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...it’s not that a woman has never hosted a late-night network talk show: “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” aired for less than one year, premiering in the fall of 1986. Since 1983, Rivers had served as Johnny Carson’s permanent guest host, a fairly major coup in and of itself. But when Rivers learned she wasn’t one of the frontrunners under consideration for the “Tonight Show” spot if Carson were to step down, she was furious...
What does it take to host a late-night talk show? The title of Handler’s Times profile (“I’m Chelsea Handler. And You’re Not.”) is a play on Chevy Chase’s famous “Weekend Update” introduction, but the comparison with “Saturday Night Live” is misleading. A talk show’s standard news-rehashing monologue and various sketches certainly call for traditional comedic chops, but the celebrity interview, a talk show staple?...
...remedy to the lack of women on late night is not to breed a zinger-equipped army of comedy androgynes. It is to encourage female comics, and try our hardest to appreciate the quality of their humor free from the context of gender...
...said he gave around $10,000 for the women’s squash team to take a training and service trip to India in January. The Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center and the Albert H. Gordon Professorship of Business Administration bear the name of his late father, the class of 1923 alumnus and former Crimson editor who ran track and led a stock brokerage firm through the Great Depression...
Perhaps the least disappointing of the three artists was Park, if only because expectations for him were so much lower. Park was an inoffensive and unexciting choice, and his late afternoon performance lived up to this billing. He has a pleasant voice, capable of conveying emotion without straining his voice to cloying effect. Standing alone on the stage, his unaccompanied guitar and vocals eased through a set of consistent and perfectly acceptable tracks. Nothing in particular stood out, and the only moment when the crowd truly became engaged was when CEB members rather disrespectfully started throwing out T-shirts...