if you stay up late enough they’re the
best talk show hosts around
did you just just say you didn’t have to
use your a kay I don’t have to use it –
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
late-night talk show hosts here’s the
beauty part we do whatever they what we
want and they have to pay for it
that’s right for this list we’re taking
aim at those people who sit behind the
interview desks of some of our favorite
late-night talk shows we’re excluding
straight-up newsmen cuz that’s a list
for another day I can’t read it there’s
no there’s no words on it
number 10 Jimmy Fallon welcome back to
The Tonight Show everybody I’m here with
Paul Rudd and he and I are about to have
the first Tonight Show lip sync battle
Fallon first caught the public’s eye
during his six giggle filled years on
Saturday Night Live
he then branched into film but his time
to shine came in 2009 when he took the
reins from late-night host Conan O’Brien
Fallon made the show his own offering
games galore as well as musical comedy
in the form of epic Rap Battles song
parodies and impersonations those bags
out cow bone back of Callie I don’t
think so in 2014 he followed in his
redheaded predecessors footsteps by
inheriting the Tonight Show from Jay
Leno and you know what Jimmy is the
perfect guy to do it he’s gonna do a
fantastic job so congratulations Jimmy
but unlike Conan Fallon still holds the
post that’s gotta feel good
number 9 Jonathan Ross how would
Victoria react if you came for a sack of
potatoes I need I knew you was coming to
me with this one no she told me used to
bulging spouts we’ve seen those adverse
you do in Japan while he may not be as
well known in America as Graham Norton
voici proves himself again and again as
the one to watch known as much for his
luscious locks and inability to
pronounce ours as he is for his edgy
Letterman ask interviews Ross has never
been one to skirt controversies think
you probably considered my affection in
a caramel session highlights include his
juvenile and since band interview with
David Cameron a notorious joke about
heathermills
Johnson Ross
we’re going to find out she’s got two
legs instead of one and for his
involvement in that whole Russell Brand
thing which resulted in the suspension
of his then BBC chat show Friday night
which in English is drink the whole
thing down even if you vomit if you’re
sick upon your shoes hey number eight
Jay Leno let me start with question
number one what the hell will you think
although controversial for his selection
and later re selection as host of The
Tonight Show you know this shows like a
dynasty you you hold it then you hand it
off to the next person and I don’t want
to see all the fighting and all and
who’s better and nasty things back and
following the press so right now here it
is Conan it’s yours see in five years
buddy
okay the Chindwin was a ratings leader
for most of his 22 years on the air
prior to inheriting the show Leno served
as permanent guest host for Johnny
Carson once installed the comedian and
gear head hit the ground running with
light interviews topical monologues and
his signature bit jaywalking I wanna
show you some clues which one of these
you think he’s associated with I think
it’s that the Pope
it’s the boot I should have known that
I’m Catholic video Leno’s rating
stronghold began with an apologetic
appearance from Hugh Grant I think
you’re not in life uh pretty much what’s
a good thing to do what’s a bad thing
and I did a bad thing and there you have
it and he continued to gain ground
through the OJ and Bill Clinton years I
did not have sex
Oh with that little Clinton right good
so I really thought you were got on Bill
Renton
but now number seven Jimmy Kimmel no
Stern okay okay all right you know real
problem I think we have okay yeah we
have a gentleman right there
um do do you like being it in movies
first hitting the airwaves as a snarky
second banana on win Ben Stein’s money
why is Ben letting me do this call him a
double Kimmel really made a name for
himself on the man show since then he’s
really come into his own Jimmy Kimmel
Live first aired on ABC at the unusual
time slot of 12:05 a.m. which meant he
competed with all four of NBC’s and
CBS’s late night hosts but he gained a
strong following nonetheless and Damen
originally live but now pre-taped the
show is known for Kimmel searing biting
humor and his inexplicable feud with
Matt Damon welcome to tonight’s episode
of Jimmy Kimmel sucks I am your host
Matt Damon
number 6 Stephen Colbert here we are in
March of 2003 and Iraq poses an imminent
threat to the safety of the United
States they have stockpiled massive
quantities of chemical biological and
nuclear weapons which we will find the
moment we invade them because they have
so many prior to landing his Peabody
award-winning Colbert Report gig this
sharp-witted funny man rose through the
ranks of the famed second city Chicago
worked as a voice actor and most notably
served as a Daily Show correspondent
utilizing his stoic comedic delivery
Colbert hosts the rapport in character
under the guise of a tightly wound
self-assured conservative crackpot
remind you of anyone will do it live
okay do it a lot okay do it live I could
all write it and we’ll do it live the
difference people like Colbert it’s like
I love st. anger okay I love for I love
the album cover loved it because never
actually heard the help I love the album
cover
of the fist you know they liked him so
much he was named as David Letterman’s
replacement when the Late Show host
announced his retirement in 2014 these
godless twerking machines are turning
our forests into their very own episode
of Grizz gone wild because look what
happens next
number five bill maher can you explain
what the Big Bang Theory is I added the
universe start here’s a quick there’s a
talk-show question we find on Jimmy
Fallon starting out on cables Comedy
Central the host and his series
politically incorrect made the leap to
ABC in 1997 always unfiltered and living
up to the show’s name the series was
canceled by the Mickey Mouse network in
2002 following Mars controversial
comment about the 9/11 terrorists we
have been the cowards lobbing cruise
missiles from 2,000 miles away that’s
cowardly since making the move to HBO in
2003 with real-time the no-holds-barred
host continues to speak his mind
shoot-from-the-hip and provide a haven
for intellectual and biting social
commentary I mean you’re quoting facts
how much do we really know about facts
that’s the problem is that is that facts
themselves have become subject oh man
and this this must be drive you good not
number four
Jon Stewart yeah I’m telling you
something as as nervous and concerned
and anxiety ridden as you may be listen
this is more pressure than I’ve endured
recently in my adult life if I screw
this up this is your last show and this
is all you’ll think about until you work
again Stewart first made waves in the
early 90s on his self-titled but doomed
MTV talk show he then served as guest
host for Tom Snyder’s The Late Late Show
and was expected to permanently take
over hosting duties
tell me word on the board who is doing
the lying areas however Stewart instead
inherited The Daily Show when Craig
Kilborn was drafted as Snyder’s
replacement under his leadership
daily show ratings soon increased by a
whopping 400% and have only grown from
there today
Stewart is noted for his warm wit and is
viewed as an informed alternative to the
new cycle certainly the rollout for the
president’s signature legislative
accomplishment has been rocky but at
least it has not been Mayor of Toronto
Rocky
let’s go up the stairs and get going all
right number three Conan O’Brien hi I’m
in Westport Connecticut at the evil
underground lair of Martha Stewart after
climbing the comedy ranks by writing for
SNL and The Simpsons
Conan took over Letterman’s Late Night
in 93 despite a general lack of love for
Coco early on the lanky redhead made the
show his own adding wacky surreal
elements to the talk show format oh yeah
yeah all right once he found his footing
and a sizable audience O’Brien was
promoted to Tonight Show host in 2009
but was soon re replaced by Jay Leno and
contractually barred by NBC from
television for almost a year
if I ran into Jay tomorrow I you know I
have no idea what the conversation would
be however striking him down only made
him stronger
and there’s an even happier ending to
this story for on that day both north
and south United and finally agreed on
one thing Conan O’Brien talks too much
number two David Letterman you know I
watched uh I got to see your program
yesterday it satanic dismemberment well
because is that happening a lot now
we’ll see all right
I know if it happens to someone it’s a
bad thing and you feel terrible about it
but does it is it sweeping the nation
you may be an elder statesman of the
form now but Letterman was a true game
changer in television as I said on the
show yesterday I know you don’t want to
get heavy here but I think that all of
Ripper Dave
baking’s thank you from his early gig as
an Indianapolis weatherman to a
short-lived Morning Show and eventual
late-night success the gap-toothed comic
has affected all that came after him and
we don’t want to spend all our time
discussing you biting the heads off
stuff but is now why would you want to
do that exactly from signature bits like
stupid pet tricks small-town news to the
nightly top ten
Letterman practically reinvented the
format and the number one question
Justin Bieber would answer I don’t know
how do you walk through a revolving door
we’ll take a look at this although he is
mellowed in the years leading to his
2015 retirement Dave was also noted for
his edgy er confrontational interview
style thank you thank you very much for
being here
that girl Ponemah know what do you mean
of course I mean that it is nice to meet
you and it’s nice to live on charming
look if you shut up he’d find out before
we open the curtain for a top pick here
are a few honorable mentions do you have
a sometimes pinch yourself and say I’m
heir joint I’ve been in this business
longer than almost anybody I was 16 and
they used to wear tuxedos and radios is
there some bad news Scarlett Johansson
is denying reports that she will play
Hillary Clinton in the upcoming movie
I’m very disappointed yeah nobody though
is more disappointed than Bill Clinton
he was hoping to play himself you do you
have doesn’t understand who this man is
welcome please John Ono Lennon and Yoko
when you’re in the locker room with get
after you make an announcement like that
I mean is that weird the guys are
nothing but supportive you know they
make jokes when were in the shower
lights are off I’d be like I wonder why
the lights are off you know Robbie’s
coming to shower number one
Johnny Carson Johnny he is our number
one after hosting a series of game shows
Carson took the reins of The Tonight
Show from Jack Paar in 1962
we’re dead laughs come from I wanted
from the staff and forever changed the
landscape of late-night television
although his protege David Letterman
heavily modified the format it was
Johnny that created the template still
in use today
a beeper went off in the audience see if
you can call my writers on that damn
thing while he interviewed a range of
people from entertainers to politicians
to newsmakers Carson could also make or
break a comedians career with a simple
wave and was never shy to step into a
silly skit wake up and smell the coffee
wake up and smell the coffee what do you
do after a one-night stand with mrs.
Olsen do you agree with our list who is
your favorite late-night host I’m
looking forward to that staple diet we
will live to be very old and evil in
megajoules fine young men ladies and
gentlemen I got a long way for more
nocturnal top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com I’m
out of here
no no no no Nanette oh really no I
really didn’t you I’ll see you in hell
you
best talk show hosts around
did you just just say you didn’t have to
use your a kay I don’t have to use it –
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
late-night talk show hosts here’s the
beauty part we do whatever they what we
want and they have to pay for it
that’s right for this list we’re taking
aim at those people who sit behind the
interview desks of some of our favorite
late-night talk shows we’re excluding
straight-up newsmen cuz that’s a list
for another day I can’t read it there’s
no there’s no words on it
number 10 Jimmy Fallon welcome back to
The Tonight Show everybody I’m here with
Paul Rudd and he and I are about to have
the first Tonight Show lip sync battle
Fallon first caught the public’s eye
during his six giggle filled years on
Saturday Night Live
he then branched into film but his time
to shine came in 2009 when he took the
reins from late-night host Conan O’Brien
Fallon made the show his own offering
games galore as well as musical comedy
in the form of epic Rap Battles song
parodies and impersonations those bags
out cow bone back of Callie I don’t
think so in 2014 he followed in his
redheaded predecessors footsteps by
inheriting the Tonight Show from Jay
Leno and you know what Jimmy is the
perfect guy to do it he’s gonna do a
fantastic job so congratulations Jimmy
but unlike Conan Fallon still holds the
post that’s gotta feel good
number 9 Jonathan Ross how would
Victoria react if you came for a sack of
potatoes I need I knew you was coming to
me with this one no she told me used to
bulging spouts we’ve seen those adverse
you do in Japan while he may not be as
well known in America as Graham Norton
voici proves himself again and again as
the one to watch known as much for his
luscious locks and inability to
pronounce ours as he is for his edgy
Letterman ask interviews Ross has never
been one to skirt controversies think
you probably considered my affection in
a caramel session highlights include his
juvenile and since band interview with
David Cameron a notorious joke about
heathermills
Johnson Ross
we’re going to find out she’s got two
legs instead of one and for his
involvement in that whole Russell Brand
thing which resulted in the suspension
of his then BBC chat show Friday night
which in English is drink the whole
thing down even if you vomit if you’re
sick upon your shoes hey number eight
Jay Leno let me start with question
number one what the hell will you think
although controversial for his selection
and later re selection as host of The
Tonight Show you know this shows like a
dynasty you you hold it then you hand it
off to the next person and I don’t want
to see all the fighting and all and
who’s better and nasty things back and
following the press so right now here it
is Conan it’s yours see in five years
buddy
okay the Chindwin was a ratings leader
for most of his 22 years on the air
prior to inheriting the show Leno served
as permanent guest host for Johnny
Carson once installed the comedian and
gear head hit the ground running with
light interviews topical monologues and
his signature bit jaywalking I wanna
show you some clues which one of these
you think he’s associated with I think
it’s that the Pope
it’s the boot I should have known that
I’m Catholic video Leno’s rating
stronghold began with an apologetic
appearance from Hugh Grant I think
you’re not in life uh pretty much what’s
a good thing to do what’s a bad thing
and I did a bad thing and there you have
it and he continued to gain ground
through the OJ and Bill Clinton years I
did not have sex
Oh with that little Clinton right good
so I really thought you were got on Bill
Renton
but now number seven Jimmy Kimmel no
Stern okay okay all right you know real
problem I think we have okay yeah we
have a gentleman right there
um do do you like being it in movies
first hitting the airwaves as a snarky
second banana on win Ben Stein’s money
why is Ben letting me do this call him a
double Kimmel really made a name for
himself on the man show since then he’s
really come into his own Jimmy Kimmel
Live first aired on ABC at the unusual
time slot of 12:05 a.m. which meant he
competed with all four of NBC’s and
CBS’s late night hosts but he gained a
strong following nonetheless and Damen
originally live but now pre-taped the
show is known for Kimmel searing biting
humor and his inexplicable feud with
Matt Damon welcome to tonight’s episode
of Jimmy Kimmel sucks I am your host
Matt Damon
number 6 Stephen Colbert here we are in
March of 2003 and Iraq poses an imminent
threat to the safety of the United
States they have stockpiled massive
quantities of chemical biological and
nuclear weapons which we will find the
moment we invade them because they have
so many prior to landing his Peabody
award-winning Colbert Report gig this
sharp-witted funny man rose through the
ranks of the famed second city Chicago
worked as a voice actor and most notably
served as a Daily Show correspondent
utilizing his stoic comedic delivery
Colbert hosts the rapport in character
under the guise of a tightly wound
self-assured conservative crackpot
remind you of anyone will do it live
okay do it a lot okay do it live I could
all write it and we’ll do it live the
difference people like Colbert it’s like
I love st. anger okay I love for I love
the album cover loved it because never
actually heard the help I love the album
cover
of the fist you know they liked him so
much he was named as David Letterman’s
replacement when the Late Show host
announced his retirement in 2014 these
godless twerking machines are turning
our forests into their very own episode
of Grizz gone wild because look what
happens next
number five bill maher can you explain
what the Big Bang Theory is I added the
universe start here’s a quick there’s a
talk-show question we find on Jimmy
Fallon starting out on cables Comedy
Central the host and his series
politically incorrect made the leap to
ABC in 1997 always unfiltered and living
up to the show’s name the series was
canceled by the Mickey Mouse network in
2002 following Mars controversial
comment about the 9/11 terrorists we
have been the cowards lobbing cruise
missiles from 2,000 miles away that’s
cowardly since making the move to HBO in
2003 with real-time the no-holds-barred
host continues to speak his mind
shoot-from-the-hip and provide a haven
for intellectual and biting social
commentary I mean you’re quoting facts
how much do we really know about facts
that’s the problem is that is that facts
themselves have become subject oh man
and this this must be drive you good not
number four
Jon Stewart yeah I’m telling you
something as as nervous and concerned
and anxiety ridden as you may be listen
this is more pressure than I’ve endured
recently in my adult life if I screw
this up this is your last show and this
is all you’ll think about until you work
again Stewart first made waves in the
early 90s on his self-titled but doomed
MTV talk show he then served as guest
host for Tom Snyder’s The Late Late Show
and was expected to permanently take
over hosting duties
tell me word on the board who is doing
the lying areas however Stewart instead
inherited The Daily Show when Craig
Kilborn was drafted as Snyder’s
replacement under his leadership
daily show ratings soon increased by a
whopping 400% and have only grown from
there today
Stewart is noted for his warm wit and is
viewed as an informed alternative to the
new cycle certainly the rollout for the
president’s signature legislative
accomplishment has been rocky but at
least it has not been Mayor of Toronto
Rocky
let’s go up the stairs and get going all
right number three Conan O’Brien hi I’m
in Westport Connecticut at the evil
underground lair of Martha Stewart after
climbing the comedy ranks by writing for
SNL and The Simpsons
Conan took over Letterman’s Late Night
in 93 despite a general lack of love for
Coco early on the lanky redhead made the
show his own adding wacky surreal
elements to the talk show format oh yeah
yeah all right once he found his footing
and a sizable audience O’Brien was
promoted to Tonight Show host in 2009
but was soon re replaced by Jay Leno and
contractually barred by NBC from
television for almost a year
if I ran into Jay tomorrow I you know I
have no idea what the conversation would
be however striking him down only made
him stronger
and there’s an even happier ending to
this story for on that day both north
and south United and finally agreed on
one thing Conan O’Brien talks too much
number two David Letterman you know I
watched uh I got to see your program
yesterday it satanic dismemberment well
because is that happening a lot now
we’ll see all right
I know if it happens to someone it’s a
bad thing and you feel terrible about it
but does it is it sweeping the nation
you may be an elder statesman of the
form now but Letterman was a true game
changer in television as I said on the
show yesterday I know you don’t want to
get heavy here but I think that all of
Ripper Dave
baking’s thank you from his early gig as
an Indianapolis weatherman to a
short-lived Morning Show and eventual
late-night success the gap-toothed comic
has affected all that came after him and
we don’t want to spend all our time
discussing you biting the heads off
stuff but is now why would you want to
do that exactly from signature bits like
stupid pet tricks small-town news to the
nightly top ten
Letterman practically reinvented the
format and the number one question
Justin Bieber would answer I don’t know
how do you walk through a revolving door
we’ll take a look at this although he is
mellowed in the years leading to his
2015 retirement Dave was also noted for
his edgy er confrontational interview
style thank you thank you very much for
being here
that girl Ponemah know what do you mean
of course I mean that it is nice to meet
you and it’s nice to live on charming
look if you shut up he’d find out before
we open the curtain for a top pick here
are a few honorable mentions do you have
a sometimes pinch yourself and say I’m
heir joint I’ve been in this business
longer than almost anybody I was 16 and
they used to wear tuxedos and radios is
there some bad news Scarlett Johansson
is denying reports that she will play
Hillary Clinton in the upcoming movie
I’m very disappointed yeah nobody though
is more disappointed than Bill Clinton
he was hoping to play himself you do you
have doesn’t understand who this man is
welcome please John Ono Lennon and Yoko
when you’re in the locker room with get
after you make an announcement like that
I mean is that weird the guys are
nothing but supportive you know they
make jokes when were in the shower
lights are off I’d be like I wonder why
the lights are off you know Robbie’s
coming to shower number one
Johnny Carson Johnny he is our number
one after hosting a series of game shows
Carson took the reins of The Tonight
Show from Jack Paar in 1962
we’re dead laughs come from I wanted
from the staff and forever changed the
landscape of late-night television
although his protege David Letterman
heavily modified the format it was
Johnny that created the template still
in use today
a beeper went off in the audience see if
you can call my writers on that damn
thing while he interviewed a range of
people from entertainers to politicians
to newsmakers Carson could also make or
break a comedians career with a simple
wave and was never shy to step into a
silly skit wake up and smell the coffee
wake up and smell the coffee what do you
do after a one-night stand with mrs.
Olsen do you agree with our list who is
your favorite late-night host I’m
looking forward to that staple diet we
will live to be very old and evil in
megajoules fine young men ladies and
gentlemen I got a long way for more
nocturnal top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com I’m
out of here
no no no no Nanette oh really no I
really didn’t you I’ll see you in hell
you
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