Late-night hosts
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Late-night hosts
Order by the year each host began hosting the show named. You place all 31 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
31
Cards
3
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release years and dates
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How to play the late-night hosts timeline game
Every card is a host of an American late-night talk show, with the show they hosted printed under their name. You order them by the year they started hosting that show. One host begins on the timeline with the year visible. Slot each new card into a gap. Choose well and the year appears; choose badly and the host still lands where they belong, but you lose one of your three lives.
The deck covers the founding hosts of network late night, the famous succession fights, the cable and satire shows, and some short-lived experiments that are fun to remember. Several hosts moved from one show to another over their careers, and each card names the show it is about, so read it closely. Some shows passed through many hosts, so a famous title on its own doesn't tell you when its host arrived.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 31 cards you might be dealt, with 3 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Steve Allen The Tonight Show
- Jack Paar The Tonight Show
- Johnny Carson The Tonight Show
- Joey Bishop The Joey Bishop Show
- Tom Snyder The Tomorrow Show
- David Letterman Late Night with David Letterman
- Joan Rivers The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers
- Arsenio Hall The Arsenio Hall Show
- Pat Sajak The Pat Sajak Show
- Jay Leno The Tonight Show
- Conan O'Brien Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Bill Maher Politically Incorrect
- Chevy Chase The Chevy Chase Show
- Craig Kilborn The Daily Show
- Chris Rock The Chris Rock Show
- Jon Stewart The Daily Show
- Carson Daly Last Call with Carson Daly
- Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show
- Chelsea Handler Chelsea Lately
- Jimmy Fallon Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- George Lopez Lopez Tonight
- Seth Meyers Late Night with Seth Meyers
- John Oliver Last Week Tonight
- Larry Wilmore The Nightly Show
- James Corden The Late Late Show
- Trevor Noah The Daily Show
- Samantha Bee Full Frontal
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