The 'Last Week Tonight' host also sounds off on Stephen Colbert's "horrible, horrible" news and the future of the format.

The former "Tonight Show" host says his peers fail to appeal to the "whole audience." What world does he live in?

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She and Colbert’s other 1.9 million nightly idolaters are pathetic. They have no idea how poorly their hero compares to great late-night stars like Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and David Letterman.

This one — before I got off track — was about how much fun late-night TV used to be before Carson, Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and Arsenio Hall all stepped away and were eventually ...

But experts caution that there’s a vast gulf between making people laugh and truly mastering the nuances of human humor.

“You know, we had people like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and Letterman, they were given a real big platform to succeed,” Carr said, ignoring the fact that every late-night show in history has ...

As a millennial, I grew up in an era when late-night television transitioned from being funny to being political. This transition made late-night TV unfunny. Jay Leno and David Letterman were ...

Two things can simultaneously be true. Latenight television is not the mint it was during the Johnny Carson era, or when Jay Leno and David Letterman were battling it out in the ratings.

Letterman had every expectation—and a laughably small financial guarantee—that he would succeed Carson on Tonight. But he was ultimately outplayed by a comedy club colleague—and the most frequent ...

Known as the "Prince of Darkness," the lead singer of the massively influential rock band Black Sabbath, Osbourne reached ...

While the late-night television landscape of the ‘90s and early aughts will always be remembered for the bitter wars between Jay Leno and David Letterman—then Leno and Conan O’Brien—today ...