'The Tonight Show', 'Last Week Tonight', And More Late Night Shows Returning Soon, Albeit In Altered Forms

‘The Tonight Show’, ‘Last Week Tonight’, And More Late Night Shows Returning Soon, Albeit In Altered Forms

The coronavirus has significantly impacted the productions of practically every film and TV show in Hollywood, but as the saying goes, “the show must go on.” Late night shows are taking that saying to heart: while many productions remain temporarily shuttered, shows likeThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,Jimmy Kimmel Live,Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and more are finding ways to work through this crisis to keep you entertained during this bizarre, awful stretch of world history.

Late Night Shows Returning Soon (Or Are Back Already)

A new quarantine#miniloguefrom home with Vice President@JoeBidentonight and we are returning to TELEVISION with new episodes (also from my house) all next week@ABCNetwork#StayHome#Eat

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel)August 11, 2025

Let’s start off with what you can watch tonight. As you can see from the tweet above, Jimmy Kimmel will be speaking with the presumed Democratic presidential nomineeJoe Bidenon a special quarantined video that will be released to the show’sYouTube page, and new episodes of the show itself will be coming back to television starting next week. Deadline says guests will includeSamuel L. Jackson,Jennifer Aniston,Jeff Tweedy,Grouploveand more. (Presumably, they’ll all be calling in remotely.)

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallonwill continue to air hybrid episodes consisting of the host interviewing celebrities remotely (Alec Baldwintonight andTina Feytomorrow night), mixed with throwback segments of previously-aired episodes.The Daily Show with Trevor Noahis already of the curve, so to speak, having been producing remote episodes this week, whileFull Frontal with Samantha Beereturned from its hiatus with a remote episode last night.

John Oliver hosted a shortened episode ofLast Week Tonighton March 15, but the showwill be returningto HBO this Sunday, March 29. Starting Monday,March 30, you’ll be able to see new episodes ofThe Late Show With Stephen Colbertproduced remotely by the host and his team, as well as new episodes ofConanfilmed on an iPhone. And finally, a new shot-from-home episode ofReal Time with Bill Maherwill return to HBO on Friday,April 3.

And speaking of late night, let’s wrap this up with a shout-out to the king of late night television, Johnny Carson. Starting on April 1, Shout Factory TV (which you may find on ShoutFactoryTV.com, Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Android apps) will be making classic episodes ofThe Johnny Carson Showavailable to stream for the first time. Weirdly, its official marketing indicates that they’ll be showing a “collection of episodes from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson’s historic run”, butThe Johnny Carson Showactually aired a decade before Johnny began his legendary run onThe Tonight Show, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see if all 39 episodes of that short-lived series are included in this deal, too.