Q. Are guests on late-night talk shows paid to be there? A. Spokesmen for the shows are not eager to go on the record about this topic, but generally speaking it tends to work like this ...

But the category has been no stranger to change in recent years. Up until 2015, late-night talk shows competed against the likes of "Saturday Night Live" in the variety series category.

Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Ralph Bavaro/BRAVO via Getty; Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty (2); Arturo Holmes/Getty Some familiar faces are making their long-awaited return to late-night TV next week!

Just before the actor and comedian takes his final bow as the late-night talk show ... to sign off. The British actor and comedian hosts his final episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden ...

After all, the "first late night TV talk show" had a female host: Faye Emerson, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Maureen Mauk told Deadline. Five years before "Tonight Starring Steve Allen ...

If you’ve ever spent an evening scrolling through YouTube, you’re bound to have come across a clip from an American late-night talk show. Perhaps it featured celebrity guests reading mean ...