Jason Kelce’s late-night show is bringing in the NFL’s top dog this week.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will guest on They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce tonight. The appearance marks Goodell’s first-ever guest spot on a late-night talk show.
Goodell has led the NFL since 2006, which includes the duration of Kelce’s own career in the league. As a figure that football fans have mixed feelings about, it’s a safe bet that Goodell will illicit some boos from the audience, which wouldn’t be uncharted territory for They Call It Late Night. Last week, the much-maligned-by-Philly sportscaster Joe Buck was met with a mixture of cheers and jeers from the crowd. (Philly’s hatred of Buck was tackled head-on in the interview.)
Goodell is currently the only listed guest for tonight’s show, but Kelce’s first two episodes each featured multiple interviewees at once. The trio of Lil Dicky, Brian Baldinger, and Charles Barkley were his premiere guests, while episode two brought on Buck and his wife, sports reporter Michelle Beisner-Buck.
Tonight’s episode will be the third of They Call It Late Night’s initial five-episode order. Kelce hosts the show, which combines traditional comedic elements of late-night with long-form discussion of football, from Philadelphia’s Union Transfer. The former football player and New Heights podcast host has cited Conan O’Brien and David Letterman as influences, and even recruited some early Late Night with Conan O’Brien writers for his own writers’ room.
They Call It Late Night airs tonight (or, early Saturday morning) at 1:00 AM on ESPN and ESPN+. Extended episodes are also posted to YouTube Saturdays at 9:30am.
