When Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on ABC after a near-weeklong suspension, some cheered it as a triumph of free speech over the oppressive reach of government censorship. But I saw ...

Bill Scheft worked on David Letterman's late-night shows longer than many of their viewers had been on the planet — 24 years, or the second-longest tenure of any writer at CBS's "Late Show" or NBC's ...

Late night isn’t dead. Yet. But its future, which was never exactly bright, might be cratering. The hoary format’s downward slide has, up until this point, been comparatively slow, with advertising ...

Conan O’Brien, king of getting screwed over by the network, has seen the writing on the wall for a while. Speaking at his induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, O’Brien acknowledged the ...

The hosts’ monologues may feel especially pointed right now, but the trend really took off during the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq war. By Jason Zinoman Late-night talk shows weren’t ...

From Stephen Colbert's ending to Jimmy Kimmel's brief absence, 2025 was the year late night TV changed forever, even if it ...