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\n\tStephen Colbert still has seven months left of his Late Show <\/em>on CBS, but at least one media mogul has his eye on his prime 11:30 p.m. timeslot.<\/p>\n \n\tByron Allen, the comedian-turned media mogul, already has his Comics Unleashed <\/em>show on CBS at 12: 30 a.m., but he said Wednesday that he is absolutely interested in 11:30 once Colbert exits next May.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLet me be clear\u2026 if they are looking for a show, my hand is already up,\u201d Allen said at Advertising Week New York Wednesday, in a conversation with LateNighter<\/em> columnist Bill Carter, adding that his dream was to host the Tonight Show <\/em>one day (Allen made his TV debut on Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show<\/em>). \u201cFifty years I have been waiting for this moment, definitely I am going for it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAllen noted that he brought Comics Unleashed<\/em>, a classic stand-up comedy series featuring both established and up-and-coming talent, and hosted by Allen himself, to CBS after James Corden left The Late Late Show<\/em>. His company ran a 19-week trial before CBS launched After Midnight<\/em>, as a time buy. When After Midnight<\/em> ended, Allen\u2019s show once again took over the slot, this time running two half hour episodes, one new and one classic.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI said, mathematically, you will never beat this show,\u201d Allen recalled. \u201cWhy would you spend $35 million on a television show at that hour? I will happily produce the show, and you can save that $35 [million], $40 million and spend it elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tComics Unleashed<\/em> is a stand-up show, but the jokes not what you might expect to see in the comedy clubs.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDay one I said this show is to be evergreen, no topical humor, no political humor, I don\u2019t want anything that is racist, homophobic, antisemitic, I don\u2019t want any of that,\u201d Allen told Carter. \u201cThe thing I said to them [the participating comics] was, in television, you don\u2019t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCBS has not said what it plans to do at 11:30, beyond noting that it will not reboot The Late Show <\/em>with a different host. Whether Allen\u2019s pitch will appear to the powers-that-be at Paramount, however, is a whole other question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen Colbert still has seven months left of his Late Show on CBS, but at least one media mogul has his eye on his prime 11:30 p.m. timeslot. Byron Allen, the comedian-turned media mogul, already has his Comics Unleashed show on CBS at 12: 30 a.m., but he said Wednesday that he is absolutely interested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4023,16089,4699,8938,3196,241,16090,16091],"class_list":{"0":"post-26858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-byron","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-comics","12":"tag-late","13":"tag-show","14":"tag-timeslot","15":"tag-unleashed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}