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E! gives Ross Mathews his own talk show!
THR: How did you feel when E! offered you the deal?
Mathews:When E! came to me and said they wanted to expand my role on the network including shooting a pilot, I was thrilled, but it felt right. I mean, I worked really hard and when you’re ‘Ross the Intern,’ I get it. I was behind the scenes answering phones of The Tonight Show with dreams of becoming a talk-show host and that Hollywood dream happened to me. But, I understand you don't get legitimacy like that right away. Sure, I was on national television on The Tonight Show for years and years and years, but I understood that a lot of people didn’t think I could ever carry a show. I knew it. I’ve always known that that’s the one thing that I would ever be good at. But slowly throughout the years and proving myself and developing that voice, when I found out that E! wanted to give me this deal, I felt like okay. It’s well earned and I’m ready. I am ready.
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THR: How is your new talk show going to be different from what’s out there now?
Mathews: In the past ten years, we’ve built a really strong foundation not only with The Tonight Show, but now of course in the past few years, being on [Chelsea Handler's] show every week. The only thing that separates everybody, because I don't think you would re-invent the wheel for a talk show, it’s about point of view and that’s what I spent the past decade developing is my point of view. There are so many funny people, and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I’m developing my show, that’s going to be the focus. My energy, my spontaneity, and my unique voice, and I’m not talking about this squeaky thing right here.
THR: How would you describe your point of view?
Mathews: I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny. That’s the number one goal of any show that I’ll do is being funny without a victim. So, it’ll be ‘LOL.’ It’ll be spontaneous and it’ll be a good time. Listen, it’s a crappy world out there right now. Unemployment is at almost 15 percent in some states. People need a reason to smile, and I want to give a half-hour of sit down, just chill out with me, and let’s ‘LOL’ together. It’s going to be a happy moment.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...is-talk-226663
I'm really happy for him. He hosted Chelsea Lately last night and did an amazing job!
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