He popularized the monologue, which is still key to most late-night shows today, and was a hugely inspirational figure for those who followed, particularly for David Letterman and Jay Leno, who battled it out to take his seat behind the desk. Carson hosted The Tonight Show for 30 years and is indisputably the king of the genre. The series begins with Allen, whose zany spontaneity turns The Tonight Show into an unexpected hit and who was followed by Jack Paar, who similarly shook up the genre, although he may be best known for storming off the set after the network cut a joke about a water closet (aka toilet). That’s a really unique and interesting story, and by looking at the historical context, not by dwelling on it, it helps us explore things, important issues in America across time and how we laugh at things, and how that has changed and how we’ve turned to these amazing hosts in this format that has become amazingly resilient and reliable, and what it means to America from the times of Robert Kennedy’s killing to Covid.” “It’s the story of America and what we laugh at, how we laugh at it, how this amazingly organic American art form came to be.
He stressed that the team wanted to make a deep-dive documentary rather than just a clip show of the funniest late-night bits. “This was a project that was very much in the entertainment space, but my background being in historical docudramas gave me a lens to focus on the importance of entertainment to illuminate American culture,” he told Deadline. John Ealer, who has worked on series including The Men Who Built America and The Making Of The Mob, signed on as showrunner and director. Late-Night Laughs: Digital Platforms Twitch & Clubhouse Look To Disrupt Traditional Talk Show WorldĬarter is currently a CNN contributor and his involvement helped Cream Productions, the Toronto-based production company behind CNN’s History of Sitcom and Netflix’s Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan.
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