🌃 Because fifty empty chairs is fifty too many.
Published Friday, June 12, 2026 at 08:00 PM PT Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do we have a heavy one to discuss tonight. So look, I want to start with something serious before we get into the comedy—because comedy is how we process tragedy, right? In July 2024, a residential fire in Mangaf, Kuwait City killed at least fifty people. Fifty. That’s not a number you see in a headline very often, and when you do, it stops you cold. So before we do what we do here—find the absurd in the awful—I want to acknowledge that fifty families had their worlds end. Fifty sets of empty chairs at dinner tables. That matters. ...