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Last Call with Carson Daly
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Last Call with Carson Daly

Format Talk show, Variety show
Starring Carson Daly
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 825 (as of October 10, 2007)
Production
Running time 29 minutes per episode with commercials
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original run January 7, 2002 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
Last Call with Carson Daly is a late night NBC talk show, hosted by former MTV VJ Carson Daly.

Last Call, occupying the time slot previously held by Later, debuted in January 2002, and transitioned from four nights per week to its current five nights per week schedule (after the cancellation of previous Friday night timeslot holder Late Friday) in the summer of that year. In both 2003 and 2004 it was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice TV Show - Late Night".

Previously, the time-slot was filled by Later with Bob Costas (1988-1994), Later with Greg Kinnear (1994-1996), Later (1996-2000), and SCTV reruns (2000-2002). The 1996-2000 run featured a 'guest host of the week' format for two years before Cynthia Garrett became the permanent host from 1998-2000. The show aired Monday-Thursday through these years due to Friday Night Videos/Friday Night holding the after-Late Night slot on Friday nights.

Last Call was originally taped in Studio 8H of NBC's headquarters. This required the producers to work around the schedule of the facility's main tenant, Saturday Night Live. During this era, Last Call had a markedly different appearance from other late night shows: it had no house band (The Late Late Show is the only other late night show without one) and, quite literally, no jokes or monologue, going straight to the first guest.

The show relocated from New York City to Los Angeles in September 2005 and with the move, the show has begun to resemble its counterparts, with the addition of the Joe Firstman as the house band and a short monologue.

Like Conan O'Brien's ending phrase "Stay tuned for Last Call with Carson Daly," Carson Daly's ending phrase is "Go get some sleep" (Due to the fact that the show ends at 2:05 a.m Eastern Time).

Last Call with Carson Daly is a half-hour show, unlike the other late night talk shows (Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, Kimmel, and Ferguson) which are all one hour. As a result of Last Call 's shortened time, Daly dispenses a significantly shorter monologue and very few jokes and sketches.

Last Call has a house band, led by Joe Firstman. Firstman plays the role of a typical talk show house band leader (like Max Weinberg and The Max Weinberg 7 of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show Band of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra of Late Show with David Letterman), intermittently conversing with Carson and even occasionally bouncing back some jokes. The house band has featured such L.A. jazzmen as trumpeter Will Artope and sax player Zane Musa.

Contents
1 Cultural References
2 Controversy
3 See also
4 External links



[edit] Cultural References
Within the storyline of NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, Carson Daly provided the impetus for the show's ongoing plotline.

[edit] Controversy
Last Call with Carson Daly is reportedly the first late night television show to resume production during the television writer's strike of November 2007.

LCWCD has the distinction of being the Worst Television Show in the World as certified by How Did He Get Famous, Inc.


[edit] See alsoNEW YORK - NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" is about to become the first late-night talk show to defy the writers strike and resume production.

Daly, who is not a member of the Writers Guild, will begin taping new episodes of his Burbank-based show this week for airing next week, an NBC spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.

The half-hour "Last Call" airs at 1:35 a.m. EST weeknights, but whether Daly's first new episode would air next Monday or Tuesday was initially unclear. No guests were disclosed.

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Writers Guild spokesman Gregg Mitchell declined to comment.

Daly is not the first talk-show host to go back into production. Ellen DeGeneres, who is a member of the union, has continued taping her daytime syndicated talk show after shutting down the first day of the strike. But "Last Call" becomes the first to break ranks among the late-night shows, which all had chosen to air repeats rather than tape new shows without their striking writers.

It was unclear what effect, if any, the return of "Last Call" would have on other late-night talk shows, which include NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Comedy Central's late-night news-and-commentary spoofs, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, have also been in reruns.


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There was no immediate word on when any of those shows might follow suit and return with new episodes.

On Monday, contract talks with the studios resumed for the first time since movie and TV writers went on strike Nov. 5. The Writers Guild is seeking more money for material distributed over the Internet and cell phones.

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