Favourite Late Night Talk Show/Host

Jonathon Ross.

I'd rather be a victim in a real life version of Hostel than sit through 2 hours of Tubirdy on the LLS.

Jay Leno was the best going by ratings...but his brand of humor was just really lame and inoffensive. Which is surprising because he's regarded as an amazing Stand Up Comedian. He was apparently cutting edge as a nightclub comic then he sold out...which Bill Hicks killed him for.

Jimmy Fallon seems like a nice guy...James Corden is just terrible...but both Jimmy Fallon and James Corden are like Leno. Awful inoffensive humor to appeal to the old and tepid. They lack character. They come across as very fake and uninteresting. They are lucky they have talented writers that pitch ideas that get them millions of views.

Which brings me to Jimmy Kimmel...who actually does seem like a nice guy and is an interesting person. He lead the way for Corden and Fallon...the whole, viral video brigade. Personally, I don't like it much. Kimmel is lacking compared to Conan when it comes to being a funny person but I appreciate him more than James and Jimmy Fallon. At least when he was doing the viral thing, it was unique.

I liked Craig Ferguson but to me he was also pretty inoffensive. He seemed to go off the cuff more often than not. That was great to watch but he wouldn't have been my favorite. That stupid Skeleton gimmick was so crap and he stuck with it until the end.

George Lopez was actually pretty good at the interviewing part of the job. The fact he was Hispanic at least set him a part. Unfortunately, he played on it too much but I'd bet that's why he was hired in the first place.

Letterman use to be pretty good in the 90's. Then you could see him just lose interest then something great happened around the mid 00's. He decided to not hide that he lost interest. You'd tune in to the shows with the guest you knew he didn't care for because he'd spent the 15 minutes slighting them. It was fun to watch.

If you look back at Johnny Carsons stuff he was pretty amazing but only because he was like Frank Sinatra. Just the coolest guy in the room.

Tom Snyder was actually great at interviewing. I thought Larry King was a great interviewer too.

I like Graham Norton because he has a unique personality. I like him a lot more than Alan Carr. Norton's set and overall presentation is very different too. He doesn't have much in the way of comedic delivery in the job but he's still fun to watch.

Ryan Tubirdy is just awful. I actually don't mind him on the radio but on TV it's like he cranks up his uptightness.

Ross is great. I like him in most things he's done. He's unique, great character and he's actually very funny. Sometimes he makes himself the star, which takes away a little bit but maybe that's part of his skill. He can sense a stinker of a guest and takes the spotlight onto himself a little bit.

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Agree with RedemptionZ, Fallon is a very safe choice. I'm not a fan of James Corden's comedy and Bill Maher strikes me as an incredibly smug bastard.

That's because he is one. He has become the wet dream of every neoconservative buffoon in the US. Amazing stand up comedian in terms of delivery and timing, but a typical bitter bachelor.

Aidric wrote: »

I like Jimmy Fallon a lot, doesn't have any pretenses about him and a good interviewer. Good house band too.

He also likes a good sniff judging by this interview. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tootd54-W0

In his defense, and these are just rumors, it's been said that lots of SNL cast members do cocaine, so he's not really an exception.

My vote would be for Jimmy Kimmel simply because I think he's the funniest one. Very sharp guy. Terrible stand up though.

For me, it's Conan, though he is long past his best, if you ask me. To be honest, it's difficult compare a lot of these guys as they all do different things well. Graham Norton is great but has the advantage of only being on once a week and for a much shorter period of time. The fake news guys are also doing something completely different again and I think the standard is very high amongst them.

John Oliver's been knocking it out of the park weekly on Last Week Tonight. It's weird for me because I saw him on Mock The Week many years ago, and have been listening to The Bugle podcast for at least 5 years now, his career just ticking over as The Daily Show's "UK Correspondent". A couple of months filling in for Jon Stewart, and suddenly he's got his own show and making a real impact.

It might be easy to dismiss Oliver's impact as a fleeting traffic grab by digital media sites — and maybe on some level it is — but he's having a real impact on the issues. His rant about "cable company ****ery" — more commonly known as net neutrality — stands as one of his earliest online hits. It also caused a deluge of comments to the website of the Federal Communications Commission thanks to his plea for trolls to direct their awfulness at the regulator.

The FCC went on to impose the strongest net neutrality rules to date.

Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that Oliver's net neutrality segment gave an important boost to the people who had already been working on the issue, in part because he made a strong call to action.

"He not only informs people, he often really lets folks know that if you care about this, here's where to go, here's what to do," she said. "It's very hard to get people to get excited about net neutrality because everyone just starts falling asleep immediately. I think John Oliver's genius is to take stuff like that and help people understand why it's important."