The Late Show: Stephen Colbert
A Late Show: Stephen Colbert home edition
Late Night: Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jimmy Kimmel
After Midnight: Taylor Thomlinson
After Midnight isn’t a talk show, more of a fake celebrity celebrity fake game show, but it occupies the time slot after Colbert that used to be the Late Late Show. It’s pretty great and very much worth watching.
they’re different late shows, on different TV networks. Kimmel is on ABC, Colbert is on CBS, and Meyers is on NBC (after the other late night show, Jimmy Fallon, who kind of sucks).
Yeah, it’s all built on the formula set up by the Tonight show, which is hosted by Fallon now, but goes back to 1954, with Steve Allen, then Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, and then Jay Leno (obviously not Lennon!) (with a year by Conan O’Brien), and now Fallon. In the 80s, they had a second late night show, with David Letterman, who was a bit more counter-cultural and edgier, who influenced lots of this current crop of hosts…
Perhaps being in the UK you’ve heard of Craig Ferguson who was mentioned by @1000YearBan in another topic recently. He hosted a late night talk show here too and is missed.
I saw Craig Ferguson at the 1986 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and have been a fan ever since. I was so excited when he became host of The Late Late Show. Now I’m so glad he’s made so many more people happy.