David Letterman is remembering Peter Lassally as a heroic figure whose influence extended far beyond late-night television. “Any retelling of Peter Lassally’s life will be heroic,” Letterman wrote in ...

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The Daily Show' marked its 30th anniversary Wednesday night with a 16-minute highlights package spanning three decades of ...

Thirty years ago today, on July 22, 1996, The Daily Show aired its first episode. To mark the anniversary, LateNighter editor at large Bill Carter has traced the Comedy Central series’ remarkable ...

The Daily Show is going vertical. Comedy Central announced Tuesday that the late-night franchise is producing its first microdrama, a serialized political soap opera made for the short, vertically ...

Turns out there was even more to Bill Maher’s twisty road to the Mark Twain Prize than we knew. Maher was first informed he’d receive the prize months before it was publicly reported—and Donald Trump ...

Thirty years ago this week, on July 22, 1996, The Daily Show aired its first episode. To mark Wednesday’s 30th anniversary, LateNighter editor at large Bill Carter is tracing the Comedy Central series ...

Peter Lassally, the legendary late-night producer who died Sunday at age 93, spent decades producing the medium’s most famous hosts—but he made only one appearance on the other side of a late-night ...

The most impactful producer in the history of late-night television died Sunday in Los Angeles. One of the kindest, most generous and most revered men in the history of show business also passed away.

Days after Chloe Fineman announced her departure from Saturday Night Live, Netflix has officially revealed her next major television role. Fineman will be a series regular on Myron Bolitar, Netflix’s ...