Late-Night Shows Celebrate Juneteenth, Hosts & Guests Call To Make It A National Holiday

Lilly Singh and Trevor Noah have been taking notes on each other.

Desus & Mero” and a “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” alum, speaking about the late-night genre in general. “When things are bleak, you’re always thinking about what is expected by the audience and what they’ll accept.” In short, the whiplash of the past 135 days has forced late-night to get a lot more serious.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Conan O’Brien is heading to Largo at The Coronet to shoot his TBS talk show, becoming the first of the late-night hosts to move his show out of his house and make tentative steps to a return to full production.Conan will begin filming at the LA comedy club from Monday July 6, in accordance with government and industry health and safety protocols.While, O’Brien usually tapes his show at the Warner Bros studio in Burbank, it marks the first step towards full

Kevin Hart is executive producing and hosting a new game show,, and ET has an exclusive sneak peek. ET's first look at the upcoming special features Hart and his wife, Eniko's, night full of fun with Terry and Rebecca Crews, Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams, and Joel and Sarah McHale. The Harts put the other couples to the test in a series of hilarious challenges, like trying to stuff their faces with spaghetti while wearing tiny hands and popping balloons in… creative ways.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down production, talk shows were forced to adapt to filming from home. Hosts took various approaches to setting their at-home studios: John Oliver chose a monochromatic background, while Samantha Bee has been filming from her backyard.

When Late Night With Seth Meyers returned June 1 after a weeklong hiatus, it was the NBC show's first opportunity to speak to the social justice movement and protests following the killing of George Floyd. To do so, Amber Ruffin, who's been a writer on the program since 2014, opened the show by sharing stories about her own experience with the police.

President Donald Trump held his first rally since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

partial responsibility for the lower-than-expected turnout at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night. Using the power of the internet, they reportedly spread around a link sent out by the Trump campaign to register for free tickets to the event, urging their friends and followers to claim spots at the rally with no intention of actually going.

NEW YORK -- The couch is still in storage, but the morning team on “Fox & Friends” returned for the first time Monday to the midtown Manhattan studio vacated in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. A few blocks west, there was a similar welcome for two-thirds of the “CBS This Morning” hosts, who had taken brief trips to Washington and a New York theater before settling in at home after being chased out on March 18.

Toya Johnson celebrated Juneteenth in a special way and she made sure to mark the event on her social media account as well. Check out her post below.

"Personally, I’ve made the decision to give all of my employees June 19th off in honor of Freedom Day from now on, and to continue to educate myself on the history that brought us to this present moment," she wrote in the caption of a video by .

Late Nightwriter Amber Ruffin answered frequently asked questions about Juneteenth during Thursday's episode of the NBC show. Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

Taylor Swift has opened up about the importance of Juneteenth in a series of posts on Twitter.The 30-year-old ME! singer shared an article from The Root that included a video of the history of the holiday – when the Emancipation Proclamation was read to Texan slaves on June 19, 1865, after the South lost the U.S.

Jimmy Kimmel has announced he will be taking the remainder of the summer off from hosting his late-night show to spend more time with his family.On Thursday, ahead of an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! the 52-year-old, who has been filming the show remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, said: “Tonight is my last new show for the summer. I'm taking the summer off to spend even more time with my family."“I've been doing this job for almost 18 years, I've done 3,130 shows," he continued.

Pharrell Williams dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss his advocacy in making Juneteenth an official holiday.

Jimmy Kimmel announced that he’s taking the summer off from hosting his late-night show on ABC. The 52-year-old comedian shared the news on Thursday’s episode, where he made the surprising announcement that the episode would be his last show for the remainder of the 2020 summer so that he can take some time off to spend with his family.

Also Read: Pharrell Williams on How He Got Virginia to Make Juneteenth an Official State Holiday (Video)Pharrell on Thursday night went on “Kimmel” and revealed that he had just come from Virginia and convinced Gov. Ralph Northam to make Juneteenth a state holiday.“I called them and said, ‘Man, this is important for not only your own legacy, but the legacy of Virginia,” Williams told Jimmy Kimmel.