Brought tears to my eyes and I am so glad I'd witnessed the Arsenio magic back in the day. The magic of the late 60s thru the mid 90's will never be duplicated nor explained. Esp. in the world of music. Love to you all.
I really liked the Arsenio Hall show a lot & use to watch every night especially during the summer months, but to say it’s the best late night show ever is kinda stretching it, Johnny Carson,David Letterman & Jay Leno are the big dogs of late night. + the Arsenio Hall show only aired from 1989 - 1993 & then in 2013 the show was revived only to last 1 season before being cancelled again.
I had forgotten how he brought black culture into the mainstream. See, I am a white lady who married a black man in the late 80's. And we were combining 2 cultures. And he was doing the same thing. I really loved what he did.🎉❤
Thank you Arsenio for your show. I'm a76 year old Black man and watched every night. Finally Black people had something that we could relate to and you made us happy and feel good before going to bed. You gave us so much..thank you.
It is difficult to produce and host a nightly television show for one week let alone five years or more. Arsenio offered something different and did a great job. Nothing lasts forever.
I enjoyed AH as a white boy from Canada. He was thoughtful, gracious, and funny. A true pioneer on the late night scene who handled the pressure of it all with style and ease.
Arsenio Hall is like if Carson and Cavett had a kid. While bringing on the biggest stars and providing some of the best laughs. The show also provided a stage for serious topics and debate. All within an eloquent and understandable manner.
And the most confusing thing was because I loved Arsenio Hall's show. Letterman and Leno stayed on the air longer than this dude and never had the cultural influence that Arsenio had.
Watched this when it originally aired in a hotel room in Philadelphia with my cousin and his tennis coach. We were eating pizza and drinking white wine. My cousin cried when Arsenio said goodbye and I threw a piece of pepperoni at the television.
when magic johnson was saying he didn't want ppl to be afraid to hug me etc, i met magic shortly after he told the world he had hiv, i gave him a handshake a hug & it was one of the best days of my life...i think the fact i wasn't afraid to hug him meant alot to him
@@TempeSoldier123 No. Her mother "bought" her an English teacher so that one day she would not embarrass her family by appearing to be illiterate in public postings that she would one day author.
@@jimlaforte1755You came to a TH-cam clip of Arsenio Hall’s final episode to rail against masking during the pandemic because THIS is how you assumed you’d change the World. Well aren’t you just touched, Precious. 🤪
Then, Arsenio booked Farakan and stations started immediately either moving or canceling the show before Paramount planned on doing at the end of the season (May, 1994).
Arsenio Hall show was desperately needed at the time. He was for the younger generation. Carson is the king and had his time. The artists that appeared on his show would’ve never gotten a shot on Carson. Arsenio’s show was a talk show, it was a party. It was a chill place to come and relax.
As usual,they scurd of us! I'm from Indy, I went to see the show on April 29th,89! Guest that day Farrah Fawsette,and Micheal Tucker from LA Law. Good times back then!!!
It’s crazy how shows like Arsenio’s kinda just fell into a black hole of existence. The 90’s was the best era for black people culturally and artistically and sadly most of it is just a blur or only in the minds of those that lived it. Outside of reruns of the same few shows from that era 90’s black culture isn’t celebrated enough. Thank God for TH-cam. White media is a trip. They will keep an Ellen DeGeneres on the air regardless of numerous allegations made against her but cancel Arsenio’s show because of self expression and a promotion of cultural awareness? smh. Not to mention countless black sitcoms that’s had a 10+ year run while many black shows of the 90’s were canceled after a few seasons.
I agree the early 90's had great TV, there was In Living Color, Martin, Living Single, Arsenio and more. Great music too with new jack swing and rap that had meaningful lyrics. But I think the Arsenio Hall Show got cancelled because his ratings went down by 1994, I don't think it was anything he did, maybe a matter of bad lead in programming and competition on the other networks.
@Derek Frampton poor you... you got rejected by a black girl and you think you're a victim. You have no clue what it's like being black in America. White people got a 20 mile head start in the marathon, if you can't admit that, then let's not bother. How many black republican senators in the last 40 years? One! That is ridiculous. The NFL is 68% black, how many owners are black? Can't wait for your answer. Black people need to have talent to make money in the US. White people seem to have a lock on making money off of other peoples talent. Change your mind? Imagine if Donald Trump were black and acted the way he does, he would never have been elected. How many times have you been pulled over by the cops for being white? How many time were you assumed guilty just because you are white?
CBS, FOX, ABC, and Independent stations carried the show. But CBS and FOX were the largest numbers and once Dave and Chevy went on the air, Arseion was relegated to later time slots with fewer viewers. It was business, that is all.
@@johnsjohnson448 True. I’m sure I’m being the nitpick about it being aired by network affiliates of all stripes vs it being aired on the CBS network itself.
😂😂😂🤣🤣 James Brown said if nobody else don’t want these cookies. JB promoting his cookies on the last show. “Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud” Perfect Ending!!!!!!!
10:46 Buton Richardson: So turn on, tune in and grab a slice of history! 10:51 Buton Richardson: "It's Arseniooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Hall!"
Toward the end, leading up to the show getting CANCELLED, he started getting more real. Not just with opening up the conversation about black America, but I think the powers that be knew that it would only get more real! Not just about black America, but he most likely would’ve naturally and organically gone deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole on any, and every, issue. Perhaps too real for Hollywood and the system
Which did not appeal to a BROAD audience = Ratings/Revnue/Renewal. It is fair to say that Arsenio had a great run and proably tired of the grind and increased competition after five years.
Still cannot believe this pop culture phenomenon lasted ONLY FIVE years, only to suddenly be gone in a flash. I blame Chevy Chase for this and the cancellation of "Studs". I guess this was FOX's long-awaited revenge for Hall abandoning ship in favor of syndication at Paramount.
Great point, however, many of the FOX stations carried Arsenio up until the disasterous "Chevy Chase Show" began. Mr. Hall's ratings started falling percipitously after Jay Leno became the host of "The Tonight Show" on the NBC network which had 210 stations carrying his show at the same time every night, not in different time slots in each market.
This Will Also Be One Of My Favorite Memories For Hanging Out With Everybody That Day In The Audience And Backstage At The After Party...Arsenio Hall My Fambam Fa'Life One Love Fa'Sho...Jon-Jon...Out...
Did my brother wrong,all because he had Farrakhan on the show. Nothing has changed in 27 years. The plantation mentality is still here.It's even worse. Because our numbers have increased, NOW they don't want us to vote.AGAIN.We need this show back.
LOL. We just had a black president for 8 years and are about to have another one when Biden steps down for "health issues." But sure thing, keep pretending you're a victim when it's easier to vote than it is rent a fucking movie.
@@KaneRobot we also just had a white president that embraced white supremacists and made it ok to be a bigot again.. And yes, making it easy for poor black people to vote is a big problem for republicans, best to make it as hard as possible if you want to win.
Don't fck with James Brown. I mean it. LOL! Love that guy! Brother worked hard and was good all of the way to the End. There are some really great performances on Dave's CBS and NBC shows on here.
He was on right after Pat Sajak on most CBS stations in the same markets which aired back-to-back Late Night Talk Shows in 1989 on the same station as it debuted within 1 week, and to us Arsenio Hall ended his 5 and a quarter year run with this 1994 series finale, as Late Night TV would never be the same until Jon Stewart took over in the Fall of 1994, but Jon Stewart's talk show did not last but 1 season.
Although Paramount did say publicly that the show was not in imminent danger of cancellation, Hall announced on April 18, 1994, that he was not going to continue the show, simply saying "it's time". This episode of the season finale of The Arsenio Hall Show aired on May 27, 1994. Shortly before The Arsenio Hall Show was canceled, Paramount's merger with Viacom was finalized. Since this now meant that Paramount and MTV were corporate siblings, there was a ready-made replacement for Arsenio and after a retooling and expansion, a syndicated version of The Jon Stewart Show was launched in late 1994. Despite being sold to most of the same Arsenio affiliates, The Jon Stewart Show was never able to find an audience in syndication as it had on MTV and the show was canceled after its lone season as a syndicated series. After the decline of Arsenio and the failure of The Jon Stewart Show, Paramount did not make another attempt at producing a late-night variety show. Nonetheless, they were not willing to give up on the idea fully and in 1998, Paramount developed a daytime variety show for comedian Howie Mandel. The Howie Mandel Show premiered in May 1998, but could not find an audience in what was then a syndicated landscape saturated with talk shows, and Paramount canceled the show in early 1999. Paramount subsequently gave up on the variety format altogether and did not attempt it again before its television operations were folded into those of CBS. In 2001, VH1 aired a repacked version of The Arsenio Hall Show, called Arsenio Jams featuring musical performances and select interviews from the show's first run.
The truth is that Paramount NEVER extended Arsenio's deal. It was purely Public Relations for him to say so and "decline" the offer. His show was toast at the end of the season due to poor ratings.
@@zt1053 The Fox Broadcasting Network gave the time back to its affiliates to program for themselves. Prior to Dave and Chevy, Arsenio's ratings were starting to fall below expectations.
They didn't want to give us a platform; when Hall came on he shut it down and gave us a voice to be seen and heard. It took away the ratings of the other night shows, so they canceled Hall...TWICE!!!
In Houston, The Arsenio Hall Show aired on KTXH 20 its entire run. I know that WWOR aired promos of Arsenio Hall Show during the show’s entire run. If I’m not mistaken some of the stations that aired The Arsenio Hall Show during its 6 season run January 3,1989-May 27,1994 were independents mostly the TVX stations that became Paramount owned stations after Paramount’s purchase of TVX Broadcast Group but in Atlanta,Detroit and Cleveland it aired on 3 former CBS Affiliates such as WAGA 5, WJBK 2 and WJW 8 that switched their affiliation to Fox between September-November 1994. But Arsenio was on WWOR which was owned by MCA when it premiered and ended in May 1994 years after WWOR became owned by United Television.
but the music isn't there, there is so much garbage now. Back then there was great soul music, new jack swing, and rap music was a thousand times better than the junk out there now.
@@davidflores6899 Your recollection is faulty. We watched the show. And his audience had many black people of all ages. Just like the thought that we hated whitney. Untrue a few did. But not all of us. As a matter of fact, he was the only talk show besides BET shows they had most of our current and pass legends and r&b/hip hop artists live
@@rrdream2400- 100% agreed. We had real love soul music back in the 80s and 90s. This could not exist today because the music of today just isn’t “there”
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !* _Tappin' in from South Central Los Angeles_ There are many, MANY shows that were kept on the air DESPITE their low ratings...like Seinfeld for example. Black folks don't have the same luxury. But in reality, it's "their shows, their rules". We need Our OWN sh*t ! Power corrupts ! And as long as We hv to go thru "them", they can make up ANY excuse the get rid of a show, even if it's successful. It's more of a power move than anything else ! It's a standpoint of "We don't care HOW much money u make us, WE still control it !" "Do what WE say...or _else !_ Great song to end with, just to let the world know ! Great planning. ✊🏾✊🏾
Woof!,woof!,Woof! Arsenio had the best show in late night! He put hip-hop on the map in t.v. n black culture. Dang Jerry Seinfeld was on the Arsenio Hall show first doing stand up n he’s now the highest paid comedian in the world!!! He’s worth like a billion dollars!!! And Ellen Degeneres is worth 340 million!!! What happened? He only with 35 million what happened ? Is there a special club he wasn’t invited to? He should’ve linked up with magic he’s worth 1.2 billion.
I wish talk shows like this would have got a DVD box set release
I was just thinking this!
Brought tears to my eyes and I am so glad I'd witnessed the Arsenio magic back in the day. The magic of the late 60s thru the mid 90's will never be duplicated nor explained. Esp. in the world of music. Love to you all.
To me Arsenio is the best of the late-night talk show hosts. Still to this day.
Me 2
Me three.
Agreed 💯. I used to sneak and watch lol.
Now all we got is that cracker Colbert
I really liked the Arsenio Hall show a lot & use to watch every night especially during the summer months, but to say it’s the best late night show ever is kinda stretching it, Johnny Carson,David Letterman & Jay Leno are the big dogs of late night. + the Arsenio Hall show only aired from 1989 - 1993 & then in 2013 the show was revived only to last 1 season before being cancelled again.
Miss you, Arsenio.
you made us laugh!
No auto tune , Luther Vandross RIP , your music will always be with us
He wasn't the next Johnny Carson. He was the one and only Arsenio Hall!
yes
Amen. He was a one and only.
Period...One Love Fam.
Arsenio had nothing but iconic legends of ALL races on his show!! This show was amazing!!
I had forgotten how he brought black culture into the mainstream. See, I am a white lady who married a black man in the late 80's. And we were combining 2 cultures. And he was doing the same thing. I really loved what he did.🎉❤
Thank you Arsenio for your show. I'm a76 year old Black man and watched every night. Finally Black people had something that we could relate to and you made us happy and feel good before going to bed. You gave us so much..thank you.
Happy 30th anniversary to the final episode of _The Arsenio Hall Show._ It aired on Friday, May 27, 1994.
💕Arsenio Hall !!
It is difficult to produce and host a nightly television show for one week let alone five years or more. Arsenio offered something different and did a great job. Nothing lasts forever.
Arsenio outshined them in only 5 years what Leno, Carson, Letterman, Fallon & Kimmel couldn't during their long tenures. Boy, I miss this era.....
I enjoyed AH as a white boy from Canada. He was thoughtful, gracious, and funny. A true pioneer on the late night scene who handled the pressure of it all with style and ease.
Arsenio Hall is like if Carson and Cavett had a kid. While bringing on the biggest stars and providing some of the best laughs. The show also provided a stage for serious topics and debate. All within an eloquent and understandable manner.
This was the saddest night in late-nite television.
It was I stayed up for this moment i was off from school that week 😢
No it wasn't. The night Jimmy Fallon did his 1st Tonight Show was the saddest night. It was terrible !
Paramount and the major TV networks did him wrong by not finding a way to keep him on the air.
And the most confusing thing was because I loved Arsenio Hall's show. Letterman and Leno stayed on the air longer than this dude and never had the cultural influence that Arsenio had.
10:52 Burton Richardson with the epic 17-second long “Arseniooooooo” for the final show.
Watched this when it originally aired in a hotel room in Philadelphia with my cousin and his tennis coach. We were eating pizza and drinking white wine. My cousin cried when Arsenio said goodbye and I threw a piece of pepperoni at the television.
Lmao
Lies
when magic johnson was saying he didn't want ppl to be afraid to hug me etc, i met magic shortly after he told the world he had hiv, i gave him a handshake a hug & it was one of the best days of my life...i think the fact i wasn't afraid to hug him meant alot to him
Nice story. It’s bullshit, but still a nice story.
Let me guess: after you hugged Magic, you stopped at McDonald’s and bought Kareem some fries?
GTFO.
Watch out and be careful. Your friends and family will shame you for not wearing a mask....LOL
@@TempeSoldier123 No. Her mother "bought" her an English teacher so that one day she would not embarrass her family by appearing to be illiterate in public postings that she would one day author.
Wow!
@@jimlaforte1755You came to a TH-cam clip of Arsenio Hall’s final episode to rail against masking during the pandemic because THIS is how you assumed you’d change the World.
Well aren’t you just touched, Precious. 🤪
Man, I remember when this aired. I was a kid, but watched this show religiously. I was totally bummed out. Such a shame that he was canceled. Loved it
Nobody COULD TOUCH THIS MAN IN LATE NIGHT!!!
Sir James Brown said, "If you hate, you cannot communicate."
Then, Arsenio booked Farakan and stations started immediately either moving or canceling the show before Paramount planned on doing at the end of the season (May, 1994).
this was the best late night show I never missed one! he was my age and the talent was outstanding!!
I still have VHS tapes of the AH show. Loved his show. He brought the realness to us at night. Thank you 😊😂❤️
Arsenio had some Iconic Black History Greats on this show! Super Blessed!😍🙌🏾
Big shout to Arsenio and a big RIP to Mr.Vandros !,,
And Vesta and James Brown. And about 30 some odd other celebrities in the opening segment.
R.I.P. Luther Vandross.
James Brown Setlist
19:00 Cold Sweat
21:06 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
23:29 Try Me
38:34 I Feel Good
40:34 Out Of Sight
41:27 Mother Popcorn
ARSENIO is THE BEST late night or daytime TALK SHOW HOST, EVER!!!!! I am a 72yr old grandmother commenting on my son's page
Arsenio Hall show was desperately needed at the time. He was for the younger generation. Carson is the king and had his time. The artists that appeared on his show would’ve never gotten a shot on Carson. Arsenio’s show was a talk show, it was a party. It was a chill place to come and relax.
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I was 18 years old in 1994 - I still remember watching this when it aired back in 1994
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I loved watching Arseino Halm back in the 90s
Damn, 90's was lit 🔥
1st and only time I ever watched a late night show. Arsenio's show was cool.
That long note on Arseniooooooooooo was efn ANNOYING! But this show was great!!
The greatest late nite show. Ended our nites nice and calm and at home. Thanks
As usual,they scurd of us! I'm from Indy, I went to see the show on April 29th,89! Guest that day Farrah Fawsette,and Micheal Tucker from LA Law. Good times back then!!!
Thanks for the awareness-building that you have accomplished in our communities.
Also that day is Ray combs's final Family Feud episode
correct
It’s crazy how shows like Arsenio’s kinda just fell into a black hole of existence. The 90’s was the best era for black people culturally and artistically and sadly most of it is just a blur or only in the minds of those that lived it. Outside of reruns of the same few shows from that era 90’s black culture isn’t celebrated enough. Thank God for TH-cam.
White media is a trip. They will keep an Ellen DeGeneres on the air regardless of numerous allegations made against her but cancel Arsenio’s show because of self expression and a promotion of cultural awareness? smh. Not to mention countless black sitcoms that’s had a 10+ year run while many black shows of the 90’s were canceled after a few seasons.
They cancelled the Phil Donahue show to
shut up
I agree the early 90's had great TV, there was In Living Color, Martin, Living Single, Arsenio and more. Great music too with new jack swing and rap that had meaningful lyrics. But I think the Arsenio Hall Show got cancelled because his ratings went down by 1994, I don't think it was anything he did, maybe a matter of bad lead in programming and competition on the other networks.
oh quit it with the "media" nothing to do with that, it was the ratings
@Derek Frampton poor you... you got rejected by a black girl and you think you're a victim. You have no clue what it's like being black in America. White people got a 20 mile head start in the marathon, if you can't admit that, then let's not bother. How many black republican senators in the last 40 years? One! That is ridiculous. The NFL is 68% black, how many owners are black? Can't wait for your answer. Black people need to have talent to make money in the US. White people seem to have a lock on making money off of other peoples talent. Change your mind? Imagine if Donald Trump were black and acted the way he does, he would never have been elected. How many times have you been pulled over by the cops for being white? How many time were you assumed guilty just because you are white?
This was my show!!
Yes this was a great show, thankyou arsenio.😊❤
I'm 44, I remember this. I was a kid, Its stil amazing.
It wasn’t a CBS network show. It was syndicated.
CBS, FOX, ABC, and Independent stations carried the show. But CBS and FOX were the largest numbers and once Dave and Chevy went on the air, Arseion was relegated to later time slots with fewer viewers. It was business, that is all.
@@johnsjohnson448 True. I’m sure I’m being the nitpick about it being aired by network affiliates of all stripes vs it being aired on the CBS network itself.
LUTHER!!!!💕🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Kids would not understand how good this show waz
no, because it was at best meh.
it was so fresh when it came out... like going from bland black and white TV to color
@@sillygoose635 At yet here you are
😂😂😂🤣🤣
James Brown said if nobody else don’t want these cookies.
JB promoting his cookies on the last show. “Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud”
Perfect Ending!!!!!!!
I remember his final guest was Farrakhan
A really wish that all of the communities would just realize that it has nothing to do with skin tone. That's all melanin we all Bleede red
Watching this ICONIC final show feeling the same emotions I felt during the original showing. #ArsenioHallForever#1
I loved his shows! Wish he would come back to host. Loved his laugh!❤️🇨🇦
10:46
Buton Richardson: So turn on, tune in and grab a slice of history!
10:51
Buton Richardson: "It's Arseniooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Hall!"
Toward the end, leading up to the show getting CANCELLED, he started getting more real. Not just with opening up the conversation about black America, but I think the powers that be knew that it would only get more real! Not just about black America, but he most likely would’ve naturally and organically gone deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole on any, and every, issue. Perhaps too real for Hollywood and the system
Which did not appeal to a BROAD audience = Ratings/Revnue/Renewal. It is fair to say that Arsenio had a great run and proably tired of the grind and increased competition after five years.
In Loving Memory of all the legends that have transcended since this final episode 🙏🏿🕊🙏🏿 !!!
I wish arsenio would have stayed on the air..if it wasn't canceled
He had Minister Louis Farakhan as a guest, he spoke his peace, & "THEY" took away 'The Arsenio Hall Show' !!!
I wish tv only had 9 channels
Must see TV Monday- Friday! 100 % cultural fulfillment, and entertainment!
I miss this set the purple lighting the couch
Greatness!
Still cannot believe this pop culture phenomenon lasted ONLY FIVE years, only to suddenly be gone in a flash. I blame Chevy Chase for this and the cancellation of "Studs". I guess this was FOX's long-awaited revenge for Hall abandoning ship in favor of syndication at Paramount.
Great point, however, many of the FOX stations carried Arsenio up until the disasterous "Chevy Chase Show" began. Mr. Hall's ratings started falling percipitously after Jay Leno became the host of "The Tonight Show" on the NBC network which had 210 stations carrying his show at the same time every night, not in different time slots in each market.
@@johnsjohnson448 Once Leno took over Hall lost on the edge on the younger viewers and once David Letterman hit the scene forget about it.
I forgot how great Arsenio Hall's Late Night Talk Show was! Wow!
This man is the GOAT of late night television
#RIP Luther 😢
This Will Also Be One Of My Favorite Memories For Hanging Out With Everybody That Day In The Audience And Backstage At The After Party...Arsenio Hall My Fambam Fa'Life One Love Fa'Sho...Jon-Jon...Out...
He was the best! I hope he comes back to TV again🙏
The Arsenio Hall Show represented Black Excellence!!
In Houston, The Arsenio Hall Show aired on KTXH 20.
I still miss this show. I wish the new show would have lasted.
7:39 mariah 💗
Did my brother wrong,all because he had Farrakhan on the show. Nothing has changed in 27 years. The plantation mentality is still here.It's even worse. Because our numbers have increased, NOW they don't want us to vote.AGAIN.We need this show back.
LOL. We just had a black president for 8 years and are about to have another one when Biden steps down for "health issues." But sure thing, keep pretending you're a victim when it's easier to vote than it is rent a fucking movie.
@@KaneRobot we also just had a white president that embraced white supremacists and made it ok to be a bigot again.. And yes, making it easy for poor black people to vote is a big problem for republicans, best to make it as hard as possible if you want to win.
Luther Vandross ❤
Arsenio was syndicated, not a CBS network show.
An appearance by my beautiful friend Vicky, Miss.Nude Universe!! 😍🤭
Don't fck with James Brown. I mean it. LOL! Love that guy! Brother worked hard and was good all of the way to the End. There are some really great performances on Dave's CBS and NBC shows on here.
He was on right after Pat Sajak on most CBS stations in the same markets which aired back-to-back Late Night Talk Shows in 1989 on the same station as it debuted within 1 week, and to us Arsenio Hall ended his 5 and a quarter year run with this 1994 series finale, as Late Night TV would never be the same until Jon Stewart took over in the Fall of 1994, but Jon Stewart's talk show did not last but 1 season.
Who is the naked woman at 9:02??? Been trying to find out and theres no answer anywhere online
Although Paramount did say publicly that the show was not in imminent danger of cancellation, Hall announced on April 18, 1994, that he was not going to continue the show, simply saying "it's time". This episode of the season finale of The Arsenio Hall Show aired on May 27, 1994.
Shortly before The Arsenio Hall Show was canceled, Paramount's merger with Viacom was finalized. Since this now meant that Paramount and MTV were corporate siblings, there was a ready-made replacement for Arsenio and after a retooling and expansion, a syndicated version of The Jon Stewart Show was launched in late 1994. Despite being sold to most of the same Arsenio affiliates, The Jon Stewart Show was never able to find an audience in syndication as it had on MTV and the show was canceled after its lone season as a syndicated series.
After the decline of Arsenio and the failure of The Jon Stewart Show, Paramount did not make another attempt at producing a late-night variety show. Nonetheless, they were not willing to give up on the idea fully and in 1998, Paramount developed a daytime variety show for comedian Howie Mandel. The Howie Mandel Show premiered in May 1998, but could not find an audience in what was then a syndicated landscape saturated with talk shows, and Paramount canceled the show in early 1999. Paramount subsequently gave up on the variety format altogether and did not attempt it again before its television operations were folded into those of CBS.
In 2001, VH1 aired a repacked version of The Arsenio Hall Show, called Arsenio Jams featuring musical performances and select interviews from the show's first run.
The truth is that Paramount NEVER extended Arsenio's deal. It was purely Public Relations for him to say so and "decline" the offer. His show was toast at the end of the season due to poor ratings.
@@johnsjohnson448 Leno was alredy kicking his butt but when Letterman got the CBS show that was the end of Arsenio.
@@zt1053 Do not forget about FOX stations who carried "Chevy Chase" which only lasted for six weeks.
@@johnsjohnson448 And then many fox stations didn't put Arsenio back on when Chevy was cancelled
@@zt1053 The Fox Broadcasting Network gave the time back to its affiliates to program for themselves. Prior to Dave and Chevy, Arsenio's ratings were starting to fall below expectations.
Arsenio show should’ve had a longer run like jimmy Fallon 😢
Reminder of how much I’ve always loved Whoopi’s personality!
I thought I had watched all of his shows Guess I didn't? Missed a lot of them! Tried to record some because of my own? Hope I can still find them?
i thought the final had all he rappers on it
They didn't want to give us a platform; when Hall came on he shut it down and gave us a voice to be seen and heard. It took away the ratings of the other night shows, so they canceled Hall...TWICE!!!
Michael Jackson didn’t even do late night talk shows but he made an exception for Arsenio.
Was there any "at the time" celeb who wasn't on this show? I can't think of one.
I CAN'T THINK OF ONE EITHER!!
Denzel Washington?
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother he definitely was on the show
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother He was on
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother I remember he was on the show promoting Malcolm X movie.
40:21 rip james brown!
Where the hell is the DVD set
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No way this is WCBS. The show aired on WWOR the entire run.
In Houston, The Arsenio Hall Show aired on KTXH 20 its entire run. I know that WWOR aired promos of Arsenio Hall Show during the show’s entire run. If I’m not mistaken some of the stations that aired The Arsenio Hall Show during its 6 season run January 3,1989-May 27,1994 were independents mostly the TVX stations that became Paramount owned stations after Paramount’s purchase of TVX Broadcast Group but in Atlanta,Detroit and Cleveland it aired on 3 former CBS Affiliates such as WAGA 5, WJBK 2 and WJW 8 that switched their affiliation to Fox between September-November 1994. But Arsenio was on WWOR which was owned by MCA when it premiered and ended in May 1994 years after WWOR became owned by United Television.
Reruns of this show continued until the fall of 1994.
John Candy wasn’t on the show
Forgot how big this show was!
It was the best late night talk show because he kept shit real..That's all we asked for
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BLACK AMERICA NEEDS THIS KINDA LATE NITE BLACK AGAIN
but the music isn't there, there is so much garbage now. Back then there was great soul music, new jack swing, and rap music was a thousand times better than the junk out there now.
Most Black people didn't watch the Arsenio show they all thought he was an Uncle Tom from what I recall.
@@davidflores6899 Your recollection is faulty. We watched the show. And his audience had many black people of all ages. Just like the thought that we hated whitney. Untrue a few did. But not all of us. As a matter of fact, he was the only talk show besides BET shows they had most of our current and pass legends and r&b/hip hop artists live
@@rrdream2400- 100% agreed. We had real love soul music back in the 80s and 90s. This could not exist today because the music of today just isn’t “there”
@@davidflores6899- you recollection is 100% false. Us black folk loved and watched Arsenio religiously.
Not missed at all
Whoopi has always been very outspoken and blunt.
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !*
_Tappin' in from South Central Los Angeles_
There are many, MANY shows that were kept on the air DESPITE their low ratings...like Seinfeld for example. Black folks don't have the same luxury. But in reality, it's "their shows, their rules". We need Our OWN sh*t ! Power corrupts ! And as long as We hv to go thru "them", they can make up ANY excuse the get rid of a show, even if it's successful. It's more of a power move than anything else ! It's a standpoint of "We don't care HOW much money u make us, WE still control it !" "Do what WE say...or _else !_
Great song to end with, just to let the world know ! Great planning.
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Why his show got canceled???????
Woof!,woof!,Woof! Arsenio had the best show in late night! He put hip-hop on the map in t.v. n black culture. Dang Jerry Seinfeld was on the Arsenio Hall show first doing stand up n he’s now the highest paid comedian in the world!!! He’s worth like a billion dollars!!! And Ellen Degeneres is worth 340 million!!! What happened? He only with 35 million what happened ? Is there a special club he wasn’t invited to? He should’ve linked up with magic he’s worth 1.2 billion.
Do you have the final episode of Real Stories of the Highway Patrol from June 29, 1998? The final episode of the syndicated series.
Uh oh 1:19
Hands down James Browns best performance