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EXCLUSIVE: More alteration is coming to nan late-night landscape, arsenic comedian Ben Gleib is preparing to motorboat Good Night pinch Ben Gleib, nan first-ever late-night talk show made exclusively for YouTube, connected May 28.
Marking nan first independently owned late-night talk show franchise, Gleib’s play bid is designed to germinate nan accepted celebrity-focused precocious nighttime space, offering chats pinch nan accustomed suspects, while broadening successful scope to see apical thought leaders, creators, experts, and entrepreneurs, including but not constricted to wellness & financial experts, narration coaches, AI futurists, and psychologists.
Shows will portion 1 time up of aerial date, premiering connected Gleib’s Good Night YouTube channel pinch 2.9M+ subscribers, each Thursday astatine 10 p.m. ET. There will beryllium a unrecorded in-studio audience, on pinch a wall of screens showcasing nan first world virtual workplace assemblage successful precocious night, bringing in-real-time reactions from viewers astir nan world. Each week will besides characteristic a post-show after-party episode, wherever Gleib dives deeper pinch his guests and further curated invitees — often complete drinks and candid conversation.
Late-night seasoned Stewart Bailey — nan four-time Emmy and two-time Peabody Award-winning co-executive shaper of The Daily Show pinch Jon Stewart and showrunner of NBC’s Last Call pinch Carson Daly — will service arsenic showrunner. Meanwhille, Keith Harris, nan two-time Grammy and Juno Award-winning drummer of Black Eyed Peas fame, will service arsenic set leader and philharmonic director.
Early backers of Good Night pinch Ben Gleib see Nikki Glaser and Scott Galloway, who will look successful Season 1. Other first guests slated see Bob Odenkirk, Tiffany Haddish, Craig Robinson, Sophia Bush, Adam W, Jeff Ross, Adam Ray, Aisha Tyler, and thought leaders including Dr. Mark Hyman, Lori Gottlieb, Dr. Shefali, and Emily Morse (Sex pinch Emily), among others to beryllium revealed.
Gleib’s move beyond nan accepted web confines of late-night talk shows comes astatine a infinitesimal of existential situation for nan format, pinch nan forthcoming extremity of The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert being conscionable 1 awesome illustration. CBS is preparing to unopen down a franchise making love backmost to nan 1990s pursuing their wind-down of late-night talkers After Midnight and The Late Late Show. And CBS is conscionable 1 web scaling backmost its late-night presence, amid nan continuing diminution of linear TV, which has made these costly productions an progressively outdated proposition: A mates of years ago, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon pulled backmost to 4 episodes weekly, aft holding retired for decades arsenic nan only late-night franchise pinch 5 shows a week.
Amid economical headwinds and nan fragmenting of audiences pinch nan ongoing improvement of nan internet, location person besides been precocious been concerns regarding censorship wrong nan accepted late-night context, pinch Jimmy Kimmel Live! concisely taken disconnected nan aerial past autumn pursuing backlash to remarks from Kimmel connected nan decease of Charlie Kirk. For Gleib and company, we understand, nan expertise to circumvent specified considerations is different portion of nan entreaty of going to YouTube pinch a late-night show, astatine a clip erstwhile nan world has changed and nan late-night format is calling for reinvention.
A comedian, actor, and TV host, Gleib is possibly champion known arsenic nan host, caput writer, and co-executive shaper of nan Emmy-nominated crippled show Idiotest, which ran for 210 episodes connected Game Show Network, later trended connected Netflix, and is presently streaming connected Pluto TV. Prior to Idiotest, he gained nickname connected Chelsea Lately, appearing connected nan roundtable much than 100 times, and arsenic a regular impermanent connected The Today Show alongside Kathie Lee and Hoda.
Gleib has appeared successful complete 500 episodes of tv and amassed complete a cardinal views online. He antecedently hosted nan celebrated podcast Last Week connected Earth connected Kevin Smith’s Smodcast network, which debuted astatine #9 connected iTunes Comedy. Other notable past projects see Telethon for America, which focused connected expanding elector turnout, and Nowhere Comedy, nan world’s first virtual drama venue, created by Gleib during nan pandemic, which helped prevention nan livelihoods of hundreds of comedians and brought unrecorded intermezo and organization to group astir nan world astatine a clip they needed it most.
As a stand-up, Gleib is known for specials for illustration The Mad King and Neurotic Gangster. He has besides appeared connected late-night shows for illustration The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Last Call pinch Carson Daly, and more, and has appeared successful various films including Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and Ice Age: Continental Drift. He is repped by Feig Finkel LLP.
