Late-Night Wars? It’s All Quiet On Talk Show Front As Rival Hosts Get Together For James Corden’s Exit
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The days of war between late-night hosts like David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are long gone.
It’s a full détente, it seems, as a skit on the final episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden will highlight. Deadline understands that Corden has got together the likes of The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Jimmy Kimmel and Late Night’s Seth Meyers for a sketch.
The group apparently filmed it together, although we hear that Kimmel filmed his bit remotely. While Letterman and Leno fought it out in the ratings and before that a chance to host The Tonight Show and O’Brien had his own battle with Leno at NBC, this generation of hosts have been brought together over the past eight years by things such as the pandemic and the Donald Trump Presidency.
They regularly appear on each other’s shows, as evidenced by Meyers, Corden’s timeslot rival, turning up recently on The Late Late Show, and Corden going on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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