Before streaming, before social media, and before reality TV took over, millions of viewers stayed up late watching USA Up All Night.
This week on Still Here Hollywood, Steve Kmetko sits down with television personality, comedian, actress, entrepreneur, and USA Up All Night host Rhonda Shear.
Rhonda shares behind-the-scenes stories from one of cable television's most beloved late-night shows, the challenges of being a woman in Hollywood during the 1980s and 1990s, her experiences with Playboy, Joan Rivers, George Burns, and Johnny Carson, and how she reinvented herself after Hollywood to build the wildly successful Rhonda Shear Intimates brand and the famous Ahh Bra.
She also discusses the reboot of Up All Night, the changing comedy landscape, her thoughts on political correctness, and finding love with her junior high school sweetheart after decades apart.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:36 The Legacy of USA Up All Night
03:58 Landing the Hosting Job
05:26 Was Rhonda Shear a Trailblazer?
08:21 Why Fans Still Love Her
09:55 Building Rhonda Shear Intimates
12:12 The Story Behind the Ahh Bra
13:52 Returning to Stand-Up Comedy
15:10 Wild HSN Stories
18:36 Creating the Up All Night Character
21:09 Comedy Training and Improv
22:04 Being Told She Could Never Make It
24:19 Becoming an Accidental Feminist
26:09 Creating Opportunities for New Talent
27:29 Female Comics Today
29:20 Finding Material in Real Life
33:06 How Rhonda Sees Herself
34:11 Beauty Queen Beginnings
35:53 Working with Johnny Carson
36:11 Political Correctness and Comedy
37:07 Rebooting Up All Night
39:28 Career Regrets and Reinvention
41:38 Dating Glenn Frey
42:43 What Wouldn't Fly Today
48:24 Advice from Joan Rivers and George Burns
50:07 The Most Important Part of Her Story
52:12 Jewelry, Creativity and Never Retiring
54:23 Up All Night Returns
Show Credits
Host/Producer: Steve Kmetko
All things technical: Justin Zangerle
Executive Producer: Jim Lichtenstein
Music by: Brian Sanyshyn
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