# And the winner of the best late night host/show (in your opinion) is: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** talk-variety-show\ **Created:** [February 25, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-winner-of-the-best-late-night-host-show-in-your-opinion-is/980327 "2023-02-25T00:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-winner-of-the-best-late-night-host-show-in-your-opinion-is/980327/8 "2023-02-25T01:06:14Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Craig Ferguson. Craig would be the first to insist that he’s not running a real show and that it was just practice for the ‘good ones’. His iteration of the _Late Late Show_ was really more of an exercise in performative flirtation—not that there is anything wrong with that. My ranking in the post-Carson era would be early Letterman (i.e. _Late Night with David Letterman_) before he made it clear that he was really just bored with the majority of his guests closely followed by Conan O’Brien in any venue. I guess if you were to shake the rest and see who rises to the top Kimmel would be somewhere in the froth along with Arsenio Hall. Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno are down at the bottom unsuccessfully trying to outfunny each other by laughing at their own jokes. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > What-No love for Chevy Chase? He was…better than Paula Poundstone? Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-winner-of-the-best-late-night-host-show-in-your-opinion-is/980327)._