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Chicago’s iO Theater will close permanently after being shuttered for several months during the coronavirus pandemic, the theater’s owner said. “I am sad to announce that the pandemic has brought iO to financial ruin,” Charna Halpern said in an email to NBC Chicago. “I had hoped to wait out the pandemic, but no one knows how long it will...

Jimmy Fallon announces he’s co-hosting a coronavirus event with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.

Most of the usual late-night shows returned to their respective networks with new episodes last week following a brief hiatus.

Late-night comics got experience Thursday night doing shows with virtually no audience, except for paid staffers

NBC executive Jim Bell, who has produced the last four Olympics for the network and been in charge backstage at Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight” show for the past year, says he’s leaving NBC.

Stephen Colbert will be sticking around for four more years. CBS announced Thursday that Colbert has signed a new contract that will keep him as the “Late Show” host through at least August 2023. His current pact was set to expire next August.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says verbal missteps and factual errors he’s made while campaigning aren’t “substantive.” The former vice president made his case Wednesday in a CBS “Late Show” interview with host Stephen Colbert. Biden agreed he’s tripped over some details, but said it’s not “relevant” whether some anecdote occurred when he was a senator or vice president. Biden...

Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert sing “The NeverEnding Story” theme in a duet similar to a scene from Season 3 of “Stranger Things” while getting ready for their shows backstage.

Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Mitch McConnell during a late-night appearance Monday after the senate majority leader had said Stewart was “bent out of shape” in how he’s advocated for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. The former host of “The Daily Show” stopped by his old correspondent and long-time friend Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” to continue to push for Congress to...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is headed to New York City this weekend for her second big trip out of town during her first month in office.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is heading to New York City, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the details on the mayor’s plants for the Big Apple. 

Chicago accents may not be da best, but they’re pretty sexy, according to a new ranking.

When comedian and “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah went on stage at the Oscars to introduce best picture nominee “Black Panther,” Noah told a multi-layered joke that only a few people would be able to understand.

Heartland Cafe, an iconic restaurant and music venue in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood known for its culture and history as much as its mostly vegetarian menu, closed its doors on New Year’s Eve after more than four decades.

After a 35-year acting career and with two iconic television characters to her name — Elaine Benes of “Seinfeld” and foul-mouthed Vice-President Selina Meyer — Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy.

Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” on CBS and Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” on NBC began Tuesday with the taped segment in which the hosts video chat about comments Trump made about them Monday.

Jimmy Fallon is opening up about the personal anguish he felt following the backlash to his now-infamous hair mussing appearance with Donald Trump.

Former President Bill Clinton admitted that his combative response earlier this week to questions about Monica Lewinsky wasn’t his “finest hour,” but he took issue with how the interview broached the subject of his workplace relationship. “It wasn’t my finest hour, but the important this is, it was a very painful thing that happened 20 years ago,” Clinton told Stephen...

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“The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening waded into the waters surrounding his controversial animated character Apu during an interview with USA Today… and basically shrugged.

Hank Azaria said Tuesday he is “willing to step aside” from voicing the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on “The Simpsons,” during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “The late Show.” His animated character, a Kwik-E-Mart owner introduced in the 1990s, was recently the subject of Hari Kondabolu’s TruTV documentary, “The Problem With Apu,” which argued Apu perpetuates a harmful stereotype of South...