I am shocked that Last Call with Carson Daly is still around

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Besides Charlie Rose, it is the longest-running current late-night talk show. It's been on air for 15+ years!

Who would have thought the guy from TRL would carve a niche for himself in the, what is it, 4 fucking am time slot?
 
I think NBC just doesn't care to fill the slot with anything else so they just let him stay on the air. I honestly don't know a single person who watches him.
 
Never once watched the show, is it even any good lol?

I remember a few years ago Jay Electronica was on it, but I was so drunk at the time I think I could be making that up.
 
Do they just film it before he begins the Today Show every day? Because he's been on Today for awhile now. Had no idea he still had his late night gig.
 
Formerly a traditional talk show, the half-hour program consists of several produced segments, featuring interviews with musicians, comedians, actors, filmmakers, and other artists, along with pre-taped on-location musical performances. It debuted in 2002. Unlike other programs in NBC's late night line-up, Last Call typically records only 24 weeks of original shows a year with the rest of the year being taken up by reruns.
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I guess this is why. Must be incredibly cheap to produce.
 
This is impressive. I used to watch him when I was in college and went to bed at 3am every night. No longer am up at this time though.
 
I catch an occasional episode once every few years. I've literally never met someone who watches it or talked about it, and I can't recall anybody promoting the fact that they were going on there.
 
He was passed over for the Late Night job twice.

It looks like there is no audience, band, jokes, int he new format. Daly doesn't even conduct any interviews. It's probably cheap enough for NBC to do 24 episodes and play reruns the rest of the year.
 
He's had a pretty solid career, really. TRL, Last Call, the Voice, his New Years Eve show, Today Show. Not bad.
 
Blader said:
Doesn't he shoot the show on the street now? I thought there wasn't any kind of set anymore.
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Basically. It's a man on the street show for like 15 minutes then an off camera interview with a band at the venue they're about to play and then a song from that performance at the venue they're at.

Incredibly cheap.
 
xtrasauce said:
I remember when he turned Last Call into a traditional late night talk show with opening monologue for awhile there.
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I thought that was the original format.

On the few nights when I was up that late it was a talk show with a monologue.

Haven't watched television in general in many years though.
 
SatoAilDarko said:
I thought that was the original format.

On the few nights when I was up that late it was a talk show with a monologue.

Haven't watched television in general in many years though.
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Nah, the original format was inside a studio but more laidback, no monologue or skits. Eventually they redid the set and went full late night but that did not last very long.
 
wikipedia said:
Despite the program being produced in a 16:9 frame since at least 2008, Last Call was still presented in a 4:3 letterbox mode until September 19, 2011, when it became the last program (outside of the network's outside-controlled Saturday morning Qubo block) on NBC's schedule to make the full conversion to high definition broadcast. This also made it the last of the major late night talk programs on broadcast and cable to make the switch.
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Jeez, that's sad. Reading the entire history NBC does him dirty, but the show is cheap and he apparently enjoys it to keep doing it.
 
I think whatever timeslot it comes on is around the time they quit giving fucks about ratings or viewers, they just throw whatever on. They probably figure, meh, it's either carson or a dyson infomercial

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I feel like this is a case where the show is show cheap and in such an irrelevant timeslot that no one on NBC actually cares about it. The smart decision would be to cancel it, but they all think Carson Daly is a good guy so they just let him do it.

Either that or it's something much more dramatic. Perhaps Daly has some serious dirt on NBC execs and he's blackmailing them. They all hate his guts but they have to give him a TV show, so they just gave him this one and put it at the worst timeslot.
 
I actually really like his show. I don't watch it often, but it's a pretty low key thing to watch right before getting sleep.
 
watershed said:
I think NBC just doesn't care to fill the slot with anything else so they just let him stay on the air. I honestly don't know a single person who watches him.
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I think the only time I ever watched this show was when me and my folks got in late into a hotel in Winnipeg and this was on the local NBC station out of Minneapolis.
 
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