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Comedian Adam Carolla stated that Ellen DeGeneres has always been mean and that her staff was afraid of her.

In May 2022, DeGeneres ended her show after complaints of workplace abuse caused her to lose more than one million viewers in one season.

During an appearance on the podcast After Party with Emily Jashinsky, Carolla stated that DeGeneres “has always been a mean person.”

“And it’s not, you know, she had her dust-up with the press and these stories probably three years – two or three years ago.”

“But I did her show, and I mean, look, I’ll tell you truthfully, sort of how it works when you do every show, every show has its own kind of personality,” Carolla noted, referring to his 2012 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which ran from 2003 to 2022. “The show itself, not the on-air show, but the behind the scenes, they all take on...

Here’s When & Where You Can Watch Matt Damon’s Stuck On You Again! (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Matt Damon has delivered some of Hollywood’s most memorable hits, moving effortlessly from survival drama in The Martian to high-speed racing in Ford v Ferrari and heartfelt storytelling in Good Will Hunting. His long-running bond with Ben Affleck has led to celebrated work both in front of and behind the camera, but his latest return to streaming is a buddy comedy without Affleck in the mix.

Stuck On You Returns To Streaming

The Farrelly Brothers’ 2003 comedy Stuck on You returns to Hulu on August 14, 2025, per Collider. It tells the story of conjoined twins Walt, played by Greg Kinnear, and Bob, played by Damon, who work side by side as fast grill cooks. Walt dreams of making it big in acting while Bob prefers a quieter life. Their paths shift when Cher,...

Jay Leno should have known what he was getting into when he told the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation that today’s comedy has become “just really political.” Comedians who clearly state their positions are alienating half their audiences, he complained. “Why not try to get the whole? I like to bring people into the big picture. I don’t understand why you would alienate one particular group — or just don’t do it at all... Just do what’s funny.”

The blowback was immediate. John Oliver heard the interview and decided, “I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.” And his old Daily Show partner, Jon Stewart, had no patience for Leno’s idea of avoiding “jokes about things you actually think.”

“The whole thing,” Stewart said, “is fucking ridiculous.”

Others, including Cracked, wasted no time reminding Leno that he’d made plenty of alienating,...

No emperor gets to reign forever, not even the King of All Media.

While there’s no official word from Howard Stern’s camp, SiriusXM or Mariann from Brooklyn, U.S. Sun is reporting that the satellite radio company intends to make Stern an offer he’ll certainly refuse once his contract is up at the end of 2025.

Stories that cite anonymous “sources” and “insiders” should always be taken with a grain of salt. That said, Stern’s five-year, $500 million deal is up this fall, and “while Sirius is planning to make him an offer, they don't intend for him to take it,” according to one of U.S. Sun’s unnamed insiders. “Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want. It’s no longer worth the investment.”

Instead, SiriusXM is expected to negotiate with Stern for the rights to his library. Considering...

Jay Leno was doling out comedy advice to late-night hosts a few weeks ago, counsel that seemed prescient when Stephen Colbert was fired just a few days later for running afoul of the current political administration — er, for not generating enough advertising dollars. President-bashing comedy wouldn’t have happened on Leno’s watch (except when he was telling Clinton blow-job jokes).

“I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture,” Leno told the completely nonpartisan and apolitical Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute. “Why shoot for just half an audience? Why not try to get the whole? I like to bring people into the big picture. I don’t understand why you would alienate one particular group — or just don’t do it at all. I’m not saying you have to throw your support. But just do what’s funny.”

But despite a tremendously successful run as Johnny Carson...

Jay Leno didn't invent late-night TV, but his contributions went a long way in defining what the genre could be. However, the former Tonight Show host's style wasn't for everyone ... including some of today's stars. John Oliver took it upon himself to push back against Leno's recent criticism of late-night in 2025.

According to Leno, today's hyper-politicized late-night shows aren't what audiences want to see. “I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know, the pressures of life,” Leno said in an interview with David Trulio. “I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just what happens when people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other. Why shoot for just half an audience all the time?”

John Oliver isn't interested in that take, or any opinion from Leno. "I’m going...

John Oliver and Jay Leno have differing opinions when it comes to political comedy on late-night TV. In a recent interview with David Trulio, president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Leno criticized late-night hosts for alienating “half the audience” with their personal political opinions. “It’s funny when … you make fun of their side and they laugh at it. I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture,” he said, adding, “I don’t understand why you would alienate one particular group … just do what’s funny.” Oliver, however, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Tuesday, August 5, that he will “take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.” When asked if late-night shows should appeal more to both sides of the political spectrum, Oliver stated, “Who thinks that way? Executives? Comedy can’t be for everyone. It’s inherently subjective.

Bill Maher has a history of sounding the alarm on what he sees as the excesses of “woke culture,” and on the August 1 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, he once again turned his monologue into a takedown of online outrage, this time over Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad.

“In other uncomfortable racial news, sad news, we found out this week that Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi,” Maher said, sarcastically. “No, she’s not, but you’ve seen the ad. There she is, dressed like Jay Leno in all blue denim. And she talks about the fact that she has blue eyes and then says she has great jeans, you know, because she’s wearing jeans! But according to the woke people, this means she’s a white supremacist," the comedian said, giving his assessment of the controversy.

Maher continued, imagining a way to justify the outrage. "It also...

Jimmy Kimmel has taken his support for Stephen Colbert to a new level in the wake of CBS cancelling The Late Show. Kimmel's latest move not only adds to his history of supporting competitors, but also risks Jimmy Kimmel Live! missing out on

Kimmel surprised the entertainment industry by placing a billboard in West Hollywood calling for Stephen Colbert to win the Outstanding Talk Series Emmy. The image features Kimmel along with the words "I'm Voting for Stephen." Jimmy Kimmel Live! is up for the same award against The Late Show and The Daily Show.

The billboard is near the Television Academy headquarters and other offices related to the entertainment world. Kimmel appears to have picked the location to make it impossible to miss for Emmy voters. It also suggests Kimmel isn't worried about his show's standing in late-night or that an Emmy win would do anything for its future.

Conan O’Brien — long before he himself became one of America’s favorite hosts — was on staff for three years as a “Saturday Night Live” writer, which he describes as one of the 50-year-old series’ most intense periods.

“I was in that state of mind, and I think [Robert] Smigel and [Bob] Odenkirk and Greg Daniels were like, ‘It’s life or death,'” O’Brien related on his podcast “Conan Needs a Friend” (via Entertainment Weekly). “And it feels like that’s kind of how everyone feels.”

Odenkirk expressed similar feelings in an interview with EW last month. “I was too hard on the show,” he said. “I had a lot of attitude when I got hired there, like, ‘This show could be better, this show could be ‘Monty Python,’ this should be more cutting edge, this should be more dangerous.’ And I was frustrated by it not representing purely my point of view.

Well, Jimmy Fallon’s shtick on standing up to Trump lasted exactly four seconds. It seems the host is taking perpetual gambling addict Jay Leno’s neutrality advice, which was “Why shoot for just half an audience all the time?” Fallon is really reaching for the other half of the audience with one his guests next week: Greg Gutfeld.

The Fox News late-night show host is slated to guest on The Tonight Show next week. For those not familiar with Gutfeld! because of where it airs, it’s actually drawing in a bigger audience than any other late-night program. For the second quarter of 2025, the show drew in 3.289 million views, far surpassing The Late Show (2.417 million), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.772 million) and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.188 million).

Gutfeld’s not the most watched because he’s using his air time on Fox News to cater to people from all political beliefs.

Nearly every legend of late night weighed in on the firing of Stephen Colbert, from John Oliver, to Jimmy Kimmel, to David Letterman (“This is pure cowardice”).

Longtime Tonight Show legend Jay Leno hasn’t commented directly, but in an interview taped just days before the Colbert decision, he repeated his tired mantra about leaving politics out of comedy. “I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture,” he lectured. “Why shoot for just half an audience? Why not try to get the whole? I like to bring people into the big picture. I don’t understand why you would alienate one particular group — or just don’t do it at all. I’m not saying you have to throw your support. But just do what’s funny.”

Despite a career in which Leno took plenty of political shots, he continues to tell comics to give their opinions a rest.

There was a time — not all that long ago — when late-night TV was where you went to shake off the day.

Maybe you’d had a rough time at work, maybe your kids were driving you nuts, maybe you were just tired and needed a laugh before bed.

You could count on Letterman to raise an eyebrow at the absurd, Leno to roll out the headlines, or Conan to descend into delightful madness.

2010 Late Night with David Letterman commercial featuring Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, and David Letterman (CBS Screenshot)

No matter what was going on in the world, these hosts helped us end the day together, with a chuckle and a shared sense of “yeah, life’s weird, isn’t it?”

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Late-night talk shows are down bad.

It’s been almost three years since The Daily Show’s last permanent host, Trevor Noah, left the show, and Comedy Central still hasn’t replaced him with an anchor who works all four days each week. The Tonight Show cut 20 percent of its weekly programming last fall. Taylor Tomlinson’s exit from After Midnight this spring convinced CBS to cancel the show rather than replace her. But the loudest death knell for comedic late-night talk shows sounded less than two weeks ago, when CBS abruptly fired host Stephen Colbert and canceled The Late Show. Now, not only do we have to spend the next 10 months in Colbert’s lame-duck era until the show actually ends in May; we also have to hear every idiot’s opinion about it — from Jay Leno...

From Mecha-Streisand to Donald Trump’s teeny-tiny penis, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are well known for mercilessly skewering celebrities. That said, they’ve also dropped the ball a number of times by delivering too soft of an attack (like with Jared from Subway), or by inviting celebrities to lamely play themselves.

The trend began in Season One when Robert Smith of The Cure played himself trying to take down the evil Mecha-Streisand by turning into a Mothra-type character. The cameo was hilariously random, so it worked well, but it set a precedent for Parker and Stone to ask celebrities they like to appear on the show. And most of the time, that’s only yielded less-than-stellar results.

Here are four particularly painful examples…

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Early on in South Park’s run, Leno gave Stone and Parker the most respect and attention of all the late-night hosts. Perhaps because of this,...

Jay Leno has denounced fellow TV hosts who have criticized CBS’s decision to axe The Late Show.

On July 17, CBS announced that Stephen Colbert’s show, well-documented to be the network’s most successful, was being canceled due to “purely” financial reasons.

The decision comes in the wake of CBS agreeing to settle a lawsuit by paying millions to President Donald Trump, seemingly to receive the FCC’s approval for a merger with the entertainment company Skydance. Trump first filed the lawsuit after CBS aired a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which the president claimed was deceptively edited.

CBS’s choice to bow to Trump’s wishes has been criticized by many news outlets and hosts – including Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers – as a failure to uphold journalistic integrity.

Colbert blasted the decision on The Late Show, and the cancellation of the...

Jay Leno believes that late-night shows such as the recently canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert lost their way when they started being too critical and “alienating” in their political humor, as opposed to the welcoming and uncontroversial way he called Monica Lewinsky a slut every night on national television.

Over the last few days, Leno’s recent and extremely poorly timed interview about the state of late night in 2025 has empowered the online right and enraged the left as the former Tonight Show host declared to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation that today’s late-night hosts are struggling because they picked sides in politics, unlike himself. In case the irony and hypocrisy of Leno claiming that partisanship ruins comedy in a conversation with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation wasn’t nauseating enough in a vacuum, there’s also Leno’s long history of picking sides — usually conservative ones...

Jay Leno is sharing his thoughts on the state of late night TV.

The 75-year-old comedian and TV host says that other late night hosts are losing half of their potential audiences by making too many political jokes.

Jay‘s comments come after Stephen Colbert‘s show was canceled by CBS, leading to an outpouring of support from his fellow late night hosts.

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The former host of The Tonight Show spoke to The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and shared his experience as a talk show host.

“I got hate letters saying, ‘You and your Republican friends,’ and another saying, ‘I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy,’ over the same joke,” Jay said, explaining that a host sharing their own opinion will remove half of their potential audience.

Jay continued, “I like to think that people come to a comedy show to get...

CBS’s shocking cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has drawn reactions from across the entertainment world, but comments from inside late-night continue to stand out. TV legends Jay Leno and David Letterman offered vastly different takes on Colbert’s fate, reflecting their fundamentally opposing philosophies on comedy, politics, and the host-network dynamic.

The overwhelming sentiment among the current crop of late-night TV hosts is that CBS made a political decision, not a financial one. Parent company Paramount needed FCC approval to merge with Skydance, so critics say it cozied up to the Trump administration. Just days after Colbert called out Paramount on air, news broke that The Late Show was coming to an end.

But Jay Leno thinks politics is to blame for a different reason. The ex-Tonight Show host suggested that Colbert’s political satire may have come at the cost of broad appeal.

“I...

When David Letterman left NBC in 1993 after being passed over for The Tonight Show, it was a protest against a meddling network. His move to CBS gave him creative freedom in the wake of NBC's decision to make Jay Leno the successor to Johnny Carson. Now, three decades later, The Late Show is ending with another case of network interference, this time by CBS.

Letterman appeared to be Carson's heir apparent as the Tonight Show icon neared retirement in the early '90s. He was already at NBC and had built a solid audience following Carson with Late Night. And although it came out years later, Carson preferred Letterman to be his successor. Instead, NBC went with Leno because the comedian pulled high ratings as Carson's fill-in. Letterman responded by packing up his things and moving to CBS, enduring a drawn-out legal battle with NBC over intellectual property, and finally launching The Late Show.

Stephen Colbert is out of the late-night comedy game, and Piers Morgan couldn’t be more delighted.

Morgan shared a hyperbolic New York Post page on his social feed this weekend, doubling down on the paper’s opinion that the partisan Colbert got what he deserved. “This is so damning,” Morgan posted. “Most of America’s biggest late-night hosts have become nothing more than hyper-partisan activist hacks for the Democrats — a party that’s rarely been more unpopular. No wonder Colbert got canned. More will follow.”

Then Morgan gathered a different group of hyper-partisan activist hacks on his YouTube show, Uncensored, to pile on. “All sorts of distraught liberals (are) crying around about all this,” he said, hanging a Colbert piñata for his friends to whack with a stick. You can guess what followed — a steady diet of “that’s not some act of fascism or creeping censorship (as) described by panicked,...

Jay Leno, who previously helmed The Tonight Show, criticized late-night hosts whose political jokes only appeal to “half their audience.”

During a recent interview with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Leno said it’s important to use humor that gets the “whole audience.” He added that hosts risk losing viewers if they are seen “cozying up to one side or the other.”

“To me, I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be,...

While Stephen Colbert has received plenty of support from fellow television mainstays and late-night hosts following the unceremonious cancellation of The Late Show, Piers Morgan isn’t among them.

Earlier today, the British media personality took to X to slam Colbert and other longtime late-night hosts, alleging these figures were nothing more than puppets for the Democratic Party.

“This is so damning,” Morgan wrote alongside a cover of New York Post that outlined the political leanings of Colbert’s guests, which skewed toward the left. “Most of America’s biggest late-night hosts have become nothing more than hyper-partisan activist hacks for the Democrats — a party that’s rarely been more unpopular. No wonder Colbert got canned. More will follow.”

Morgan, who has alternately supported and critiqued president Donald Trump and does not consider himself right-wing, continued his commentary in several other tweets, beginning with an endorsement of Jay Leno’s...

Piers Morgan is weighing in on the cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”

On Sunday morning, the TV personality took to X to say that most late-night hosts have become nothing more than “hyper-partisan activist hacks” for the Left and that it’s really “no wonder” why Stephen Colbert got the boot. He also shared a New York Post cover that read, “No wonder he was canned, ‘The Left Show With Stephen Colbert.'”

“This is so damning,” Morgan wrote. “Most of America’s biggest late-night hosts have become nothing more than hyper-partisan activist hacks for the Democrats – a party that’s rarely been more unpopular. No wonder Colbert got canned. More will follow.”

Morgan is not the only television authority to speak out on Colbert’s cancellation. Also on Sunday, former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno said late-night frontmen too often alienate part of their audience by...

It was only a matter of time until Jay Leno had something to say — although, whether he said anything actually in response to the dust up at “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is a little less clear. In an interview posted last week by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, taped two weeks ago, Leno took the current slate of late night hosts to task.

“I got hate letters [when hosting ‘The Tonight Show’] saying, ‘You and your Republican friends,’ and another saying, ‘I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy’ — over the same joke,” Leno related (via THR). “That’s how you get a whole audience. Now you have to be content with half the audience, because you have to give your opinion.”

Leno continued to explain how, in his day, friends didn’t talk about their political positions — even those in the comedic realm. “Rodney Dangerfield and I were friends.

Former Tonight Show host Jay Leno recently called out late-night TV for alienating “half the audience” with partisan politics. During an interview with David Trulio, president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Leno, 75, opened up about making sure his jokes were politically balanced. Leno hosted The Tonight Show from 1992 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2014. “There was an analysis done of your work on The Tonight Show for the 22 years and that your jokes were roughly equally balanced between going after Republicans and taking aim at Democrats,” Trulio pointed out. “Did you have a strategy?” To that, Leno admitted, “It was fun to me when I got hate letters — ‘Dear Mr. Leno, you and your Republican friends’ and ‘Well, Mr. Leno, I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy’ — over the same joke.” “And I go, ‘Well, that’s good,'” he said. “That’s how you get a whole audience.

While many in the late-night community are standing by Stephen Colbert, one veteran host has a different perspective.

Jay Leno recently commented on the political comedy of today’s late-night hosts after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was unceremoniously canceled at CBS, amid the network’s dealings with Donald Trump.

“I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be,” he told David Trulio, president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. “I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just what happens when people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other.”

Noting that he “never discussed” politics with close friend and frequent guest Rodney Dangerfield, Leno said, “I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture. When I was with Rodney,...

It was recently announced that The Late Show has been canceled, set to end its run with Stephen Colbert as host in 2026. This marks the end of an era for late-night television, sparking speculation about which other talk shows could be next to get squashed.

Jay Leno, who hosted The Tonight Show before current host Jimmy Fallon, recently spoke out about the state of late-night TV. He discussed the situation during an interview with Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute president and CEO, David Trulio. Leno said that these shows have gotten too political with their humor in recent years, pushing away many potential viewers who don't want to hear "lectures" about politicians.

“To me, I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be,” Leno explained. “I love political humor, don’t get me wrong,...

Jay Leno believes late-night TV comedians have become too politicized — and that they risk losing half the viewing audience by “cozying up to one side or the other.”

“To me, I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be,” Leno said in a recent interview with David Trulio, president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. “Now you have to be content with half the audience because you have to give your opinion.”

Leno didn’t name names. But the current roster of late-night hosts — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and more — has routinely mocked President Trump and the Maga movement. To be fair, they have also opportunistically lampooned Democrats.

Leno’s impression is that late-night TV these days skews toward specific political viewpoints.

For a character whose whole identity revolved around being a bottomless drunk, Charlie Harper rarely faced the consequences of his problematic lifestyle, which wasn’t surprising as at the end of the day, it was just a sitcom. On the flip side, Charlie Sheen, who led a similar lifestyle, often found himself in the media crosshairs, and it’s not hard to see why.

Charlie Sheen in Platoon | Credit: Orion Pictures

At one point, certain experts speculated that Harper’s manic outbursts, which contributed to his firing from Two and a Half Men, might’ve been a result of a psychological disorder, and Sheen himself later acknowledged this concern.

Charlie Sheen eventually acknowledged his manic episodes Charlie Sheen in Anger Management | Credit: FX Networks

Charlie Sheen‘s life has been quite eventful, to say the least. Even though he once cemented himself as one of the biggest TV stars in the early 2010s,...

Hulk Hogan, the blond and boisterous body-slammer who brought pro wrestling into the mainstream in the 1980s while becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities of his generation, died Thursday. He was 71.

Hogan’s death was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by promoter Eric Bischoff, his partner in the recently launched Real America Freestyle amateur wrestling league. TMZ reported that medical personnel were sent to his home in Clearwater, Florida, with operators stating it regarded a “cardiac arrest.”

“The Hulkster” headlined WrestleMania eight times, with perhaps his most memorable bout in the WWE’s signature event coming in 1987 against the 520-pound Andre the Giant — his mentor — in the Pontiac Silverdome before a then-record crowd of 93,173.

He won the World Wrestling Entertainment championship six times during his career.

Six-foot-7 and 320 pounds in his prime, Hogan — born Terry Bollea — would enter the ring in yellow trunks, boots and a bandana, his muscles bulging,...

David Letterman seems to be showing his support to Stephen Colbert after CBS decided to put an end to The Late Show.

If you don’t know, The Late Show franchise began in 1993 with David as the host and Colbert took over for him in 2015.

Letterman uploaded a 20 minute YouTube video with the caption, “You can’t spell CBS without Bs.”

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The video features clips of Letterman calling out the network for various issues or mistakes over the years.

One clip showed Letterman calling them out over their advertisement for the network’s People’s Choice Award nominees, where they included a photo of NBC host Jay Leno instead of a photo of David.

“He’s not on CBS! I am on CBS! What is the matter with these people? Put Oprah on it. She is the winner. That I would understand,” David said in the clips,...

David Letterman has not officially gone on record reacting to CBS’ shocking decision to cancel “The Late Show,” which Letterman started in 1993 and hosted for 22 years before passing the baton to Stephen Colbert, but his thoughts on the matter are quite clear thanks to a 20-minute supercut his team posted on the official Letterman YouTube channel. The clip package includes a handful of times Letterman spoke out against CBS or made jokes at the network’s expense during his 22-year stint hosting “The Late Show.”

If the clips weren’t enough of an indication of how Letterman and his team feel about the cancellation of “The Late Show,” perhaps the caption to the supercut does: “You can’t spell CBS without Bs.”

Among the clips included in the supercut is a segment from 2007, when Letterman jabbed CBS for only mentioning “The Late Show” in a single line of its half-page network advertisement in USA Today.

In the wake of CBS giving Stephen Colbert the pink slip last week, David Letterman’s official YouTube channel wasted no time in reminding us that the network has jerked around The Late Show for years, even after CBS lured the gap-toothed comedian from NBC. As Letterman’s official channel notes, you can’t spell CBS without Bs.

Here are five times that David Letterman, never one to hide his disgruntled feelings, let CBS have it on its own Late Show…

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When CBS lost its NFL coverage to upstart Fox in 1994, Letterman must have wondered what he’d gotten himself into. Not only was football key to the network’s overall ratings, eight CBS stations around the nation decided to switch their affiliation to the Fox network. How was Letterman supposed to maintain his ratings lead over Jay Leno when...

Jennifer Love Hewitt is opening up about the comments on her body she’s been receiving since stepping back into the spotlight.

The 46-year-old actress recently spoke to Vulture about her return to the spotlight and why comments about her body were the only thing she was nervous about.

“What people were going to say about how much older I would seem than when I was 18. That’s literally the only thing I was anxious about,” Jennifer told Vulture in the interview, noting that she was only 16 when she filmed her scenes in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer movie.

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“It bothers me more now than it did at that age because I was in it. Before I even knew what sex was, I was a sex symbol. I still don’t know that I have that fully defined for myself because it started so weird,...

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who made international headlines in 2012 when he livestreamed himself jumping and freefalling for four minutes from a helium balloon that had ascended about 24 miles above the earth, breaking the sound barrier before opening his parachute, died Thursday in a paragliding accident along the Adriatic coast in Italy. He was 56.

His death was confirmed by his official sponsor, Red Bull. In a tribute titled “Thank you, Felix” on the energy drink’s website, the company writes, in part, “We grew with you and you with us. We wouldn’t trade a single day we had together. You will stay with us as a colleague, a loyal companion, but most of all as a friend.”

International press reports indicate Baumgartner, known as “Fearless Felix,” crashed to the ground in Porto Sant’Elpidio, Italy, after losing control of his paraglider, possibly having suffered a medical episode during the flight.

CBS maintains that the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was solely motivated by the late-night show’s high costs and scant profits. Others have criticized the move as an apparent gift to President Donald Trump, who is in a position to make or break Paramount’s multibillion dollar merger with Skydance Media.

And neither possibility is an especially good look for the network.

Kowtowing to an aspiring fascist who doesn’t like it when comedians hurt his feelings is obviously bad, but so is fumbling the network’s only surviving late-night institution. Colbert aside, The Late Show has been a part of the network since 1993, when David Letterman bailed on NBC to take on Jay Leno in the 11:30 slot.

Obviously late-night TV isn’t what it once was, but for one of CBS’ core brands to end in an embarrassing public clusterfuck seems like a pretty big L for the network,...

The era of late night TV is currently gasping for air, lying in a hospital bed, and waiting to die. That may sound grim, but it's no less true. We recently learned that CBS is canceling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in May 2026. What's more, Colbert isn't merely being replaced. Rather, CBS' parent company Paramount is simply ending the "Late Show" franchise, one of the pillars of late night TV for more than three decades. With that, not only is late night on life support, but TV as we used to know it is also on its deathbed.

When Colbert took over "The Late Show" from David Letterman in 2015, it was a very different time. Traditional television still had a lot of relevance, with Colbert having become a star on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" before getting the highly-coveted gig succeeding Letterman. Meanwhile, Netflix was, more or less,...

The news of “The Late Show’s” cancellation by CBS doesn’t just end a franchise that had, to this point, lasted more than 30 years. It looks like the beginning of the end of an entire category of television. With one network now opting out of late-night talk entirely, how long will it be before the genre just goes away?

CBS announced the cancellation nearly a full year before it is to take effect, making current host Stephen Colbert a lame duck of sorts; he will continue hosting the show through May 2026, at which point it will simply disappear. Observers have noted with interest that Colbert has, lately, been especially critical of CBS’s parent company, Paramount; while this may have made him less beloved internally, the trendlines on late night have been moving in the wrong direction for some time.

Taylor Tomlinson, whose “After Midnight,” also on CBS, was...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as well as The Late Show brand, will end in 2026. The program, first hosted by David Letterman and began in 1993, will wrap up its broadcast in May 2026 after a three-decade run on CBS.

Colbert, who has hosted the show since 2015, announced the news on the show, with the clip posted on The Late Show's official YouTube account. He reveals that “I’m not being replaced, this is all just going away," and CBS has attributed the end of the program to financial cuts.

What The End Of The Late Show Means For Late Night Television Colbert's Exit Means A Major Shake Up For Late Night

The Late Show, CBS' late-night program, was created in 1993 during the disastrous exit of David Letterman in the midst of Johnny Carson's retirement from The Tonight Show. For the next 20 years, Letterman and Jay Leno battled for late-night supremacy,...

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who recently called Paramount Global’s settlement with President Donald Trump “shameful”, has weighed in on the future of the late-night show.

Asked whether Skydance, which is in the process of buying Paramount Global, parent company of his network Comedy Central, would cancel the irascible talk show, Stewart essentially shrugged his shoulders.

But he did reveal that he has not had any contact with David Ellison or others at Skydance and joked that he’s been “kicked out of shittier establishments than that” and the company may “sell the whole fucking place for parts”.

He also compared Comedy Central to muzak.

“Unfortunately, we haven’t heard anything from them,” he said on his podcast The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart. “They haven’t called me and said like ‘Don’t get too comfortable in that office, Stewart.’ But let me tell you something, I...

Superman’s costume is as iconic as the character himself, in all its red, blue, and (sometimes) yellow-belted glory. The latest version donned by David Corenswet is a visual step back to a more traditional depiction of the suit, after Henry Cavill and television’s Tyler Hoechlin’s versions ditched its most-discussed aspect. I’m speaking, of course, of the red trunks — or underpants, as they are often referred.

To underwear or not to underwear, or how to underwear, has been a focal point of virtually every Superman production. In the last big “Superman” adaptation, filmmaker Zach Snyder did away with the trunks, which he said he couldn’t make “cool.”

“I did fight to keep them, but let’s not forget that the red trunks are left over from Victorian-era strong men, who had to wear flesh-colored leotards and trunks over it so they didn’t look naked. So...

Heartwarming. Wise. Amazing. Those are some of the superlatives that friends and colleagues used to describe Vin Di Bona during a tribute to the veteran “America’s Funniest Home Videos” executive producer hosted by Hollywood Media Professionals.

Di Bona was hailed for his long run with Vin Di Bona Productions and his extensive efforts to train the next generation through his work as an instructor and member of the board of trustees of Emerson College, his alma mater. After starting his career as a pop singer in his native Rhode Island, Di Bona segued into TV production, working for local TV stations such as Wbz-tv Boston and later, Kcbs-tv Los Angeles.

Former “Entertainment Tonight” host Mary Hart thanked Di Bona for “going to bat for me” in 1982 when she auditioned for a groundbreaking newsmagazine show that he was helping to produce called “Entertainment Tonight.”

The presentation of Hollywood Media Professionals Honors...

When David Letterman jumped to CBS after losing The Tonight Show, he was a ratings smash, regularly trouncing Jay Leno, the man who’d beaten him out for his dream job. But Leno eventually surpassed Letterman in the ratings game, thanks to some Hugh Grant hanky-panky.

Grant was riding high from his hit movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral, when he decided to satisfy a 1995 late-night craving with a sex worker named Devine Brown. His subsequent arrest for lewd conduct, in a day when tabloids could ruin a reputation, threatened to tank Grant’s career. Instead, his fame was turbo-charged, thanks to an interview with Leno.

Leno began the interview with the question that all movie fans had on their minds: “What the hell were you thinking?” (Leno’s drummer chimed in with a rimshot.) Grant’s charming mea culpa endeared him to the public, a textbook case of how...

Hugh Jackman was seen avoiding Blake Lively questions! Kjersti Flaa from the infamous “congrats on your little bump” interview, who is also covering the whole legal drama in detail, received a new video from the same photographer who recently captured Jay Leno dismissing the idea of Blake Lively as a motorcycle passenger, saying “anyone but her”.

This time, the focus was on Hugh Jackman. The photographer seemed determined to get Jackman to say something, anything, about Lively, and spent the day trailing him around New York City trying.

Across three different encounters, the question was repeated in slightly different forms, always circling back to Blake Lively and her recent legal victory. Whether Jackman was walking into a building or on a sidewalk, the photographer was ready with a camera and the same persistent line of questioning.

Despite the effort, Jackman remained silent throughout. It was clear he had no intention of engaging,...

The format of a late-night talk show has been etched in stone since the era of Johnny Carson, and only a few have tried to break that formula. Chevy Chase took a stab at it with his ill-fated "The Chevy Chase Show" that flamed out after only six weeks on the air. Conan O'Brien was able to last a lot longer than anyone expected when he first got the job by breaking all the rules of late-night, which has helped him find a new life through his YouTube channel and podcast empire. Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert has leaned into the format's archetype by playing the part of the TV showman, albeit with a geekier side than anyone before him.

That's what made Craig Ferguson's run as the host of "The Late Late Show" so remarkable. His tenure was marked by both his manic, horndog energy and his candor, with a...

In 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief on HBO, along with Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg.

In 2005 he joined Jay Leno and many others in signing a Harley Davidson that was auctioned to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief.

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Billy Crystal has supported the following charities:

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Joe Epperson, the three-time Emmy-nominated camera operator who had long stints on All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Full House and The Tonight Show, has died. He was 80.

Epperson died Saturday of cardiac arrest at Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, his wife of 58 years, Patty Epperson, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in and out of the hospital and rehab since April 29 when his appendix burst.

Known for his skill with hand-held cameras, Epperson in 1981 shot from the Roxy in West Hollywood The Pee-wee Herman Show, which ran on HBO and put Paul Reubens and his hilarious alter ego on the map.

He also trained his lens on Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. over three nights at the Fox Theatre in Detroit for a 1989 Showtime special and worked on the James Keach-directed Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, the 2014 documentary that followed...