chat show

noun

chiefly British

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Among some of the more high-profile names on the first season were actor-presenter Stephen Fry, Bridget Jones star Celia Imrie, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, Olympian Tom Daley, chat show host Jonathan Ross and Ted Lasso‘s Nick Mohammed. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025 Claudia Winkleman is poised to land her own BBC chat show — and Deadline can reveal it will be made by the company behind The Graham Norton Show. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025 Since then, the platform Maron helped create—the low-key chat show—has exploded into an industry worth billions. David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025 That critique assumes great masses of voters devour campaign memoirs with the same voracious appetite as those who surrender their Sundays to the Beltway chat shows, or mainline political news like a continuous IV drip. Mark Z. Barabak, Boston Herald, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chat show

Word History

First Known Use

1969, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chat show was in 1969

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“Chat show.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chat%20show. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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