Late Show with David Letterman

By McCluskey and Miller Late Show with David Letterman & The Late Late Show [11:35, 12:35, CBS] - Worldwide Pants Productions throws a decent Friday night toofer at us. Dave welcomes Meryl Streep for some overly breathy talk, but we are more excited about his old buddy Jeff Altman. It's really very sad that one...

By McCluskey and Miller The Tonight Show with Jay Leno [11:30 PM, NBC] - Tune in tonight to see Jay Leno make benign, lighthearted conversation with Michelle Obama, Chris Rock and former Blowfish Darius Rucker. The ultra-rare African-American guest trifecta is reason enough to endure the monologue. TiVo

By Kyle Buchanan With the Sarah Palin-skewering SNL ascendant and the Republican-helmed satire An American Carol flailing at the box office (because of those pro-immigration chihuahuas), Boston Globe writer Lisa Wangsness has a provocative point to make: that events like these illustrate "the ext...

By Kyle Buchanan The entire political season has been leading up to this moment: no, not November 4, but tonight's appearance of John McCain on the Late Show with David Letterman! Ever since the presidential candidate canceled his September appearance at the last minute, the McCain/Letterman War of '0...

By Seth Confirming rumors that his appointment as Conan O'Brien's Late Night successor was a "done deal," a press event at 30 Rock today presided over by dark SNL overlord Lorne Michaels, NBC rock star Ben Silverman, and badly-in-need-of-a-distinguishing-nickname Marc Graboff, made offic...

By Seth Seemingly unstoppable late night force Jay Leno has already demonstrated that he needs no writers to conquer his time slot: Audiences looking for non-addictive insomnia cures and lovemaking soundtracks clearly prefer Leno's middling presence and chirpy joke-delivery over his mor...

By Mark The flack additionally denied a report that Zucker, in an attempt to dissuade 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan from jilting NBC's Jay Leno by appearing on The Late Show to promote upcoming film First Sunday, quietly had one of those "lower-level" functionaries suggest to Morgan that it would take...

By Mark We've already set our TiVos for tonight's episode of the Late Show, anticipating that David Letterman would probably have some questions for guest Jerry Seinfeld about a certain former castmate who recently tried out some controversial new material at the Laugh Factory. A tipster tell...

By Seth Abramovitch David Letterman is no stranger to psycho fan obsession; something about his twitchy, sarcastic demeanor beckons them like a silent dog whistle. But a recent incident involving a deranged fan in New Mexico who claims she was being personally tormented by Letterman through coded on-air b...