David Spade Will Try To Follow ‘The Daily Show’ With A Pop Culture Skewering Late Night Show
Ever sinceThe Colbert Reportleft Comedy Central in 2014, the cable network has struggled to hold onto a show that can effectively take the timeslot followingThe Daily Show. They tried to replicate the political satirical success of Stephen Colbert’s program with Larry Wilmore’sThe Nightly Showand Jordan Klepper’sThe Opposition, but the only sustainable series to fill the gap was Chris Hardwick’s@midnight,which came to an end in 2017. But now a new contender has entered the late night ring.
FormerSaturday Night Livecast member and stand-up comedianDavid Spadewill try his hand at a new late night program followingThe Daily Show with Trevor Noah. However, rather than trying to tap into the oversaturated political satire spectrum that is already dominating late night television, the new David Spade talk show will go in a different direction with “signature take on the pop culture news of the day.”
Varietyhas news of the new David Space talk show coming to Comedy Central. It will be the first time the cable network tries to fill the time slot with someone who didn’t get their start onThe Daily Show. No,@midnightwasn’t something that originated onThe Daily Show, but that series only shifted to the post-Daily Showslot when it was vacated by the other failed shows. That’s why it was called@midnightand not@eleventhirty.
If the idea of David Spade tackling pop culture in a late night format sounds familiar, that’s because Comedy Central has done this before. For three seasons between 2005 and 2007, David Spade was the host of the weekly comedy seriesThe Showbiz Show. Each episode featured Spade poking fun at the various headlines from that week’s entertainment news, as well as comedians like Brian Posehn, Andrew Daly, Scott Adsit, Nick Swardson and Jessi Klein as correspondents.
The Showbiz Showitself was an extended version of Spade’s famousHollywood Minute segments on Weekend Updatefrom his days onSaturday Night Live. Spade would deliver short, sweet one-liners about films, television and celebrity gossip in that signature smarmy, snarky tone that he became so famous for. NBC still hasclips of those segments available online, but sadly they can’t be embedded here.
The major different here is that this now untitled late night show with David Spade will air four times a week afterThe Daily Show. Perhaps the entertainment world movies a little faster in this day an age than it did over 10 years ago, so they have a lot more to riff on. More than likely the show will expand beyond the usual Hollywood ramblings to various other pop culture stories that flood the internet everyday.
Honestly, since this was the only schtick that David Spade was every really good at (besides being a great foil for the late Chris Farley), this sounds like it could be fun. Spade isn’t exactly at the top of his game anymore, but this is the kind of thing he does best. If anything, it’ll be a nice break away from the rest of the political humor at the rest of the late night talk shows.
David Spade will executive produce along withAlex MurrayandMarc GurvitzwhileBrad WollackandTom Brunelleof Free 90 Media will be executive producers and showrunners. Here’s hoping they can make the show last in the post-Daily Showtime slot.
