Last Call with Carson Daly

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Last Call with Carson Daly is an American

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late night

Late night television

Late night television is the block of television programming airing after 10:00 12-hour clock and usually through 2:00 12-hour clock. Traditionally, this type of programming airs after the late local news and features a particular genre of programming that falls somewhere between a variety show and a talk show....
talk show

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
that is broadcast on NBC. Hosted by former MTV

MTV

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VJ Carson Daly

Carson Daly

Carson Jones Daly is an United States television host. Before his present position as host of NBC Last Call with Carson Daly, Daly was a prominent VJ on MTV Total Request Live, and a DJ for the Southern California based radio station KROQ....
, the show features comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or more informally stand up....
performances. Last Call airs weeknights at 1:36 a.m. Eastern / 12:36 a.m. Central

Central Time zone

The Central Time Zone is in the Americas and observes standard time by subtracting six hours from Coordinated Universal Time during standard time and five hours during daylight saving time ....
in the United States.

The show is taped in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
and is a half-hour in length. Last Calls house band
House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play an establishment. It is widely used to refer both to the bands who work on entertainment programs on television or radio, and to bands which are the regular performers at a nightclub, especially jazz and R&B clubs....
is led by Joe Firstman
Joe Firstman

Joe Firstman is an American adult alternative Rock musician. He is also the current musical director for Carson Daly's house band on Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC....
who sometimes converses with Daly.

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Last Call with Carson Daly is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
late night
Late night television

Late night television is the block of television programming airing after 10:00 12-hour clock and usually through 2:00 12-hour clock. Traditionally, this type of programming airs after the late local news and features a particular genre of programming that falls somewhere between a variety show and a talk show....
talk show
Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
that is broadcast on NBC. Hosted by former MTV
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
VJ Carson Daly
Carson Daly

Carson Jones Daly is an United States television host. Before his present position as host of NBC Last Call with Carson Daly, Daly was a prominent VJ on MTV Total Request Live, and a DJ for the Southern California based radio station KROQ....
, the show features comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or more informally stand up....
performances. Last Call airs weeknights at 1:36 a.m. Eastern / 12:36 a.m. Central
Central Time zone

The Central Time Zone is in the Americas and observes standard time by subtracting six hours from Coordinated Universal Time during standard time and five hours during daylight saving time ....
in the United States.

The show is taped in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
and is a half-hour in length. Last Calls house band
House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play an establishment. It is widely used to refer both to the bands who work on entertainment programs on television or radio, and to bands which are the regular performers at a nightclub, especially jazz and R&B clubs....
is led by Joe Firstman
Joe Firstman

Joe Firstman is an American adult alternative Rock musician. He is also the current musical director for Carson Daly's house band on Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC....
who sometimes converses with Daly. The house band has featured such L.A. jazzmen as trumpeter Will Artope and sax player Zane Musa
Zane Musa

Zane Musa is an United States saxophone player from Los Angeles, who in the last several years has contributed to the Los Angeles sound. He has been a member of the house band on Last Call with Carson Daly, where he has played with such musical talents as keyboardist Joe Firstman and trumpeter Will Artope....
. In both 2003 and 2004, Last Call was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice TV Show - Late Night".

History

2002-2006
Last Call premiered in 2002, and is the successor to Later
Later (talk show)

Later was a nightly half hour-long talk show that ran on NBC from 1988 in television until 2001 in television. Later typically aired for half an hour following The Tonight Show and its succeeding program, Late Night with David Letterman or Late Night with Conan O'Brien ....
. Last Call was initially aired Monday through Thursday until the cancellation of Late Friday in the summer of 2002.

Last Call was originally taped in Studio 8H
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
of the GE Building
GE Building

The GE Building is an Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. Known as the RCA Building until 1988, it is famous for housing the headquarters of the television network NBC....
in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, which was also the home studio of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
. However, this required the producers to work around the schedule of the facility's main tenant, Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
. During this era, Last Call had a markedly different appearance from most other late night shows, having no house band and no jokes or monologue, going straight to the first guest at the beginning of the show.

Last Call was originally planned to begin taping in HDTV
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
when Studio 8H was retrofitted for Saturday Night Live; however, instead, the show was relocated to Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
in September 2005, and continues to air in standard definition
Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television refers to television systems that have a resolution that meets standards but not considered either Enhanced-definition television or High-definition television....
. Since the move, Last Call has begun to resemble its counterparts, with the addition of the house band and a short monologue, and sometimes comedy desk bits.

2007: Writers' Strike
Production of new Last Call episodes was suspended for a month due to the Writers Guild of America strike, but on December 4, 2007, Last Call became the first late night talk show to resume production during the strike. On air, Daly explained that the only reason the show resumed production was that he was given the option to either return or have the show's 75 non-striking staff members be fired. The shows were not scripted and did not include monologues. The Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers around New York City....
(WGA) was critical of Daly, accusing him of crossing picket lines and labeling him a scab. Daly is not a member of the WGA.

On November 27, 2007, he was accused by the WGA of soliciting jokes for his show through a telephone hotline.

On December 11, 2007, an organized group of WGA writers attended a taping of Last Call. First, one heckled during an interview with Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice

Jerry Lee Rice is a former football wide receiver in the National Football League. Rice is widely regarded as the greatest wide receiver ever and one of the greatest players in NFL history, consistently showing exceptional performance and strong work ethic on and off of the field....
. After security removed the first writer, another spoke up disruptively, expressing sympathy with striking writers. A producer asked anyone planning to disrupt the show to leave or face prosecution; between five and twenty left.

2008-2009
In 2008, when it was announced that Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning United States television host, television writer and comedian, best known as host of NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993-2009....
would be taking over The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show and variety show airing on NBC whose The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992....
in mid-2009, Daly made it known that he was interested in moving to the 12:35am Late Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
slot. Ultimately, Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon

James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr., is an American comedian, actor, musician, and talk show host known for his work on Saturday Night Live....
was chosen to replace O'Brien. Daly's contract with NBC expires in August 2009; reportedly, talks have begun to renew his contract. In February 2009, network executive Rick Ludwin told TV Week
TV Week

TV WEEK is a weekly television magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne, Australia-only publication in 1957 , and bearing a strong affiliation to television station GTV....
that the company was currently "going through the budgetary process with all of our shows. There are new budgetary realities. … It’s tough. We want to keep [Carson] going as long as we can make the budget work."

Beginning March 3, 2009, Last Call went on a one week "tour" of California, which featured pre-taped segments with up and coming musical acts at various mid-level clubs, such as The Roxy, The Viper Room, and Hotel Cafe
Hotel Café

The Hotel Caf? is a live music venue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that has become known for helping to establish the careers of new singer-songwriters in the 2000s....
.

See also

Later
Later (talk show)

Later was a nightly half hour-long talk show that ran on NBC from 1988 in television until 2001 in television. Later typically aired for half an hour following The Tonight Show and its succeeding program, Late Night with David Letterman or Late Night with Conan O'Brien ....
List of late night network TV programs
New Year's Eve with Carson Daly
New Year's Eve with Carson Daly

NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly is a yearly show on NBC. It started on December 31, 2003 live from Times Square in New York City. It airs live on the East Coast....

External links

at the Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database

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