We Are All David Letterman Now

I think Letterman is a silly excuse for spending time to watch an idiot box...except for those who don't know any better and could not possibly find who they are when they look in the mirror -
and wouldn't know what to do with a canned ham anyway.

Try as I will, there just is NOT any humor here unless you do wish to stay in the past ... at least 25 years in the past... with blizzards as converstaional topics...supreme! Yeek!

This so true he is not living in the present, every thing he does is at least 25 years out of date. He neds to get a new lease on life.

The point of the article is that Letterman has left an indelible mark on TV for the past 25 years. It might be true that he is no longer on the cutting edge of late night comedy, but he can still make a crowd laugh in a way that only Dave can.
It is very apparent that his detractors don't realize they are "breathing" him. I daresay that, judging by their commentary, their brains appear to have been starved of oxygen, rendering them unable to realize anything at all.

They say: Old is gold! Even though Dave is in business for more than a quarter of century; his legacy is spreading above and beyond then others. His late night show is a phenomenon which makes us laugh in the midst of everyday’s hustle and bustle. He can be obnoxious, yet funny; rude, yet entertaining.

"...snarkiness..."

Golly gee whiz, why not use "going to the next level" or "I'm down with that" or "sha-zamm"?

Letterman IS just another media crank weather vane - sycophant to Castro hipster brother Moonbeam, pining for the good old days before Iraq and 9-11 and Diet Coke, waving at any leftist Hollywood hack calling for Bush's impeachment as cover for 8 years of Clixon security challenged regime failures, and then assuming the rest of us will swallow it as actual truth.

Beyond that, he's not very funny anymore.

Clone Johnny Carson, please.

Going after Clinton AND Letterman?

Some of you people are so humourless and ideologically poisonous I wonder how those close to can stand it.

Please relax a little, take a pill, go for a walk, do whatever . . . David Letterman is not worthy of the invective.

Leno - now THATS another story.

Most people who dislike Letterman do so because they are either the butt of his jokes or because they don't get it.

To the latter, change the channel, you'll never understand. To the former, if he's making fun of you, you probably deserve it.

David Letterman is a master.

Even at "his age", he makes Leno sound like the chaperone for a senior’s bus outing to the casino.

If you lamely complain of his longevity, his very (well-paid) existence on nightly TV proves he is still relevant and pulling in millions.

For those of you who rip him in favor of "modern humor", consider that when he came on the scene, HE was the rebel. He was the "Jackass" who could only be on TV at 12:30 am. Plus, before Letterman, TV was Johnny Carson, Don Rickles and Bob Hope. Leno is the modern heir of those old men. Meanwhile, Letterman made many current "modern" funny guys possible:
Conan: Geek Letterman
Stewart: Political Letterman
Knoxville: Extreme Letterman

And, to top it off: Letterman always respected the generation that came before him. Just like you should.

There's a reason Johnny Carson favored Letterman over Leno.

He can be absurd, sure. But he can also be very genuine.

His humor is smarter than most, which is why some just don't get it. But then again, they're not meant to.

Dave is definitely this era's Carson, and he has the Emmy's to back it up.

I am wearing a Late Show sweatshirt right now. I fear the alternative universe of comedy if Letterman never existed.

David Letterman is part of my upbringing. Now even here at age 44 I find myself very connected to at least most of his antics. He is truly an American icon.

Dave Rules!

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Letterman did not invent absurd comedy. Just a few months ago I caught myself explaining asburdist humor to my daughter as we watched an old Monty Python rerun on PBS. Long before Letterman there was Ernie Kovacs, Laugh-In, Monty Python, Frank Zappa, and so forth showing us what absurd comedy was. Paul Lynde and Don Rickles were snarkier, earlier.

if you are 500 years old than ya i guess letterman would be funny.. humour evolves ..thats why we have conan

I am not........now

You know, I am french and leave on the very small island of St Pierre Et Miquelon. I have been watching Letterman for several years and think that this is not always bringing the satisfaction you'd be expecting from a show that has so much popularity. Nonetheless after long days at work as well as struggling at finding a TV channel that doesn't show us war and disasters, I believe that the Letterman show should and will survive, it is a bit of fresh air and good humour that I personnaly can't miss. Long live the Letterman show. BRAVO !

How boring life would be without some of the old and a little of the new. A bit of the good and a little of the bad. Some like it this way and others like it that way. Let's keep some of it here and some of it there but spread a little of it everywhere. We're all here to share, whether it's good or bad, old or new, young or old. We are here!!!

Here's to Laugh!