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Best moments of the decade? Top 10 things named for Stephen Colbert? You'll find that and more in this category. Talk show fun!
Readers Select Their Favorite Talk Shows, Hosts
About Talk Shows' readers select their favorite late night and daytime talk shows for 2012. Come vote for your favorite!
Before They Were Talk Show Hosts
From David Letterman to Oprah Winfrey, all of our favorite talk shows hosts have worked some part-time job slinging burgers before they started flinging comedy at 11:30 p.m.
Top Talk Show Extras
From online extras to spin-off series, talk shows offer more than an hour of entertainment a day. Discover talk show blogs, live cams and more – entertainment you didn’t even know existed.
Quirky Talk Show Trivia 2
Ready to find out more quirky trivia about your favorite talk shows? Do you know who first hosted ‘The Daily Show’? Do you know what talk show features zombies? Find out in this fun article.
5 Shows About Talk Shows
Discover some of the unusual fictional and non-fictional televisions shows about talk shows.
10 Reasons Talk Show Hosts Make Bad Pets
Think twice before you decide to adopt a talk show host as a pet. Here are 10 good reasons you should leave that late night talk show hosts telling jokes at the pet shelter.
Sexiest Talk Show Moments
Can talk show moments be sexy? These can. From Drew's dance on Dave's desk to Ellen's sexy Victoria's Secret award, these are the sexiest talk show moments.
Quirky Trivia About Your Favorite Talk Shows
See if you can answer these talk show trivia questions before reading the answer. If you think you know everything there is to know about your favorite talk show or talk show host – think again.
Top 10 Talk Show Moments of 2011
Memorable moments for TV talk shows in 2011 began and ended with Oprah Winfrey, from the end of her 25-year-old ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ to the beginning of her new network, OWN.
Talk Shows’ Pioneering Women
These four female talk show hosts were critical in paving the way for all the great pioneering women of TV talk that we find on daytime and late night television today.
Top 5 Late Night Talk Show Reads
Dig in to one of our Top 5 books by these notable late night talk show hosts: Chelsea Handler, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Fallon and Jon Stewart.
Top 5 Daytime Talk Show Reads
Dig in to one of our Top 5 books by these notable daytime talk show hosts: Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Regis Philbin, Dr. Oz and Regis Philbin.
African-American Talk Show Pioneers
The world of daytime and late night TV wouldn’t be the same without these five African-American talk show pioneers. They stand out among a group of talk show hosts that includes Wendy Williams, Magic Johnson, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Mo’Nique, Rolanda Watts, Queen Latifah, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Top 5 Quirky Talk Shows
History knows of a lot of strange talk shows. Here are five of the quirkiest from the last 20 years, including The Talking Dead and Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast
Three Talk Show Hosts Who Have Battled Breast Cancer
Breast cancer strikes women from all walks of life, and that includes the talk show world. Here are three talk show hosts, Wanda Sykes, Robin Roberts and Hoda Kotb, who have battled the disease.
Top 10 Greatest Talk Show Hosts of All Time
About.com Talk Shows presents its list of the 10 greatest talk show hosts of all time. Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Jon Stewart. Who are we missing? And who would you choose?
Top 10 Talk Show Moments in 2010
Two stories dominated the talk show world in 2010: The final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show and NBC's terrible struggle with its late night lineup. But amidst those two big, bold headlines were a few other shocks and surprises.
10 Memorable Moments from 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'
Here are 10 Memorable Moments from ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. Perhaps the most popular and most successful daytime television talk show in the history of the medium, The Oprah Winfrey Show concludes its historic 25-year run on May 25, 2011.
Talk Isn’t Cheap: A Brief History of the TV Talk Show
According to industry veterans, there are two types of chatter on TV -- television talk, in which someone merely addresses the audience, and the talk show, featuring a familiar format, a quirky or popular host, and a slew of celebrity guests. We're covering the later.
Talkies: Talk Show Hosts in the Movies
Besides being excellent talk shows hosts, many hosts, like Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, have taken a turn on the silver screen, starring in movies both worthy of Academy Award nominations and the cutting room floor.
2008 Presidential Nominees on Talk Shows – Appearance Schedule
Since Richard Nixon’s appearance on ‘Laugh-In’ to Bill Clinton’s saxophone on ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’, politicians have been using talk shows and other entertainment television to announce their candidacy or reach out to potential viewers. Where will your favorite 2008 presidential contender turn up next? This appearance schedule should help.
About Talk Show Visitors Pick Leno
Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show, was selected as the Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host by visitors of About Talk Shows in our inaugural monthly survey of viewers preferences. Plans are afoot to also survey visitors on their favorite daytime h…
Top Ten Talk Show Moments of 2006
From Rosie O’Donnell joining ‘The View’ to Michael Richards’ emotional apology on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman,’ 2006 had its fair share of top talk show moments. Here are the Top Ten.
Worst Talk Shows of the Decade
It probably isn’t fair to call this collection the worst talk shows of the decade. It might be more appropriate to call this a series losers. Seven talk shows that debuted in the 2000s that we have already forgotten, no matter how good they were when they were on. And some even won award
Top Ten Talk Show Moments of 2009
It was quite a year in the world of talk shows. For one, the late landscape completely changed at NBC, and it is still unclear that it’s for the better. Another late night icon revealed certain weaknesses – later overshadowed by the dalliances of a golfer Tiger Woods. And the end of an era was announced, even if that era will continue for a year or two more.
So what are the Top Ten Ta…
Best and Worst Talk Shows of the Decade
It probably isn’t fair to call this list the best and worst talk shows of the decade. It might be more appropriate to call this a series of winners and losers. Seven talk shows that debuted in the 2000s that already feel as though they’ve been around forever. And seven talk shows we have already forgotten, regardless of how good they were when they were
Top 8 Talk Show Feuds
Sometimes it’s a questionable joke. Sometimes it’s a sharp criticism. Sometimes two people just don’t like each other. Whatever the reason, talk show hosts old and new have kicked up dirt and released steam by getting into feuds with guests, newsmakers and even among themselves. Here are some of the more recent Talk Show
Top 5 Talk Show Romances
You don’t usually think about celebrity romances when you think about talk show hosts. But talk show hosts are well-known for their love affairs, office romances, marriages and divorces. Here’s five of the best.
Fact or Fiction? Five Talk Show Legends and Rumors
There are rumors and then there are talk show rumors – legends that have endured for months, years, decades. Here we vet out five famous ones – Tommy Hilfiger on Oprah, guests dropping dead on the set, Jimmy Kimmel bitten by a snake on live TV. Which are fact and which are fiction?
Top Ten Talk Show Moments of 2007
One of the biggest stories in 2006? Rosie O'Donnell joining 'The View'. Here we are 365 days later, and Rosie’s out, Whoopi's in, and our beloved talk show hosts are poised for a comeback after a work stoppage by Hollywood writers tossed all of our late night shows into reruns. And let’s not even get into Ellen DeGeneres's dog trouble. What a difference a year makes!
Holiday Gift Guide for Talk Show Fans
If you’re one of the thousands (maybe millions?) who do their holiday shopping at the last minute, take into consideration the About Talk Shows list of our Top 15 Gifts for Talk Show Fans. A must print-and-carry (or link and buy!) reference for all your gift-getting needs.
Academy Award Hosts and Talk Show Hosts: One in the Same
If you grew up in the late 1970s and loved the Academy Awards, you'll fondly remember its regular host: Johnny Carson . Carson, then (and always) the king of late night television, became the first talk show host to host the Oscars 1979 - but he wouldn't be the last. His five stints set the stage for talk show hosts to emcee the show on-and-off since that time. And their appearances tend to be t…