List of @midnight episodes (2017)

This is a list of episodes for @midnight that aired in 2017.[1]

List of @midnight episodes
Season 2017
Country of origin	United States
Release
Original network	Comedy Central
Season chronology

2017

January

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
499	Doug Benson	Jonah Ray	Laurie Kilmartin	January 3, 2017
500	Ron Funches	Mary Lynn Rajskub	Kyle Kinane	January 4, 2017
501	Marcella Arguello	Affion Crockett and Amanda Seales*	None	January 5, 2017
Hardwick chose not to eliminate anyone because it was a "motivational episode".
502	Betsy Brandt	Dan Bakkedahl	Thomas Sadoski	January 9, 2017
Features cast of Life in Pieces
503	Katie O'Brien	Ify Nwadiwe	Flula Borg	January 10, 2017
504	Matt Kirshen	Rhys Darby* and Emily Fleming	None	January 11, 2017
Hardwick "didn't feel like eliminating anyone".
505	Michelle Buteau*	Jamie Lee and Brian Moses	None	January 12, 2017
Special appearance by Dave "Gruber" Allen as Father Mike O'Soft. Hardwick felt the scores were too close to eliminate anyone.
506	Josie Long	John Hodgman* and Eugene Mirman	None	January 16, 2017
Hardwick decided to "stay positive" on a Monday, so he didn't eliminate anyone.
507	Rory Scovel	Jak Knight	Megan Gailey	January 17, 2017
508	Erin Gibson	Judah Friedlander	Bryan Safi	January 18, 2017
509	Stephanie Simbari	Brian Posehn	Dave Anthony	January 19, 2017
510	Kevin Nealon	Rich Eisen	Jade Catta-Preta	January 23, 2017
511	Kate Berlant	John Early	Claudia O'Doherty	January 24, 2017
512	Jenny Zigrino	Erik Griffin	Andrew Santino	January 25, 2017
513	Mike Lawrence	Jamar Neighbors* and Jeff Ross	None	January 26, 2017
Special appearance by Drew Tarver as ReelJaden. Features stars of Roast Battle II. Hardwick wouldn't eliminate Jamar on his birthday.
514	Joe DeRosa	Moshe Kasher	Arden Myrin	January 30, 2017
515	Adam Newman	Phoebe Robinson	Hampton Yount	January 31, 2017

February

Episodes for the week of February 13–16 were aired live.

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
516	Aisling Bea*	Maz Jobrani and David Koechner	None	February 1, 2017
Hardwick decided the show should be about inclusion.
517	Will Sasso	Whitney Cummings	Paul Scheer	February 2, 2017
518	Alan Tudyk	Ron Funches	Danny Pudi	February 6, 2017
Features cast of Powerless
519	Katie Aselton	Josh McDermitt	Seth Morris	February 7, 2017
520	Jen Kirkman	Paul Feig and Nick Swardson*	None	February 8, 2017
Hardwick didn't feel like eliminating anyone.
521	Annie Lederman	Josh Johnson* and Jay Mandyam	None	February 9, 2017
Hardwick didn't feel like eliminating anyone.
522	Milana Vayntrub	Thomas Lennon	Kyle Kinane	February 13, 2017
523	Mary Lynn Rajskub*	Al Jackson and "Weird Al" Yankovic	None	February 14, 2017
To celebrate the engagement of a couple seated onstage, who met on Twitter participating in Hashtag Wars, Hardwick took everyone to FTW. The couple chose the winner.
524	Wil Wheaton	Drew Carey	Heather Anne Campbell	February 15, 2017
Guest appearances by Chuck Tingle and John DiMaggio, who read Tingle's ongoing novel as Bender.
525	Grace Helbig	Hannah Hart	Mamrie Hart	February 16, 2017
526	Doug Benson	Slink Johnson	Jessimae Peluso	February 27, 2017
Features cast of The High Court with Doug Benson.
527	Henry Phillips	Brendon Walsh	Angela Trimbur	February 28, 2017
Features cast of Punching Henry.

March

The week of March 27–30 is the second Tournament of Champions.

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
528	Pete Holmes	Natalie Morales	Lauren Lapkus	March 1, 2017
Features stars of Crashing
529	Jessica Lovelace-Chandler*	Kurt Braunohler and Paul F. Tompkins	None	March 2, 2017
Jessica Lovelace-Chandler is the winner of the @midnight #PointsMe Challenge. Hardwick didn't eliminate anyone because "it's her first time on the show".
530	Flula Borg*	Steve Agee and Arielle Vandenberg	None	March 6, 2017
Hardwick forced Flula to go to FTW.
531	Randy Sklar	Jason Sklar	Beth Stelling	March 7, 2017
532	Fahim Anwar	Pardis Parker	Mo Amer	March 8, 2017
533	Nick Simmons	Matt Braunger* and Colton Dunn	None	March 9, 2017
Hardwick had such a nice time, so he didn't feel he should eliminate anybody.
N–A	Whitney Cummings	Nick Swardson	Tom Lennon	March 10, 2017
This was a special live event that aired on Facebook from SXSW
534	Jim Norton	Ricky Velez	Camilla Cleese	March 13, 2017
535	Gabriel Diani	Johnathan Fernandez	Janet Varney	March 14, 2017
In honor of Pi Day, the number Pi was scrolled across the bottom of the screen throughout the episode. At the end, 2,413 digits had been displayed.
536	Sam Rubin*	Jessica Kirson and Brian Monarch	None	March 15, 2017
Hardwick couldn't, in good conscience, eliminate Sam because of all he's done for him.
537	Melissa Villaseñor*	Scott Adsit and Yassir Lester	None	March 16, 2017
Hardwick took everyone to FTW after an audience member yelled to keep Melissa.
538	Dominic Monaghan	Matteo Lane and Gina Yashere*	None	March 20, 2017
Hardwick had too much fun to eliminate anybody.
539	Jay Chandrasekhar	Emily Heller	Joel Kim Booster	March 21, 2017
Guest appearance by Carly Chaikin.
540	Greg Proops*	Hari Kondabolu and Eugene Mirman	None	March 22, 2017
Hardwick didn't eliminate Greg because he was worried about what Greg's jacket would do under the red light.
541	Stephanie Beatriz*	Brian Redban and Sasheer Zamata	None	March 23, 2017
Hardwick "didn't feel like" eliminating anyone.
542	Moshe Kasher	Ron Funches and Mamrie Hart (tie)	None	March 27, 2017
Mamrie and Moshe tied in points, so both went to FTW.
543	Doug Benson	Jesse Joyce	Megan Neuringer	March 28, 2017
544	Milana Vayntrub	Paul F. Tompkins	Kyle Kinane	March 29, 2017
545	Doug Benson	Moshe Kasher	Milana Vayntrub	March 30, 2017
Tournament of Champions final. Guest appearance by Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell.

April

On April 28, 2017 @midnight began airing at 12:00 a.m. (EST) on Thursdays with The President Show airing at 11:30 p.m. (EST).

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
546	Guy Branum	Margaret Cho* and Rhett Miller	None	April 3, 2017
Hardwick didn't "feel like eliminating anyone 'cause it's Monday".
547	Kevin Smith	Aisha Tyler	Rob Riggle	April 4, 2017
548	Stephen Schneider	Jenna Elfman	Dan St. Germain	April 5, 2017
549	Adam Conover	Stephanie Courtney* and James Davis	None	April 17, 2017
For the first show back after a break, Hardwick took everyone to FTW.
550	Felicia Day	Jonah Ray	Hampton Yount	April 18, 2017
Features cast of the revived Mystery Science Theater 3000.
551	Marcella Arguello	Ross Marquand and Chris Redd*	None	April 19, 2017
Chris Redd was behind by only 50 points, so Hardwick offered to take him to FTW.
552	Desus Nice	The Kid Mero	Stephanie Simbari	April 20, 2017
553	Timothy Simons	Mary Holland	Matt Walsh	April 24, 2017
Features cast of Veep.
554	Arden Myrin	Orlando Jones and Nimesh Patel*	None	April 25, 2017
Hardwick couldn't eliminate Nimesh in front of all of his friends, who were seated in the front row.
555	Ophira Eisenberg	Henry Zebrowski	Maria Bamford	April 26, 2017
556	Moshe Kasher	Jo Koy and Charlotte McKinney*	None	April 27, 2017
Hardwick didn't eliminate anybody because he "didn't have to".

May

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
557	Gina Yashere*	Ana Marie Cox and Pardis Parker	None	May 1, 2017
By audience demand, Hardwick took Gina to FTW.
558	Mary Lynn Rajskub	Hari Kondabolu	Dave Hill	May 2, 2017
559	Al Madrigal	Ari Graynor	Clark Duke	May 3, 2017
Features cast of I'm Dying Up Here.
560	Ashley Eckstein	Alan Tudyk	John DiMaggio	May 4, 2017
Star Wars–themed episode in honor of Star Wars Day. Guest starring Mike Mitchell as George Lucas.
561	April Richardson	Mark Normand	Dweezil Zappa	May 8, 2017
562	Dulcé Sloan	Jon Rudnitsky	Steve Byrne	May 9, 2017
563	Stix Zadinia	Michael Starr	Lexie Foxx	May 10, 2017
Features members of Steel Panther.
564	Ron Funches	Yassir Lester and Randy Sklar*	None	May 11, 2017
In honor of Mother's Day, all comedians were accompanied by their mothers, including Hardwick. Jason Sklar was brought back late in the show, but was not taken to FTW with everyone else.
565	Ken Jennings	Andrée Vermeulen	Steve Agee	May 15, 2017
566	Jaime King*	Taryn Manning and Rhea Seehorn	None	May 16, 2017
Hardwick "didn't feel like" eliminating anybody.
567	Jesse Joyce	Whitney Cummings and Gilbert Gottfried*	None	May 17, 2017
"There's no way" Hardwick would eliminate anyone.
568	Bess Kalb	Vance Sanders	Murray Valeriano	May 18, 2017
569	Sebastian Bach	Alison Becker	Horatio Sanz	May 30, 2017
570	Paul F. Tompkins	Tawny Newsome	Tim Baltz	May 31, 2017
Features cast of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.

June

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
571	Doug Benson	Chuck Sklar	Wendy Liebman	June 1, 2017
572	Jon Daly	Jessica Lowe	Alan Yang	June 5, 2017
573	Kirby Howell-Baptiste	Barry Rothbart	Lucas Neff	June 6, 2017
Features cast of Downward Dog. The episode was named "@pupnight", dedicated to dogs, and featured puppies from Paw Works onstage. Winner decided by a dog named Cutie.
574	Sean Donnelly	Lucy Davis	Tom Rhodes	June 7, 2017
575	Hale Appleman	Summer Bishil* and Olivia Taylor Dudley	None	June 8, 2017
Features cast of The Magicians. Hardwick could never eliminate any of them because they're all precious to him
576	Kumail Nanjiani*	Kurt Braunohler and Ray Romano	None	June 12, 2017
Hardwick "just can't eliminate anybody", and then announced he would not eliminate anyone for the rest of the week.
577	Marcella Arguello	Mike Lawrence and Pauly Shore*	None	June 13, 2017
578	Wayne Brady	Beth Dover* and Greg Proops	None	June 14, 2017
579	Jerry Ferrara*	Diona Reasonover and Ryan Stout	None	June 15, 2017
580	Alaska Thunderfuck	Ginger Minj	Katya Zamolodchikova	June 19, 2017
Features contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.
581	Tim Minchin	Eddie Izzard* and Kristen Schaal	None	June 20, 2017
Hardwick chose not to eliminate anyone because America needs to be about inclusion.
582	Jenny Zigrino	Kenny G	Ron Lynch	June 21, 2017
583	Emma Willmann	Jordan Morris and Dolph Ziggler*	None	June 22, 2017
Because Dolph has played Hashtag Wars from the beginning of @midnight, Hardwick took him to FTW anyway.

July

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
584	Moshe Kasher	Emily Fleming	Natasha Leggero	July 10, 2017
585	Howie Mandel	Mamrie Hart	David Koechner	July 11, 2017
586	Teller	Penn Jillette	Arj Barker	July 12, 2017
Las Vegas-themed episode. This would be the last episode in which Hardwick eliminated the contestant in last place.
587	Iman Shumpert*	Kevin Durand and Ginger Gonzaga	None	July 13, 2017
588	Andy Signore	Jenny Nicholson* and Hal Rudnick	None	July 17, 2017
Features contributors to Screen Junkies.
589	Kristin Chenoweth*	James Davis and Jim Norton	None	July 18, 2017
590	Dave Thomason	Ian Abramson and Emily Heller*	None	July 19, 2017
591	Kate Micucci*	Matt Braunger and Justin Martindale	None	July 20, 2017
592	Justin McElroy	Griffin McElroy* and Travis McElroy	None	July 24, 2017
Features brother hosts of My Brother, My Brother and Me.
593	Thomas Lennon	Nikki Glaser and Nick Swardson*	None	July 25, 2017
594	Steve Agee	Baron Vaughn* and Alice Wetterlund	None	July 26, 2017
Guest appearance by James Adomian as Bernie Sanders.
595	Brett Gelman	Mac DeMarco* and Amanda Seales	None	July 27, 2017
596	Yassir Lester	Chris D'Elia and Brian Posehn*	None	July 31, 2017

August

No.	Winner	Runner-up	Last place	Original air date [2]
597	Brandon Johnson	Dan Harmon and Tom Kenny*	None	August 1, 2017
Features co-creator and voice actors from Rick & Morty.
598	Dave Foley	Kevin McDonald* and Scott Thompson	None	August 2, 2017
Features members of The Kids in the Hall.
599	Jen Kirkman	Flula Borg* and Paul F. Tompkins	None	August 3, 2017
This was the last regular season regular episode, and a Thursday weekly finale. It replaced the comedian's Twitter accounts with an episode 599 moniker.[3]
600	Brian Posehn	N/A	N/A	August 4, 2017
One-hour series finale, airing on a Friday. Thomas Lennon, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Ron Funches, Jen Kirkman, Kurt Braunohler, Arden Myrin, Scott Aukerman, Marcella Arguello, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Paul F. Tompkins, Whitney Cummings, April Richardson, Rich Fulcher, Megan Neuringer, Wil Wheaton, Jonah Ray, Matt Mira, Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, Matt Besser, Riki Lindhome, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brian Posehn, Morgan Murphy, Brendon Walsh, Steve Agee, Emo Philips, James Davis, Colton Dunn, Mike Phirman, Jermaine Fowler. Tom Lennon hosted the #HashtagWars segment, while Chris Hardwick competed in his place.[4]

Notes

• ^* — Player normally eliminated with the low score, kept on for the final round.

References

1. "The Late Night TV Page - Talk Show Guest Listings". interbridge. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
2. @midnight at epguides
3. @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Episode 599. 3 August 2017. Comedy Central.
4. @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Episode 600. 4 August 2017. Comedy Central.

External links

• Official website
• @midnight at IMDb
• @midnight at TV.com