2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (298+ words) First on LateNighter: Rosie O’Donnell’s upcoming week behind Jimmy Kimmel‘s desk now has a guest list—and it includes a particularly well-timed collection of Emmy nominees. O’Donnell will kick off her four-night Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest-hosting stint Monday, August…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (428+ words) John Oliver’s three-day visit to Salem ended Friday the only way it could have: with mutual slapping, forced amnesia, a cryogenic chamber, and a door left wide open for Devlin St. John’s return. The Last Week Tonight host wrapped his…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (382+ words) Jimmy Kimmel finally got his wish. Eight months after David Letterman invited Kimmel to appear on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction—and Kimmel admitted he’d been wondering why he hadn’t already been asked—Netflix has announced that the Jimmy…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (659+ words) Home / Features / Origin Story In Origin Story, LateNighter digs into the people, ideas, and happy accidents behind some of late night’s most memorable bits. When Stephen Colbert left The Daily Show in 2005 to launch The Colbert Report, he already had…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (229+ words) Conan O’Brien isn’t the only late-night host forming a new band this week. On Wednesday night’s Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon teamed up with Matthew McConaughey and indie folk band The Last Bison for a spirited bluegrass cover of Ella Langley’s…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (613+ 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…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (381+ words) John Oliver’s second day in Salem found Devlin St. John getting down to business—and possibly getting himself in real trouble. After making his Days of Our Lives debut Tuesday as Salem’s chief water inspector, the Last Week Tonight host…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (362+ words) Saturday Night Live UK has set a date for its second series. The British edition of the long-running sketch show will return Saturday, September 12, and the show’s entire inaugural cast is slated to return with it: Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (487+ words) The ACLU wants to know what Brendan Carr and the FCC were saying behind closed doors about Jimmy Kimmel before the agency abruptly called ABC’s station licenses in for early review. The ACLU says it suspects the FCC’s stated rationale…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (271+ words) Jimmy Fallon made an unusually covert entrance on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, emerging from a catering cart in a spoof of newly reported details about Donald Trump’s secret plane swap in Turkey last month. Following the show’s opening credits, announcer Steve…...