You have to give Jimmy Fallon credit for one thing: He has pretty great taste in music. The house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," which premiered Monday night on NBC, is the outstanding Philadelphia hip-hop/R&B band the Roots. Closing out Fallon's jittery first show was th...

Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free There's been a lot of talk about Conan taking over for Jay on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon taking over the 12:35 slot and ABC possibly canceling Nightline and moving Jimmy Kimmel to 11:35 and Jay moving to 10pm...

Former governor Rod Blagojevich's ongoing talk-show tour brought him to David Letterman's couch Tuesday. An audio recording and a transcript of Blagojevich's appearance, which was taped in the early evening in New York, was provided by CBS. The former governor's appearance on "T...

Comedy writers have found it notably difficult to wring much comedy from the rise of President-elect Barack Obama. Regarding the scandal involving Illinois' governor -- well, that's supplied far more fodder for everyone from writers at the Onion to late-night TV hosts. Here are just a couple of rece...

You can look at NBC's decision to hand over five hours of its primetime schedule to Jay Leno as a canny, forward-thinking decision. Or you can regard the move, which NBC made official at a press conference on Tuesday, as a Hail Mary pass from a desperate network hobbled by years of questionable deci...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Talk Show, Reality-Free Next year marks a changing of the guard for Conan O'Brien from Late Night to The Tonight Show. It'll be an easy transition for the fair-skinned one since he's already got a recipe for success: a die-hard audience, smart and inventi...

Greg Gutfeld hosts this crazy show on Fox News at 3 a.m. every night called Red Eye. Gutfeld, who we are pretty sure used to be funny, albeit in a winky fratty way, usually just tries to rile up and offend liberals while putting his friends on the air, but it's 3 a.m. so no one is watching to even g...

"Hey, Conan O'Brien is on tonight," Jay Leno reminded his audience, midway through his monologue Thursday, adding, "Hey, is it '09 already?" It was the only mention of the impending "Tonight" takeover by the host of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" that comes i...

Could the party be over for the big social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo? Last month it emerged Facebook had suffered a 5% drop in members since December, according to Nielsen Online, the web analyst. And in the case of Bebo, which was bought last week by AOL for £425m [nearly $1 bill...

What a bad week for Bill Maher to be off. After a week tailor made for his humor -- the New York governor resigns after a tryst with a high-end prostitute -- here was an episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" in a wrong time: from way back, Super Tuesday week, where his first jokes were ab...