Posted on 05/21/2015 9:08:58 PM PDT by OddLane
Last night was David Letterman’s last night, if you wonder why there are suddenly more articles about him than he had viewers. It’s going to be weird without having his show to skip. Television will be a bit less joyless when night owls start their shifts with the aging baby retiring, although many insomniacs won’t even notice. The Late Show’s cultural impact is minimal enough that Chevy Chase wonders what he did wrong. The past makes the present disappointing: it’s hard to explain to people born after Letterman began manning this slot that he created a most inventive approach to comedy. You mean the bitter old bastard was amusing?
It’s personally frustrating to not care that Letterman is officially quitting after years of him practicing during the show. Teen me didn’t just watch: I idolized him for using an hour of network television to tell the world to kiss his ass. Late Night-era Letterman connected with a high schooler desperately seeking any broadcaster who agreed that it was all bullshit. Cope by lampooning. If his next-day nightly show served as a similar safety valve for you, let’s be friends and bitch about this dumb world, not to mention commiserating how he ended up part of it.
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I feel exactly the same. Loved his show at one time. Even went to it once. Haven’t watched in years and glad to see the ass gone.
Haven't watched since.
Dave, you will be missed....
....not!
Its interesting that there are so may people (me included) who feel likewise
LOL.
Read the entire column at the link.
Spot on and hilarious!
Too hard to read -- fine print gray on black backgroung. too much for these old eyes and no desire to take the time to convert it. Goodbye, Dave! Go abuse some more of your crew --
You’re right about that font at the link. IIRC (I’m old) some red font was also thrown in...lol.
Entertaining column by this writer, who sometimes appears on Fox News Channel’s “Red Eye.”
Clinton doesn’t look that good. 00:15 mark => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQklH53Dc8c
Great, now I feel like bagels.
At one time I loved Dave’s show. He was unpredictable and unique. Once Chris Elliott left the show it just seemed to run out of funny and Dave seemed to be the last one to realize it. He just kept telling the same jokes over and over and running the same bits into the ground. I gave up on him in the late 80s.
When Dave started exposing himself as a know nothing, stupid leftist I was already long gone.
Yeah, Red Eye? Speaking of shows that have jumped the shark.
Letterman for some reason tried to be a LIBERAL all the time talk-show host.
But he was terrible at it.
He WON'T be missed.
Carson retired, and finished out his life with friends, and sailing the world on his yacht.
Leno still does his comedy on the road.
Does anyone think that Letterman can do either of those things?
He should have retired about 15 years ago, before he went full retard leftist, bitter, and angry.
My hunch is that Jon Stewart is headed for the same fate.
He'll be forgotten.
Which is the WORST thing to happen to a celebrity.
That's a funny piece. I bookmarked the blog.
Now that his vile show is over, I guess Dave will be out in public more, where he will be mobbed by adoring fans. Actually, considering the number of people he slimed and slandered, maybe they won't all be adoring and they won't all be fans.
Didn’t bother with his last show - actually haven’t bothered with watching more than the odd snippet for decades. The last 20 + years he’s just been a mean, pissed off, old liberal that seemed to delight in attacking anything slightly ‘normal’.
Just like others before him, like G Carlin, life passed them by and they didn’t even see it. No loss to TV, our culture or the generally crappy TV content that passes for entertainment these days.
Miss him? Not hardly....
Letterman: Pied Piper of a Generation of Dipsh!ts.
During George W. Bush’s Presidency, after the 11 O’clock news, I’d often watch the start of Letterman until the point when he would make his first negative comment regarding President Bush. That usually it was within a minute or two of the start of his show; at that point I would switch channels away from Letterman.
Letterman’s Bush hatred was so ingrained that he continued with anti-Bush comments for another couple of years into Obama’s presidential term.
In retrospect, it’s amazing how banal and time-wasting The Late Show was. Of course I’m one who misses the TV station nightly signoffs, with the flag waving, the National Anthem being played, and then the station test pattern being displayed.
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