Carson Daly

Television personality

Birthday June 22, 1973

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Age 50 years old

Nationality United States

Height 1.85 m

#7806 Most Popular

1932

His father died from bladder cancer when Carson was a child, and his mother married Richard Caruso (1932-2017).

1944

Daly was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Coachella Valley TV personality Pattie Daly Caruso (1944-2017), and car salesman Jim "J.D."

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His mother is from Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1973

Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973) is an American television host, radio personality, producer, and television personality.

1991

Daly attended Santa Monica High School and was a member of the school's golf team before graduating in 1991.

He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles but dropped out to pursue a pro golf career.

He is of Irish descent and has worked with Guinness on local "Proposition 3-17" to make Saint Patrick's Day an official holiday.

Daly served as an intern to Jimmy Kimmel in radio.

He began his radio career at College of the Desert and as an intern at the former KCMJ FM (now KKUU) under the name "Kid Carson".

Daly began his broadcasting career at the radio station KOME in San Jose, California.

Daly was then given the 6-10 PM time slot at KOME's sister station KROQ in Los Angeles.

It was during Daly's time at KROQ that MTV recruited Daly to serve as a VJ during MTV's summer beach house programming called "Motel California".

1997

At the end of the summer of 1997, MTV hired Daly as a permanent VJ, a position which required Daly to relocate to New York.

Once in New York, Daly began hosting MTV Live.

1998

From 1998 to 2003, Daly was a VJ on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), and a DJ for the Southern California-based radio station 106.7 KROQ-FM.

Daly hosted MTV'S TRL from 1998 to 2003.

TRL was based on two previous shows, "Total Request" and "MTV Live", both of which had also been hosted by Daly.

Daly's role as host of the popular live program included introducing the top 10 videos of the day and interviewing celebrity guests.

2000

In March 2000, Tara Reid met Daly on the set of Total Request Live, and they began dating.

2002

In 2002, Daly joined NBC, where he hosted and produced the late night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly, and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show, and executive producing New Year's Eve with Carson Daly from Times Square beginning in 2003.

In 2002, Last Call with Carson Daly debuted.

2003

Beginning in 2003–2004, Daly began hosting a New Year's Eve special for NBC, New Year's Eve with Carson Daly.

2005

The show was shot on the same set as Saturday Night Live until 2005, when it moved to Los Angeles.

2010

He was a nighttime host on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM and beginning in 2010, began hosting Mornings with Carson Daly on its sister station KAMP-FM.

Daly also hosts a weekly top 30 countdown show The Daly Download with Carson Daly which is produced by Audacy, Inc. (formerly CBS Radio and is the parent of KAMP-FM) and syndicated though Westwood One.

The program airs on Saturday and Sunday mornings in a 3-4 hour edition on CHR/hot AC radio stations.

2011

Daly has since been involved in more prominent roles at NBC, such as becoming host for its reality music competition The Voice in 2011, and joining NBC's morning show Today as a social media correspondent in 2013, with his role increasing in subsequent years becoming a co-host.

Daly has also worked as a radio DJ.

In 2011, Daly began hosting and producing NBC's reality music competition The Voice.

Daly's duties as host included watching blind auditions alongside contestant's family members.

2013

As a producer of The Voice, Daly has won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, first in 2013 and again from 2015, 2016, and 2017.

When social media correspondent Christina Milian departed the show, Daly became the sole host.

Daly appeared in a brief but pivotal role in the first episode of My Name Is Earl.

While in the hospital after being hit by a car, Earl learns about karma from watching an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly where Daly claims that his success is a direct result of doing good things for other people.

Earl is thus inspired by Carson Daly to turn his own life around, and sets out to make up for his many past wrongs.

Daly had a small role on Dave Chappelle's show Chappelle's Show.

In September 2013, Daly became the orange room anchor (social media reporter) on the Today show, as well as serving as a fill-in anchor for Willie Geist and the show's weekend edition (Weekend Today).

Daly is a founding partner, along with Jonathan Rifkind, Jonathan B. Davis, and Bam Margera, of an independent record label, 456 Enterprise & Entertainment, which released the "Viva La Bands" compilations.

Carson Daly resides in the Village of Flower Hill, in New York.