USA Up All Night
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| Also known as | ''Up All Night Up All Night with Rhonda Shear'' |
| Genre |
Variety Sketch comedy |
| Created by | Marty Byk |
| Written by | Alex Bernstein Trace Burroughs Marty Byk Tim Conway, Jr. Michael Eisenbaum Bob Hilgenberg Rob Muir Angela Muto Billy Romary Tim Maile Caroline Schlitt |
| Directed by | Marty Byk Lou Chagaris Michael Eisenbaum Kerry-Ellen Meehan Brad Kriesberg |
| Presented by |
Gilbert Gottfried (1989–1998) Caroline Schlitt (1989–1990) Rhonda Shear (1991–1998) |
| Composer(s) | Edd Kalehoff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 900+ |
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| Producer(s) | Antoinette Ribisi |
| Location(s) | New York City (1989–1998) Los Angeles (1989–1995) |
| Running time | 240–360 minutes |
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| Original network | USA Network |
| Original release | January 7, 1989– March 7, 1998 |
USA Up All Night (also known as Up All Night and Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) is an American cable television series that aired weekly on Friday and Saturday nights on the USA Network. The show aired from 1989 to 1998.
The program consisted of low-budget films, bookended by in-studio or on-location comedy skits featuring the show's hosts. In addition to skits, the hosts would also provide sardonic comments about the featured film(s), and observations on various Hollywood- and/or New York City-area clubs and attractions (when the series was shooting out of studio). Including commercials, the program typically ran from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The movies aired ranged from cult classics, to B movies, to other fare not appearing on television frequently. Up All Night would regularly show sexploitation films, with the explicit content edited out.
The series began on January 7, 1989 with comic Gilbert Gottfried hosting on Saturdays from New York City. Halfway through the first season, a Friday night show broadcast from Los Angeles hosted by actress/comedian Caroline Schlitt (fresh off of the short-lived Camp Midnite) was added. When Schlitt left the program in December 1990, comedian/B-movie actress Rhonda Shear replaced her on Fridays, beginning on January 4, 1991. In 1995, the Shear edition moved to New York City (home of the Gottfried edition), and stayed there for the remainder of the run.
Originally, the show aired at 11 p.m. on Saturdays, and featured two movies (with in-studio or on-location comedy skits in between), which were then followed by a repeat of the first movie. When the Friday night edition was added in mid-1989, the format now consisted of three different movies, with the third one being unhosted (the bumpers for the third movie were simply narrated by the host, depending on the edition). Some episodes did not have a "third" movie. The Friday show originally began at midnight and ran until 6 a.m.; in July 1991, it was changed to the same time as the Saturday edition. In December 1994, the format was changed slightly to incorporate Duckman into the 11:00 p.m. timeslot, prior to the first movie. This trend of incorporating Duckman into the show continued on occasion until September 1997.
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