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KEY WORDS
• Late night talk show Basic

• Video clips of Jimmy Fallon/Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are popular on Chinese social media
• What is Late night talk shows?
History
• Started late 40s early 50s
• Evolved from variety shows
• Created the format
• Monologue
• Comedy
• Celebrity interviews
• A house band
• Musical performances
• Format hasn’t changed
Now the big three popular talk shows?
• The Late Show
• The Tonight Show
• Jimmy Kimmel Live

• Evolution
Late night comedy news
The daily Show

Hi everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【 闲话美国】.
Hi James.
Hi Lulu, hi everyone.
So what's our topic today?
Well, I've been noticing on Chinese social media a lot right now, clips from comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert seem to be really popular here.
Are we going to about talk shows?
We're going to talk about talk shows, specifically kind of like the American style of talk shows.
First of all, what is the idea of talk show? In Chinese, we translated it directly into脱口秀, but is it just like a one host and then guest speakers so… like what we're doing now?
A little bit like what we're doing now, so talk show, you have the host.
Uh.
And usually, the host is a comedian because they’re also gonna, you know, spend part of the time just talking by themselves and tell jokes, but then they interview usually celebrities, but it could be things like musicians, comedians, actors, famous authors, and even sometimes politicians, too.
But the whole undertone of it is comic?
Yes. The undertone of these shows is comic and entertaining. So the interviews usually are not serious, it 's not a news interview or anything like that.
So they are no serious talk shows? Like a serious dialogue asking, for example, politicians about the policies they want to make?
In those kind of things, we would consider that more of a news talk show, and those do exist. But usually that's not going to be hosted by a comedian that's going to be hosted by a journalist.
Oh, so when people about talk shows in America, most people would think it's more like a comic.
More light hearted. We do have kind of like daytime talk shows which tend to be more… not serious but not quite comedic.
That's another thing. When it comes to脱口秀, you have the idea of daytime就是日间的脱口秀and late night深夜脱口秀.
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