USA Up All Night (also known as Up All Night and Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) was an American cable television series that aired weekly on Friday and Saturday nights on the USA Network. The show aired from 1989 to 1998. Throughout its run, the program was hosted by Gilbert Gottfried, Caroline Schlitt, and finally Rhonda Shear.
The program consisted primarily of low-budget films, bookended by in-studio or on-location comedy skits featuring the show’s hosts. In addition to skits, the hosts would also provide sardonic comments about the featured film(s), and observations on various Hollywood- and/or New York City-area clubs and attractions (when the series was shooting out of studio). Including commercials, the program typically ran from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The films aired ranged from cult classics, to B movies, to other fare not appearing on television frequently. Up All Night would regularly show sexploitation films, with the explicit content edited out.
A destination for cult guilty pleasure movies for the late 80s/early 90s, a lot of the most obscure movies you could find were on Up All Night spliced in with skits akin to MST3K style at times with various hosts throughout, most notably Gilbert Gottfried early on and Rhonda Shear in the last few years. Up All Night was a unique experience for anyone who didn’t have those old school mom and pop video stores to find these types of films at.
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