Last Call with Carson Daly
Format	Talk show, Variety show
Starring	Carson Daly
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	796 (as of May 26, 2007)
Production
Running time	29 minutes per episode with commercials
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original run	January 7, 2002 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

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Last Call, occupying the time slot previously held by Later, debuted in January 2002, and transitioned from four nights per week to its current five nights per week schedule (after the cancellation of previous Friday night timeslot holder Late Friday) in the summer of that year. In both 2003 and 2004 it was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice TV Show - Late Night". 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Friday Night Videos is a music video show broadcast on the American NBC television network from July 29, 1983 to May 24, 2002, and was considered network television’s answer to MTV. // In the beginning, MTV was still a phenomenon that very few people actually could see in their homes... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Previously, the time-slot was filled by Later with Bob Costas (1988-1994), Later with Greg Kinnear (1994-1996), Later (1996-2000), and SCTV reruns (2000-2002). The 1996-2000 run featured a 'guest host of the week' format for two years before Cynthia Garrett became the permanent host from 1998-2000. The show aired Monday-Thursday through these years due to Friday Night Videos/Friday Night holding the after-Late Night slot on Friday nights. Later was a nightly hour-long talk show on NBC. It premiered in 1988 and went off the air in 2000. ... Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. ... Greg Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an Academy Award nominated American actor and television personality, who rocketed to stardom as the first host of E!s Talk Soup. ... Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of The Second City. ... Friday Night Videos is a music video show broadcast on the American NBC television network from July 29, 1983 to May 24, 2002, and was considered network television’s answer to MTV. // In the beginning, MTV was still a phenomenon that very few people actually could see in their homes...

Last Call was originally taped in Studio 8H of NBC's headquarters. This required the producers to work around the schedule of the facility's main tenant, Saturday Night Live. During this era, Last Call had a markedly different appearance from other late night shows: it had no house band (The Late Late Show is the only other late night show without one) and, quite literally, no jokes or monologue, going straight to the first guest. This article is about the American television series. ... The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It immediately follows The Late Show with David Letterman and is produced by Lettermans Worldwide Pants Incorporated in CBS Television City, next to the studio of the game program The Price Is Right. ...

The show relocated from New York to Los Angeles in September 2005 and with the move, the show has begun to resemble its counterparts, with the addition of the Joe Firstman as the house band and a short monologue. “NY” redirects here. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Biography Joe Firstman is an American adult alternative rock musician. ...

Like Conan O'Brien's ending phrase "Stay tuned for Last Call with Carson Daly," Carson Daly's ending phrase is "Go get some sleep" (Due to the fact that the show ends at 2 a.m Eastern Time). Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963)[1] is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television personality. ...

Last Call with Carson Daly is a half-hour show, unlike the other late night talk shows (Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, Kimmel, and Ferguson) which are all one hour. As a result of Last Call 's shortened time, Daly dispenses a significantly shorter monologue and very few jokes and sketches. May 26, 2006 opening monologue of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the full name of NBCs The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno, debuting on May 25, 1992. ... Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show that is syndicated worldwide. ... Jimmy Kimmel Live is a late-night talk show in the United States created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcast from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Last Call has a house band, led by Joe Firstman. Firstman plays the role of a typical talk show house band leader (like Max Weinberg and The Max Weinberg 7 of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show Band of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra of Late Show with David Letterman), intermittently conversing with Carson and even occasionally bouncing back some jokes. The house band has featured such L.A. jazzmen as trumpeter Will Artope and sax player Zane Musa. A house band is a group of musicians, centrally organized by a band leader, that regularly play a venue every night it is open for business and are synonymous with the establishment. ... Biography Joe Firstman is an American adult alternative rock musician. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Max Weinberg 7 members, (clockwise from far right) - Max Weinberg, Jimmy Vivino, Richie LaBamba Rosenberg, Jerry Vivino, Mark Pender, Scott Healy, and Mike Merritt The Max Weinberg 7 is the house band for the Late Night with Conan OBrien television program. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show that is syndicated worldwide. ... Kevin Eubanks on guitar. ... The Tonight Show Band is the band which plays on the American television variety show, the Tonight Show. ... May 26, 2006 opening monologue of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the full name of NBCs The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno, debuting on May 25, 1992. ... Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently seen as the bandleader on the Late Show with David Letterman. ... Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra The CBS Orchestra is the band that plays for David Lettermans CBS late-night talk show, The Late Show with David Letterman. ... Ŝ “Late Show” redirects here. ... Zane Musa is an American saxophone player from Los Angeles, who in the last several years has contributed to the Los Angeles sound. ...

Cultural References

• Within the storyline of NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, Carson Daly provided the impetus for the show's ongoing plotline.

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See also

List of late night network TV programs || There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

External links

• NBC's official Last Call Web site
• Last Call with Carson Daly at the Internet Movie Database
• Joe Firstman's Official Website