The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Decades before he was the “Stephen Colbert” that you’ve come to know and love on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had the opportunity to intern for David Letterman on his Late Night staff at NBC in 1986. Colbert turned it down. Eleven years later, in 1997, Colbert and …
This just in! Spike TV has gathered an all-star collection of comedians to pay tribute to the guy who insulted them all, and did so with love, 87-year-old Don Rickles. One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles will feature David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Robert De …
On the night that CBS announced a replacement for Late Show with David Letterman in the coming year, there was no new Late Show to comment on the news. Letterman already had taken the night off Thursday, having been pre-empted 15 minutes anyhow by annual late-night highlights of the Masters …
CBS announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as its late-night TV host when Letterman retires in 2015. “Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television,” CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves said in a statement Thursday. “David Letterman’s legacy and accomplishments are an incredible …
The final year of Late Show with David Letterman is going to be must-see TV, isn’t it?! With Lindsay Lohan on Wednesday night, Lohan urged Letterman to call Oprah Winfrey — and knowing full well the history between Dave and Oprah — this got good real quick. Thanks, in part, …
BREAKING NEWS! David Letterman announced during the taping of his show for later tonight that he’ll be retiring in 2015. Letterman, who turns 67 next week, has hosted Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Jay Leno left The Tonight Show on NBC two months ago, handing over …
When Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson in 1992, there was no visible late-night TV war to be waged. At 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, there was The Tonight Show, or there was Arsenio Hall. Leno’s ascension over David Letterman, however, revealed a civil war within NBC that …
For his 60th birthday party, the King of Morning Radio held court for four hours Friday night in Midtown Manhattan, presiding over an entertainment feast that included the Clown Princes and Princesses of Late-Night TV and many other jesters and entertainers who came to pay tribute to Howard Stern. The …
If you think the Late Night franchise at NBC is in a pickle, well, you’re half right. There is a pickle involved. But this is a different sort of dill, er, I mean, deal. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon passed the pickle onto Seth Meyers — the same one he’d …
Bill Cosby sat down for another stand-up set on Monday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, then sat down with Letterman for a delightful panel chat. This time around, Cos wanted us to know what it’s like for him as a grandfather, thinking that a pinata at a 5-year-old’s birthday …
