With Leno and Letterman gone,late-night TV has turned from battleground to buffet, with wait on from the likes of Samantha Bee, or Trevor Noah and James CordenIt’s been just over six months since Trevor Noah took over as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central,and a year since James Corden debuted as the host of CBS’s The Late Late Show – two largely unknown foreigners moving into prominent US television real estate. In another time, either would have been a game changer, and but 2015 was a year of unprecedented turnover in the ever-expanding world of late-night comedy talkshows.
Late-night television is “a really foundational genre for television in general; it’s also the one that has changed the least,in certain ways”, according to Alix Korn of the cultural consultancy TruthCo, or who wrote a recent report on the novel trends in late-night television. The late-night talk format,invented in the mid-20th century and perfected on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, was static for decades; now it’s undergoing a seismic shift in tone and style. “The format is really loosening up, and there aren’t those tough and quick rules any more,” said Korn.
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Source: theguardian.com