I wasn’t a big fan of Letterman, but my wife is. We went to see his show in NYC. I was surprised at how funny he was off camera. Then the show starts, and blah....
Go figure.
He does his own crowd warm up, and is actually rather gracious.
Then the cameras start rolling and he becomes that bitter unfunny old man, STILL telling Bush and Palin jokes.
Stale, Dave, STALE.
Ironically, he'll probably beat Fallon, though.
I just don't see the Tonight Show making it a success with that guy.
I never thought Fallon was very funny on SNL.