Letterman Loses His Mojo
by Jane ShaffmasterIn the 80’s my quest was to see the Letterman show live. I LOVED his sense of humor. Memorable segments were “the guy under the stairs,” Larry “Bud” Melman, “Fun with Rupert,” and Biff Henderson’s “Map Across America.” I also got a kick out of Dave’s mom going to and reporting on the Olympics as well as her “name that pie” bit on Thanksgivings. My ultimate fav was Dave’s wacky antics with Mujibar & Sirajul. It was all comic originality; fresh, silly, and sometimes mindless, but really entertaining and funny.
Disappointingly, by the time I finally did see the show in 2004, the bits I loved ceased to exist and most likely had been banished to the “Late Show” archives. Rather than attending my first show with eagerness, it was just a cheap way to kill an evening during a business trip. Since I didn’t have a ticket, I knew I’d need to charm my way in.
A friend had told me that to get in the front row they have “audience scouts” outside the theatre looking for people who are attractive, friendly, expressive, and bubbly. Being an actress I knew how to play that part, so I glammed up and put on my best New York artsy chic and set out to the Ed Sullivan Theatre. The “audience scouts,” who looked all of about 14-years-old, were out in front waiting for their subjects to approach. Oh, to be that young making so little money but holding so much power! Knowing what I must do, I got my “bubble on” and with just the right amount of star stuck enthusiasm I approached one of the 14-year-old keepers of the audience paperwork!
I beamed: “I’ve been trying to get into see Dave’s show since the 80’s when he was on NBC! (Smile, gush, turning my womanly wiles to the young man who showed some flirt) OMG, how do I go about being in the audience? And who’s going to be on the show tonight?” (They don’t reveal who the guests are in advance. My guess is they don’t want to lose audience members once they find out!). The “audience scout” asked me a trivia question “Who is Dave’s assistant?.” I answered “Stephanie” and I was in. He gave me an index card with a specific color sticker on it and told me to come back in two hours and get in “THIS line…not that line…THIS line.” (As if “THIS” line was the waiting list for an organ transplant).
I went back to the apartment, took a nap (feigned excitement is exhausting), and went back at the designated time. Well “THIS” line turned out to be the golden ticket. I was in “the chosen” group to sit in the front row.
Before the “audience wranglers” single filed us into the theatre, they gave a speech in the lobby. First they told us that just before taping Dave comes out and takes questions from the audience. They wanted us to be creative with questions, but no asking for a picture with him or a kiss from him, yadda yadda. Then they told us to “laugh, clap, and cheer loudly and heartily at EVERYTHING Dave says and does. This is how Dave gets fired up. The more clapping and laughing, the better show he’ll have, but no high pitched hooting.” Perhaps Dave might confuse a hoot with a boo.
Wow, the audience holds Dave’s mood in the palm of their clapping hands. This is really shocking to me. Even attractive smiling people sitting in the front row can be anti-Obama. Why would they give the audience that kind of ammo? But I digress. During Dave’s monologue he started Bush bashing. I was a Bush supporter and just starting to become politically active at that time. For me the evening news was simply the boring stuff I had to sit through if I tuned in too early for “Entertainment Tonight” or the “Late Show.” However, I did want to boo at the bashing once the rest of the trained seals stopped cheering, but being alone I didn’t have the courage. I wouldn’t have been comfortable being publicly flogged by the “audience police” that were half my age.
To make my front row “Late Show” experience even worse, Diane Sawyer was the guest! So, I curbed my boos and pouted until the show ended and I was released! (Side note, the “Late Show” band live is amazing!)
Since then, my “Late Show” viewing has been infrequent. I did happen to catch the show mid-March where Dave bashed Bush, Cheney, AND Clinton–an entire trifecta of been there, done that; after which he soberly stated “we finally have someone in the White House we trust.” I waited for the punch line. But holy cow, after a couple beats of dead, uncomfortable air and cricket chirps, he just moved on.
I haven’t watched since. I am NOW done with Letterman. With one exception…I have decided to make it my mission, and to inspire my fellow BHers, to go see the show with the courage I couldn’t find: to “boo” at Dave’s Obama worship and redundant, tired old Bush diatribes. I encourage you to arrive armed with allies; after all, there is safety in numbers.
The left is trying to silence our voices both socially and legislatively. So with the media continuing their embargo against reporting any truths about the administration, the late night comedians ignoring the faux pas,’ blunders, and idiocies of the savior in chief, and Hollywood swooning over their royal hinies, it’s time to use the “Late Show” venue to do one little thing in the name of comedy…boo and hiss instead of staying silent while the lemmings cheer.
Go armed with a couple examples of what makes this president, like every other president, comic fodder, just in case you’re the one Dave picks for the pre-show question and you ask, scratching your head, “Why aren’t you doing any Obama jokes?”
Whether it’s an uncomfortable question pre-show or a “boo/hiss” for some lame bit during the show, it would be fun to rock Dave’s mojo by making joyful noises against Obama the poseur lord. We could take up time and maybe even be ushered out. This would also remind Dave’s writers that there are still Republicans out in his audience!
One thing I know about performers: they can get glowing reviews, standing ovations, and thunderous applause, but they remember the harshest criticism, bad review, or night-long heckle more often than all the positive reviews combined. Tina Fey even mentioned the critical fans on the internet in her acceptance speech for best actress at the Golden Globes. So, let’s start giving Dave a show he’ll remember with an audience that wants real hope for change.
I’m serious, anyone interested in a little “Late Show” guerrilla field trip, send me an email and let’s see how we can make this happen:
lateshow@comcast.net
PS – Let’s not stop at “The Late Show.” In New York City there is also “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” for your “booing” pleasure (I can hear it from here!), “Colbert Nation” and in Burbank “The Tonight Show” just to name a few. Go forth and exercise your right to “boo” while we still can!
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Coordinated guerilla attacks in New York City and L.A.? DHS and Janet are sure to have all of us on their watch list.
I think you are on to something. Only problem I see is the ability to dodge the 14-year-old gatekeeper trivia conundrum (think Monty Python's Holy Grail).
if someone can create a trivia cheat sheet that participants could memorize, it would solve that problem.
I think it is funny that our idea of subversive is to crash a taping. But somepeople do enjoy trying to get on radio shows (think Bobba-Boowie).
Not being a professional actor, I cannot feign the strength to overcome the indifference. But, you are correct, like Cagney laying on the steps, Dave, too, "used to be a bigshot."
AMERICA SAID 'BOO' WHEN WE VOTED OUT THE GOP's CONTROL OF AMERICAN LIFE…BY GETTING OUT THE HOOK TO PULL REPUBLICAN SLAPSTICK OFF THE GLOBAL STAGE!
Whoever you are Jaff Shaffmaster — please know the whole world will get its last laugh when the War Crimes
tribunals begin. All the truths about the GOP terror spree of war, torture, killing of innocent Iraqi civiliains, loss of US civil liberties and Patriot Act manipulation will have the biggest talk show you ever saw.
The Truth is gonna nail the GOP to the letter, man.
you are such a delightful person!
I'm in! When do we want to do this. I particularly would like to be in Jon Stewart's audience…
YOU NEED MORE CAPS!!!!! ALSO, MORE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!! YOU CAN"T CONVINCE ANYONE OF YOUR WISDOM IF YOU ONLY USE CAPS FOR HALF YOUR MESSAGE!!!!
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As an Australian, I find Letterman’s show divisive. I stopped watching him years ago, because there’s a clear line between a few Bush jokes and repetitive Bush-bashing. This hurts America.
Liberals claim that they “care” for America’s reputation, but they always undermine Republicans, Independents, and smaller parties for international audiences. Their actions don’t match their words.
You forgot to mention Halliburton. (and other socialist slogans)
Booing to the extent it actually was heard would be cathartic while you're in the audience, but only marginally effective, since "The Late Show" has shown in the past it will stop tape or edit out entire segments of the show if things are not going the way Dave or his top staff like. You might cause an incident that would have a very outside chance of making it onto "Page Six", but it would never make it onto air.
But if people really want to piss Dave off a few weeks from now, there is an option (at least if you're a Nielsen family) — watch Conan O'Brien when he takes over as host of "The Tonight Show" and keep watching for at least the next several months. It's not so much that Conan's not a liberal, but that Dave and CBS over the past decade have come to terms with Letterman not getting the same ratings as Jay Leno, with the spin pretty much being that Leno appeals to the knuckle-dragging yahoos in flyover country who are just too "unsophisticated" to get Dave's type of humor, which pretty much fits in with your average liberal's view of America. However, if "The Late Show" still keeps losing to "Tonight" even with a new host who pretty much inherited Letterman's "edgy" mantle, Dave and the staff will have a much harder time spinning it as the troglodytes don't know how to change their remote controls from NBC to CBS after prime-time's over and might have to admit to themselves that their show sucks because their host is now putting poliical ideology over being topically funny in his monologue.
If you're going to invent an entire column, such as it is, to bash Letterman for, apparently, mocking an inarticulate moron, you might want to check … well, anything. It might have stopped you from looking like an inarticulate moron.
Your "ultimate fav (which needs an 'e' there, if you meant to type the shortened, kicky little form of 'favorite,' and not something that rhymes with chav.) Mujibar and Sirajul (who would, in any case, be 'fav[e]s' as they're two people)? Not so much on the show in the 80s, as their shop was located next to the Ed Sullivan Theatre. That means, for people such as yourself who apparently haven't really watched the show, that they were never on until the show moved to CBS.
As to your assertion that the show doesn't "reveal" the guests in advance, I'd direct your attention to this fabulous new technology we've developed called 'TV Guide,' or 'the newspaper,' or 'the Internet.' Believe it or not, a schedule of show guests for the week can be found at any of these newfangled outlets for information.
I realize, given that you seem to have been scraping so hard as to churn out this badly-written mess to encourage people to go to a taping of a television show you don't watch or care about in order to boo mentions of Barack Obama, that you seem to lack a measure of perspective, but using actual facts (and correct spelling) in print is expected.
As for your determination to "remind Dave’s writers that there are still Republicans out in his audience!"? The audience is mostly tourists, from places where there are presumably Republicans. And you found yourself alone in your offense among them. Which might cause a more coherent person to rethink their, "position," but, well, you carry on there.
I too liked Letterman in the 1980s but he went from being funny to being bitter and it affected his entire program, not just the political stuff. The rare occasions I watch his show any more he seems like he phones it in. How many years has that stupid "will it float?" bit drug on? He needs to be booed for just poor performance in general.
Thank you, BPT! And seriously, thank you for posting here. I know I'm not alone in enjoying hearing the international perspective on what's happening here in the USA.
The only time I can watch that mean-spirited boor Letterman is when Bill O'Reilly's on . It's fun and interesting to watch the mental arm-wrestling other than that you can keep Letterman.
You ain't seen a loss of civil liberties like this admin is going to hand us.
bob, take a pill. I saw the show twice in 1985 – two nights in a row. One night it was scheduled, the second night was being taped to show a few weeks later, so it's not always known who the guests are. Also, not everyone walks around with tv guide in their back pocket, or even checks the internet on the hour.
Meeting with two people can be a favorite thing to see, hence the singular 'fav' – I would prefer 'fave' but there you go. The author made it clear she watched the show over a long period, which would include the CBS years.
Do you really have that much bile backed up that you have to unload on this story? There are a lot of former hardcore Letterman fans that can't stand him anymore. I'm one of them. He's a bitter, old, unfunny jerk. He was always a jerk but he used to be funny. I'm guessing you've never been funny.
Wow. Such an original thinker. Good luck with the life of mediocrity. Going well so far.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing these amazing and insightful comments. Now leave unless you can bake pie…
The only time I found myself addicted to Letterman was during the writer's strike in the late 80's. I had to see what he was going to do to fill in the time, not having a script (at least he said). I loved it when he would make toast and throw the toasted bread into the audience. Dunno why I thought it was so funny, maybe because it was after 1am and it was 108F in my bedroom making it impossible to sleep (no central air where I was living).
Sadly, he's grown tiresome and unbearable. Last few times I checked out his show looking for entertainment, I was treated to his tedious Bush-bashing. NOT entertaining and offensive to a still significant number of his viewers.
Dear bob,
Before you worry about the spelling of others you learn proper punctuation. You might begin with learning the proper use of commas.
Letterman 'Jumped the Shark' long ago. He is no longer funny, just a bitter, political, partisan. I never watch anymore. Leno & Kimmel eat his lunch.
I agree with Bev. You are truly an amazing contributor to this site. But if you want to stick around, you need pie.
ALSO, MORE CAPS!!!!
In other words, you enjoyed Dave Letterman until you realized studio audiences were not free-for-alls where you can openly heckle the show host. That "Applause" sign was what probably really sent you over the edge. Now you hate liberals.
Two words: CAT Scan.
Dude…your makin me laugh….
you make it sound as if we lived in Apartied South Africa for the last 8 years……
Take your fascist/socialist agenda somewhere it might make sense….. like maybe Russia or Nicaragua…
I like this idea.
I finally found someone who admits to voting for Bush not once but twice? It takes a brave person to display this incredible lapse of judgement. Hey by the way…thanks for being complicit not only in trashing our constitution but the economy, foreign relations, the ecology (and on and on…..). And exactly what would you like to voice socially and legislatively that hasn't been crammed down our throats over the last 8 years? Please do us all a favor and keep your idiocracy to yourselves. Here, now take a teabag and go play in traffic.
Letterman had Mojo? Sheesh, who knew.
BTW, I like Jane's last name..I think if it were my last name I'd fit a "T" in there.
I have NEVER been able to stomach Letterman. Once or twice I have tuned in simply because of the guest, only to be nauseated by the mere sight and sound of ole gap-toothed Dave. He is absolutely creepy. I could easily see him standing outside the fence of some elementary school watching the kids and panting. Furthermore, he always looks like he smells of cabbage.
I'm right here!…
Why is it that liberals love to first criticize others on grammar and spelling, and yet stink to high heaven at both? Hilarious. Do they actually think they impress anyone with that nonsense, especially when they can't accomplish it themselves? It's just too rich.
Perhaps they imagine their actions described by others thus:
"Wow! He really showed her with his mastery at spelling! What a god!"
or
"Not only was he a great leader, but he was one of the finest spellers this country has ever known."
or
"Is it not the quest of man to achieve greatness in his chosen field of endeavor? Surely then, he choose spelling as his sword and grammar as his field of battle. There he shall reign triumphant for eternity!"
Lol.
"Sadly, he's grown tiresome and unbearable."
Kind of like the obama hour that seems to pop up once a month on prime time. Tiresome, boring, unbearable, egomanical and on and on. I don't recommend tuning in.
/daneeka
I'm less interested in booing anyone, than I am in seeing that there is a voice for an opposite point of view. David Letterman is mean spirited and unfunny. He is part of the big propaganda campaign, which he proved in his last meeting with Bill O'Reilly.
To say "You guys can't possibly believe what you are saying" while also regurgiatating "Rush Limbaugh is the head of the republican party" is actually the funniest thing Dave has done is many years. Since, it was proven as fact that "Rush Limbaugh is the head of the republican party" was an orchestrated piece of propaganda from James Carville and George Stephanapolous. How then could Dave actually believe what he was saying?
That's comedy.
Cool your afterburners there Bob before you keel over from heat Stroke.
War crimes? You anti-conservatives better pray we don't get hit again or you will be out of power the next generation. As it is, this administration is well on it to being out of a job. Another 911 on Obamas watch and this be nice to your enemies/bullies crap will be the end of the liberal movement for quite some time.
Precisely. I've seen it repeated time and time again. International critics take their cues in bashing Bush from folks like Letterman, et al. It's shameful. And at time of war, treasonous and a dishonor to our men and women in harm's way.
I used to love Dave's show. Now, can't stomach it at all. I do still love to watch Paul awkwardly handle his role as second banana. He's endearing. Dave's just bitter and cranky.
Godspeed.
The last time I watched was when O'reilly was on. And Dave did a small little thing that disgusted me. Bill turned to the audience and when he wasn't looking Dave stirred his coffee with a pencil (one that he had probably been chewing on) and before Bill turned around he pulled the pencil out. He was letting the audience know he had no respect for Bill. It's funny but that small incident was it for me and I haven't watched him since.
Lol! I love it.
This administration could chain that charmer to a wall and waterboard him with clorox bleach for weeks on end and he'd still sing the praises of democrats and liberals.
There's no changing a mind that's run by remote control.
Not even a legion of trolls or a division of spelling Nazis posting here will change a well known constant of the television universe; Letterman isn't funny and hasn't been funny for many years. He simply never recovered from losing the ratings war with Leno and as a result he's old, sad and bitter.
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111oneoneoenoneoneoen
see, Now you believe me
The point is he is an entertainer. No one (except sycophantic liberals) wants to hear his political spin. If you want that you watch Sean Hannity or Keith Olbermann. I remember watching him in the 80s, he was revolutionary. Now he resembles hacks Stewart & Colbert (who at least are occasionally funny – although much less so since Jan 20th)
Spot on!
amen!!!!!!
Inarticulate???????? This boob prez has a traveling teleprompter because he is retarded like yourself!!!!
Dave, is that you. . .are we going to hear from "Stan" next? Or is it Bill. . .
So many words that say so little.
Let me educate you. By any objective standard after pulling us out of the Clinton recession the Bush economy was fantastic until the Democommie congress took over in 06 and refused to pass another tax cut!
The only time foreign leaders like us is when they are robbing us blind!
Perhaps Letterman could invite the downtrodden Bill O' Reilly back on and read aloud the Andrea Mackris transcripts.
People like you, with blinders on, are exactly how the Nazis came to power. No, I don't mean that you're a Nazi, I mean people like you seem to intentionally block out any possibility that "the other side" may have anything to add to the national good. There are "righties" who do the same thing.
You need to go to a 12-step program of some kind.
I haven't liked Letterman in years, but I will give him (or his writers) credit for how he introduced Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon at the Oscars. I'm paraphrasing here, but it was along the lines of, "Watch out, everybody! I'm sure these two are pissed off about something!" That was pretty good.
I guess it would be an apple pie since he's….Bob?
I believe "Dave" had lost his "mojo" a long long time ago. I too have been to the show… three times over the past 10 years, its operated much like a Disney attraction. They brief you how to act, how to respond and to watch their "applause" light to respond. Dave shows up right before taping time, steps on stage for one-minute without his jacket as "casual Dave" to take one question, then they use the clip for a joke later with a cameo of the questioner. Its lame and its boring, and not worth dealing with the hassles of NYC just to see this crap.
Dave has come across as tired, bored and just not interested anymore.
Its become a tiresome routine for him and it shows!
If I lived closer to Manhattan than say about 2600 miles I'd be in. But I can't see traveling 100 miles to see Dave anymore. And you clearly have a lot more energy than me going to all that nonsense to sit on the front row!
His constant Bush bashing is what finally turned me off to him – wonder how many others in his electronic audience have said the same thing
Bob, 'fav' is an acceptable abbreviation for 'favorite', whether you think so or not. Also, as she was referring to the skit, not the two people in the skit, fav would be singular, not plural. In other words, Bob, you're a boob (singular).
Here's a better idea… have protesters stand on the sidewalk outside these show protesting their idiocy… then when the fans come in …. well, let the good times roll.
Where's all of that OIL we were supposed to be getting, man?!??!?!!!!! And since the IRAQI's themselves (along with various Saudis, Yemenis, Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, and Iranians) killed most of the Iraqis who's going to put them before a War Crimes Tribunal?!?!?!?!!! And to be honest with you, I can't wait for some TRUTH to finally arrive in this world FILLED with PROPAGANDA and marketing LIES……. man!!! Power to the people my brutha! (does high-five, hand-jive, and throws out a V-sign thinking it means "Peace," when it actually means "Victory" – all good tho, I'm cool!!! toke… cough… PEACE!!!)
Geez. You people really need to stop complaining about Letterman since it's so obvious you don't know what you are talking about.
Letterman only says whatever gets audience reaction. Simple as that. I bet you didn't have a problem with Letterman doing a Clinton intern joke in every show for a DECADE. Letterman still does a Clinton joke on most shows.Then, after getting a free ride for years, it was Bush's turn to be made fun of.
It was practically ILLEGAL to say anything less than glorifying about Bush in America after 911, throughout 2002 and 2003, until the election season of 2004. You probably didn't have a problem with that either.
Letterman will get around to Obama. So will everyone else. They're just not as partisan as most of you are, thus not as quick to jump on a guy. Obama is still the new guy right now that most people want to give a chance. (I know, but that's how it is)
Red Eye needs a live audience. hint hint Greggy Baby!
NYX-
"And exactly what would you like to voice socially and legislatively that hasn't been crammed down our throats over the last 8 years?"
Well, how about this. Closing the borders to illegal immigrants. Enforcement of the Second Amendment. Limiting the size and scope of the Federal Government. Return to the States the Rights afforded them by the Constitution.
That's just for openers you simplewinded aspirator.
To participate I'd have to watch, I stopped watching long ago as I canceled newspaper subscriptions.
Too many of my former favorite TV shows are so political I had no choice but to stop watching.
I hate people lying to my face with a smile so I don't watch or miss local news much less the main stream media hacks. This includes most of Fox. Watching media is for the ignorant voter.
I haven't been to a movie theater since South Park and don't anticipate going to one again in my lifetime.
Letterman has his loyal fan base who would believe anything he says, including that Obama is the Messiah. They laugh at jokes that even he doesn't get. He hasn't been funny since he lost "stupid pet tricks." So the rest of America does something more constructive while he's on, like watching infomercials, or polishing the silver.
I don't watch TV
There was a time, many years ago, when Dave didn't wear his looney liberalism on his sleeve and everyone could tune in for a laugh. Now it just insults the intelligence to watch, so we don't.
I would say bring it on. You will see that the war approved by Congress and desired by all since the 1980s will turn out to be legal. GOP will be innocent. Same as with the 2000 recount. The Honorable George W. Bush won that election fair and square. Even after endless recounts in Florida.
What mental health facility are you currently residing in? maybe we can take up a collection and send you some soft pieces of fuzz to stroke while you're watching something more your speed, like "Saved by the Bell".
I started to read Bob's reply, but when I saw that he began a sentence with a conjunction, and broke up a clause with a period, I realized he was an inarticulate moron whose opinions should not be taken seriously.
We're on the government's list for reading this…
Letterman was making "George Bush is dumb" jokes even before he was elected.
There was no grace period for "the new guy" back then.
when you have no reasonable responce, bring up spelling.
It seems a phenomenal waste of time and energy, not to mention a visit to New York City, just to heckle. For that matter, why not get tickets to "Hair" so you can boo the hippies? (and if you hated it so much, why not just get up and leave?) Letterman has been so firmly settled in his curmudgeon phase that I don't watch much anymore. I suspect he'll call it quits quite soon…he'll want to spend time with his family, and he's looking older every time I see him.
Very well said. It is all about themselves, selfish Democrat socialists. So tired of the bashing of George W. Bush. To use the Democrat logic. They are racists. Bush Jr. is white (so called) and white is a color hence the left is against colored ppl and therefore racists. By their own definition, I might add.
letterman is so over. Just an old, ugly angry man whose not even funny. Yup, jumped the shark.
This article makes a nice companion to John Hawkins's article, "The Right Needs to Play as Dirty as the Left".
We really need to start pushing back hard against the media. Openly booing celebrities in public (and following media types around with cameras and microphones and asking them embarrassing questions) sounds like a good way to start.
Same feeling here. Once an ardent Letterman fan, I have found his endless mocking of Bush (even now that he's gone) as tedious and witlessly stupid. His living in Montana is the epitome of the celebrity liberal hippocrite who takes advantage of their wealth to reside in a region alien to their beliefs because it is so superior to the trashed state they left behind.
Would it be a "I baked a lot of pie so now have heat stroke" sort of heat stroke?
If not, meh.
I AGREE!!11!!!leleventy1!!!
Now go bake us some damn pie Laffin Boy!
Now there's some quality whining about perceived goverment intrusion.
Clorox? Nicer than what I'd use.
I'm thinking some Old German, just to bring him down a few notches.
That'd almost be worth a roadtrip to NYC. I love New York…from a comfortable distance.
Getting around the gatekeepers is easy, all we'd need are some two way earbuds and someone out of sight with a laptop. Easy peasy.
Oh wait, the Sharper Image closed, okay a taser and some duct tape then.
That I definitely would drive to NYC for.
I prefer plural boobs.
Saved by the Bell, now that's funny. Because Letterman is just too "edgy" and "hip" for conservatives right?
When in fact it's just that he's old, cranky and unfunny, I keep waiting for him to tell the studio audience to get off his lawn.
Two words: Send Pie.
This is where I resist making the obvious joke about his friend Niel showing up too.
Leterman stopped being funny when stopped wearing sneakers, about the early 90's. Anyway, this is really funny stuff from the mid-80's, when Leno was a regular guest. Remember "What's your beef?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjb_AjbK7U&fe...
I'm already being watched, thank you!
Dave is still on top. I guess it is now the fashionable thing for the right wing fringe nihilists to hate everything about America except the other members of their right wing fringe nihilist cabal. Too funny.
Watching Dave age is like watching cheese mold. There comes a time when you just have to throw it away. I admire your spirit, and in the same situ, I would act accordingly, besides, the tape editors would cut out your reaction and Dave is too erudite to give a crap – moot point.
When entertainers start thinking of themselves as a political force, they cease to be entertaining.
Seth McFarlane of Family Guy is another example.
When he went into politics, using the show as a club, it became an unfunny, useless lump of garbage, like himself, and like Letterman.
You lost me at "I was a Bush supporter". Murderers should not be allowed to judge Letterman.
Ignore Paul_D.
Olivia says he's a DailyKos reader.
He,like many others before,changed dramatically after his heart surgery. There is a strange thing that happens after such an invasive surgery.
So supporting Bush makes someone a murderer now too?
Methinks someone's been sniffing too much thinner between art classes.
Great username for the Intertubes, or else you'd be standing in the park with a megaphone, annoying the hell out of the brown-baggers.
Letterman stopped being funny years back. Like George Carlin before he died, he' s just an angry old man playing to the liberal New York audience.
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