A 'talk show' (
American) or 'chat show' (
British) is a
television or
radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show
host. Sometimes, talk shows feature a panel of guests, usually consisting of a group of people who are learned or who have great experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts. A 'call-in show' takes live phonecalls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc.
Genres
Television talk shows often feature celebrity guests who talk about their work and personal lives as well as the their latest films, TV shows, music recordings or other projects they'd like to promote to the public. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues.
Political talk shows of all sorts are common on radio stations across the United States ranging from local radio talk stations in major metropolitan areas, to nationally syndicated radio talk shows such as the
Mike Dickin show and the
Rush Limbaugh show. Talk-radio host
Howard Stern also hosted a talk show that was syndicated nationally, then moved to satellite radio's
Sirius. The
tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by
Phil Donahue but popularized by
Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the
20th century.
Politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows, however. Other radio talk show subjects include ''Car Talk'' hosted by
NPR and ''
Coast to Coast AM'' hosted by
Art Bell and
George Noory which discusses topics of the
paranormal,
conspiracy theories,
fringe science and the just plain weird. Sports talk shows are also very popular ranging from high-budget shows like ''
The Best Damn Sports Show Period'' to
Max Kellerman's original
public access show ''Max on Boxing''.
History
Talk shows have been broadcast on
television since the earliest days of the medium. Late night talk shows are among the oldest, the oldest of which is
RTÉ's
The Late Late Show. Current late night talk shows such as ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' and ''
Late Show with David Letterman'' have aired for years, featuring celebrity guests and comedy sketches. TV news pioneer
Edward R. Murrow hosted a talk show entitled ''Small World'' in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on Sunday mornings.
Syndicated daily talk shows range from
tabloid talk shows, such as ''
The Jerry Springer Show.''
to celebrity interview shows like
Ellen shows to industry leader
The Oprah Winfrey Show which popularized the former genre and has been evolving towards the latter.
Talk shows have more recently started to appear on Internet radio.
Guinness world record of 33 hours for longest talk show was broken in
28 August 2007 by Davor Dretar Drele and Kristijan Petrović - Kiky in
Varaždin,
Croatia durring the Špancir festival. The show lasted for 35 hours.
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List of television talk shows
'Note:' Some of the talk shows listed below are temporarily or permanently off the air or have not premiered yet.
English language
★ ''
American Morning''
★ ''
Around the Horn''
★ ''
Attitudes''
★ ''
The Arsenio Hall Show''
★ ''
The Charlie Rose Show''
★ ''
The Colbert Report''
★ ''
Crossfire''
★ ''
Da Ali G Show''
★ ''
The Daily Show''
★ ''
The David Letterman Show''
★ ''
Dennis Miller Live''
★ ''
The Dick Cavett Show''
★ ''
Dr. Phil''
★ ''
The Early Show''
★ ''
The Ellen DeGeneres Show''
★ ''
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross''
★ ''
Gathering Texas''
★ ''
The Gene Burns Program''
★ ''
Geraldo''
★ ''
Good Morning America''
★ ''
The Graham Norton Effect''
★ ''
The Howard Stern Show''
★ ''
Insight with Javed Malik''
★ ''
Jenny Jones''
★ ''
The Jeremy Kyle Show''
★ ''
The Jerry Springer Show''
★ ''
the Joni Show''
★ ''
This Spartan Life''
★ ''
Jimmy Kimmel Live''
★ ''
Larry King Live''
★ ''
Last Call with Carson Daly''
★ ''
The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)''
★ ''
The Late Late Show''
★ ''
Late Night with Conan O'Brien''
★ ''
Late Night with David Letterman''
★ ''
Late Show with David Letterman''
★ ''
Live with Regis and Kelly''
★ ''
The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show''
★ ''
Martha
★ ''
The Martin Short Show''
★ ''
The New Paul O'Grady Show''
★ ''
The Maury Povich Show''
★ ''
Meet the Press''
★ ''
The Mike Malloy Show''
★ ''
The Montel Williams Show''
★ ''
MTV Live''
★ ''
Night Stand with Dick Dietrick''
★ ''
On the Real with Envy''
★ ''
The Opie and Anthony Show
★ ''
The Oprah Winfrey Show''
★ ''
Pardon the Interruption''
★ ''
Parkinson''
★ ''
Person to Person''
★ ''
The Phil Donahue Show''
★ ''
Poolside Chats''
★ ''
Rachael Ray''
★ ''
Real Time with Bill Maher''
★ ''
The Richard Bey Show''
★ ''
Ricki Lake''
★ ''
Kilroy''
★ ''
The Robert Dodds Show''
★ ''
Room 101''
★ ''
The Roseanne Show''
★ ''
The Rosie O'Donnell Show''
★ ''
Rove Live''
★ ''
The RuPaul Show''
★ ''
Rush Limbaugh''
★ ''
Sally''
★ ''
Sex, Toys & Chocolate''
★ ''
Shariah TV''
★ ''
Sidewalks Entertainment''
★ ''
Smart-alike News with Mr. Fluffy Butt''
★ ''
The Sound of Young America''
★ ''
★ ''
Talkshow with Spike Feresten''
★ ''
Topic A with Tina Brown''
★ ''
The Today Show''
★ ''
The Tom Green Show''
★ ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''
★ ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''
★ ''
The Hour''
★ ''
The Tony Danza Show''
★ ''
Tom Green Live''
★ ''
Too Late with Adam Carolla''
★ ''
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn''
★ ''
Trisha Goddard''
★ ''
The Tyra Banks Show''
★ ''
Unscrewed with Martin Sargent''
★ ''
The Vicki Gabereau Show''
★ ''
The View''
★ ''
The Wright Stuff''
★ ''
Talk with Jordan Knight''
★ ''
Vanessa's Real Lives''
★ ''
G'morning Didcot''
★ ''
Paul O'Grady Show''
★ ''
Richard and Judy''
German language
★ ''
Arabella'' (
ProSieben, 1994–2004)
★ ''
Andreas Türck'' (ProSieben, 1998–2002)
★ ''
Nicole - Entscheidung am Nachmittag'' (ProSieben, 1999–2001)
★ ''
Hans Meiser'' (
RTL, 1992–2001)
★ ''
Ilona Christen'' (RTL, 1993–1999)
★ ''
Bärbel Schäfer'' (RTL, 1995–2002)
★ ''
Birte Karalus'' (RTL, 1998–2000)
★ ''
Sabrina'' (RTL, 1999–2000)
★ ''
Die Oliver Geissen Show'' (RTL, since 1999)
★ ''
Fliege - Die Talkshow'' (
ARD, 1994–2005)
★ ''
Kerner'' (
Sat.1, 1996–1998)
★ ''
Vera am Mittag'' (Sat.1, 1996–2006)
★ ''
Sonja'' (Sat.1, 1997–2001)
★ ''
Jörg Pilawa'' (Sat.1, 1998–2000)
★ ''
Ricky'' (Sat.1, 1999–2000)
★ ''
Peter Imhof'' (Sat.1, 2000–2001)
★ ''
Franklin - Deine Chance um 11'' (Sat.1, 2000–2004)
★ ''
Britt – Der Talk um eins'' (Sat.1, since 2001)
★ ''
Ze'via-talk with her' '(1991-2009)
Bulgarian language
★ ''
Slavi's Show''
Croatian language
★ ''
Latinica''
★ ''
Sanja''
Finnish language
★ ''
A-talk
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Arto Nyberg''
★ ''
Ben Furman''
★ ''
Hyppönen Enbuske Experience''
★ ''
Joonas Hytönen Show''
★ ''
Krisse''
★ ''
Lauantaivekkari''
★ ''
Mirja Pyykkö''
★ ''
Ruben & Joonas''
★ ''
Sunnuntaivekkari''
★ ''
Tuomas & Juuso''
★ ''
Nevada''
Hebrew language
★
יאיר לפיד חי בעשר (Yair Lapid live at 10)
★
יצפאן (Yatzpan)
Italian language
★
Maurizio Costanzo -- introduced the format to Italian television in 1976 and has hosted since then the most successful talk show of Italy
★
satirist Daniele Luttazzi brought
Steve Allen's
genre of talk show to Italy in 1998. His first was ''
Barracuda'' on
Mediaset, but he left the network because of censorship and started, on the public
RAI in 2001, ''
Satyricon'', that became a "media case" and had great success and controversy.
★
Fabio Fazio Che Tempo Che fa
Japanese language
★ ''
Eigo de Shabera Night'' (英語でしゃべらナイト)
Norwegian language
★ ''
Først & sist''
★ ''
Nytt på nytt'' (kind of)
★ ''
Senkveld''
Romanian language
★ ''
Chestiunea zilei'' with
Florin Călinescu
★ ''
Marius Tucă Show'' with
Marius Tucă
★ ''100%''
★ ''De 3X femeie''
★ ''Dan Diaconescu in Direct''
★ ''Miezul Problemei''
★ ''Nasul''
Russian language
★ ''
Okna''
Spanish language
★ ''
La Noche del 10''
★ ''
El Show de Cristina''
★ ''
Laura En America''
★ ''
El Diario de Patricia''
★ ''
La Señora León''
★ ''
El Diario de Eva''
★ ''
Entre Moria y Vos''
★ ''
Geraldo''
★ ''
Cállate con Carlos Sicilia''
★ ''
El Show de Renny''
★ ''
Stilos''
★ ''
Maritere''
★ ''
¿Quién Tiene La Razón?''
★ ''
Caso Cerrado''
★ ''
Cotorreando''
★ ''
Escandalo TV''
★ ''
El Gordo y la Flaca''
★ ''
Despierta America''
Swedish language
★ ''
Bettina S.''
★ ''
Sen kväll med Luuk''
Thai language
★ ''
Muang Thai Rai Sapda''
Turkish language
★ ''
Beyaz Show''
★ ''
TV Makinası''
★ ''
Kime Diyorum Ben''
Persian Talk Show
★ ''
Shab-e-Shishei (Crystal Night)''
See also
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Talk radio
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Trash TV
Further reading
★
The Political Content of Late Night Comedy, , David, Niven, The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 2003
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Priming Effects of Late-Night Comedy
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Late-Night Comedy and the Salience of the Candidates' Caricatured Traits in the 2000 Election
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