''The John Kerwin Show'' was an American monthly

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filmed in

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. The show was broadcast on

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, and featured on

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History

The John Kerwin Show was originally formatted as a

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. Beginning in 2001, the show has featured guests including

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, and many others. . The Kerwin show was produced regularly for 7 seasons, 2010–2016, with sporadic production in prior years. In August, 2007, Kerwin, along with then producer Rob Baker met with NBC's head of late night and prime time programming Rick Ludwin and was a contender for the position then to be vacated by

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in 2009 as he left NBC's "Late Night" to host

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. The position was eventually given to

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. He also was considered to host a talk show on

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but lost hosting duties to ALF. In July, 2010, The John Kerwin Show began regular production and started airing on

nationwide. Starting in 2015, John became a featured columnist for Tae Kwon Do Times, Stand Up Comedy Magazine and Puretimes Entertainment Magazine. The show's final season in 2017 was reformatted as ''The John Kerwin Kids Show'', featuring only child actors. Both the original and the ''Kids Show'' continued to air in reruns on JLTV until the network removed it from the schedule in 2019.

Notable episodes

For the show's 50th episode in January, 2006, Kerwin's guest was actor

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, whose appearance turned out to be the actor's last late night talk show appearance before his death. The appearance by Carradine and Kerwin's achievement earning a Black Belt in Taekwondo prompted

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on the occasion of the show's 6th anniversary on the air and 60th episode. For the May, 2008 episode featuring guests

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and

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, a special monologue was prepared featuring comedy contributed by writers from each former

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host:

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(

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), Tony DeSena (

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) and Marvin Silbermintz (

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). The March 2012 episode,

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was featured as a guest; this was the show's 100th episode and was covered by The LA Weekly and The Santa Monica Daily Press.LA Weekly
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. On Episode 110, Kerwin interviewed

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at the Honda Center and played basketball against them as part of a remote shoot for the show.

Awards

The John Kerwin Show has won over 15 TV awards including the Telly Award, the Wave Award, the AEGIS Award, and the Hermes Award.

References

External links

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