Articles tagged "late night television"

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Three new hosts bring diversity back to late-night talk

by Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[1.Oct.09] :. Mo’Nique, the charismatic, bold comedian and actress, can pinpoint exactly when she started to fall out of love with late-night television. It happened in the spring of 1994, when Arsenio Hall,...

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Welcome to the late-night landscape, Jimmy Fallon

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[2.Mar.09] :. The most daunting competitor facing Jimmy Fallon, who takes over “Late Night” on Monday with zero hosting experience and loads of public skepticism, isn’t Craig Ferguson, Jimmy...

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Sizing up Jimmy Fallon, Conan’s heir apparent

by Kevin Pang [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Nov.08] :. Watching Jimmy Fallon strut his stuff onstage is two cans of Red Bull and a caffeine pill chaser for the psyche. He is a blur of boundless energy, elastic voiced, a troubadour satirist with a...

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`The Daily Show,’ `Colbert Report’ return to late-night TV

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Jan.08] :. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, both of whom returned to television Monday without their writing staffs, largely devoted their first shows of 2008 to discussions of the Writers Guild of America...

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Late-night hosts back on schedule; viewers may be tough to get back

by Phil Rosenthal [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. Dave, Jay, Jimmy, Conan and Craig all returned to work Wednesday. Jon and Stephen are supposed to return Monday. And if you don’t know their last names, you probably don’t care or...

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