The Conan O'Brien Gang's Pity Party continues. One of the late night host's writers has tweeted that they'd just been notified the category in which they were nominated would not be shown during this year's Emmycast on NBC.
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Jimmy Kimmel wasn't going to let a little power outage stop the taping of his show.
Show publicist Chelsea Hettrick says the lights went out Monday night about an hour before ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was set to begin taping at its Hollywood studio. She says the outage shut down the control room, broadcast transmission center and tape operations area. Hettrick says as guests and a studio audience waited, Kimmel grabbed his laptop and recorded the entire show with his computer's webcam.
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Two nights ago, Craig Ferguson went on the Late Late Show and extended a Mickey Mouse hand of friendship to direct competitor Jimmy Fallon. Last night, like two ships passing in the night, Ferguson and Fallon both waved to each other on their respective shows whilst wearing novelty cartoon gloves.
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There are nowhere near as many women as men in the field of comedy, and the female comedians who do make it tend to be examined closely for what their appearance and their performances “say” about women. That may, or may not, be changing. In a piece in the Times last month about Chelsea Handler, Jay Leno said, “What I love about Chelsea is that she shows we’ve reached a point where comedy is comedy—it’s not male comedy or female comedy.”
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this year’s Emmys—thanks to a last-minute submission by O’Brien’s team—will see a face-off between The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien in the “best variety series” category, finally putting their longstanding feud to rest once and for all when both programs lose to the much more deserving The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.
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What I find interesting about Jerry Seinfeld is that he's got nothing to lose. He lives on a floating car island powered by burning diamonds in a solid gold furnace..
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as the “60 Minutes” piece and its extraordinary, nonsports-aided Nielsen rating proved, interest in O’Brien is running higher than it ever has. And it will continue to be strong, for three reasons..
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Wanda Sykes Show canceled after one season, Fox's late-night struggles continue | Punchline Magazine
And another one bites the dust. In a never-ending string of late-night talk show failures, Fox has done it again.
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GSN is bringing another crop of Jim Henson Company puppets to TV. "Late Night Liars" is billed as a raunchy comedy game show featuring an assortment of non-Muppet puppets joining actor-comedian host Larry Miller. According to the release, each episode has two human contestants facing off against a panel of four "celebrity puppets" who are also drunk and telling half-truths
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The piece Sunday night, reported by the correspondent Steve Kroft, will include highlights from Mr. O’Brien’s current stage tour. But it will center on the comic’s comments about the fractious events surrounding his decision to leave NBC rather than accept having his show pushed back a half-hour to make room for Jay Leno to return to late-night television.
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