Editing Talk show (section)

==History==
Talk shows have been broadcast on [[television]] since the earliest days of the medium. [[Joe Franklin]] of the United States hosted the first television talk show. The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV (later [[WABC-TV]]) and moved to WOR-TV (later [[WWOR-TV]]) from 1962 to 1993.<ref name=Hinckley>{{cite news |first=David |last=Hinckley |title=Joe Franklin: Truth in Packaging |work=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1999/11/26/1999-11-26_joe_franklin_truth_in_packag.html |date=November 26, 1999 |access-date=January 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703060057/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1999/11/26/1999-11-26_joe_franklin_truth_in_packag.html |archive-date=July 3, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

NBC's ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' is the world's longest-running talk show; having debuted in 1954, it continues to this day. The show underwent some minor title changes until settling on its current title in 1962, and despite a brief foray into a more news-style program in 1957 and then reverting that same year, it has remained a talk show. Ireland's ''[[The Late Late Show (Irish talk show)|The Late Late Show]]'' is the second-longest running talk show in television history, and the longest running talk show in Europe, having debuted in 1962.

[[Steve Allen]] was the first host of ''The Tonight Show'', which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954. It in turn had evolved from his late-night radio talk show in Los Angeles.  Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series' popularity was cemented by second host [[Jack Paar]], who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.
[[File:Paar and cavett 1973.JPG|thumb|right|[[Dick Cavett]] and [[Jack Paar]]]]

TV news pioneer [[Edward R. Murrow]] hosted a talk show entitled ''Small World'' in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on [[Sunday morning talk shows|Sunday mornings]].

Syndicated daily talk shows began to gain more popularity during the mid-1970s and reached their height of popularity with the rise of the [[tabloid talk show]]. Morning talk shows gradually replaced earlier forms of programming&nbsp;— there were a plethora of morning [[game show]]s during the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, and some stations formerly showed a morning movie in the time slot that many talk shows now occupy.

Current late night talk shows such as ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]], [[Conan (talk show)|Conan]]'' and ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'' have aired featuring celebrity guests and comedy sketches. Syndicated daily talk shows range from [[tabloid talk show]]s, such as ''[[The Jerry Springer Show|Jerry Springer]]'' and ''[[Maury (TV series)|Maury]],'' to celebrity interview shows, like ''[[Live with Kelly and Ryan]]'', ''[[Tamron Hall (talk show)|Tamron Hall]]'', ''[[Sherri (talk show)|Sherri]]'', ''[[The Steve Wilkos Show|Steve Wilkos]]'', ''[[The Jennifer Hudson Show]]'' and ''[[The Kelly Clarkson Show]],'' to industry leader ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]],'' which popularized the former genre and has been evolving towards the latter. On November 10, 2010, [[Oprah Winfrey]] invited several of the most prominent American talk show hosts - [[Phil Donahue]], [[Sally Jessy Raphael]], [[Geraldo Rivera]], [[Ricki Lake]], and [[Montel Williams]] - to join her as guests on her show. The 1990s in particular saw a spike in the number of "tabloid" talk shows, most of which were short-lived and are now replaced by a more universally appealing "interview" or "lifestyle TV" format.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oprah.com/showinfo/Talk-Show-Hosts-Together-for-the-First-Time_1 |title=Donahue, Sally Jessy, Geraldo, Montel, Ricki: Talk Show Hosts—Where Are They Now? |publisher=Oprah.com |date=November 10, 2010 |access-date=July 3, 2011}}</ref>

Talk shows have more recently started to appear on Internet radio.  Also, several Internet [[blogs]] are in talk show format including the Baugh Experience.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

The current world record for the longest talk show is held by [[Rabi Lamichhane]] from Nepal by staying on air
for 62 hours from April 11 to 13, 2013 breaking the previous record set by two Ukrainians by airing the show for 52 hours in 2011.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22140317 | work=BBC News | title=Nepali hosts longest-ever talk show | date=April 13, 2013}}</ref>

In 2020, the fear of the spread of the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|coronavirus]] led to large changes in the operation of talk shows, with many being filmed without live audiences to ensure adherence to the rules of [[Social distancing measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic|social distancing]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Koblin|first=John|date=2020-03-11|title=TV Talk Shows Throw Out the Audience|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/business/media/talk-shows-coronavirus.html|access-date=2020-07-24|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|last=Emily|first=Yahr|date=March 13, 2020|title=Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon go off the rails as their late-night shows have no audiences|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/13/late-night-colbert-fallon-no-audience/|access-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref> The inclusion of a live, participating audience is one of the attributes that contribute to the defining characteristics of talk shows.<ref name=":2" /> Operating without the interaction of viewers created difficult moments and awkward silences to hosts who usually used audience responses to transition conversations.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />