'The Not Too Late Show With Elmo' and 'Looney Tunes Cartoons': TV Review

hollywoodreporter.com:

For me, HBO Max's The Not Too Late Show With Elmo starts off with a major strike against it. Who on Earth thought it was a good idea to give Elmo a talk show and make Cookie Monster his sidekick?

In human terms, it's as if somebody gave Dane Cook a talk show and then said, "Oh, and by the way, Steve Martin will be his sidekick" — a situation to which my primary response would be, "Reverse those two and you have my attention, but it's still probably too much Dane Cook." I simply resent Elmo.

When I grew up — an avid viewer of Sesame Street —Elmo was only getting introduced on the show and he was basically a different character, content to live in the shadow of the greats.