Topic
Late-Night Television
The TV format where comedy, celebrity, scheduling, and institutional power all pretend to be casual.
Comedy
Jay Leno says he hid in an NBC closet twice to hear executives decide The Tonight Show
The old late-night villain story gets funnier when Leno describes himself less as a backstabber than as a network sitcom burglar with incredible timing.
Comedy
Byron Allen says Johnny Carson let him strike The Tonight Show set for his own show
Allen’s best story on Club Random isn’t about becoming a billionaire, it’s about getting the king of late night to say yes to an absurdly intimate favor.