Bill Carter
Contributor at The New York Times
Editor-at-Large at LateNighter
Author of 4 books including The Late Shift+ War for Late Night. NYT Media reporter for 25+ yrs. Exec Prod of doc series "Story of Late Night"
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3 days ago |
latenighter.com | Bill Carter
Historically, television sitcoms have tended to depend on attitude, not verisimilitude. At the moment however, there is a popular TV comedy that’s taking a serious—or at least semi-serious—run at capturing what it’s like to put on a late-night television show in this challenged era of linear TV. The show is Hacks, the Max series that has already won three Emmy Awards for its star, Jean Smart.
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6 days ago |
latenighter.com | Bill Carter
This is the way it used to go: A producer from one of the late-night shows would hear positive buzz about a hot young comic, they’d check them out at a club in New York or L.A., and, if impressed, that would result in a booking. Maybe, after several appearances (or, in the case of some transcendent talent like David Letterman, one appearance), the comic would be identified as host material, which could result in some kind of “holding deal,” tying the talent to a network until a slot opened up.
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1 week ago |
latenighter.com | Bill Carter
No matter what anyone of any persuasion thinks of the idea of a late-night host breaking bread with an often-monologue-reviled President, Bill Maher’s retelling of his recent White House tete-a-tete with Donald Trump on Friday night’s Real Time was much funnier than My Dinner with Andre.
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3 weeks ago |
latenighter.com | Bill Carter |Mark Malkoff
Think of all we would miss, all the funny, witty moments, all the extraordinary talent that would never be on display if we didn’t have late-night talk shows. I’m not talking about the hosts. I’m talking about the guests. Not the giddy new stars trying to project personality, even if they don’t have one. And not the megastars doing their pro-forma appearances because it’s in their contracts to do so.
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3 weeks ago |
latenighter.com | Bill Carter |Mark Malkoff
If you’re a comic, especially if you’re a talented comic, you don’t back down when someone tries to shut you up. Amber Ruffin is a talented comic. And Monday night, making a drop-in appearance with Seth Meyers (for whom she’s been a writer since he started on NBC’s Late Night eleven years ago), Ruffin stepped out and spoke up—not just against the President of United States but also the journalists who cover him.
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Re Easter msg from POTUS. Almost nothing made of it. “Trump being Trump.” But previous President was besieged w q’s abt his mental acuity-not illegitimately. Why has not a deranged shriek of paranoia-as EASTER msg!-not initiated similar legit Q’s abt this guy’s mental stability?
This one is obvious. What he said-no, of course-would leave situation status quo. Trumpists say lying; supporters say he’s pleading not guilty. Principle wouldn’t change. No due process. The q is irrelevant. SC ruled: unAmerican treatment. Now Admin fakes tattoo. What’s that say?
He admitted he didn’t even ask him the question. Very odd.
As farce.
@JamesFLoveIV History repeats itself.
