What Did America Laugh At Last Night?
Late Nite Last Nite is a uniquely American anthology built for the middle 98%. And, we only have one rule: “Never explain a smart joke to an idiot.”
In attempting to resolve the ongoing conflict between Institutional Authority and Individual Autonomy that provides the fodder for America’s late night monologues, it is the tripartite mission of Late Nite Last Nite to commit multiple acts of free expression, confident creativity, and intelligent citizenship.
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"A vivid, never-boring combination of legal scholarship, humor, and moral insight. Whitney's comedic timing is spot on and his delivery makes already funny jokes even funnier."
~Janice Cane, D.C. Theatre Scene
Mark Whitney is an award-winning master storyteller, political satirist, and constitutional scholar. He is the winner of the San Francisco Comedy Convention, and theatre festivals in L.A., New York, D.C, Boulder, and Minneapolis for Best Solo Performance.
Armed only with a high school education from Otter Valley Union High School in tiny Brandon, Vermont, Whitney has lectured on legal research best practices at bar associations from coast-to-coast. He is noted for covering two years of law school in 30 minutes, leaving the real lawyers slack-jawed. If you haven’t heard Whitney’s Rule 404(b) joke, you haven’t lived.
As a litigant, Mr. Whitney has prevailed over the U.S. Department of Justice several times. He is the only U.S. Citizen to have sued the United States to end the illegal and unconstitutional participation of U.S. Armed Armed Forces in the Libyan Civil War. See, Whitney v. Obama, 845 F.Supp.2d 136 (2012)
At 27, Whitney was among the first group of Ben & Jerry’s franchisees, a venture that ended, when, as one Federal judge put it, “Banks froze the ice cream.”
In 2005, due to a dearth of available stage time, Whitney founded the San Diego Comedy Co-op, which helped bolster the then-fledgling comedy careers of Kyle Kinane, Natasha Leggero, Dan Levy, Anthony Jeselnik, Erik Knowles, Zoltan Kaszas, and many others. Over the course of three years, the Co-op produced nearly 500 free shows for the community from an abandoned warehouse in San Diego’s Sorrento Valley. The Co-op was so underground, even GPS couldn’t find it. Whitney closed the Co-op when he turned pro.
"Whitney’s storytelling is as entertaining as it is infuriating. He manages to skewer our 'post-Constitutional America[n]' culture by easily transitioning between real-life stories to a quick power round of dick jokes, to which even this toilet-humor-hating critic has to tip her hat."
~Heather Goss, DCist
A Bit Of Late Night Historical Context
In 1954, Steve Allen co-created and hosted The Tonight Show, thereby unwittingly inventing the noun we call Late Night.
Today, Late Night is a billion dollar industry brought to you via tape delay from Hollyork by four publicly traded corporations with assets that exceed $1T.
Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, Stewart, Maher, Oliver, and Kimmel, are collectively:
Paid $100M+ annually
Subscriber to by 100M+ YT users
The recipients of 30M+ weekly YT click throughs, and, that’s just the monologues.
If you’re talking Tonight Show, Late Night, or Saturday Night Live, you’re talking Comcast. If you’re watching The Late Show or The Daily Show, Paramount thanks you. Warner Brothers brings you Real Time and Last Week Tonight, which they purchased from the phone company, AT&T. Kimmel, of course, is broadcast by The Mouse.
"Whitney takes a double-barreled shotgun to both sides with humor and passion and anger and no small amount of befuddlement as to how easily people have handed over their rights in the hopes of achieving greater safety."
~Gary McMillan, D.C. Theatre Scene
