David Letterman Headed to LATE LATE SHOW During Regis Philbin's Run as Host

LATE SHOW host David Letterman will stop by THE LATE LATE SHOW next week on Jan. 26, while Regis Philbin takes the reins for two nights.

Philbin will also welcome Martin Short, Susan Sarandon, Alan Alda, Martha Stewart and Tracy Wolfson during his run on Monday and Tuesday.

James Corden will take the reigns as host of THE LATE LATE SHOW on Monday, March 23, 2015. The 36-year-old Corden comes to American late night television with a growing list of award-winning and critically acclaimed credits. He is a Tony Award-winning performer on Broadway, a BAFTA-winning star of a UK television series, a feature film actor with two releases this year, and an acclaimed host, writer and producer in several genres of television.

This August, David Letterman, the longest-running host in late night television history at 31 years and counting, reached another milestone - 20 years as host of the groundbreaking LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on CBS. After nearly 6,000 late night broadcasts, he remains one of the most influential, most critically acclaimed and most honored personalities in the history of television. Often imitated but never matched, Letterman presents, night after night, an unpredict­able hour of innovative comedy.

On Aug. 30, 1993, THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN made its debut, and it quickly went on to become one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed programs of the year. Twenty later, the LATE SHOW continues to deliver inventive and imaginative comedy every night. For its efforts, it has earned six Emmy Awards as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.

Letterman's first network break came in 1978 on the CBS variety series "Mary," starring Mary Tyler Moore. In November of that year, he made the first of his 22 appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." He also guest-hosted "Tonight" numerous times.

In 1980, Letterman began hosting an Emmy Award-winning morning comedy-variety program, "The David Letterman Show," which ran for three months on NBC. His critically acclaimed show "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered in February 1982. Throughout its 11½ years, "Late Night" was honored with many awards, including five Emmys and 35 Emmy nominations.

From the start, Letterman has been critically applauded for redefining the talk-show genre. In December 2012, Letterman was an honoree at the prestigious "35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors," which recognizes recipients for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures and television. In 1992, he received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for taking "one of TV's most conventional and least inventive forms - THE TALK show - and infusing it with freshness and imagination." In March 2011, Letterman was awarded the prestigious Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence at Comedy Central's first annual "The Comedy Awards." Letterman has also won two AMERICAN COMEDY AWARDS as Funniest Male Performer in a Television Series, and in 2012, he received the Career Achievement Award from the Television Critics Association. Letterman was also honored as "Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host" at the 31st Annual People's Choice Awards in 2005.

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