Why are there no female late night hosts?

[Primal Slayer]

Nah. Whatever site you got that from is incorrect. I watched multiple episodes hosted by her back when I used to actually watch late night talk shows. The Wikipedia page says she hosted from January 2000 to January 2001.

Idk, thats what IMBD says. But good for her that she got a year.

 

[KevTravels]

Hopefully a few years from now; we see a female late-night host. But which network?

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Ellen DeGeneres is the name that pops to mind for me. But I think leaving daytime for the night gig would only be for political we did it and have our own show reasons.

 

[jmc]

Yeah, no reasonably-high-profile actor like Bell's going to sacrifice their acting career for a 4-5 nights a week hosting gig.

They'll draw from comedy circles if it happens, someone like Handler but less of a bomb-thrower and suitable for network.

Bell’s stint is more of an example of the type of female host that would work for late night. Someone who’s a bit sassy, playful and enjoys talking to people.

 

[Aximili86]

Well, yeah. But why would Bell want to do that full time? She's not some huge movie-star, but she's got quite a career going. Someone like that's not going to make that lifestyle shift and full-time-job commitment just because NBC or CBS parks a truck full of money outside their house.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I wonder how much of this has to do with the different approaches to humour between genders. I've been taking sketch comedy courses at Second City for about two years now, and am part of a strong cohort of colleagues who've even split off and formed our own sketch comedy troupe (second performance for a paying audience is Wednesday!). If I were to identify who the six strongest writers are, I'd probably have list of three women and three men (of which I am one). My female colleagues are great at writing humour based on real human interactions (i.e., single friends vs. friends with new babies, what happens to your boobs during your period, that one friend at the women's march who's a racist) and me and my male colleagues often do absurdist stuff (women find out the men's room is like Narnia, a barbecue gone out of control, millennials' parent cops interrogating a serial killer).

 

[chamber-music]

Busy Philipps has a new late night talk show on the E network

 

[KevTravels]

Katie Olson would have made a great host. Her humor is dynamite and her fanbase is huge.