Peter Lassally Dies at 93, Iconic Late-Night Producer

Peter Lassally, the longtime late-night producer dubbed the 'host whisperer' for guiding The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, and The Late Late Show with Ferguson, has died at 93. A Holocaust survivor born in Hamburg who fled Nazi Germany, Lassally built a decades-spanning career from NBC pages to executive producer roles and helped Letterman move to CBS, retiring in 2015 after shaping multiple generations of hosts.