The Late Late Late Late Night Shows

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palo5,

Originally Posted by palo5

The trouble is, I mostly have no clue who or what he's talking about

Colbert is kind of an acquired taste (maybe like a fine wine) and sometimes hard for a lot of people to figure out. In fact, when he first started out with his own show (he was on The Daily Show prior), conservatives "thought" they liked him as they "thought" he was a conservative. So they had him emcee one of their primary functions. Which didn't go over very well. Forgot where this occurred.

The Colbert you see on screen is a part he plays, apparently not his actual personality. The character he plays is, basically, a combination of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Lumpbaugh and several other authoritarian conservative personalities.

So it does take a while to understand what he's up to. Hope that helps a little bit.

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

I've watched that on our Comedy Channel
As for Letterman.... I couldn't handle him, seemed way way too scripted.


We had a show here in the later 80's and early 90's, Clive Robertson, Newsworld



It was supposed too be the late night news edition... But he turned it into something else. He made it look like he didn't even want too be there and it was a major chore Very often he'd use facial expressions and sarcastic comments on serious and not so serious news events. It was brilliant

Lets be honest Australia has never had a late night TV host to rival the best of the US networks

I'd think even our best might be equal to the chevy chase disaster of a show


Doug Mulray straight from radio might have got the gong if not hung out to dry with a 9pm
slot from memory and 9's Mick Molloy and friends disaster typical of free to air networks grasping for straws.

Doug Mulray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUaTrvdDdk

Tony Martin on the Mick Molloy Show (show lasted 8 weeks)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mick_Molloy_Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJmZ6cPRT8

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by buttsie

Lets be honest Australia has never had a late night TV host to rival the best of the US networks

You're right, Most attempts have been crappy. Remember Steve Vizards complete David Letterman Rip Off

But, though not strictly late night, think it came on at 9 30 or 10 pm....The Panel was great But that team has never done anything bad

[palo5]

We get US late night shows, but no one I know realizes they're at least a week late. They could probably be a year late, and they still wouldn't know

Almost no one knows who they're talking about either (including me). If you ask someone about say, Donald Trump, they ask "You mean the TV Presenter?"

[winebeavis]

I usually think of Donald Trump as the only casino owner ever who went bankrupt.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

My Favorite by far



Late Night With Conan O'Brien

This was also "my favorite by far"! I'd say Conan's peak was from 1996-2004 or so although he was always good in the 12:35 time slot. Unfortunately, he became a sterilized version of himself when he got The Tonight Show gig. He also seems to have a hands off policy on Barack Obama.

I'm indifferent to the other hosts because I never watched them and for the last few years I've noticed I need more rest and have been retiring earlier or if I do have the energy I'd rather do something else.

[mizlaplan]

The James Whale Radio Show.
In the UK back in days of yore, when TVs were CRT, this was the sh*t
James has his own thread:
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t11...mes-whale.html

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

You're right, Most attempts have been crappy. Remember Steve Vizards complete David Letterman Rip Off

But, though not strictly late night, think it came on at 9 30 or 10 pm....The Panel was great But that team has never done anything bad

Another lawyer turned comedian who got exposed as a crook recently

Funny guy on fast forward which led to that show

Fast Forward - Kung Fu Parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Y-tIJ370
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...d+vizard&sm=12


I totally forgot about our American import Don lane with his side kick
Bert Newton - maybe I should forget again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUds-hFqhlg

As bad as we were at late night shows there was late in the peace

Graham Kennedy Coast to Coast favourites (from a TV Special)
15minutes (politically incorrect in many places) (quite ironic that Graham is gay as it getsthis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJ1zZY8mdo


He hosted this gameshow Australian TV "Blankety Blanks

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...+Blanks+&sm=12

[SanteeFats]

No one mentioned the Ferguson. I think Craig's show is fresh, irreverent, and usually but not always very funny. Now I must admit that I only came across him about a year ago and I am sorry I missed all the years prior. Plus most of the posters here seem to be from the UK and you don't watch him or maybe you don't get him?
I forgot to mention the name of his show here- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

[ubu55]

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

No one mentioned the Ferguson. I think Craig's show is fresh, irreverent, and usually but not always very funny. Now I must admit that I only came across him about a year ago and I am sorry I missed all the years prior. Plus most of the posters here seem to be from the UK and you don't watch him or maybe you don't get him?

My current favorite!
Though much depends on his guests, specifically young women, who often really light up when they're with him.
Gets terrific, playful, responses from Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Rashida Jones, and the sweetly unaffected Ariel Tweto.
Week in Paris a fun break, especially dinners with Bell and Jean Reno. The Scotland shows had their moments, but were often, IMO, a slog.
Love dancing with the panto-horse & female staffers at the opening of the interview segment. Fun moment: after winning the $50 in singles, Jim Parsons getting up & tossing all of the bills to the audience.

Letterman was once by far (IMO) the most original and interesting thing on late night. Stupid Pet & Human Tricks; jumping at the Velcro wall in his matching coveralls; off-the-wall visitors: Brother Theodore, Pee Wee Herman before he had his own show. Occasionally MEAN interviews with the mainstream guests (Cher once called him an asshole, on air).
Surprising, frequently innovative, often discomfiting... very seldom dull.
These days everything Dave does seems like it came out of a rusty, bulging tin can... opened with a hisssss, long past it's expiration date.

Dick Cavett had consistently the best guests of any show, for his time, I can remember: Groucho, John Huston, Bette Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Orson Welles, John & Yoko, Hitchcock, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Burgess, "Bear" Bryant, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox (who walked out), George Harrison, Janis Joplin, Jerzy Kosinski, John Gielgud, Jonathan Miller, Marc Connelly, Robert Hughes, Stephen Spender, Alice Coltrane & Rasaan Roland Kirk, Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni, Germaine Greer, Masters & Johnson, Ray Bradbury, Alberta Hunter, Billy Wilder, Arthur Miller, Fellini & Mastroianni, G. Gordon Liddy, Ingrid Bergman, Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Luc Goddard, Joseph Heller, Phil Silvers, Alan Ginsberg...
Best interviewer of them all, perhaps... though he did tend to fawn a lot.