When it comes to late night talk show exits, Stephen Colbert will have to aim high to surpass those of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson. Carson set the bar high on May 21st, 1992 – his second last episode after 30 years as the King of Late Night on The Tonight
As I tell CTV News Channel anchor Marcia MacMillan (see below for clip), this week’s ouster of Stephen Colbert and The Late Show feels like the beginning of the end for late night televison as we know it. For over seventy years dating back to the premiere of Steve Allen’s original Tonight Show on NBC
These two photos, above, were taken the same day, Tuesday, September 30, in the United States. Two sets of men shaking hands. Both photos staged before live audiences ansd television cameras. The top shot records Stephen Colbert’s visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, which is on the road in Brooklyn, NY. for a week of episodes
CBS says their decision to shut down The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next May is a financial one. It is, but perhaps not for the reasons they suggest. True, late night talk shows are not the oil wells they were back when Johnny Carson and David Letterman ended the night for millions of viewers.
Here are the headlines: three days after CBS’s parent company Paramount paid $16 million to settle a Trumped up, meritless 60 Minutes dispute with the US president; hours after a bill passed yanking a billion dollars in funding from PBS and NPR; CBS announced that Stephen Colbert will be silenced at CBS. Colbert mocked Trump
This has been going on for months now, half a year at least. Every time Donald Trump burps out another middle-of-the-night tweet or lurches into another Oval offside about Canada becoming the “51st State,” the fiercest pushback comes during the opening monologues of at least half a dozen US late night talk shows. The folks
I have to thank the folks at LateNighter for a cool assignment — explaining and providing a Canadian point of view on the impact of Mike Myers’ “elbow’s up” rallying cry on Saturday Night Live. You can read the full story here. As the credits started to roll, Myers flashed the double-secret “elbows-to-action” signal at
It has been true for too many years: Canadians only think you’ve made it when you appear on American television. Take this Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. The comedian will start his show — now in its 23rd season — with a one-on-one interview with Liberal Prime Minister of Canada candidate