Peter Lassally, Legendary Late Night Producer for Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, Dies at 93

Peter Lassally, one of the most influential producers in the history of late-night television, has died at ninety-three. Variety reports that Lassally shaped some of the genre's biggest franchises, working with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," David Letterman on "Late Show," and Craig Ferguson on "The Late Late Show." His decades of steering those programs earned him the nickname the "host whisperer."

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