Former New York Times television columnist, bestselling author, CNN and LateNighter pundit and my friend Bill Carter joins me for a wide open discussion about the White House attack on late night talk show hosts. We start by celebrating Jimmy Kimmel for going Brooklyn-rogue and standing up to bullies Donald Trump and his FCC chairman Brendan
I watched Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue Monday night and thought, hoo boy. This is not going to end well. Glad he and wife and producer Molly McNearney got to dress up and enjoy The Emmys at least. But I was not surprised when Kimmel was suspended today, Wednesday, by ABC. With America ripped even further apart
Mark Maron’s WTF podcast has been essential listening for me ever since the COVID pandemic. He’s been at it since way before that, sixteen years in fact. His peers consider him the O.G. of podcasting. His decision to shut things down come October, podcast wise, has nothing to do with the title of his new
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
Mark McKinney, a veteran of both The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live, gets his brows darked for Tuesday nights episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes (8 p.m. ET on CBC and streaming on CBCGem). At least he doesn’t have to sit and get tarted up with orange tan spray the way
Chances are that Donald J. Trump, the now and possible future President of the United States, has never heard of the CBC. He probably thinks the first two letters refer to Cheese Burgers. But the ‘very stable genius’ may have handed our embattled national broadcaster a lifeline. Canadians are in a patriot fervor these days,
Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports. A dozen years ago The Donald was just another tanned game show host when I interviewed him in his 26th floor office at Trump Tower in New York.