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Bill Carter

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Author of 4 books including The Late Shift+ War for Late Night. NYT Media reporter for 25+ yrs. Exec Prod of doc series "Story of Late Night"
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Jenny Hagel’s Other Calling Is Giving Advice—Asked for or Not

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By Bill Carter 
| LateNighter
Funny people are not funny all the time. Would you expect a shoe salesman to measure your feet at a party? Most of the time, funny people are just regular people with a particular set of skills. Or maybe one particular skill. If that skill is writing funny, it’s a useful one, because it might get you a job on a late-night show. Jenny Hagel has one of those jobs. For ten years, she’s written funny things for Seth Meyers to say and do on NBC’s Late Night.
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Ben Gleib Is Betting Late-Night TV Can Work From Home

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By Bill Carter 
| LateNighter
Ben Gleib hosts 'Good Night with Ben Gleib' on YouTube, starting tonight. Maybe it didn’t occur to CBS that the answer to the financial challenges facing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was to dump that old theater on Broadway and set up shop in Colbert’s basement, with a two-man band, 20 live-audience members, a desk that used to be the home bar-top, and a wall of 980 more “audience” members projected by Zoom on the back wall.
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Wednesday June 03 2026

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By Jed Rosenzweig , Bill Carter 
| LateNighter
Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC Kevin Hart, Draymond Green The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon NBC Nick Jonas, Amy Sedaris, Violet Grohl Comics Unleashed CBS Mary Gallagher, Ahmed Ahmed, Michael Harrison, Rondell Sheridan (R 2/25/26) Late Night with Seth Meyers NBC Will Forte, Alison Brie Watch What Happens Live Bravo Dorit Kemsley, Jasmine Goode The Daily Show Comedy Central Chase Infiniti, host Michael Kosta
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