Word: sajak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its debut last January, The Arsenio Hall Show has passed both Pat Sajak and David Letterman in the ratings, to take the No. 2 slot behind Carson's venerable Tonight show. Hall's show ranks No. 1 among the important under-35 audience. "I take the view that the public has elected me as a new late-night talk-show host," he says enthusiastically. "I've worked all my life preparing for it, putting together a platform -- my kind of guests, my kind of music, what I think is funny. I've been warming...
...urban contemporary radio stations have noticed a drop in their listenership when Hall is on the air. The inevitable TV imitators are starting to appear, notably The Byron Allen Show on CBS, a Saturday-night talk show with another black comic as host. Even fuddy-duddies like Carson and Sajak seem to be feeling the heat. Would rock acts like Simply Red and Stevie B. have been booked in the days before Hall...
...office around 11, conducts personal business and prepares for the late-afternoon taping. After the show, he reviews the tape with producer Brown, who worked with him on The Late Show. Most nights he watches the show again at home by himself, then takes a look at Carson, Sajak and Letterman before going to bed, usually around 2 a.m., with a talk-radio station droning in the background. Says he: "I can't go to sleep without...
...added a sharp political edge to his stand-up material. David Letterman, camp counselor on NBC's irreverent Late Night, seems to have boosted his political consciousness as well -- not just in his brief monologues but in such regular bits as the often hilarious Top Ten lists. Newcomer Pat Sajak also takes regular, if timid, swings at political figures like Vice President Quayle...
What does America think of Jim Wright? Dan Quayle? The Exxon oil spill? Find out by turning to the comedy monologues of Carson, Leno, Letterman and Sajak...