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The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)

The Late Late Show
Late Late Show With James Corden Logo.png
Created by David Letterman
Peter Lassally
Presented by
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 777 (under Snyder)
1,190 (under Kilborn)
2,058 (under Ferguson)
124 (under guest hosts, total)
294 (under Corden)
Total: 4,161
Production
Location(s) CBS Television City
Los Angeles, California
Production company(s)
Release
Original network CBS
Picture format
Original release January 9, 1995 (1995-01-09) – present (present)
Chronology
Preceded by Crimetime After Primetime
Related shows Late Show
External links
Website

The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It first aired in January 1995, with host Tom Snyder, followed by Craig Kilborn and Craig Ferguson. It is currently hosted by James Corden. The show originates from CBS Television City in Los Angeles.

The show differed from most of the other extant late-night talk shows during its first two decades on air in that it did not use a house band or an in-studio announcer. The traditional opening monologue also tended to be different from that of other late night shows tending to avoid jokes with punch lines during Snyder and Ferguson's tenures in favour of a short conversational introduction when Snyder was host and a cold opening featuring either a musical parody, audience interaction, a short sketch or interaction between Ferguson and Geoff Peterson followed by an anecdotal stream of consciousness introduction during most of Ferguson's years. While Craig Kilborn opened with a monologue it tended to be shorter than that used by other late shows. Corden's approach to the monologue has been a hybrid of topical punchline jokes and a stream of consciousness, although it is usually very short, as the show tends to favor longer recorded sections.

Tom Snyder hosted the program from its inception in January 1995 until March 1999. The choice of Snyder as host was made by David Letterman, whose contract with CBS gave him (via production company Worldwide Pants) the power to produce the show in the timeslot immediately after his own program and who had an affinity for Snyder, whose NBC late night series Tomorrow had been succeeded by Late Night with David Letterman. The time slot on CBS previously carried repeats of Crimetime After Primetime. Snyder departed CNBC to host the Late Late Show on CBS.


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