{"id":211256,"date":"2025-10-09T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:22:11","slug":"byron-allen-wants-cbs-late-show-timeslot-for-comics-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211256\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Allen Wants CBS Late Show Timeslot for Comics Unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert_1\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> still has seven months left of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/late-show-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-2_1\" data-tag=\"late-show-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs_1\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>, but at least one media mogul has his eye on his prime 11:30 p.m. timeslot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/byron-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_byron-allen_1\" data-tag=\"byron-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Byron Allen<\/a>, the comedian-turned media mogul, already has his Comics Unleashed show on CBS at 12: 30 a.m., but he said Wednesday that he is absolutely interested in 11:30 once Colbert exits next May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cLet me be clear\u2026 if they are looking for a show, my hand is already up,\u201d Allen said at Advertising Week New York Wednesday, in a conversation with LateNighter columnist Bill Carter, adding that his dream was to host the Tonight Show one day (Allen made his TV debut on Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show). \u201cFifty years I have been waiting for this moment, definitely I am going for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAllen noted that he brought Comics Unleashed, a classic stand-up comedy series featuring both established and up-and-coming talent, and hosted by Allen himself, to CBS after James Corden left The Late Late Show. His company ran a 19-week trial before CBS launched After Midnight, as a time buy. When After Midnight ended, Allen\u2019s show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/byron-allen-comics-unleashed-after-colbert-cbs-1236230677\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">once again took over the slot<\/a>, this time running two half hour episodes, one new and one classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI said, mathematically, you will never beat this show,\u201d Allen recalled. \u201cWhy would you spend $35 million on a television show at that hour? I will happily produce the show, and you can save that $35 [million], $40 million and spend it elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tComics Unleashed is a stand-up show, but the jokes not what you might expect to see in the comedy clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cDay one I said this show is to be evergreen, no topical humor, no political humor, I don\u2019t want anything that is racist, homophobic, antisemitic, I don\u2019t want any of that,\u201d Allen told Carter. \u201cThe thing I said to them [the participating comics] was, in television, you don\u2019t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCBS has not said what it plans to do at 11:30, beyond noting that it will not reboot The Late Show with a different host. Whether Allen\u2019s pitch will appear to the powers-that-be at Paramount, however, is a whole other question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert still has seven months left of his Late Show on CBS, but at least one media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[49565,991,88,13850,10674,10675,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-211256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-byron-allen","9":"tag-cbs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-late-show","12":"tag-stephen-colbert","13":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}