Craig Kilborn, flanked by Daily Show co-creators Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead. (Photo: Madeleine Smithberg) Thirty years ago this week, on July 22, 1996, The Daily Show aired its first ...

Tiffany Haddish gave Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s summer guest-host rotation a strong start, while an all-repeat edition of Byron Allen's CBS late-night block posted gains across every half-hour.

The collapse of Bill Maher’s brief truce with Donald Trump was already public. Maher is now adding more detail, recalling a text in which he says the president angrily told him, “You’re still a ...

A Spanish-language ESPYs presentation from Marcello Hernández took an unexpected turn Wednesday night when Will Ferrell ...

Most everyone thought the taping was over. Colbert said no. There was one more act of the show, and nobody was to release the audience. McKenna had the rundown in his hand. Everything on it had been ...

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Jimmy Fallon kept viewers guessing until the final minutes of Tuesday night’s Tonight Show, when Phoebe Bridgers emerged as the program’s first-ever unannounced musical guest. Bridgers performed “Lost ...

It took Homer 12,000 lines to tell The Odyssey. It took The Tonight Show exactly one minute. On Wednesday night, midway through its weeklong takeover tied to Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The ...

Last Week Tonight accepts Outstanding Writing, Variety at the 77th Emmy Awards (Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS) One of late-night TV’s most prestigious Emmy categories may be presented outside the ...

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