TV Outside the Box

Chapter 10

Talk is Cheap

Every generation or so, we get a new crop of late night talk show hosts. It’s the proverbial passing of the torch from one King of Late Night to another. At this point, the only female nightly talk show host, Chelsea Handler, has moved on from her Chelsea Lately celebrity chat/comedy panel show that was on E! to newer Netflix pastures. But more on what Chelsea is doing lately a bit later in this chapter.

It seems that even in 2016, female talk show hosts are most welcome into American households during the day. Thank you, Oprah and Rosie for your many years of service, not to mention Ellen, The View, The Talk and more. We had the late, great Joan Rivers in late night for a short spell in her own seminal late night talk ...