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Hours after Joe Biden announced that California junior Senator Kamala Harris would be his running mate for the 2020 presidential election, late night hosts shared their opinions on the news. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah both noted Harris’ historical nomination, noting that she is…

Bryan Cranston recalled his experience with coronavirus with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Monday. He told Fallon he and his wife contracted the virus in March, around the same time Tom and Rita Wilson revealed they had tested positive, but kept his diagnosis quiet because “there was no need for another celebrity…

Jimmy Fallon called him “the king of New York,” and Seth Meyers said he was “as great a TV host as we’re ever likely to see,” as the late night hosts paid tribute to Regis Philbin. Philbin, who died July 24 of natural causes at 88, was described by Meyers of NBC’s Late Night as the same person both on and off the…

David Schimmer offered an update on the postponed Friends’ Reunion Special on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. He said HBO Max is planning a production start date sometime in August for the special, which has been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "It's supposed to happen maybe in August, the…

The Tonight Show returned to the studio tonight with Jimmy Fallon kicking off with an emotional message to viewers. Fallon, sitting on a stool in the middle of the studio, rather than behind the traditional desk, and dressed in a sweater and sneakers rather that his usual suit, said that "any type of normalcy feels…

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Fallon has become the first late-night host to get back to the studio as The Tonight Show returns to 30 Rock. Fallon returned to a modified Studio 6A to film tonight’s episode of NBC late-night show and he and the show’s house band The Roots will continue to film in the New York studio with a limited…

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical Hamilton has made its debut on Disney+ and it is causing a stir on social media. Ava DuVernay is among those applauding the musical Friday, reflecting back on her 2015 tweet when she first saw it, saying she was “dazzled” by the production. “Throwback to my first tweet about…

Don Cheadle opened up about his past experiences with police and discrimination during a virtual visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday. The Black Monday and House of Lies star told Fallon he has been stopped by police “more times than I can count” and had been taught from a young age how to handle…

Spike Lee talked with Jimmy Fallon about police brutality and how things have changed (or have not) since his 1989 film Do The Right Thing in an appearance on The Tonight Show Monday. In response to the death of George Floyd, Lee had released a short film, Will History Stop Repeating Itself?, that intersperses footage…

In times of national crisis, many Americans turn to late-night television to help understand and process what's going on. Late-night has a history of summing up the mood of the nation, from Harry Belafonte interviewing Martin Luther King during the riots of 1968 when he guest-hosted The Tonight Show, through to…

Jimmy Fallon returned to The Tonight Show on Monday after a week off. He was expected to address the Memorial Day death of George Floyd and the massive protests that it triggered. But Fallon started off his first original episode in 11 days with a personal message before weighing in on the new wound in the nation’s…

Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday after a Saturday Night Live skit that aired 20 years ago resurfaced featuring him appearing in blackface to impersonate fellow former SNL cast member Chris Rock. The video made the rounds on social media over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, sending the hashtag…