Not sure if this is the right place (I’m not really good with computers), but left you a trackback for your readers, if they ever need some information about horse tack….

Anyway, I have had very good memories of watching Letterman whenever I could when I was younger. I couldn't watch a lot because I needed to get up for school. However, I did have a very high interest in the shifting that was happening in Late Night in 1992-1993. Carson's retirement, the ascension of Leno, Letterman's big breakaway, and some guy named Conan doing his first TV show. I watched the CBS Letterman almost every night (or as many as I possibly could). Things, however, started to change over the course of Letterman's stay on CBS…

1) Heart surgery that truly saved his life, and probably caused him to want to make a difference with his new-found lease on life
2) September 11, where he began to have true concerns on how the country protected its citizens
3) The birth of his son, which caused him to look toward the future and wonder what he can do to make his son's world better.

As a result, his own personal politics went to the forefront of his performance. Simply making jokes about President Bush's policies wasn't enough, he had to be seen as an incompetent bumbling fool. When Obama took over, Letterman and his staff all of the sudden couldn't find anything to joke about "the new guy", so they did more Bush jokes. Even after the low-flying Air Force One debacle several months ago, Letterman said that BHO was "Bushing it up".

When the Bush jokes became more vitriolic than jabbing during the last 8 years, I couldn't watch him much anymore. I still considered him a better host than Leno, but it just became more and more frustrating to hear a President I supported be lambasted consistently. When Conan took over Tonight, I made the full switch- watching Letterman for when he had big guests like Sir Paul McCartney or Martin Short, but my first priority was Conan (I even went to LA to see his first show).

However, I began to watch on Youtube clips of the NBC Letterman show that I missed over the years due to school. They are still hilarious, witty, and edgy even though they're over 25 years old. Something definitely changed over time. And it wasn't for the better, I'm afraid.

Several commenters have made this very sound point. But I'm fascinated by the amazing duplicity inside this point:
- a leftist is enraged if anyone else—especially a convervative—mentions faith openly, even for a moment.
- but the leftist never passes up one moment to push their orthodoxy of politics.

The leftist insists on keeping church and state separate—but to the leftist, the state is the church, and their religion, with a whole bushel of different denominations: wealth redistribution masquerading as care for the poor; anti-capitalism masquerading as global warming-ism and environmental correctness , etc., etc., etc.

I guess Orwell had it right when he described double-think: apparently the prerequisite to being a leftist/liberal is a robust schizophrenia.

Letterman did not run on Friday nights while SCTV was on the air. Letterman was on Monday through Thursday and SCTV was on Friday after Carson.

SCTV was replaced by Friday Night Videos. MTV was huge and music videos were the rage. I cried when they took SCTV off the air. It is easily my favorite show of all time!

SCTV did their last season on Cinemax in the US and another pay channel in Canada. The Cinemax episodes are also excellent!