“Stephen Colbert Still Has Seven Months Left of His Late Show on CBS, But At Least One Media Mogul have Has His Eye on His Prime 11:30 PM Timeslot. Byron Allen, The Comedian-Turned Media Mogul, ALRIREADY HAS HIS COMICS Unleashed Show on CBS at 12: 30 Am, But He Said Wednesday That He Is Absolutely Interared”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Byron Allen, The Comedian-Turned Media Mogul, ALREADY HAS HIS Comks unleashed Show on CBS at 12: 30 Am, But He Said Wednesday that he is absolutely interested in 11:30 pm on Colbert Exits Next May.
“Let Me be Clear… if they look for a show, my hand is alleni up,” Allen Said at Advertising Week New York Wednesday, In A Conversation with Latenghhter Columnist Bill Carter, Adding that his Dream Was to HOST the Tonight Show One Day (Allen Made His TV Debut on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show). “FIFTY YEARS I HAVE BEEN Waiting for this Moment, Definitely and Am Going for It.”
Allen noted that he brough Comks unleashedA Classic Stand-Up Comedy Series Featuring Both Establized and Up-Aand-Coming Talent, and Hosted by Allen HimSelf, To CBS After James Corden Left The Late Late Show. His company Ran a 19-Week Trial Before CBS LAUNCHED After Midnightas A Time Buy. WHEN After Midnight Ended, Allen’s Show Once Again Took Over The Slot, This Time Running Two Half Hour Episodes, One New and One Classic.
“I Said, Mathematically, You Will Never Beat This Show,“ Allen Recalled. “WHY Wuld You Spend $ 35 Million on A Television Show at that Hour? I Will Happly Produce The Show, and You Can Can Save that $ 35 [million]$ 40 Million and Spend It Elsewhere. ”
Comks unleashed is a stand-up show, but the jokes not what you might expert to see in the comEDy clubs.
“Day One I Said this Show Is to Be Evergreen, No Topical Humor, No Political Humor, I DON’T WANT Anything Is Racist, Homophobic, Antisemitic, I Don’t Want. “The Thing I Said to Them [the participating comics] Was, in Television, You Don’Te to Be the Funniest, You Have To Be The Mist Likable. ”
CBS HAS NOT SAID WHAT IT Plans to do at 11:30, Beyond Noting that It Will Not Reboot The Late Show with A Different Host. Whther Allen’s Pitch Will Appear to the Powers-Tatat-Be at Paramount, However, Is A Whole Other Question.