"The Arsenio Hall Show" is coming back to TV this fall after almost 20 years since it last signed off. While Hall says viewers can expect to see a different late-night show than the one he left behind in the 1990s, there's one thing he's pretty sure will follow him wherever he goes: the dog-pound chant. "I've got a feeling when I walk out this time, they'll be doing that," Hall told Today.com.
The raised fist "Woo! Woo! Woo!" chant may have helped Hall become one of the biggest names in late night during the '90s, but despite his former success, he told reporters Friday he's basically starting over with his show. Hall, who interviewed everyone from Madonna to Snoop Dog to then presidential hopeful Bill Clinton during his nearly five-seasion run, said he left the late-night scene 19 years ago to "seek some balance in my life as a man... and do some soul searching," but is excited to bring a new kind of show to television. "I'm different, so my show must be different," he said.
He does, however, plan to bring back some of his old show's biggest guests, including Mariah Carey, who made her very first television appearance on Hall's program in September 1990. She performed her single, "Vision of Love", but Hall said that due to her then-manager Tommy Mottola, he got cheated out of interviewing her.
"I remember saying, 'Tommy I want to ask Mariah this tonight.' And I would get a message back, 'Not only can you not ask her that, but you're not interviewing her tonight'," Hall said. "I never had the interview with Mariah that I always wanted to have. And now it's even better because it's been 20 years and she's still relevant and I'm proud of that. So I look forward to doing the interview I never got to do, the uncontrolled one where I get to sit with her and really kick it."
(excerpt from Today)
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