Late Laughs

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Today [Oct. 24], [Kamala] Harris got a big thumbs up from 82 American Nobel Prize winners, endorsing Harris writing: “This is the most consequential presidential election in a long time, perhaps ever, for the future of science.” So, no big deal, but the smartest people on Earth fear the end of science. I for one would miss everything science has given us from germ theory, to the light bulb, to the Smucker’s Uncrustables.

What’s extra sinister about this is that the paper had an endorsement for Harris already written and ready to go. But at the last minute, it apparently got yanked by the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. ... Turns out refusing to express an opinion about a looming fascist regime is pretty unpopular among newspaper subscribers, because as of this taping [on Oct. 28], more than

200,000 people have canceled their digital subscriptions to The Washington Post. ... 200,000! ... You can’t lose those kind of people. If this keeps up, it could destroy The Washington Post. Now is that a good thing or a bad thing? I have no opinion.

The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

The election is taking over everything, even Halloween. Tomorrow [Oct. 31], if you see someone wearing a bunch of eyeliner, it’s either Jack Sparrow or a sexy JD Vance.