Letterman's portrait.
Posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:44 PM PDT by drewh
The guy who’s schtick was to parody conservatism?
Either he sticks with the parody and fails to draw anything bigger than an MSNBC “newscast”
or he drops the parody and becomes a total bore, drawing less audience than the Three Stooges on other channels.
I know I won’t even tune in out of curiosity.
“What are the odds that Obama will show up”
Probably a given since Letterman has been shilling for the RATS all these years. Today Obama was at the CG graduation in CT. tooting off about some black female Coast Guard member. Bill & Hill will probably be there. RATS galore.
ugh, sounds like the DNC convention
Letterman's portrait.
“good for Jay. Cher was right Letterman was always kind of an a-hole.”
I saw Cher at a Letterman taping. She looked like she wanted to be someplace else.
Those were definitely funnier. I suspect the show jumped the shark when Chris Elliot left his writing staff.
“I still can’t think of anyone else on television that I’d more like to punch their face into a bloody pulp than this cretin.”
Bill Maher comes to mind.
He's always been at least vaguely funny. The problem is that he has always been a rotten, filthy, ignorant, worthless, POS leftist. And for that, I say pi$$ on him.
I have to admit that last week when the zoo guy was on Dave cracked me up. The guy had some kind of lizard and asked Dave “Do you know what this is?”
Dave answered “Something I’d eat at Chipotle?”
Cher should look in the mirror, an a-hole for an a-hole..I like Jay, even though I know he leaned left he would poke fun at both sides so it made him more enjoyable to watch..Letterman has always been a leftist loon, wore that on his sleeve
In truth, he never really was that funny. But I think people responded in the 1980s to the way he would come across as an ‘everyman’ who would poke fun at the puffed-up pretensions of the Hollywood bigwigs. But, as the years went on, and especially once he crossed over to CBS, the roles reversed and he basically became the ruthless bully himself. Ruthless and mean-spirited, directing his nastiness not at the powerful, but at those beneath him on the ladder. With the addition of his liberal politics coming to the fore. Loathesome character.
Totally forgot about Larry Bud Melman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert_DeForest
Exactly why I haven’t watched in the past decade or so. I was a big fan years ago and even scored tickets to one of his anniversary shows at the Universal Amphiteater in LA. Tom Hanks was there, stupid pet tricks, great fun. Back before he was a cranky old lib bastard!
..maybe the whacko that used to stalk him will show up
I remember we one of the few times I watched a few minutes and he was really, really cruel to a quest. It was a female I think. Maybe Cher? He truly was a bully that night.
That is exactly how feel. Hubby likes but I never have.
The only appropriate ending for this arrogant lib is to lock him in a room with Bill O’Reilly and let them out do each other.
"A really big shew!"
It was sometime around 2003 when I began to realize Letterman didn’t like me anymore. His anger was no longer subversive and clever, it was bitter and mean-spirited and palpably real. He was a jerk playing to his loyal audience — urban, cynical, elite, Blue State jerks. The humble, self-deprecating Dave had become the nasty, arrogant Letterman, an unrecognizable bully who reveled in pulling the wings off those he saw as something less.
Chris Christie’s weight; Rush Limbaugh’s personal life; everything Bill O’Reilly; Bush, Cheney, Palin, and the last straw, a statutory rape joke about Palin’s 15 year-old daughter. Suddenly you were a dangerous idiot for protecting the most Indiana of things — your gun.
The man who could make you laugh at yourself now wanted to hurt and humiliate.
Letterman’s politics were never the issue. You can’t share my passion for show business and movies and let politics get in the way. Carlin was probably to the left of Letterman, but Carlin was funny and thoughtful and smart. Watching Letterman berate and hector and attempt to humiliate conservative guests over guns and the climate and the brilliance of Obama was boorish. Describing Mitt Romney as a “felon” was just sad.
The American Heartland had disappointed its own Indiana son, and for more than a decade the son was out for payback.
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