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
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
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
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
Ever since the US presidential election in November, news viewership has taken a hit. Ratings data reveals that primetime viewership for MSNBC is down 54 per cent. On The Late Show Tuesday, talk show host Stephen Colbert pointed out that the news burnout goes way beyond one network. He referred to a poll which suggests
What do you do when your party is 17 points back in the polls and the Opposition Party has promised within days to call for a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons? If you are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, you go on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Trudeau, who was in New York