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With the hosts Merv Griffin, Pat Sajak, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert, CBS has taken many runs at late-night TV. Some were more successful than others.
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The post Stephen Colbert wasn’t CBS’s first satirical sacrifice appeared first on Salon.com. A day after a controversial episode lambasting President Donald Trump, "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone played it cool at Comic-Con.
The late-night guys have zeroed in on Trump and Epstein's relationship in the wake of the Bondi news, which itself followed a report from the Wall Street Journal that the president had doodled a crude drawing of a woman inside a card for Epstein's 50th birthday.
The unexpected demise of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ isn’t the first late-night shift to send shockwaves through the TV industry.
The last time I watched late-night comedy via appointment viewing was, perhaps, Jay Leno in the 1990s. Erik A former Leno man. I liked the “Headlines” feature, what can I say? Alyssa Rosenberg I am basically elderly and never watched a late-night show in my life;
When CBS announced that it had hired Merv Griffin to host a late-night show beginning in 1969, the host's syndicated talk show, also called "The Merv Griffin Show," had been around for several years and was a successful staple on more than 140 stations.