By Laughspin Staff | March 14, 2013 at 3:33 pm | 4 comments
Last night, Jerry Seinfeld debuted four-and-a-half minutes of new material on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Among his Seinfeldian observations: Food and...Well, yeah, mostly food. Check it out and tell us what you think!
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 6, 2013 at 10:05 pm | 5 comments
Last weekend news broke that Jimmy Fallon would replace Jay Leno in 2014 as host of The Tonight Show and that NBC would make the announcement as early as May. Although the network denied the story in the Hollywood Reporter, who cited “two high-level industry insiders” and...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 2, 2013 at 1:07 pm | 11 comments
NBC will announce in May its plans to replace current Tonight Show host Jay Leno with the increasingly popular Jimmy Fallon. This, according to the Hollywood Reporter, who cite "two high-level industry insiders," despite NBC's denial and a rep for Leno who said, "we don't...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 5, 2013 at 12:20 pm | 3 comments
In yet another move to further cement his position as the number one douchebag in the United States, Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher for something the comedian said on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno one month ago.
Playing off Trump’s then-recent announcement that he would...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 3, 2013 at 3:20 pm | 3 comments
UPDATE: Jan. 7
Here's some more clips from the interview, which aired last night! In the videos below, Letterman talks about his battle with depression, apologizing to Justin Bieber for remarks he made about the young pop star, why he didn't get the Tonight Show gig, his open...
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By Laughspin Staff | November 5, 2012 at 12:08 pm | 3 comments
Ever since Barack Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House four years ago, politically minded comedians have attempted to adjust their focus to a president who is decidedly not the slow-moving target Bush was. And on the eve of election day, it seems Obama is still...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm | 7 comments
A few weeks ago, we learned 20 staffers were laid off from the Tonight Show and that Jay Leno took a “tremendous” pay cut in order to prevent additional employee cuts. And now we know just how “tremendous” that cut was: 50 percent! The Wall Street Journal today reports...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | August 22, 2012 at 11:39 am | No comments
As the only network that’s seen an increase in late night talk show viewership this year, ABC has, for good reason, a lot of confidence in Jimmy Kimmel. So much, in fact, they’re repositioning Jimmy Kimmel Live in their schedule so that it faces off directly against the...
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By Laughspin Staff | August 21, 2012 at 5:57 pm | No comments
On last night's Tonight Show, Jay Leno didn't hide from the fact that 20 staffers were laid off from the show on Friday. Instead, he opened his monologue with a series of quips about it. "Welcome to The Tonight Show, or as Comcast calls us, The Expendables!" Leno announced. "As...
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