Looking at the full picture, Conan emerges as the late night show that lends the biggest boost following an appearance, with Letterman trailing close behind.
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Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot.
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And what I want to say is this: between my time at "Saturday Night Live, " "The Late Night Show, " and my brief run here on the "Tonight Show, " I have worked with NBC for over 20 years.
In 1992, when Bill Clinton wanted to send a personal message to voters and provide them with a sense that he was different than his competitor, he went on the late night show Arsenio Hall and played the sax.
But while Fox brass have publicly stated their desire to find a successful five-night-a-week late-night show many times before, it's not clear how smooth (for contractual reasons) or appealing (for affiliates) hiring O'Brien would be.
It's true that women make up a majority of the audience for every network late-night show.
Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.
Obama will also appear on Jimmy Fallon's late night talk show Tuesday to pitch extending the lowered rates.
In addition to meeting the prime minister, Zuckerberg also made an appearance on a Russian late night talk show.
General Assembly, and also when he appeared on the CBS late night Letterman show and other media programs.
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Meyers is taking over NBC's "Late Night" show next year, although he is expected to return to SNL for season 39.
While many weekday late-night efforts have failed (see Fox's earlier attempts with Joan Rivers and Chevy Chase), a successful late-night show can mint millions for a network.
And bigger picture: their appearance on the late night talk show is a step towards raising the visibility and profile of the fast-growing, yet not-quite-mainstream, social media service.
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Mr. Leno, who has the top-rated late-night show, is 62.
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The late night talk show host cruises through suburban malls and other Southern California sites that attract tourists from around the nation, posing simple questions from American history to his victims.
Structurally, "The Muppets" is simple: Miss Piggy is the star of a late-night show, Kermit is her executive producer, and some assortment of available Henson characters, both new and old, are working behind the scenes.
Correspondents say NBC executives were concerned a rival late-night show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC network would make gains among the crucial younger audience if Fallon's move did not happen quickly.
Among total viewers, the NBC host-turned-industry pinata has managed to top Letterman, along with every other late night talk show host, when you look at the first six weeks of the TV season.
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In an era of salary slashing and other cost cuts, the network rationale is simple: Unlike a drama or comedy, which is typically story-driven and ensemble-based, the host of a late-night show is the draw.
In "Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host", Sanders finally tells the whole story of his rise to stardom, from his painful shyness as an emotionally abused child, through his struggle on the comedy club circuit, to his glorious success as the host of his own show.
Do you know that Tim Tebow has never hosted a late-night talk show in Denmark?
The other late-night shows show similar degrees of disconnect with Hispanics, although some can boast healthy black viewership.
However, critics have dismissed it as being too vague and it has become the butt of late-night talk show jokes.
If you want to target a narrow audience, find some late-night cable show that appeals to that group NOT the Super Bowl.
He also shot a pilot for a late-night talk show, Penthouse Vegas, which aired on 35 stations but never got picked up.
Stephen Colbert shut down his late-night comedy show this week for his ailing 91-year-old mother, sources close to the show said yesterday.
Late-night television show host Jay Leno will be replaced by presenter Jimmy Fallon on NBC's The Tonight Show, the US network has said.
The first lady visited the late-night talk show to promote "Let's Move, " her anti-childhood obesity campaign, which marked its third anniversary this month.
Ford Motor Co. enlisted late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon to choose road trip stories submitted by Twitter with the hashtag (hash)steerthescript to base its Super Bowl commercial for Lincoln.
"Mad Men" and "American Horror Story" lead this year's Emmy nominations with 17 nods apiece, while "Downton Abbey" and "Modern Family" round out the top of the pack -- plus a first-time nomination for Kimmel's own late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
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