The Tonight Show

 MA - Jay Leno hosts Robert Pattinson and Seal on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 pm, NBC) ... Reese Witherspoon, Craig and Paul Pumphrey and Scott Weiland appear on ...

 India - News and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Zee Cafe. And if you want to know what's happening on Survivor: Gabon, you just have to wait a few days to catch ...

•Robert Pattinson chats with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on NBC. •Pattinson and co-star Taylor Lautner will hang out on “The Tyra Banks Show” at 5 p.m. Friday on ...

 MA - Jay Leno hosts Scott Weiland on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 pm, NBC) ... Tracey Ullman and Baz Luhrmann appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (12:05 am, ABC) . ...

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By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor Hugh Jackman; actors Jack Black and Kyle Glass; Tenacious D performs. 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - TV personality Stephen Colbert; actress Kristen Stewart; Super Diamond performs.

 MA - Jay Leno hosts Hugh Jackman, Jack Black and Kyle Gass on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 pm, NBC) ... Jay Leno and The Hives appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (12:05 ...

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By State School Elitist Jimmy Fallon, who we expect to be nothing short of an unmitigated disaster when he takes over for the 12:30am slot after Conan bolts for The Tonight Show, is admittedly off to an interesting start hiring The Roots as his house band. We are conflicted with this because 1) Is this really the bes...

By Jake Kalish 2) And this is the big one - Branford Marsalis as the original musical director for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Branford Marsalis is a world-renowned jazz musician, and hearing him follow up one of Leno's patented dumb Bill Clinton double entendres with a virtuosic rendition of  'R...

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NCB - Actor Kiefer Sutherland; comic Lisa Lampanelli; Barry Manilow performs. 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Rapper Snoop Dogg; comic Brian Regan(check out our interview with him); Blitzen Trapper performs.

Ralph Harris is one of today’s hottest comedic and acting talents!  He makes his feature film debut in Dreamgirls, a film that has struck gold (of the Golden Globe variety). Ralph kicks off the movie as the Detroit MC that helps hook up with the Dreamettes. Ralph recalls with special fondnes...

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - TV show host Joy Behar; singer Lance Bass; TV on the Radio performs. 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actress Natalie Portman; comic Artie Lange. 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actor Ricky Gervais; actress Vera Farmiga...

By Thomas Conner Late Show With David Letterman" (10:35 p.m., Channel 2) Journalist Tom Brokaw; actress Vera Farmiga; musician Brad Paisley. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" (10:35 p.m., Channel 5) Actor Samuel L. Jackson; impressionist Tony Durant; musician Tracy Chapman.

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By Tom Lewis Tonight 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actress Marcia Cross; writer Alan Zweibel; George Clinton performs. 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actress Elizabeth Banks; Death Cab for Cutie performs. Sunday Pic of "Little Britain: USA" via HBO

By drew So far this year between two extremely polar candidates, the choice is clear: David Letterman is far superior to Jay Leno. When was the last time you saw Leno with enough cojones to get angry at a political candidate? Or ask any sort of those uncomfortable, what everyone else is thinking sor...

 - Doc Severinsen at GMU. Legendary trumpeter Doc Severinsen, best known as the band leader on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, performs at the George ...

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actor Alec Baldwin; comic Paul Mooney; Ryan Adams performs with the Cardinals 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actor Tracy Morgan; actress Paget Brewster; the Last Shadow Puppets.

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor Seth Rogen; journalist David Gregory; the Cold War Kids perform. 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actress Tina Fey; actor Peter Sarsgaard; the Black Crowes perform. Tina Fey pic via NBC/Universal

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Author Bill O'Reilly; reality TV star Lauren Conrad; New York Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni presents the Top Ten list 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor and comic Chris Rock (put Jay in his place Chris!); First Lady hopeful Miche...

By Roger Catlin Millions have watched the debates that are now over, but there's still some fireworks to be had on late night TV where John McCain, for one, is to have his makeup appearance tonight on "Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS, 11:35 p.m.).

By Missy Bauer Griffin During a Monday night appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, actor Russell Crowe said that a recent six-month stay in Australia with wife Danielle Spencer and their two sons Charles 'Charlie,' 4 ½, and Tennyson, 2, yielded some long sought-after "manly man" time for...

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor Ed Harris; blogger Meghan McCain; George Clinton performs with the Gangsters of Love All Stars. 12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actor Ray Liotta; Loudon Wainwright III performs.

By Jesse I know a lot of people react to Saturday Night Live with vague dismissiveness: oh, is that still on? I haven’t really watched it since [Tina Fey/Will Ferrell/Adam Sandler/Dana Carvey/Eddie Murphy/Bill Murray/Chevy Chase] left. So while you can find breathless, fawning recaps of Gossi...

By Tom Lewis 9:00pm Lord Love a Duck TCM - (1966) A California high-school genius (Roddy McDowall) works magic for a blonde (Tuesday Weld) who wants cashmere and affection. 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor Kevin Spacey; Triumph the Insult Comic Dog; Jesse McCartney performs. Sunday

By Roger Catlin The year 2009 seemed so far away when it was announced back in 2004, on the 50th anniversary of "The Tonight Show" no less, that Jay Leno would be replaced as host by Conan O'Brien. Of course by then, we'd... The year 2009 seemed so far away when it was announced back in 2004, on the 50th anniversary...

By Roger Catlin Jay Leno's last night hosting "The Tonight Show" will be Friday, May 29, 2009, NBC executives announced Monday. Conan O'Brien will take over the helm of the fabled late night show on Monday, June 1, 2009. The news came in answer to... Jay Leno's last night hosting "The Tonight Show" will be Fri...

By Tom Lewis 11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actress Kyra Sedgwick; talk show host Chris Matthews; Alanis Morissette performs. 11:35pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actor Will Ferrell; a demonstration by ``MythBusters'' stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.

By Tempo The Tonight Show" continues to be the most dominant late-night institution in television history.  Since it first premiered on September 27, 1954 with Steve Allen, "The Tonight Show" has had just four permanent hosts, including Leno.  Allen, host of the then titled "Tonight," eventual...

NBC on Monday will announce the exact timetable for Jay Leno to hand over the host's chair on "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien, several people with knowledge of the plan said over the weekend. It's very likely Mr. Leno will host his final "Tonight Show" in late May or early June, according t...

By Roger Catlin NBC announced plans for O'Brien taking over the "Tonight" show years ago, when 2009 seemed eons away, in part to make sure he didn't stray from the network, as David Letterman did when the "Tonight" successor to Johnny Carson was being discussed.

NBC made it official today: Jimmy Fallon will become the third host of “Late Night” in June 2009, setting in motion the high-stakes late-night shift that will send Conan O’Brien to Jay Leno’s desk on “The Tonight Show” and a new studio on the NBC Universal lot in Los Angeles next year. The New...

Coming out of the 14-week Writers Guild of America Strike, NBC’s late-night lineup of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” saw a big ratings boost compared with rival shows on CBS. For the first two full weeks after the writers strike ended Feb. 12, “Leno” led C...

ABC, Fox, Sony Want Leno After ‘Tonight’ (New York Times) ABC and Fox have each contacted Jay Leno through intermediaries to indicate their interest in “The Tonight Show” host after he’s succeeded by Conan O’Brien next year, the New York Times reports. Sony Pictures Television has also a...

Leno’s Art of Late-Show Maintenance New York Times, United States - 2, “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC has averaged about 5.2 million viewers while the “Late Show With David Letterman” on CBS has averaged 4.1 million ...

By Wayne Friedman Take the one about “Late Show with David Letterman” returning to late night TV with proper union writers and “A”-list stars. All this was supposed to get him closer in viewership to the likes of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” because Leno’s show would be returning without writers and with...

The return of network late-night talk shows during the TV writers strike provided a ratings bounce for most of the competitors, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” scoring wins in their time slots, according to early Nielsen ratings numbers. Th...

Late Night TV Returns With, Without Writers David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson returned to the airwaves last night, Daily Variety reports. Mr. Letterman, however, had the advantage of returning with his writers after his production company, Worl...

By Hartford Courant The other late night shows returning Wednesday -- "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "Jimmy Kimmel Live" -- will do so without writers. Letterman was alone among late night hosts to be able to negotiate ...

Optimism For Speedy Strike End Wanes Industry insiders are skeptical for a quick end of the writers strike, even in the face of renewed contract talks, Daily Variety reports. Most are looking at March for the soonest end to the strike, as a media blackout that was lifted last week revealed b...

By Hartford Courant Here was a slimmer, dark haired Jay Leno, who had just taken over the show – Johnny Carson’s farewell show had occurred the month before! Branford Marsalis led the cool jazz band – with a subdued Kevin Eubanks, the successor three years later, in the background playing guitar.

KT Tunstall, who performs on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Wednesday Alicia Keys, who performs on 'Today' on Tuesday, 'Live with Regis and Kelly' on Wednesday and 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on Friday, and co-hosts 'Total Request Live' on Tuesday

By Hartford Courant Reruns changed the schedules, too, for NBC’s "Late Night with Conan O’Brien," ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live,"  CBS' "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, as well as Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report."  (Carson Daly had already planned to show a rer...

By Tempo Most late-night shows, including “The Colbert Report,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” are expected to go into repeats this week. For more complete information on how the strike may affect specific shows, see t...

By constituent Following the show’s taping Ron Paul will make an appearance at a $2000/person private reception in Hollywood Hills, California. Congratulations Doctor Paul, and thank you to all of the folks in California working hard to make this a success. Update:

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The troubled saga of Lindsay Lohan took another turn today when police booked her on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession after a frightened woman dialed 911 to report being chased by Lohan's SUV. Less than two weeks out of rehab, with another drunken-driving case pending...

The TMCG problem has another effect. It separates Hollywood from its audience. A talent agency head boasted that half his interns come from Ivy League schools. Well, that's wonderful, and I'm sure they're good, intelligent young people. But I've seen that, too often, they don't think of the...

William Katz has had a long and varied career, as an assistant to a U.S. senator; an officer in the CIA; an assistant to Herman Kahn, the nuclear war theorist; an editor at The New York Times Magazine; and a talent coordinator at The Tonight Show. He is the author of ten books, translated into 15 l...

The Tonight Show was planned spontaneity. Carson didn't "go with the flow." He created it. He swore by the show business adage that the best ad libs are planned. And, like a good lawyer, he rarely asked a question unless he already knew the answer.

Doc Severinsen is a sweet guy who ran one of the best bands in the business. You could not appreciate the Tonight Show Band through those tinny TV speakers, but in the studio it was spectacular. Just a few weeks ago we lost Tommy Newsom, the saxophonist who led the band in Doc's absence. Johnny us...

By Matt Cooper Did you watch Fred Thompson on The Tonight Show? Simply as theatre, I found the appearance surprisingly disappointing. If this is the New Reagan, I didn't see it last night. He seemed decidedly uncomfortable, his three-button summer suit scrunched in...