminated, he's still Defiant to the End.
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After Midnight / int_9c7e3137	type	Hyperspace Arsenal
After Midnight / int_9c7e3137	comment	Hyperspace Arsenal: Played for Laughs on March 14, 2024 when Reggie Conquest and Jordan Temple both have beanies on, and at some point during the Talk Show Portion, Paul F. Tompkins is suddenly seen wearing a beanie of his own, which he insists he's had on the entire time.
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After Midnight / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: @midnight veteran Marcella Arguello appeared on January 25, 2024, and was eliminated before FTW, so Taylor instructed her to deliver an "acceptance speech" for losing. Marcella, one of the least subtle comedians in America, takes out a folded up paper despite saying she never expected this, descends into Inelegant Blubbering, yells at the backstage crew trying to play her off, and eventually collapses on the floor in a weeping, wailing mess, right through Taylor introducing FTW. When the show comes back from commercial, Marcella is still on the floor. March 6, 2024 is one long example of this trope. Adam Pally uses his intro to ask a trivial question about how the show's title works... and then again in the Group Chat... and then seemingly finds a way to continue this one-man debate in every single round, even when Taylor starts taking points away for doing it. Naturally, he's eliminated. On the April 18, 2024 edition, the elimination round has panelists instructed to tell a demonic-looking Furby something that would wake it up. All of Betsy Sodaro's answers involve chanting some kind of Satanic ritual at the top of her lungs (and she wasn't exactly quiet to begin with).
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After Midnight / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
After Midnight / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: A comedic version, and twice over! When Kurt Braunohler is eliminated on the March 5th, 2024 edition, Taylor instructs him to call someone he cares about and tell them he lost. Kurt defaults to calling his wife, and in doing so, his wife puts his daughter on the phone. Kurt then has to tell his little girl that "the woman who runs this game made me lose," and she gets immediately upset, so an apologetic Kurt tries in vain to smooth it over and ends the call. An embarrassed Taylor immediately declares they are never doing that again, and she looks a little shaken up going into FTW.
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After Midnight / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
After Midnight / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Drag queen Monet X Change forms a bit of this with bro-comic Adam Ray, and they just riff off each other for homoerotic gags more and more as their episode goes on.
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After Midnight / int_ae3d6438	comment	When the Hashtag Wars prompt is #PromIn3Words, Deadpan Snarker Utkarsh Ambudkar gradually stops responding with three-word phrases and starts buzzing in with longer and longer sentences, just to piss off Taylor. And then at the end, he has the gall to tell Betsy Sodaro that she wasn't doing it right.
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After Midnight / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
After Midnight / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: On the Super Bowl special, Wayne Brady, Maria Bamford and Kevin Smith had to flick paper footballs through a mock goalpost, getting points for every one that goes through. Maria struggles hard, until she suddenly stops, dumps her box of paper footballs out and just flings them through in bunches ("IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!"), because no one said she couldn't! And thus, she advances to FTW over Wayne Brady and ends the show with a Darkhorse Victory.
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After Midnight / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
After Midnight / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Introducing a game where contestants have to pay attention to details in a short video, Taylor invokes this:
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After Midnight / int_b9117b12	type	It's the Best Whatever, Ever!
After Midnight / int_b9117b12	comment	It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: The February 27th, 2024 episode with Caitlin Peluffo, DulcÃ© Sloan, and Jenny Zigrino had so much wild comedic energy between the three, that it was enough for Taylor to declare it her favorite episode ever before they even went into the first commercial break.
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After Midnight / int_c3e6e3c4	type	Moonwalk Dance
After Midnight / int_c3e6e3c4	comment	Moonwalk Dance: Arden Myrin does a knowingly terrible one on the January 30, 2024 edition, pulling her skirt down over her feet to cover how terrible it is.
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After Midnight / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
After Midnight / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Taylor Tomlinson's stand-up jokes about her own struggles with mental health extend to this show, and contestants sometimes follow suit.
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After Midnight / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
After Midnight / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: The first repeat guest, Kurt Braunohler, during the Talk Show Portion on March 5, 2024, is asked if anything's happened since last appearing, and he tells this unfortunate tale:
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After Midnight / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
After Midnight / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Chris Fleming is eliminated on the March 26, 2024 edition, only for him to put a sign up in front of his podium that adds three extra 0s to his point total. So Taylor just decides to eliminate Matt Braunger instead, causing Chris to drop the facade immediately.
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After Midnight / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
After Midnight / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: This segment, where Taylor shows a TikToker named Samantha Hart, who explains that the formatting of her work email means that it shortens to... well, "shart." Taylor is quick to point out that they legally can't say that on TV, and in response, W. Kamau Bell, followed by Nish Kumar, starts chanting "SHART! SHART! SHART! SHART! SHART!" and getting the audience to join in, leaving Taylor in a fit of giggles.
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After Midnight / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
After Midnight / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: At this point, if you book Reggie Watts on your show, you know you're in for some outside-the-box thinking, and Reggie's appearance on February 6, 2024 saw him in peak (weird) form, with plenty of Anti-Humor.
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After Midnight / int_d5bcb124	type	Technologically Blind Elders
After Midnight / int_d5bcb124	comment	Technologically Blind Elders: Averted by Caroline Rhea; when asked to identify what an NPC is for a game, she knows her daughter's video gaming habits so well that she gets it right off the bat (punctuated with a sassy hair flip for good measure). Not bad considering Caroline is pushing 60 by the time of this episode.
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After Midnight / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
After Midnight / int_dc031fde	comment	Marcella Arguello is tasked to give an award show acceptance speech for losing, and it quickly becomes Inelegant Blubbering and a Troubled Fetal Position on the floor, with occasional whines and outbursts from the floor as Taylor tries to carry on... and she's still on the floor whining right through the end credits.
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After Midnight / int_dd91f8d8	type	Audience Participation
After Midnight / int_dd91f8d8	comment	Audience Participation: Much like the original, viewers are encouraged to post their own responses for the Hashtag Wars, with the producers' favorite shown on the next episode.
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After Midnight / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
After Midnight / int_de999021	comment	Since Wayne Brady happened to lose on the Super Bowl special, Wayne has to give a "loser's press conference." Using the cadence of a bitter football player, he proceeds to blame everyone else but himself for his failure, and even takes questions from the audience just so he can offer more excuses, before storming off the set. Classic Wayne.
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After Midnight / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
After Midnight / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Both contestants to have competed while pregnant have won — Lauren Lapkus, and then three weeks later, Esther Povinsky.
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After Midnight / int_e54b7b17	type	Zonk
After Midnight / int_e54b7b17	comment	Zonk: The prizes for winning an episode are always underwhelming or just plain odd. Prizes have included: a creepy doll (offered multiple times because the winners keep giving it back), a fresh batch of socks, a broken rolling chair, Taylor's father's approval, a pair of jeans with the security device still on them that Taylor swears they did not steal, a dental goodie bag, a bunch of ketchup packets Taylor was keeping in her fridge, and a free trip to Loomis, Nebraska.
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After Midnight / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
After Midnight / int_f15c2859	comment	On the April 18, 2024 edition, the elimination round has panelists instructed to tell a demonic-looking Furby something that would wake it up. All of Betsy Sodaro's answers involve chanting some kind of Satanic ritual at the top of her lungs (and she wasn't exactly quiet to begin with).
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After Midnight / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
After Midnight / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: You still need to be this to do well at Hashtag Wars.
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After Midnight / int_f9cc3ee0	type	Group Hug
After Midnight / int_f9cc3ee0	comment	Group Hug: Zach Noe Towers, Mo Welch and Beth Stelling are the panel on March 8, 2024, all clearly friends outside the show, and when Mo is eliminated before FTW, they all share one of these. March 13, 2024: James Davis takes his elimination hard enough that fellow panelists Matt Rogers and Caroline Rhea immediately run over to hug him.
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After Midnight / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
After Midnight / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Spread out over multiple shows: Taylor offers as a prize a "haunted doll" (an odd-looking, boyish doll with a grey beard) that her brother gave her. Why multiple shows? Because every time someone wins the doll — Sasheer Zamata, Pete Holmes, W. Kamau Bell — they simply refuse to take it, no matter how much Taylor begs them to. It kept coming back for months until April 16, 2024, when Marcella Arguello actually insisted on taking it from a relieved Taylor.note And that wasn't just for TV; according to Marcella herself, she proudly took it home after the taping. Taylor introduces Pete Holmes by mentioning his upcoming show in Oxnard, California, not exactly the most noteworthy town in that state, and self-deprecating Pete can't help but riff on how sad that makes him sound, leading to jokes about performing in Oxnard persisting for the rest of the show. Rob Huebel has to imitate a guy eating wings with a "ranch fountain" and he does so by constantly licking his fingers. He keeps finding excuses to lick his fingers right till the end of the show. On the February 27th, 2024 edition, comedian Caitlin Peluffo was in the first slot, and revealed that not only was she and Taylor friends for years beforehand, but Caitlin is currently sleeping on Taylor's old mattress and bedframe. Jokes persist for the next few segments about Caitlin and her boyfriend having sex on Taylor's old mattress. One of these actually backfired on the show. Adam Ray had this prolonged answer to a Coachella-themed round saying he would "clean your taint for a bed at Coachella." Taylor immediately questions (signalling to the producers) whether or not "taint" is airable, resulting in the whole panel chanting "TAINT! TAINT! TAINT! TAINT! TAINT!" (a Call-Back to W. Kamau Bell & Nish Kumar chanting "shart" on the previous show). Jokes about Adam's taint persist through the show, which is unfortunate for the show, because Taylor reveals the next night that no, they couldn't say it. Presumably, the show got a bit of a talking-to from the censors. Chanting for things seems to become a recurring bit with various panels. March 11, 2024: Faced with the constant back and forth of Randy & Jason Sklar, comedian Rob Haze winds up playing his own game for the whole show and trying in nearly every game to pose for the show's/video's thumbnail. (Many of his attempts actually worked.) When he's eliminated, Randy and Jason join him for one more. Liz Miele, who invoked a Scully Box for her episode, drags it around with her all show, even for games in front of the podiums, with no effort whatsoever to hide it from the cameras. Drew Carey pretty much broke the show on April 23, 2024 when, during the Talk Show Portion, he takes the first opportunity to unleash a heavily-censored ramble about seeing Phish at the Sphere in Las Vegas — which he compared to being "edged for four days straight" and then getting injected with heroin and having a "fifteen minute orgasm while your eyes fall out of your head." After that bit of purple prose, Taylor's attempt to make it easy to edit out is only met with uproarious laughter, and eventually it gets riffed on in every subsequent game, until Taylor happily declares they can't edit it out now.
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After Midnight / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
After Midnight / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: During the Talk Show Portion on February 7, 2024:
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After Midnight / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
After Midnight / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Nish Kumar gets eliminated in one episode and is tasked to tell the audience something he's never told anyone. So Nish replies, cryptically, that he's stolen three computers from the Paramount lot. When he comes back on stage to congratulate the winner at the end credits, somehow he's holding three laptops.
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