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Weekly Ratings: Fallon’s 'Odyssey' Week Narrows Kimmel’s Lead
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (651+ words) Home / News / Ratings A quick note to fellow media reporters: LateNighter pays to license Nielsen ratings data in order to independently cover late-night TV viewership trends. If these figures inform your own reporting, please credit and link back to this…...
SNL in the Summer? NBC Tried It 50 Years Ago (And Never Again)
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (560+ words) Fifty years ago this month, Saturday Night Live did something it hasn’t done since: it aired new episodes in the heart of summer. On July 24 and July 31, 1976, the show broadcast the final two installments of its first season—the only…...
Kimmel Guest Host Rosie O’Donnell Says She’ll Keep Trump Hits Coming
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (353+ words) Rosie O’Donnell says she intends to be “a good soldier” for Jimmy Kimmel when she fills in for him on his ABC late-night show next month. The former Rosie O’Donnell Show host and longtime Donald Trump antagonist previewed her upcoming…...
How an Ugly Cat Inspired The Daily Show’s Moment of Zen
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (564+ words) Short of The Tonight Show’s opening monologue, there may be no more enduring late-night ritual than The Daily Show’s “Moment of Zen.” Since the Comedy Central series’ very first episode on June 22, 1996, viewers have been sent off with the same…...
The Daily Show Marks 30 Years With a 16-Minute Supercut
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (226+ words) The Daily Show marked its 30th anniversary Wednesday night with a 16-minute highlights package spanning three decades of news coverage. Released 30 years to the night of the show’s July 22, 1996 premiere, the video moves chronologically through the headlines that defined each of…...
Kenan Thompson Joins Voice Cast of Family Guy Spinoff Stewie
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (372+ words) Kenan Thompson has landed his next TV classroom—and this one comes with Stewie Griffin, time-traveling inventions, and one of his former Saturday Night Live castmates. The longtime SNL cast member has joined the voice cast of Stewie, Fox and…...
'Feels Premature': Jimmy Kimmel Says Colbert Declined Guest-Host Offer
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (335+ words) Jimmy Kimmel says he offered Stephen Colbert a new late-night home this summer, but the former Late Show host apparently isn’t ready to get back behind a desk just yet. In a new interview with Variety’s Michael Schneider promoting the…...
SNL’s 'MAHAspital' Will Face The Daily Show’s RFK Hospital at Emmys
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (574+ words) The Emmys’ affection for The Pitt apparently extends well beyond the show itself—and into late night. The HBO Max medical drama received 25 Emmy nominations this year. But in addition to those, two RFK Jr.-flavored parodies of the series…...
The Daily Show Teases 30th Anniversary Episode
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (183+ words) The Daily Show is marking its 30th birthday tonight—but first, it would appreciate viewers doing a little homework. “Join us tonight at 11pm as we celebrate 30 years of The Daily Show,” the Comedy Central series just wrote in an Instagram post…...
The Daily Show at 30: How It Survived—and Came Back Stronger
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1320+ words) The 30th anniversary of any television show is an event because it is rare—rarer than ever now—for any series to last anywhere near that long. It is particularly meaningful for a program like The Daily Show, which an entire…...