The Tonight Show

Monday's Late-Night Joke Roundup: Bush, Blago, CNN And More (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.06.2009 | Media


The first full week of the new year started off with all the late-night shows back with new episodes. From Conan to Colbert to Leno, Letterman and The...

Conan's "Tonight Show" Moving Studios

NY Post | Posted 01.05.2009 | Entertainment


WHEN Conan O'Brien takes over the "To night Show" in June, it will be the first time in nearly 40 years that the show will get a new home. Conan is ...

Scarlett Johansson Puts Her Snot On eBay (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment


Scarlett Johansson showed up on Leno Wednesday with a bad cold she says she caught from "The Spirit" costar Samuel L. Jackson. With a nasal voice an...

Wanda Sykes: "There's Gonna Be Some Booty-Slapping" In The White House

Huffington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment


Comedian Wanda Sykes (crudely) talked about her excitement for the Obama White House - and the sex she is sure they have - on "The Tonight Show" Wedne...

Five Reasons NBC's Leno Move Is Brilliant

Lee Stranahan | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment


Lee Stranahan

Moving Leno to Conan's early lead-in will create a stronger Conan Tonight Show by allowing him the breathing room to adjust to the earlier time slot and build his own audience.

Brian Williams On "Meet The Press" Host: "I Have No Idea"

Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media


Brian Williams appeared on Thursday night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and played ignorant about the "Meet the Press" succession selection. Leno: Now...

David Brenner at Zanies: "This is What Comedy Was Meant to Do"

Donald Liebenson | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago


Donald Liebenson

Name a comedy personage, and Brenner likely has a story about him. Steve Martin credits Brenner with advising him how to make the transition from opening act to headliner.

Donald Trump Bailing Out Ed McMahon: It Only Encourages More Millionaires to be Wastrels

Michael Russnow | Posted 08.15.2008 | Business


Michael Russnow

If Donald Trump is so concerned about the woes of his fellow man or woman, why stick only to those whose names he recognizes?

Did John Edwards Meet Rielle Hunter On March 20th?

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics


Lee Stranahan

Last night, National Enquirer Editor David Perel dropped another bombshell -- that Edwards has had three meetings with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

Ed McMahon's Money Problems: Should We Really Care About Millionaires in Financial Distress?

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.31.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

Is his bad luck a legitimate news story? Yes. But the real question is why he has not been lambasted for stupid behavior.

Arianna On Leno: Live Backstage Streaming Updates (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


Arianna was a guest on Wednesday night's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, and she took a camera with her. Throughout the afternoon and evening, she s...

Johnny Come Late-Nightly

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.

Sherri Shepherd Jokes About Diabetes And Amputation, Says Dieting Is Like Sex With No Orgasm

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media


The View's Sherri Shepherd was on "The Tonight Show" last night. After caressing fellow guest David Beckham — and prompting Jay Leno to remind h...

Miley Cyrus Drinks Ketchup

Huffington Post | Posted 02.28.2008 | Entertainment


Heinz 57 picked up a celebrity endorsement on "The Tonight Show" Wednesday night when teen superstar Miley Cyrus told Jay Leno how much she enjoyed ke...

Leno Facing Heat Over Against-The-Rules Monologue

AP | David Bauder | Posted 01.04.2008 | Media


Jay Leno kept the jokes coming his second night back on the air, even as the striking writers union and his network sparred over whether he was violat...

Free Ride Over For Candidates As Late Night Shows Set To Return

AP | Jocelyn Noveck | Posted 12.24.2007 | Media


Attention, presidential candidates: Not to disrupt your holiday plans, but if you have any cringe-inducing mistakes, insensitive jokes or outright hyp...

Report: Late Nighters Eye January Comeback

Variety | Josef Adalian | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media


With latenight ratings continuing to plunge, the betting in network circles is that several hosts will be back on the air by Jan. 7, if not sooner. N...

Nightline Beats Leno, Letterman For First Time Since Katrina

New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media


For the first time since Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the news airwaves two years ago -- and, for that matter, for the first time since Ted Koppel re...

Tonight Show Staffers Laid Off, But Leno Will Cover Their Salaries

The Hollywood Reporter | Paul Bond | Posted 12.02.2007 | Media


Jay Leno will pay out of his pocket the salaries of some 80 staffers of "The Tonight Show" who were laid off on Friday for at least the next week, a s...

Tonight Show Lays Off 120 Staffers

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 11.30.2007 | Media


Nonwriting staff members of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" became the latest casualties of the four-week Hollywood writers strike when they were lai...

NBC To Lay Off Leno's Entire Non-Writing Staff Next Week

Broadcasting & Cable | Ben Grossman | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media


NBC informed the nonwriting staff of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that it will be laid off at the end of next week in the wake of the show shutting ...

Halle Berry Apologizes For Edited Anti-Semitic Joke

Page Six | Posted 10.23.2007 | Entertainment


The Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie "Things We Lost in the Fire," was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her comp...

NBC To Sell Burbank Studios And Move

AP | Posted 10.11.2007 | Entertainment


NBC Universal plans to sell part of its site in "beautiful downtown Burbank," home to the studio housing "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," and move to...