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These days, even though modern network TV talk shows have broadened their scope to feature a wider range of guests, there is still room for more. When Arsenio Hall first hosted his groundbreaking syndicated late night talk show in the late '80s and early '90s, he created an environment steeped in Black culture, featuring the kinds of guests who were never booked on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Jimmy Kimmel is a smart-alecky prankster, so the comedy on Jimmy Kimmel Live comes from that perspective. Jimmy Fallon is a glad-handing, fun-loving comic, so The Tonight Show features lots of games and friendly competitions. Late night TV shows, when they work, are molded around the sensibilities of their hosts. "People keep asking, 'How can we reinvent TV again?' By giving it to different people."
"We don't get s*** if we don't say things out loud.so all I want is a chance," she says. But late night TV – where comedic giants like David Letterman, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson and Stephen Colbert have made their mark – sounds like a better fit, and she's asked her representatives to try and get her a shot at the job. Because that's what changes late night."Īlonzo says she turned down an offer to join The View and, separately, to develop a daytime talk show. I think we're long overdue and people understand that we're long overdue. "I really think now there's going to be a bona fide chance for someone that isn't white. "When you're a person of color.you're forced to watch all of this programming, you have to find a way to connect with programming that really isn't meant for you," she says. "It's kind of exhausting that we're in 2022 and we still have firsts," says Alonzo, who graciously connected with me over Zoom to talk about why there's such a thirst for increased diversity in network TV late night. When Corden's announcement hit the world, Alonzo's name was among those floated by fans as a possible replacement, prompting her to tweet: "someone send me the job application." The lack of diversity is 'kind of exhausting'Ĭristela Alonzo is a standup comic and author who became the first Latina to create, write, produce and star in a network TV sitcom in 2014, when ABC debuted Cristela. I refuse to believe that, in five late night shows currently airing on three different broadcast networks, there isn't one that couldn't be led by a talented performer of color and/or a woman. Since The Late Late Show debuted in 1995, it has had four regular hosts including Craig Ferguson, Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder – all white males. Right now, the hosting jobs for late night shows on broadcast network TV are so diverse that ABC has a white guy named Jimmy (Kimmel), NBC has a white guy named Jimmy (Fallon) and CBS has a white guy named James (Corden). We know there is sometimes something else afoot - something unspoken - which assumes, with little proof, what we can and cannot achieve. And many of us have seen our abilities unfairly devalued in such conversations told that the lack of diversity in so many important levels of American society is just a coincidence. They will insist the only yardstick to apply here is how talented, funny and innovative a host may be.īut people of color know judging talent is often a subjective business. Objections to this idea will come, predictable as the sun rising in the East, from those frightened or resentful of so-called diversity initiatives. This is how fast media change comes now: Moments after James Corden announced he was leaving his job as host of CBS' The Late Late Show in a year, social media began to fill up with messages – not about Corden's legacy in late night TV, but over who should get his job next.Īnd many of those messaging – myself included – say it's time for a non-white person to get that spot. and Hasan Minhaj could be successors to James Corden on The Late Late Show. Clockwise from top left: Amber Ruffin, Cristela Alonzo, Trevor Noah, Ali Wong, Roy Wood Jr.
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