Anyone expecting Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen to get a splashy 11:35 makeover will want to temper those expectations, stat.
CBS has released the guest lineup for Allen’s first week in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s former time slot, and it looks very much like Comics Unleashed as viewers have come to know it over the last two decades: working comics, evergreen banter, and no obvious bid to replicate the star-driven late-night model it is replacing.
That is notable mostly because of the time slot. The 11:35 hour has long been network late night’s marquee stage—a place for A-list guests, big swings, and heavily promoted first nights. Allen’s debut week, by contrast, appears designed to signal continuity rather than reinvention.
Friday night’s time slot premiere will feature comics Hannah Dickinson, Mark Smalls, Lance Woods, and Joe Sib.
The lineup for next week includes:
Monday, May 25
Kaycee Conlee; Skyler Higley; Greg Baldwin; Mattio Martinez
Tuesday, May 26
Johana Coca; Noah Copfer; Marc Theobald; Jeff Leach
Wednesday, May 27
Kim McVicar; Tobe Hixx; Carlos Oscar; Jonathan Flanagan
Thursday, May 28
Maryellen Hooper; Mike Finoia; Chase Anthony; Ramsey Badawi
Friday, May 29
Ali Kolbert; Sean Corvelle; Zak Toscani; Ali Sultan
As it has since moving into CBS’s 12:37am slot last year, Comics Unleashed will air a new episode in its first half-hour, followed by a repeat during the second half of the hour.
The show’s move to 11:35pm expands Allen’s time-buy arrangement with CBS, under which Allen Media Group pays the network for the airtime and sells the advertising itself. With Comics Unleashed moving up to 11:35, another AMG show, Funny You Should Ask will slide into the CU‘s former 12:37am timeslot.
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I went to several of the tapings years ago and they were excruciating to sit through even when I was a paid audience member. Count me out on watching more of this.
the second episode tonight is also new or a rerun?
I’m confused. I thought Colbert’s last show was Thursday night and Byron’s first show with new episodes would be starting this Friday. I watch the show tonight (Friday) and I see it is Season 4 episode 5 followed by 6.
Who TF are these guests? This is the best CBS could come up with? I thought the new ownership was taking this network in a new and improved direction, but I do not want to see this amount of color and trans trash on my TV. #MAGA
GFY, MAGA trash!
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With CBS now being owned and controlled completely by pro-genocide Zionists, will these CBS comics make fun of Palestinians?
You’d be perfectly happy as an SS guard at Auschwitz, scumhole!
Why does any comment on Israel murdering tens of thousands of ppl to steal their lands and properties almost invariably leads to accusations of antisemitism? It’s not about Israel being primarily a self-declared Jewish state, but about the actions of this particular state towards It’s neighbors and the few minorities living in it.
Palestine didn’t want it, and now you fuckers, that have clearly not learned anything at school, are using the term ‘illegal settlement’ as a mask for your anti Semitism!
And don’t you fucking blame Israel for the actions of one man! The vast majority of Israelis despise Netanyahu, despite him winning minority governments with only less than a quarter support!
first to third in a week, or at least when Fallon comes back after a week off…Kimmel is live next week after Memorial Day
Not live, just back with new shows Tuesday through Thursday. Reruns on Monday and Friday.
yes, I’m well aware none of them are live, though Kimmel was at the inception of his show, hence the name…Allen has some leeway here as Fallon is off this week and Kimmel has guest hosts all summer
The problem with Colbert wasn’t that he was too political or woke, the problem was that TV as the business model that we know is dying. Ellison’s kid is sinking in debt to buy two media conglomerates, and even for Disney(That has Parks and Resorts) and NBC(That has broadband) is going to be more and more difficult to justify ANY type of original content. Even the NFL.
(Bill Carter’s truism that late night was an American format wasn’t wrong, in large part because even for European networks it was very difficult to justify the costs this type of show in a daily basis. But a lot of comedy shows in LatAm and Europe have been being cancelled).
It’s less of a “Who’s Who” of guests and more of a “Who?”
never heard of any of these comics.
not interested in the least
first to third in a couple weeks or so…granted, Kimmel will be off for the summer, and Fallon’s off this week, but eventually it happens
Wow! Replaced Colbert with a who’s-who of “who?”. I won’t be tuning in.
I love that the guests being shared by CBS and/or Allen are only for the first show of each evening, as if the second show doesn’t exist or that they’re giving the impression that the first show is an hour long, which it surely is not.
They know that the second episode of the evening is going to be from their “library” (read: reruns from as early as 2006), so showing the original air date would repel viewers.