Remind me to write a Thank-You note to Jimmy Fallon.
this bum cannot be off the airways soon enough for me. He makes my skin crawl.
Might be an interesting opening for Leno.......
Jimmy Fallon now gaining on him…
That’s like saying the Roadrunner is gaining on Wile E Coyote.
I can see him going to CBS...TBS and CBS have been cooperating with a multi-year deal to share the NCAA broadcasts..so there could be the basis for working something out..
He’s been planning this a while. He doesn’t need the money, he’s had heart surgery, and he’s passed Carson’s record as the longest-running talk show host in history. More to the point, he only signed a two year contract last year, and the speculation then was that it would be his last. Carson did the same thing, only signing short term contracts at the end so he could leave when he wanted.
Good. The bitter, miserable old liberal needs to go. I dno’t think I’ve ever found him funny — ever.
Some younger freepers may not know this, but Letterman used to do comedy on his show and he was pretty good at it, before he got bitter and old, and political.
Letterman is a vile, vicious left-wing egotist. I wonder if he and his boyfriend Les Moonves are going to have a divorce party,
I watched Fallon and Seth Myers several times out of curiosity and IMO, Myers might wear better over the long haul...when he gets the knack of it.
Fallon is too hyper for late night...and his audience full of short attention spans.
Glad I have Netflix.
Fallon having Palin on nailed David’s coffin shut.
Never was funny.
Repeating same punch line over and over thinking it s funny.......
Funny looking though.
Just an old bitter Liberal coot, a perve and a hater.
Good riddance to his classless act.
I saw Letterman a few weeks ago, by accident
He spend about 5 minutes of his opening monologue doing Dick Cheney Hunting jokes. Yes, Really. It wasn’t a repeat.
It was just pathetic. No wonder he is irrelevant.
Letterman has been “failing up” for most of his career. He appropriated bits from Steve Allen’s various talk shows and profited from the fact that (during his early NBC days), he had a huge lead-in from Johnny Carson, and there was no competition on the other networks. And while Dave was notoriously distant from his fans, he always knew the right backsides to kiss. Consider his relationship with CBS President Les Moonves. Les has been paying Dave up to $30 million a year for a third-place show. Nice work if you can get it.
Fact is, Letterman “peaked” shortly after starting his present gig at CBS. Once Jay Leno got his show together, he blew Letterman off the map and dominated the late night ratings for most of his run. In recent years, Letterman has been a consistent third at 11:30, running behind Leno and Nightline. When the news show shifted to 12:30, Letterman ran ahead of Jimmy Kimmel, but recently Kimmel has been beating him as well.
True, Dave is leaving on his own terms. But the hand-writing was on the wall when he signed the most recent one-year extension to his contract. CBS was happy to give him what he wanted, and no more. If the network wanted to keep him for another five years, they would have gladly suggested a longer extension.
Letterman is probably the luckiest guy in show business. He was funny back in the late 70s and early 80s, though you can find the inspiration for much of his material in Steve Allen’s syndicated talk show of the mid-60s. He made his name when there was virtually no competition, and used his departure from NBC to milk millions out of CBS. Truth is, Letterman could have succeeded Carson if he had played his cards right.
Dave was so convinced that he had the job that he burned some bridges with key people at the network and completely ignored the affiliates. Meanwhile, Leno was willing to do anything NBC asked and always made it a point to stop by the local affiliate and tape a promo for his guest hosting on the Tonight Show. When Carson retired, the affiliate board was among his strongest supporters and they stayed with him when Leno stumbled out of the gate.
Another interesting sidelight is how Letterman’s personal troubles rarely, if ever, made the news. He was an absolute s.o.b. to his first wife (he described himself as a “moody drunk” during this period, despite the fact that she supported him until he became a successful stand-up). But to my knowledge, no one has ever tried to interview the first Mrs. Letterman. Even Merrill Markoe, the writer/producer who was his live-in girlfriend for years (and a key reason for his success at NBC) has been guarded in her comments about Dave and their relationship.
Of course, the ultimate example of Dave’s power (and status as a media darling) came when his intern scandal blew up. People I knew at CBS told me that Letterman had been bedding young female staffers for years; when he moved into the Ed Sullivan Theater, the network paid to have an apartment built for Dave in the upper level of the building and there were plenty of nights he didn’t go home to the woman who replaced Ms. Markoe (Regina Lasko). You may recall that Letterman finally married Lasko (the mother of his son) after the scandal erupted.
In fact, news of Letterman’s philandering broke over the same weekend as the Tiger Woods scandal. Turns out that Dave had the same proclivities as the pro golfer, but he was portrayed as victim, because the intern’s boyfriend (a 60 Minutes producer, no less) tried to blackmail him. Hope Letterman gave his publicist a bonus; it’s not often you can turn your own misdeeds into an out-pouring of public sympathy.
Like a lot of liberal media types, David Letterman is proof that you don’t have to be successful to have a long and lucrative career. As long as you suck up to the right elites (and keep the media in your back pocket), you can earn millions and never worry about whether the public actually likes you and will watch your program. In that regard, the jury on Letterman came back a long time ago.
Another avenue to push Ronan Farrow on us.
When you get beaten by an un funny stiff you know it`s time to quit.
The animated corpse known as “David Letterman” has actually been dead for at least 20 years. I tell the younger people I know that I am so old that I remember when Letterman was funny....impresses them every time.