The king of night time comedy was once a struggling comic who wrote jokes for guys like Joey Bishop: meet thirty year old David Letterman. A clip from 1978 on the CBC program, 90 Minutes Live, a Canadian television talk show which aired on CBC Television from 1976 to 1978. The program aired weekday evenings at 11:30 p.m. Hosted by Peter Gzowski, the program was patterned after CBC Radio's This Country in the Morning, with both current affairs and entertainment features. Other personalities associated with the program included Allan Fotheringham, Rick Moranis, Danny Finkleman, Valri Bromfield and John Harvard. The program was not successful with CBC audiences, and was replaced in 1978 by Canada After Dark.