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Big Surprise Guests Spotted Entering The Ed Sullivan Theater For Final David Letterman Show
Mediaite.com ^ | 3:25 pm, May 20th, 2015 | by Matt Wilstein

Posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:44 PM PDT by drewh

Big Surprise Guests Spotted Entering Ed Sullivan Theater for Final Letterman Show

When CBS announced the guests for David Letterman’s final run of shows as host of the Late Show, they conspicuously left out any names for the last episode, set to air tonight.

Today, we learned that Letterman’s “favorite band,” the Foo Fighters, will be performing a song on Wednesday night’s show:

And now, thanks to some tweets from fans and reporters staking out the Ed Sullivan Theater, we know a few more names set to stop by unannounced. Read no further if you want to truly be surprised.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: barbarawalters; chrisrock; davidletterman; foofighters; jayleno; jerryseinfeld; jimcarrey; julialouisdreyfus; peytonmanning; stevemartin; tinafey
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To: 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.


21 posted on 05/20/2015 12:53:20 PM PDT by kidd
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To: drewh
I never thought he was funny. I was younger back then and more into juvenile humor, but I always wondered how he got where he was.
22 posted on 05/20/2015 12:55:01 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Patriot Babe

“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.


23 posted on 05/20/2015 12:55:25 PM PDT by kenmcg
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To: kenmcg

ugh, sounds like the DNC convention


24 posted on 05/20/2015 12:58:47 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Letterman's portrait.

25 posted on 05/20/2015 1:01:41 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: drewh

“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.


26 posted on 05/20/2015 1:03:47 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: Patriot Babe
I agree he was so funny back in the 80’s with Larry Bud Melman, those 2 Indian guys, his stupid pet tricks. Once he achieved power status and started getting poltical, he became this cranky old man.

Those were definitely funnier. I suspect the show jumped the shark when Chris Elliot left his writing staff.

27 posted on 05/20/2015 1:05:04 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: greene66

“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.


28 posted on 05/20/2015 1:05:05 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: drewh
poor dave, he used to be funny 20-30 years ago

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.

29 posted on 05/20/2015 1:05:09 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: All

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?”


30 posted on 05/20/2015 1:06:07 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: drewh

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


31 posted on 05/20/2015 1:06:40 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SoCal Pubbie

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.


32 posted on 05/20/2015 1:06:45 PM PDT by greene66
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; Patriot Babe

Totally forgot about Larry Bud Melman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert_DeForest


33 posted on 05/20/2015 1:06:45 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Patriot Babe

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!


34 posted on 05/20/2015 1:06:57 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: drewh

..maybe the whacko that used to stalk him will show up


35 posted on 05/20/2015 1:10:40 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: greene66

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.


36 posted on 05/20/2015 1:12:36 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Red Badger

That is exactly how feel. Hubby likes but I never have.


37 posted on 05/20/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: drewh

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.


38 posted on 05/20/2015 1:30:47 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: drewh
Entering Ed Sullivan Theater for

"A really big shew!"

39 posted on 05/20/2015 1:31:28 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: drewh

After Losing to Jay Leno, David Letterman’s Bitterness Cost Him His Indiana Soul


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.


 

40 posted on 05/20/2015 1:32:19 PM PDT by Bratch
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