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EXCLUSIVE: A lot has changed in late-night, in the media and in America in the 12 years since Jay Leno stopped being the host of The Tonight Show. For one thing, there is a new king of late-night, but he isn’t on TV. “I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show. Joe Rogan is the new…

Jon Stewart, a born and bred New Yorker, kicked off his Monday night installment of The Daily Show celebrating the momentous victory of the Knicks, shouting out sanitation workers and the community of NYC for coming together to celebrate the team’s triumph for the first time since…

As Knicks fever has taken over the world, the New York City home team is coming to late-night. Following the team’s first NBA Championship win in more than 50 years, they will appear on Monday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a special episode celebrating their unforgettable…

Jon Stewart has been on The Daily Show, excluding a nine year sabbatical in the middle, since 1999 and he's seen a lot. The comedian was leading an FYC panel in New York on the Comedy Central show and talked up how technological changes have both impacted how they put together the show and the…

Seth Meyers missed out taking a dunk on President Donald Trump after he fell asleep during the Knicks loss to the San Antonia Spurs the other night, but he opened his latest A Closer Look segment with another buzzer beater. The Late Night host mocked the fact that Trump missed the Knicks huge…

After the TV Academy merged the two major late-night Emmy categories earlier this year, it seems that things have shaken out just as expected with the number of nominations for the 2026 awards. Deadline understands that the Outstanding Variety Series category, which merges the previous…

Jonathan Scott, one of the stars of HGTV's Property Brothers franchise, is moving into the world of talk. The host, producer and construction contractor is developing a new syndicated daytime talk show with CBS Media Ventures. Better! With Jonathan Scott will film a pilot episode later this…

President Donald Trump received a chorus of boos during his attendance at game three of the NBA Finals as the New York Knicks took on the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden. Tonight, he also received a dunking from late-night hosts including The Daily Show's Desi Lydic and Jimmy…

Before attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs, Monday night Daily Show host Jon Stewart noted that the “excitement in New York is palpable” and that “almost everyone” is rooting for the city’s team. The political comic kicked off the episode by…

In just over a week, Julian Shapiro-Barnum is launching Outside Tonight, a late-night show that shares DNA with the likes of The Tonight Show, except it won't be airing anywhere near broadcast television. Shapiro-Barnum's show premieres on June 17 on YouTube. Oh, and his desk is…

John Oliver wasted no time getting into the headlines during the evening’s Last Week Tonight episode, addressing one of the big pieces of news over the weekend: the continuing fallout of CBS News’ ousting of longtime correspondent Scott Pelley. “CBS News fired Scott Pelley for the crime of…

For Rob Burnett, who worked alongside David Letterman for nearly three decades — including at The Late Show, from its inception — the May 21st conclusion of the late-night franchise stirred significant emotion. “I found myself being strangely emotional on Stephen [Colbert]’s last show. I didn’t…