Everyone is familiar with late-night talk shows, whether it be Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon. Now there is a new talk show, fully shot and recorded in Sioux Falls. Live from our very own Washington Pavillion “Late Night Boomin” is circulating the internet and is the talk of Sioux Falls recently. 

The talk show is hosted by 21-year-old Jack Unruh who got the idea in 2019 while attending the University of Sioux Falls. 

“You know what, I betcha at college we could have a late-night show,” said Unruh.

The show started out small but now has developed into something bigger, it is “boomin,” you could say. “Late Night Boomin” is now recorded in front of a live studio audience at the Washington Pavilion and then is played back online. Many of the clips of the show are available on YouTube. 

Unruh talked to KELOLAND about the history and future of the talk show. 

“We have a great team that helps out with everything, we have an awesome writing team, we meet about once a week and we write the show, and those guys can come up with stuff just like that,” said Unruh. 

One member of this team is the co-host Zach Dresch,  a local comedian who does stand-up at the ‘Boss’ Comedy Club in Sioux Falls. 

“Jack and I play off each other pretty well, either I’ll be the funny man or I’m the guy looking at what are you doing or vice versa,” said Dresch.

It definitely takes a lot to run a talk show including large amounts of time and money. An interesting fact about “Late Night Boomin” is that no one on their staff is paid. 

“We’re doing it because we love it. These guys have been so great, strictly because this is fun,” said Unruh. 

However, not getting paid is not something that can sustain their venture; they are hoping to get sponsors to help turn their small idea into something really big. 

One of the coolest aspects of having a local talk show is that they have a great platform to showcase the community and spotlight local issues or interesting people in a new and fun way. 

“It’s cool because we incorporate businesses into the show, so we’ll go shoot things at their businesses, in our first episode we went out to the Sport Court and we brought the 12 U World Series Little League team and we shot a video out there with them, so fun things like that where we can showcase the community,” said Unruh. 

While the talk show is still very new and has a long way to go to make it sustainable and something people will continue to listen to, Unruh has hope. 

“We just love it, can’t get enough of it and hopefully one day we get to a point where we are doing this for a living,” said Unruh.