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How Could He Have Missed Bruce Loveless?

The signs of Trump-joke fatigue are all over late night these days. On “The Late Late Show,” James Corden seemed to flash a look of true exasperation as he launched into his first joke on Wednesday.

And a little earlier in the night, Stephen Colbert said he was outraged that he had been spending so much time on jokes about President Trump that he missed a sex scandal seemingly made for late-night TV: one involving a rear admiral named Bruce Loveless who is accused of trading state secrets for sex parties.