No Female Late-Night Hosts in Vanity Fair's All-Male Talk Show “Sausage Fest” Comedy Spread

Late-night comedy has longtime been a male-dominated profession. But over the years there have been women stepping into the limelight of late-night and doing very well. Comedian Chelsea Handler, as one example, became tremendously successful on E!'s Chelsea Lately and former Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee is gearing up for her TBS series, which airs in Jan. 2016. But given this new Vanity Fair piece, which shows ten late-night hosts and labels them as the "titans of late-night television," it looks as if women just aren't getting their credit – because all ten are men.

We talked to all the titans of late-night television, and found out why it's better than ever https://t.co/pIG1c7wSs1 pic.twitter.com/p8EgyB5jva

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 14, 2015

The new piece titled Why Late-Night Television Is Better Than Ever brings together the likes of Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Larry Wilmore and Bill Maher and explains that even though both David Letterman and Jon Stewart gave up their seats this year – with Colbert stepping in on The Late Show and Noah filling The Daily Show chair – the late-night platform is being "revitalized."

But what's concerning many viewers online is the photo, which only highlights male talk show hosts of late-night comedy.

dudes 4 days https://t.co/7GsVyjeQ0i — rachel syme (@rachsyme) September 14, 2015

So it's better than ever in late-night according to @VanityFair ... But where are the women!? — Joseph Taylor (@jmtaychi) September 14, 2015

Fans aren't the only ones who appear to be unnerved by the photo. Samantha Bee made some minor changes to it and posted it to her Twitter page, adding the caption, "@VanityFair BETTER."

.@VanityFair BETTER pic.twitter.com/EfPbTQ3qZ8

— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) September 14, 2015

Naturally, followers loved it.

Now, it should be mentioned that the Vanity Fair piece does mention the lack-of-women in late-night comedy. Writer David Kamp explains:

"What's conspicuously missing from late-night, still, is women. How gobsmackingly insane is it that no TV network has had the common sense – and that's all we're talking about in 2015, not courage, bravery, or even decency – to hand over the reins of an existing late-night comedy program to a female person?"

So, thoughts?