Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck Barris and Playboy

Rhonda Shear hosted more than 400 episodes of Up All Night on USA Network from 1991 to 1998, and she is one of the only hosts from that era who still owns the name.

She talks about the Happy Days incident with Henry Winkler that got her blackballed from every Paramount sitcom at 23, the one line in Spaceballs that Mel Brooks cast her in himself, opening for Robin Williams at the Holy City Zoo, and how a Playboy pictorial where she kept all her clothes on cost her a pageant crown and made headlines around the world. She also explains how a warehouse in Tampa became the studio where she is producing brand new Up All Night episodes today, funded by the bra and panty company she built with her husband.