Late Night Seems to Think This Pete Hegseth Fellow Is Unqualified
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Hegseth’s Happy Hour
On Tuesday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary: the former “Fox & Friends” host Pete Hegseth, or as Jordan Klepper called him the “dude who makes sure everyone at the frat house has their stories straight.”
“A military cannot function unless it’s staffed by a system based on pure merit, where only the most qualified people rise to the top — so says your next secretary of defense, who will run the most complicated, powerful, deadly organization the world has ever known, and whose only qualification is that Trump liked watching him sit on a couch on Saturday mornings.” — JORDAN KLEPPER
“So, from now on, we can’t call it a gay anthem — we will call it the gayest anthem of all time.’” — JIMMY KIMMEL
“Listen, first of all, this song was on an album called ‘Cruisin’,’ OK? They made the video for the song in front of the most famous leather bar of the 1970s, the Ramrod. Their other songs, if you go through their greatest hits collection, they’ve got ‘Fire Island,’ they got ‘Key West,’ they got ‘San Francisco,’ they got ‘I’m a Cruiser,’ ‘Hot Cop,’ ‘In the Navy’ and ‘Macho Man.’ What do those titles have in common? All cool ways to pick up chicks, that’s what.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
The Bits Worth Watching
The Marías performed their song “No One Noticed” on Tuesday’s “Tonight Show.”
What We’re Excited About on Wednesday Night
Pauline Chalamet, star of “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” will sit down with Seth Meyers on “Late Night.”