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Late Night Roundup: Congress Finally Does Something!

Late Night Roundup: Congress Finally Does Something!

Jon Stewart highlighted the celebrations in Washington, after the two political parties came together to pass the Medicare “Doc Fix” — and it only took 18 years since they had created the original problem itself.

Larry Wilmore highlighted the latest big leak from the Sony email hacks: Ben Affleck’s request to PBS’ genealogy show that they not reveal he had slave-owning ancestors. But as the The Nightly Show concluded — with the help of the ghostly ancestor himself — Ben has done actual movies he should be more personally ashamed about.

Seth Meyers, himself a New Hampshire native, highlighted all the presidential candidates traveling to his old home state with a new feature, “Live Free or Die Tryin’.”

Late Night Roundup: From Deflated Fooballs To Deflated Truth

Late Night Roundup: From Deflated Fooballs To Deflated Truth

With the Super Bowl coming up, the late night shows had a last look at the big story surrounding the big game: The under-inflated footballs scandal from the New England Patriots.

Jon Stewart highlighted the way this story has been the subject of so much dramatic news coverage — compared to everything else that’s wrong with the NFL.

The Nightly Show got a last bit of fun at the “ball” jokes involved here — and then examined the wider culture of lying and cheating in sports. Indeed, Larry Wilmore realized that “Keep It 100” instead becomes “Keep It 70” here.

Jimmy Kimmel featured an all-star cast of Bostonians, all ready to take the heat for Tom Brady.

Conan O’Brien realized that with the big measles outbreak, this weekend’s Super Bowl winners might not be going to Disneyland.