Hurricane Sandy is huffing and puffing her way up the East Coast and will be passing over NYC sometime later tonight. As we all know she is a scary storm and because of that the North East is becoming a virtual ghost town with television shows shutting down production until she blows over.
Well the late night shows that tape in NYC all said yesterday they were going to go on as is, but today they are all changing their tune. Jimmy Kimmel Live, who flew across the county with his staff to do a week of special shows in Brooklyn, cancelled tonight’s taping. The ABC late night host Tweeted, “Though it pains us to do it, JKLfrom #Brooklyn tonight is cancelled. I’m disappointed too, but we want you to be safe.” No decision has been made as of now per his rep, if they will reschedule Chris Rock, Kelly Ripa and Alicia Keys for another night or if they will stay an extra day to make up for tonight.
While Kimmel is a guest in the Big Apple, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman are not. The NBC Late Night host Tweeted, “We sent our audience home just to be safe. But we are doing our show tonight anyway. Should be fun. #LateNight” He said that after Tweeting, “Everyone in tonight’s studio audience gets a free Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. #LateNight #wehave10peopleinourau”. I sent an email to the show’s rep to find out if the scheduled guests would be there and as of now have not heard back. When it comes to The Late Show, a CBS rep says that they also will be taping without an audience tonight and that Denzel Washington and musical guest Paul Banks will be there. I mean it is Denzel after all, and he ain’t afraid of anything! In all seriousness, I think they made the right choice in choosing the audience’s safety over having them in the background for a few laughs.
This will not be the first time that a late night show has gone without an audience, Craig Ferguson tried out for fun a few years back. But in his case there was no Frankenstorm coming his way.
Now having written all about how the late night shows will or will not go on, I pray that everyone on the East Coast in her path will be safe. That is the most important thing.
UPDATE: The Late Show just Tweeted this, “Studio audience in place and ready for tonight’s all-new #Sandy show with Denzel Washington & Paul Banks.” At least they still have a sense of humor about it all.
KISS was on The Late Show yesterday and “@GeneSimmons gets a taste of Dave when @KISSonline returns to blow the roof off the @Late_Show.” By the looks of the picture, it appears that the CBS late night host really enjoyed that. Can’t say I blame him because that 12″ tongue has been experience by many many many women and not one of them complained how satisfying it is!
Kaley Cuoco was on The Late Show and she told David Letterman that she is having the problem of falling asleep on the set of The Big Bang Theory all the time. Well her cast mates have decided to have some fun with her and took pictures of them doing different things around the sleeping star and she shared them on the CBS late night talk show. After seeing how out like a light she is, she never better work with Quintin Tarantino or he will introduce her to Big Gerry. Oh wait maybe she should work with him…
Steve Martin was on The Late Show yesterday to promote the DVD release of Steve Martin: The Television Stuff. The collection has some of his best moments of being on television for the last 40 years. Since he is a favorite on the CBS late night talk show, the Wild and Crazy Guy decided to share one of his most favorite appearances on the show. I know David Letterman thought it was stupid, but I thought it was brilliant. So watch it to see why I love it and gap-toothed didn’t!
Howard Stern was on The Late Show yesterday and he brought out a side of David Letterman that I haven’t seen in a really long time. The America’s Got Talent judge was talking about how he needed a signature move for the NBC talent competition. So he demonstrated all of his moves for the CBS late night host and then Letterman showed him one he could add on. That move was the universal symbol for male masturbation and it got such a rise out of the Shock Jock that he told Letterman he was offended by it. And let’s be real it takes a lot to offend Stern, and I respect Letterman for being the one to do it. It is as though Stern was his Viagra and he was able to bring the old Letterman up to the surface and I so want to see more of that. I like that guy, better than old stiff(y) he has become.
