Carson Daly is a rarity among late-night hosts. The Santa Monica native broke into the afterhours landscape after a successful career in music, not comedy, and has spent the past eight years at NBC slowly breaking free from the traditional talk show format. When ConanGate threatened the 1:30 A.M. time slot that he had peacefully occupied since 2002, Daly stayed respectfully quiet about his network (even as his peers took swings at him ), instead submerging himself into a new Last Call format. Without a desk, a tie or an audience, Daly has finally found a documentary style for his show that fits — and allows him to shine a spotlight on the bands he loves (and covers during on his KAMP -FM morning radio show), take viewers on field trips (recently, to see a house that Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner was flipping) or expose his audience to stream-of-consciousness lessons from interesting figures like David Lynch. The persevering Daly phoned Movieline to discuss why he holds no ill will against NBC or his early-morning time slot, his fondest memories of MTV and the one shocking story that Matthew McConaughey never would have told in front of a studio audience.
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Carson Daly On NBC’s Shake-Ups, Life After MTV and Reinventing Late Night
