Talk Shows

Talk Shows

The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, and Jay Leno.

Late Night With David Letterman.

Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning American late-night talk show on NBC. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after previous host David Letterman moved to CBS to host the Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. The show features varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy performances. Late Night airs weeknights at 12:37 a.m. Eastern / 11:37 p.m. Central in the United States.

O'Brien's show originated as a replacement for Late Night with David Letterman. For the first seven years of the show, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's comedy sidekick, but since then O'Brien has been the show's sole featured performer. The show's house band is The Max Weinberg 7, led by drummer Max Weinberg.

O'Brien is currently scheduled to leave Late Night in 2009 to replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. On April 24, 2008, Fox News reported that Jimmy Fallon has been selected to replace O'Brien in 2009. Fallon selected Lorne Michaels, from SNL, as producer. Fallon must still select a band for the show.









I enjoy talk shows like The Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno







I enjoy watching Conan O'Brien and Craig Ferguson too.

Can you imagine if you could get all the talk show hosts together in one big livingroom for a chat.

You might not get a word in but you would be laughing non-stop because even though you can learn to be funny it helps if you have a natural sense of humor to go with the knowledge.

See their individual pages to see learn more about them.

I have a page for Letterman, Leno, and Ferguson.......I think I have a page on O'Brien ......why don't you check and tell me if I do. Click on the links below to learn more....









David Letterman

Jay Leno

Craig Ferguson



Talk/Chat show

A talk show (American) or chat show (Global) is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a host. Sometimes, these shows feature a panel of guests, usually consisting of a group of people who are learned or who have great experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts. A call-in show takes live phonecalls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc.











Genres

Television talk shows often feature celebrity guests who talk about their work and personal lives as well as the their latest films, TV shows, music recordings or other projects they'd like to promote to the public. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues.

Talk-radio host Howard Stern also hosted a show that was syndicated nationally, then moved to satellite radio's Sirius. The tabloid show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue but popularized by Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century.

Politics are hardly the only subject of American shows, however. Other radio talk show subjects include Car Talk hosted by NPR and Coast to Coast AM hosted by Art Bell and George Noory which discusses topics of the paranormal, conspiracy theories, fringe science and the just plain weird. Sports shows are also very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellerman's original public access show Max on Boxing.









History

Talk shows have been broadcast on television since the earliest days of the medium. Late night shows are among the oldest, the oldest of which is RTÉ's The Late Late Show. Current late night shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Show with David Letterman have aired for years, featuring celebrity guests and comedy sketches. TV news pioneer Edward R. Murrow hosted a show entitled Small World in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on Sunday mornings.

Syndicated daily shows range from tabloid shows, such as The Jerry Springer Show to celebrity interview shows like Ellen to industry leader The Oprah Winfrey Show which popularized the former genre and has been evolving towards the latter.

Syndicated daily shows began to gain more popularity during the mid-1970's and reached their height of with the rise of the tabloid show. Morning shows gradually replaced earlier forms of programming - there were a plethora of morning game shows during the 1960's and early to mid-1970's, and some stations formerly showed a morning movie in the time slot that many shows now occupy.

Shows have more recently started to appear on Internet Radio. Also, several internet blogs are in talk show format including the Baugh Experience.

The Guinness world record of 33 hours for longest show was broken in 28 August 2007 by Davor Dretar Drele and Kristijan Petroviæ - Kiky in Varaždin, Croatia during the Špancir festival. The show lasted for 35 hours.