The Definitive Guide to Comedy
While Jimmy Fallon and his Tonight Show crew filmed a week of shows in Orlando last month, they took out some time to open up the ol’ viewer mailbag, and Fallon answered a question about his biggest fears when he was just starting out as a stand-up comedian. Would you …
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 …
Bill Cosby rejoined Jimmy Fallon last night in late-night — Cosby frequented Fallon’s Late Night, and just as he did there, the Cos enjoyed taking his sweet time with Fallon making his way to the panel chair on The Tonight Show. Perhaps he knew that Fallon would unleash his Cosby …
On Thursday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Patton Oswalt talked about turning 45, and receiving a very special gift from his brother, writer/director Matt Oswalt. It’s a wood frame emblazoned with all of the jobs Patton held before deciding to pursue stand-up comedy full-time. “He burned my employment history …
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 …
Showtime debuted the third season of David Steinberg’s Inside Comedy interview series on Monday night, and now has put the whole half-hour online for you to view, whether or not you’re a Showtime subscriber. In this episode, Steinberg first sits down with Zach Galifianakis, and then has a chat with …
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 …
The men from ABC’s Full House reunited in character on Wednesday night to sing Jimmy Fallon to sleep and cheer him up as he prepares to move an hour earlier to The Tonight Show. Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier reprised their roles as Danny Tanner, “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis …
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 …
