Recalling the impact of The Arsenio Hall Show

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From 1989 to 1994, Arsenio Hall's syndicated talk show was the coolest and Blackest place to be.

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IMDB (Show Info) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096537/


Wikipedia (Show Info) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arsenio_Hall_Show




Video Description: Two classic episodes featuring Sammy Davis, Jr., Ellen Degeneres (1989) and Sandran Bernhard and Public Enemy (1992) plus a bonus clip with comedian Mario Joyner.


The Arsenio Hall Show (1989-94)

The Arsenio Hall Show was an American syndicated late-night talk show created by and starring comedian Arsenio Hall. There have been two different incarnations of The Arsenio Hall Show. The original series premiered on January 3, 1989 and ran until May 27, 1994.

Hall had been a host on The Late Show, another talk show on Fox, after the dismissal of Joan Rivers. He was given a 13-week run, during which he became unexpectedly popular. During the monologue of his final appearance as host, Hall stated that the reason he had agreed to only do 13 weeks was because that was as long as he was able to stay, as he had plans "to do other things."[11] He subsequently began working on the Eddie Murphy vehicle Coming to America. He ultimately signed with Paramount Television before Fox finally decided, after the fact, that it wanted to keep him.[12] Hall had a fairly long connection with Paramount before this, having been the in-house comedian on Paramount's weekly music series Solid Gold for several years and serving as a co-host for its final two years.

Arsenio was one of two late-night shows to premiere in January 1989; the other was The Pat Sajak Show on CBS, hosted by longtime Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak. Unlike Sajak, Hall benefited from prior experience hosting a late-night program, especially when compared with Sajak's lack of emceeing experience outside of his Wheel duties. Hall also had a clear demographic to serve (whereas Sajak was targeting the already-taken demographic that was watching Johnny Carson), and his show premiered exactly one week before Sajak's, giving him a head start. While Hall's show became a near-instant hit, Sajak's show was a ratings flop and was canceled after little more than a year.