Bobby Mann is a character portrayed by Tom Bergeron in the ABC crime series Castle. Bobby Mann is his generation's Johnny Carson, the man with the talk show that everybody who wanted to be anybody needed to get on. When he appears as the opening act of "The Late Shaft", he's interviewing Rick Castle, who conicidentally has a book and film coming out shortly thereafter, but as the cameras stop rolling he leans over and tells Castle that someone is trying to kill him. Hank it was who had taken his betrayal to heart, and exacted revenge, handing his friend a poisoned chalice of a literal order.