The Dick Cavett Show also offered entertainment but Cavett offered his own twist to the talk show circuit: having controversial guests and asking probing questions of those guests. Once he insulted Christine Jorgensen (the first male to have a sex change operation in America) and "she" walked off the show! Jorgensen left Cavett empty-handed because Jorgensen was the only guest scheduled for that evening! Cavett spent the rest of that show talking about how he had not meant to offend Jorgensen when asking about the status of "her"romantic life with "her" wife! For this and other controversial episodes, Cavett's show eventually was canceled; but it surely was fun while it lasted. One of his last guests was Robert Kennedy in 1967 who announced that he still had not made up his mind whether he was going to run for the Democratic Nomination in 1968.

Johnny Carson took over The Jack Parr Show and remained the host for over 20 years.Carson also offered controversy, but he handled it in a more comical manner, such as his nightly impersonations of popular personalities, such as Ronald Reagan. One of Carson's regular formats was to invite guests who brought rare animals to the show. Carson was afraid of snakes and it was hilarious when he had a guest who brought a snake that was adorned across Carson's desk.

Carson retired from The Tonight Show and was replaced by Jay Leno. Leno is very funny, animated and interesting. His show has retained the same populartiy enjoyed by Carson in The Tonight Show.

Mike Douglas offered a very light, airy format with popular guests and singing to match. The show never really was controversial; but what was new about it was that it was a daytime talk show.

The Phil Donahue Show was very controversial. It offered a spin off on Cavett's practice of having controversial guests and asking probing questions. The difference was that Donahue would invite an entire panel of controversial guests and that for the first time the audience was able to ask questions. The show started out in Chicago and later moved to Los Angeles.

Oprah Winfrey basically offered the same kind of format except that quite often Winfrey would interject herself into the discussions on a more personal level. Winfrey also was more apt to invite guests who were victims of some sort of abuse, scam, crime, etc., instead of just people who were controversial.

Giraldo Rivera offered the typical talk show/entertainment format that had become so common by the time of the show's inaugural episode. Unfortunately, Rivera's ratings did not stay up and his show was canceled. His more distant, austere, "Sullivan" type of approach to his work did not work for the nineties.

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