Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Late-night legend David Letterman's ugly personality no laughing matter, former colleagues say
New York Daily News ^ | 3/11/17 | Larry McShane

Posted on 03/12/2017 6:30:22 PM PDT by Yossarian

Edited on 03/12/2017 9:35:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 last
To: Yossarian

I can’t believe people are saying he’s not funny. Just look at his interviews with Mr. T on youtube.


81 posted on 03/13/2017 12:06:01 AM PDT by BestPresidentEver
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

If he’s self-aware enough to loath himself, he’s smarter than I thought.


82 posted on 03/13/2017 1:06:34 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

I used to say back when late night was Leno or Letterman, I’d much rather be in a stuck elevator with Leno than letterman. Leno always seemed like he was an actual human being.


83 posted on 03/13/2017 1:09:43 AM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: iowamark

I only remember Carson from my childhood; my dad had him on. He seemed to me to be proudly uncomfortable. All those tics and what not.


84 posted on 03/13/2017 1:18:27 AM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: xp38

>>The comedy compensates or balances out their dark side maybe.

No, sarcasm is just a more socially acceptable way of displaying anger.

‘Like a madman who throws flaming darts and deadly arrows, so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”’ - Proverbs 26: 18-19


85 posted on 03/13/2017 4:01:05 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

I used to stay up late to watch his show too. Back in the early 90’s, during the time I was taking care of my mom while she battled cancer, his show was a tiny respite of the sadness and pain. In October of 1995 I got tickets to see him live. I was absolutely heartbroken at how much of an asshole he was to the people around him. That night was the last time I ever watched him.


86 posted on 03/13/2017 4:39:23 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian
Gee, hope he gets to feelin' better.


87 posted on 03/13/2017 5:11:14 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Liberty Valance; All
From The People's Cube:

NY Times, 2009:
In early June, David Letterman joked: “Sarah Palin went to a Yankees game yesterday. There was one awkward moment during the seventh-inning stretch: her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” Palin was outraged, claiming her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, had been slurred. Letterman explained that he was referring to Bristol Palin: 18, unwed, and a mother. He declined to apologize but said ruefully, “There are thousands of jokes I regret telling.” Sarah Palin, unappeased, called the joke “disgusting.” On June 16, he apologized on the show, mollifying Palin but not the demonstrators outside his studio. They demanded that he be fired. Should he be?
88 posted on 03/13/2017 5:30:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: Yaelle

Watching a few episodes of Jay Leno’s Garage should make that obvious to just about anyone.


89 posted on 03/13/2017 5:46:25 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster

So the LIB fool letterman is “unhappy”? Who cares? He could buy lots of therapy time with his $400 million.


90 posted on 03/13/2017 7:08:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

No surprise there... sounds like your typical libtard.


91 posted on 03/13/2017 7:25:07 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

I used to tune in for the list of ten but got so put off by him that I eventually quit that....miserable liberal!!!


92 posted on 03/13/2017 8:33:00 AM PDT by ontap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: minnesota_bound

My Hoosier Mom said “they don’t put marble tops on cheap furniture”, she was wrong the only one time in her life, as it pertains to Letterman!


93 posted on 03/13/2017 9:13:16 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (" The Russians made me vote, for Donald J. Trump"! NOT!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian
When Letterman first started Late Night I thought he was a rude jerk. He would interview audience members or people on the street in an attempt to make them look foolish. I thought he only succeeded in making himself look mean and petty, so I gave up on him. Then he hit his stride and the show became zany and funny in a Steve Allen sort of way and I started watching again. I watched him for years even after he moved to CBS.

I remember him interviewing Dan Rather at the height of Monica-gate. Rather was whining about how he "hated covering this story". Letterman replied with deadpan seriousness "one thing we know about the president - he's a love machine". Once he turned bitter and partisan, he would never have joked about a lib like that. I started tuning him out during the Bush 43 years, and during the Obama years, he was stupefyingly unfunny.

After reading the article, it seems he barely kept his bitterness and rage in check, and at some point, like Howard Hughes, he could not longer keep his bitter soul suppressed, and he just lost it. He even grew a long beard like Hughes.

94 posted on 03/13/2017 12:59:42 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lazamataz

Laz, now stop that kidding around! We know you don’t do doods on purpose!


95 posted on 03/13/2017 6:34:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Yossarian

Letterman always struck me as an angry, bitter, hate-filled person. Probably from the cognitive dissonance of trying to square his decent Midwest upbringing with compliance to his new liberal masters.


96 posted on 03/13/2017 7:32:07 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-96 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson