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David Letterman will celebrate the 40th anniversary of NBC‘s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Feb. 1. Late Night With David Letterman premiered on the same date in 1982.

Howie Mandel has a bone to pick with his longtime friend Jay Leno.

LOS ANGELES -- Howie Mandel has a bone to pick with his longtime friend Jay Leno.On the podcast “Howie Mandel Does Stuff,” he tells Leno he should have publicly defended himself in the “Tonight Show" rivalries of decades past, when Leno and David Letterman and then Leno and Conan O'Brien tussled over the plum job of host.“This is what bothers me about you, you didn’t change the narrative” and were painted as the bad guy, Mandel said on Tuesday’s Apple podcast. “The vitriol that people were attaching you with, and people that we both know.”Leno, who hosted “Tonight” for a combined 22 years after Johnny Carson retired, insisted that the public has zero interest in hearing celebrities gripe.“That worked for me by not whining, by not complaining," Leno said.

media reports. Anderson has earned three Emmy nominations with a win in 2016 for his performance opposite Zach Galifianakis in the FX show “Baskets.” He played Christine Baskets, the mother of two twin sons played by Galifianakis, one of whom gets a job at a small-time rodeo in Bakersfield after failing to make it as a clown.

Comedian Louie Anderson has died at age 68.

calling him “one of my all time favorites” and Michael McKean weighing in on his series “Baskets,” calling it “such a phenomenal ‘second act’” for the actor, adding, “I wish he’d gotten a third.”In 2017, Anderson he told The Post that he hoped to return to television again but in a male role — and a drama — at some point.“I would like to do a drama show and I’d like to play a man again,” he said. “I don’t know if [this role] will translate to people as me being an actor. I do have a lot of people who want to meet with me — a lot of times because they love the character.

Baskets, entered hospital in Las Vegas earlier this week (January 18) after being diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of cancer. His death was confirmed by his publicist (via Deadline).A statement from his representative said: “Iconic comedian Louie Anderson passed away peacefully on Friday morning January 21 in Las Vegas at age 68.“He is survived by his two sisters, Lisa and Shanna Anderson.”The stand-up comedian had his breakthrough appearance in 1984 on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson.

Comedian, game show host and three-time Emmy winner Louie Anderson has died at the age of 68.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died Saturday, his family said. He was 88.Emery passed away peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by family, at Tristar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, his son, Michael, told The Associated Press.

Dick Carson, brother of TV legend Johnny Carson and a former director for The Tonight Show, died at 92 at his home in Studio City, Calif. on December 19, 2021 following a brief illness, his family said.

“It was Bob’s world; we’re only living in it.” That’s the overall sentiment of “The Super Bob Einstein” movie. Who? Well, you should probably remember the Sahara dry comedian Super Dave Osborne, right? He was the alter-ego of comedian Bob Einstein, playing a naïve but optimistic stuntman who was frequently gravely injured when his stunts went spectacularly wrong.

Stu Billett, a veteran TV producer and creator of the venerable TV show The People’s Court, died Oct. 22 from natural causes in Los Angeles, surrounded by his family. He was 85.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJohn Rich has written music with everyone from Gretchen Wilson to Jon Bon Jovi. For the show he’s about to launch on Fox Business Network, the musician says he’s cribbing notes from Barbara Walters.Rich has been studying Walters’ interviews with luminaries like Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball.

Since hosting his final episode of The Tonight Show on NBC in 2014, Jay Leno has hardly faded from the scene à la his predecessor, Johnny Carson.

Herbert Schlosser, a longtime NBC executive who oversaw the development of Saturday Night Live and was credited with bringing Johnny Carson to The Tonight Show has died at his home in New York City. He was 95.

LOS ANGELES -- Conan O'Brien stayed true to form as he wrapped his TBS show “Conan” after nearly 11 years, bouncing between self-deprecating and smart-aleck humor before allowing himself a touch of sentiment.“Try to do what you love with people you love, and if you can manage that, it’s the definition of heaven on Earth,” he said, marking the end of his third late-night show over 28 years.

Late-night television hasn’t changed a great deal since Johnny Carson took over The Tonight Show nearly 60 years ago. There’s been the odd exception, such as Arsenio Hall’s syndicated show finding a young audience and bringing Bill Clinton’s saxophone licks to the country, or Joan Rivers briefly interloping on Fox. However, it’s largely been the preserve of middle-aged white men, wearing suits, joking about the events of the day with a few celebrity guests and sketches thrown in.

Steve Allen, the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, was largely responsible for late-night television as we know it.

dementia, his family has announced. Hanna, 74, served as director of the Columbus Zoo in Ohio between 1978 and 1992, and remained as the organisation’s director emeritus.

As Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon compete to reach traditional late-night viewers, a new breed of talk show host is emerging.

You’ve probably heard of 2020’s renaissance man by now. He has an Emmy for “Will & Grace,” more Instagram followers than Norway has people and at 65 he’s about to release his debut album, “Company’s Comin’” on April 2.

Arsenio Hall and Stephen Colbert discussed having their late-night TV status in common as the comedian appeared on Wednesday’s “The Late Show”.

Patti LaBelle is already planning her Valentine’s Day.

Comedian Freddie Prinze experienced a meteoric rise before the star of hit sitcom “Chico and the Man” died in 1977 death at age 22.

James McClain Last summer, an idiosyncratic Malibu property sold for exactly $40 million in a cash deal, a little less than half the original $81.5 million asking price. Best-known as the Johnny Carson estate, after the iconic TV personality who owned it for decades, the compound was sold by producer Sidney Kimmel, who had purchased the 4.16-acre spread in 2007 from Carson’s widow Alexis for $36.5 million.

Conan, has been on TBS for the last 11 years, and featured interviews with celebrities from across the entertainment world, as well as frequent live music performances.While Conan will end next summer, his TBS travel show Conan Without Borders will continue to run on the network, and the host has also lined up a new weekly variety series, which will air on new streaming service HBO Max.“In 1993 Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming

Conan O'Brien's late-night show,. The TBS program, which premiered in 2010, will officially come to an end in June 2021.

Conan O’Brien‘s late-night talk show, Conan, will end with its 10th season on TBS in June 2021. The host, 57, has been working in late-night television for 21 years.“In 1993, Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming platform,’” the comedian, who will continue hosting Conan Without Borders travel specials for TBS and is launching a new variety series at the HBO Max, said in a statement on Tuesday, November 17.

Conan O’Brien is going weekly.

Conan O’Brien is ending his talk show Conan on TBS and moving over to a weekly variety show format with HBO Max!

eclipsed by his work as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died.The Florida-based James Randi Educational Foundation announced its founder died Monday at 92.As The Amazing Randi, the performer escaped from a locked coffin submerged in water and from a straitjacket as he dangled over Niagara Falls.

How much of a problem did Joe Biden have in 1987 when reporters started noticing that some of his speeches sounded a little too familiar? It reached a point where even late-night host Johnny Carson took a jab at Biden, who at the time was a U.S. senator from Delaware and running his first bid for the White House, seeking the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

NEW YORK -- Harry Belafonte made history in early 1968. But it was lost to history.While the Vietnam War was raging and civil unrest was convulsing American cities, TV talk show host Johnny Carson did something special: He stepped away from “The Tonight Show” perch for a week.Then something even more special happened: Belafonte took over.For five nights, the Black singer, actor and activist entertained white middle America with his cool wit and an astonishing array of guests — the Rev.

Johnny Carson TV, Three's Company, lifestyle channel Dabl, art and graphics network Loupe, The Rifleman, Demand Africa, Western TV, Classic TV Comedy, Classic TV Drama, Pluto TV Love Stories, Pluto TV Suspense and Pluto TV Fantastic.The Johnny Carson and Three's Company Channel are particularly big highlights for classic comedy fans looking for new places to binge their favorite nostalgia shows.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons.Hosted by Gary Whitta, known for writing Telltale's The Walking Dead and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Animal Talking has featured high-profile celebrities including Elijah Wood, Brie Larson, and Selena Gomez. It's structured a lot like classic late-night talk shows ala The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and the Larry Sanders Show, with the obvious distinction of taking place within Nintendo's latest Animal Crossing title.

Charlie’s Angels actor Drew Barrymore finally revealed her first guest on her upcoming and much-anticipated talk show. The 45-year-old actress is interviewing her seven-year-old self in an adorable new promo video for the talk show.