Thanks, Karl!

I kind of admired him in a strange way. I never understood celebrities who made tons of money but felt like they could never take it easy. Kilborn worked long enough to make enough money so that he'd never have to work again, and then he stopped working. Totally on-brand.

@@andyrose5616 Everyone Forgets He Was The Original Host of The Daily Show.

@@MikeBeckham I'm a fan of his

Synder had a longer post-LLS career... and he's long dead.

His Instagram is popping off.

You'd be surprised

Wasn’t “Moments of Zen” Jon Stewart’s creation?

@@dongiller If you search Kilborn moment of zen it comes up with him doing it on the show in '97.

@@dongiller Actually, because Craig Kilborn was the first anchor of The Daily Show, and because The Daily Show has been on the air since 1996, "Your Moment Of Zen" has been a staple of that show since then, and Craig Kilborn created it. Of course, The Daily Show was created by Jon Stewart's former co-worker Lizz Winstead and David Letterman's former co-worker Madeleine Smithberg.

Craig Kilborn was incredible when he was on late night TV. It's too bad that he's not on late night TV anymore, but he's not wrong about how ridiculous it has become.

@@dongiller No, that was a Kilborn thing that Jon retained.

I feel you cheapen the others when adding Leno as one of the giants.

You re.e. er Steve Allen a d Jack Paar when they each did Tonight? You got a few uears on me. I had plenty exposure to SA afterwards, nut just a few JP appearances as a guest. The main thing I can tell you a out Paar was he quit die to makor censorship. When they told him 'water closet' was verboten, he quit, maybe that same day. I'd put Dick Cavett on Rushmore for sure.

@@dongiller i remember when you used to proffer your opinion like this. It was always welcome.

I love Tom Snyder but I can't find any clips of him when he was the news anchor for NBC Philly affiliate KYW Channel 3 from 1965 to 1970 ; he was with us from when I was 7 to12 yrs. old . But I was so glad when he did The Tomorrow Show and later The Late Late Show . Tom Snyder had it all . I miss him so much !

Thanks, Greg!

Kilborn is sort of a unique combination of humble+smug and obnoxious, but the latter is mostly an exaggerated, entirely affected version of himself, a complete caricature of himself. Check out his instagram, and remember, it's all tongue in cheek. He got out of the business b/c he had gotten bored of it and he did not want to be pressured into being a political/social commentator. It didn't interest him. He saved up his money, retired early, seems like a good guy.

Who is Tom Synder?

I hadn’t thought about Tom Snyder until now as I’m looking for old Craig Kilborn clips.

@@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 Tom Snyder was great he did The Tomorrow Show and then later he did The Late Late Show

Yeah Tom Snyder was really great

I love when local industry groups invent a food to make people buy more of an unsexy commodity. My college's dairy science school claimed to invent chocolate cheese, which no one ever tries more than once.

How the heck are you?

@@communityorganizer5645 If that question is for me, thankfully just fine.

@@andyinoregon where in oregon are you? Would that be Hicksville, or Boring?

Not for those of us who already knew who Tom Snyder was before Dan Aykroyd was doing that imitation of his laugh .

@@siggylloyd3566 Just 8 miles northwest of Boring.

What a clever way of saying Larry King is two-faced.

Kilborn's frat-boy smirky smugness was annoying from the get-go.

Not seeing it your way. ... a -Tall

@@zelmoziggy He could rub some viewers the wrong way, but that has a lot to do with projection more times than not. *smirk*

@@communityorganizer5645 What would they be projecting?

As I’ve replied now three times, I haven’t digitized any of his shows yet.

Relax, @@dongiller... You know I'm not one of those ***holes who makes demands that make you question whether doing this is worth it. I'm just offering "general encouragement." :) If and when you do it? Great!

@@mactheknife7049 Try to understand that when someone says I “need” to spend the next few years digging out tapes currently inaccessible, I tend to resist what I “need” to do. There are so many hours in the day, and I “need” to spend them in a manner in which I choose, not what others feel I “need” to do. I’m at an age where my concern for what others “need” me to do is near non-existent. Especially at these rates. This isn’t an organization where specific paying jobs are allocated to various groups; this is a one-person operation making not a dime. So don’t tell me to “relax” when I’m subjected to what I “need” to do.

@@dongiller Jesus, Don, I'm probably more aware of what you're doing than anyone else who posts here on any kind of regular basis. I get it. You're really, really misreading what I've been saying. So I'll STFU going forward. You do you.

@@mactheknife7049 Sorry. I’m just on the edge, and it should not have been directed at you.

Yes and yes, but I haven’t digitized any of LLSwCK yet.

@@dongiller Okay! That's cool! Thanks a lot! I'm shocked that nobody on late night TV is doing interviews like this anymore.

@@dongiller a 5 questions compilation would be legendary.

@@dongiller That would be awesome to see Craig's show again. It was unusual, and was an acquired taste.

Re a 5-questions compilation: Five years worth? Life is way too short. And, again, I haven’t digitized any of them yet.

It wasn't. Peter Lassally (sp?) has said in interviews that CBS leaned on WWP to cut Tom Snyder loose. Others within WWP have implied that the transition was framed as a retirement so it didn't seem as though Snyder weren't fired not once, but twice, from network late night gigs.

Peter L really was not a fan of CK kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZslkdpRk1M6zcok.html

If Snyder wanted to stay, I have no doibt Letterman would have his back.

@Neal Cassidy Sure, I suppose Letterman *could have* thrown some weight around to keep Tom Snyder on, but that was never his way, nor was it Snyder's way to want to hang on when he wasn't wanted. By the time CBS was trying to show him the door, Snyder was 63 years old and had eight figures in the bank. In a similar position? I'd have done what he did - thanked Letterman and CBS for the opportunity, fired up a Colortini, and watched the pictures others made as they fly through the air. :)

Mac The Knife Snyder’s entry into that 12:30 slot at CBS came at a time when Dave was the biggest star in late night TV and the LS was still fresh and hot. I think by 1999 Leno had taken over in the whole ratings game (which of course mattered back then) and CBS was probably ready to put a smug dick like Kilborn in to compete with Conan O’Brien. But I largely agree that neither Dave nor Tom would have, in all their midwesterness- tried to fight it at this point. It was tragic cause LLS never beat Conan, even with Kilborn and Ferguson, and Snyder was a unique joy to have on just chatting with stars late at night.

I have every show, and thanks!

@@dongiller Oh, great. I would like to request that appearance. Thanks!

Sure. In time. Or maybe I’ll just send it directly upon email info sent privately.

@@dongiller Thanks a lot. Just sent you an email!

I don't know how any of my comments calling Kilborn an asshole could be any worse than you designating him as "an abortion," but hey, that's KZfaq. Late-night "Abortions" are cool, but the word asshole, wow, gotta censor that because it could upset people.

@@siggylloyd3566 Kilborn should have been stopped at conception. My mistake.

Lmao

Yeah Kilborn's career-schtick is satirizing his own narcissism, which isnt a loveable routine for a nobody

What's funnier is how unbelievably unnecessary La Salle was for the last 20+ of his producing career, having essentially politcally positioned himself within the NBC royalty when working with Johnny. Watch any interview with La Salle; boring, empty, talentless, virtually afloat. Amazing to think that an asshole like that would get a job any of us would kill to have.

Lassally was a joke. He didn't get along with Snyder or Kilborn. Snyder didn't want him as his EP. Nothing Lassally says about Kilborn is accurate. Lassally is just a hater.

Imagine "making yourself a target." You mean, he is exactly what he is, a self-important puffed up university frat-boy wannabe pissing in his pants just out of sports broadcasting and praying for the network bigtime. Funny how none of it worked out for him. One wonders what alternate universe you woke up in.

That he basically disappeared from the comedy scene is honestly very disappointing to me.

@@AndyWitmyer he has a podcast now here on youtube

I believe an hour of Kids in the Hall episodes aired in that spot on Friday nights for at least one season.

@@GeorgiaOverdrive Thanks. What's the name of that book?

@@GeorgiaOverdrive Does anyone here remember the Crimetime After Primetime TV series "Sweating Bullets" by chance? I swore on my life it was named "Tropical Heat" here in The States but I'm now seeing that it was otherwise named.

I have all of Snyder’s Late Late Shows, but I’ve digitized very little. A long-term project.

@@dongiller A lot of people would be in Nostalgia heaven if they could see more episodes of Tom Snyder . I know I would be . I miss him so much . Anyway , Mr. Don Giller , thank you for all the years you have been uploading a goldmine of material for us to watch here on your channel . You have made many people VERY HAPPY , believe me .

@@gardensofthegods Thanks!!

@@dongiller You are most welcome , my dear , and once again thank you so much for all you have done over these years not just for for everyone's viewing pleasure but also for archiving these programs , important to the history of American TV and Communications . Really , such an incredible job you have done with relentless dedication .

David Sanborn.

Really appreciate this upload, Don. I love the Kilborn story.

@@MikeBeckham Nah

The lady's husband died getting greens for dinner. She sees he dies on his way, so opens a can of peas so she can still have greens with dinner.

@@EugeneEff ohh right I guess I wasn't paying attention lol thanks

Hilarious. Any good gossip?

Going "postal," hilarious. Haven't heard that reference in over 20 years. Care to have a go?

Larry is an icon but somewhat of a back stabber.

@@tw364 Larry is dead.

Was that the real story? I never heard why he really left.

Absolutely not. He grew bored.

he left mostly because he was tired of the format and didn't want to get into social commentary/politics. He may have asked for more money as an offset for the fact he wasn't that interested in doing it longer, but it wasn't exactly as you describe.

Its definately false because its all over the place. That means it’s false

@Gregory Papadopoulos craig ferguson is horrible, only people who dont like killborn are ferguson fanboys. This kind of stuff happens all the time with a person having fanboys and being the cause of somebody else being hated I’ve seen this 150 times

Because before I had disabled the comments, they had turned into what every other Trump-related comment section had turned into - ad hominem attacks, pontificating bullshit, tired cliches, idiotic broadsides. Folks can partake in that nonsense in a billion other places online. Not on my channel.

@@dongiller but for me those comment section of rivalries is the most entertaining section, generally for any old trump related video. And I like President Trump, from INDIA

junnu ravi kumar Bully for you. The comments will remain disabled.

@@dongiller Okay dude, it's upto you.

@@dongiller And I don't bully anyone if you misunderstood.