After Midnight: next episode, guests and everything we know about the Taylor Tomlinson late night show

Taylor Tomlinson on After Midnight
Taylor Tomlinson on After Midnight (Image credit: Terence Patrick/CBS)

Late night TV has a new face, as comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts the new show After Midnight on CBS.

Tomlinson's new late-night program is going to air immediately after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, occupying the time slot that previously belonged to The Late Late Show with James Corden which ended its run in 2023. Tomlinson's show of course joins the late-night lineup that also includes The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC.

What is going to make After Midnight different from the other late-night offerings and who is going to be on it? We have everything we know about the series laid out for you directly below.

When is the next After Midnight episode?

After Midnight is airing a rerun for Friday, April 26, airing at 12:37 am ET/PT (technically Saturday morning) on CBS. The guests for the episode are Randy Sklar, Jason Sklar and Rob Haze.

After Midnight guests: April 22-26

Here is the slate of guests set to appear on After Midnight April 22-26, though only the first three days of the week have been confirmed:

*Editor's note, we are classifying the days guests appear as how CBS lists them: 

Monday, April 22

  • Caitlin Reilly
  • Gillian Jacobs
  • Pete Holmes

Tuesday, April 23

  • Drew Carey
  • Thomas Lennon
  • Weird Al Yankovic

Wednesday, April 24

  • Lisa Ann Walter
  • Michaela Watkins

Thursday, April 25

  • Moshe Kasher
  • Jason Ritter
  • Chloé Hilliard

Friday, April 26

  • Randy Sklar
  • Jason Sklar
  • Rob Haze
  • Original airdate March 11

After Midnight host

Taylor Tomlinson is a stand-up comedian who has filmed multiple Netflix stand-up comedy specials, including Quarter Life Crisis, Look at You and Have It All. 

Tomlinson was announced as the new host of After Midnight by Stephen Colbert during a special segment on The Late Show back in November 2023.

After Midnight premise

After Midnight is a slightly tweaked version of the Comedy Central show @midnight that was hosted by Chris Hardwick and ran from 2013-2017. CBS is billing the late-night show as "the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet."

Tomlinson will lead a panel of rotating guests from the worlds of entertainment, comedy, music and beyond as they tackle the buzziest things on the internet in a game-show-style format.

Let Tomlison give you a preview of what to expect with this promo video shared on Instagram:

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After Midnight guests

After Midnight is going to feature a rotating cast of guests that make up the panels discussing the latest in internet trends.

No guests have been announced as of publication, but we'll update this post as they are announced.

How to watch After Midnight

After Midnight is going to air live on CBS, which is available to all viewers that have a traditional pay-TV subscription, a TV antenna receiving local stations or a live streaming TV service that carries CBS, which includes Fubo, Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV. Paramount Plus with Showtime subscribers can also watch a live stream of the show through the streaming service.

If 12:37 am is too late for you but you want to watch After Midnight on-demand, all episodes are going to be available to stream on Paramount Plus (to all subscribers) the day after they air on CBS.

Michael Balderston

Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. Spending most of his time watching new movies at the theater or classics on TCM, some of Michael's favorite movies include Casablanca, Moulin Rouge!, Silence of the Lambs, Children of Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Star Wars. On the TV side he enjoys Only Murders in the Building, Yellowstone, The Boys, Game of Thrones and is always up for a Seinfeld rerun. Follow on Letterboxd.