Dark Secrets Of Late Night Talk Show Hosts

Late night TV hosts are known for making fun of celebrities getting into trouble, but they've also experienced their fair share of trouble themselves. Here are some of the darkest and most scandalous moments in the off-screen lives of TV's greatest talk show hosts.

Every night during his 16-year run as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart spoke truth to power. Perhaps he got a dry run for that dynamic though the simple act of changing his name. Stewart's father is a physics professor named Donald Leibowitz who left the family when the future comedian was just 9 years old. That and the divorce that followed left Stewart with what he's described as a "complicated" relationship with his father.

Their relationship was so complicated, in fact, that when Stewart entered show business, he dropped his father's last name completely, as Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz became Jon Stewart. He nearly made an even more pointed gesture. As he told The Guardian in 2015,

"There was a thought of using my mother's maiden name, but I thought that would be just too big a f--- you to my dad."

One reason Stewart's been open with that story is because he's received criticism from people who think he dropped his original name to conceal his Jewish heritage, but he's made sure to note,

"I hate myself for a lot of reasons, but not because I'm Jewish."

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Jon Stewart's daddy issues | 0:13
Stephen Colbert's family tragedy | 1:11
Everybody hates Jay Leno | 2:12
Trevor Noah's old tweets | 3:04
Jimmy Kimmel's first marriage | 3:56
Conan O'Brien's priestly stalker | 5:00
Extorting David Letterman | 5:56
Johnny Carson's break-in | 7:19
Carson vs. Snyder | 8:24
Craig Kilborn's boredom | 9:30

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