Posted on 05/14/2018 5:54:13 AM PDT by rktman
Frankly I never understood Letterman. He just was not that funny. I used to watch Late Night and he was definitely very hit or miss, mostly miss on his monologue and everything else.
I never could figure out why Johnny Carson thought so highly of him and also why Carson thought Letterman should have been his replacement. Carson never would have let his political leanings interrupt or ruin his act and standing with his fans. By the way Johnny was pretty much a New Deal Democrat.
Letterman is a bitter old man now and no longer relevant anywhere.
Jerry Seinfield knows what is funny and how a comic should work and his stuff is funny. One of the reasons Seinfield is still a top show in syndication even after being off the air for for over 20 years. Seinfield reruns still command about $1 Million and episode in syndication making it probably the most successful sitcom ever and make Jerry rich beyond his dreams.
Will Jerry take Trump out for a car ride and some coffee like he did Barry?
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
And Frank Sinatra died.
Fascinating factoid: Sinatra’s trip to a hospital that day was made easy by the fact traffic was practically clear - due to the huge stay-home incentive for Seinfeld’s last episode.
Which led to one of the classic moments on Howard Stern's show, when he had Janis Ian do a version of "At 17"
Seinfeld's Girl is 17
Letterman has gone full Randy Quaid in appearance.
jerry is 64 and his wife is 46.
It’s funnier to ask why we can’t put toothpaste back into the tube rather than to ridicule the president every night.
Not for the Master of his Domain.
Letterman became bitter when he didn’t get the Late Show gig and it made him unfunny. I used to like the old Letterman show but quit watching after about 3 months when he moved to CBS.
He was bitter and unfunny and it showed.
Shania Twain is Canadian, so it doesn’t count.
She just needs to shut up and get back into recording.
She should have never jumped into a ‘foreign’ political situation.
She learned a hard lesson................
I saw Jessica Sklar on HSN and she seemed like a lightweight to me. I still like Jerry Seinfeld. I think he is hysterical.
When he got caught with the intern that was uglier than his wife.
Oh yeah, that’s right...I got them mixed up. I forgot he broke up with Shoshanna and then stole another man’s wife!
Seinfeld must have had a bigger bank balance.
You win.
Nothing beats that one.
You sure sat on it long enough.
you can only make so many jokes about his toupee, his golf and his always solemn face.
Bush could be the butt of many, many jokes and Clinton too. Obama you could mock his pomposity and his teleprompter and his stop-stare speech tactic, but again, not much to make fun of compared to the two presidents before him.
Seinfeld looks for jokes that are fresh, funny and not "for this moment only". The Seinfeld show is still funny 25 years later
bump
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