Posted on 05/23/2015 5:36:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dave can take a long walk on a short pier. Next stop.. HELL.
I knew he was a far lefty who hated Bush and any form of Republicans. Met him a year ago in L.A. and I REALLY wanted to kick his ass as my hatred for liberals is intense.
The last show was excellent as a look back at the great moments of the two shows. I turned off Letterman for years, but watched the last couple of shows with Bill Murray as the last guest and the finale. A great trip down memory lane that made me missed the David Letterman from the 1980s and most of the 1990s before the liberal stuff came to the surface.
This is one of the best written articles I have read in a long time. Almost every sentence is a potential pull quote.
And it is spot on.
I remember the blogger “Firehat” who didn’t care for Letterman. He once said there’s more to comedy than making a stupid face. When the stories of DL’s perverted abuse of women hit I couldn’t stand to see or hear him anymore. He was a pathetic excuse for a man.
I watch retro TV in his time slot.
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
The last few weeks, I'm guessing, they was a definite dent in viewership for CBS and all their local affiliates.
After the first two days of the visual abuse, I simply locked CBS out; I was David Lettermanned out.
. Most of my favorite series are on CBS, but most are on hiatus!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
“...all seriousness aside...”
“I knew he was a far lefty who hated Bush”
For 8 years he would virtually nightly run a “Great Moments In Presidential Speeches” segment showing Bush gaffes. He could have easily done the same thing with Obama (”57 states”, befuddled after teleprompter breaks, etc, etc), but of course, he wouldn’t.
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I liked him in the 80’s and the early 90’s. But by then, I’d figured out that his jokes only skewered the right and, ironically, his guests—especially the average Americans that came on to do Stupid Pet Tricks and later Stupid Human Tricks. I thought he was showing his audience stupid, funny tricks. No, he was showcasing what he and his staff considered to be _stupid humans._
Treating average Americans like idiots, going after targets on the right almost exclusively, and being snarky to guests is the impression Dave left on me almost twenty years _before_ he retired. He wasn’t fun to watch and when he went after the Palins, I asked honestly why anyone was surprised that Dave would go for cheap laughs at the expense of mother and her kid like that. That’s where and who he was long ago.
I can imagine that some acquired snarkiness stemmed from the fact that he was from Indiana. I’ve seen clips of when he was a young weatherman cracking jokes. He was likable back in the early 80’s, before he made the step up first to a daytime talk show and then to late night. Someone might have underestimated or slighted him for being a Midwesterner. But instead of showing the sterner stuff Midwesterners are made of, he simply made the easier jump to going after soft targets to please his media peers.
Too bad he let himself adapt to his environment rather than the other way around.
I understand that!
In addition to mean, he's not funny.
So right. He was mean and not funny.
Conservative “Middle America” is another lie of the Leftfist Media. More screwball, commie bastards rise out of America’s “bread basket” than possibly anywhere except Washington state or Vermont.
Yeah, I've said the same thing about Jon Leibowitz, except I used "smarm" and "face-pulls".
Greenfield’s article is SO very accurate! I think I’ve only watched Letterman about a half-dozen times in all of the years he’s been on; and that was only because of who he had as a guest. ...The letch was NOT funny, just as Conan isn’t.
I don’t think it will last two years with Colin Ferguson.
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The replacement lefty is Stephen Colbert.
I read where Carson’s final show was seen by 41 Million people. Sorry Dave & Jay your final shows were not even close.
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I was a huge Carson fan! Wasn’t his final show before widespread cable TV, though?
Speaking of failures like Letterman and Conan, I would include Fallon. The guy is talented in singing/dancing, but is seldom funny and just flat looks wierd. He just sucks up to the NYC liberals and has little appeal across the US. Kimmel is much funnier and offers shows beyond the liberal genre.
For those of us who live and early to bed early to rise life, these late night lounge lizard shows are a thing of the past.
Leno? he did good, the rest of these butt monkeys can't hold a candle to Carson...
Exhibit A, Eddy Ames on Johnny's Show ;-)...
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