He hosted the late-night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show,[4] from 1989 until 1994, and again from 2013 to 2014.

He has appeared in Martial Law, Coming to America (1988), Coming 2 America (2021), and Harlem Nights (1989). He was also the host of Star Search and appeared as Alan Thicke’s sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the Night.

In 2012, he won NBC’s reality-competition game show Celebrity Apprentice 5.[5]In 1986, the Fox network introduced The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, created to directly challenge The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After a moderate start, ratings for the show sagged. Relations between Rivers and network executives at Fox quickly eroded, and she left in 1987.[10] The series was subsequently renamed The Late Show, and featured several interim hosts, including Ross Shafer, Suzanne Somers, Shawn Thompson, Richard Belzer and Robert Townsend, before it was canceled in 1988. Hall was also chosen to host the show in the fall of 1987, and his stint proved immensely popular, leading to his being offered his own show in syndication.[11]

From January 2, 1989 to May 27, 1994, he had a Paramount contract to host a nationwide syndicated late night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show. It was a breakout success, rating especially high among the coveted younger demographic, and known for its audience’s distinctive alternative to applause in chanting, “Woof, woof, woof!” (which originated in the Cleveland Browns’ Dawg Pound in the east end zone) while pumping their fists. The practice soon became such a ritual that by 1991 it had become a “pop culture stamp of approval”—one that Hall said had become “so popular it’s getting on people’s nerves”.[12] The gesture was so well known that it appeared in films such as Pretty Woman, Passenger 57, Aladdin, and The Hard Way.[12]

He also had a rivalry with Jay Leno after the latter was named host of The Tonight Show, during which Hall said that he would “kick Jay’s ass” in ratings.[13]

Hall used his fame during this period to help fight worldwide prejudice against HIV/AIDS after Magic Johnson contracted the virus. Hall and Johnson filmed a public service announcement about the disease that aired in the early 1990s.[subscribe my channel
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