Late-night TV is obsessed with parenting. Yay?

It's kind of refreshing that Fallon, Kimmel, et al care enough about raising their kids that they constantly bring it up at work

The current crop of network late-night TV comedy hosts has something particular, even peculiar, in common. No, it's not that they are all white males, or even that a surprising number of them are Catholic. It's this seemingly unremarkable fact: All but one of them — Seth Meyers — has at least one young child.

On NBC, Jimmy Fallon, 40, just had his second daughter last year. Same with Jimmy Kimmel, 47, over at ABC, who had a third child last July. The newest member of the late-night tribe, James Corden, 36, has a 4-year-old son and infant daughter. Even the elder statesman of the bunch, 68-year-old David Letterman, has one 11-year-old son.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.