Joan Rivers was widely considered the first female late-night host when she began hosting Fox’s The Late Show in October 1986. However, nearly forty years before Rivers took that job, there was ano…
The Late ShowHowever, nearly forty years before Rivers took that job, there was another woman who had, in fact, pioneered the genre and become the first late-night host:Emerson, who was born in Louisiana in 1917, came before Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Dick Cavett or Johnny Carson and was really the figure who created an entire genre of television that thrives today with the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.
“Faye was officially the first late night TV talk show,” Maureen Mauk, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Deadline. She explains that the medium of television was so new, and was taking its lessons from radio, that in 1949 there was no “gendered setup”. “Women were very much part of the act,” she says. “Then the men noticed, they realized that this seemed a good idea, and essentially took over.”
Formerly married to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son Elliott Roosevelt , after an introduction by Howard Hughes, Emerson, who once interviewed Stalin on a trip to Russia, was not afraid to talk politics on the show or discuss the United Nations or Red Cross. Part of Emerson’s story and how she was the first lady of late-night television is set to be covered in a new documentary series for CNN. Cream Productions is producingThe Late Shift
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