Letterman staff quits over Tiger Woods Top Ten

ChicagoNow ^ | November 29, 2009 | Bruce Wolf

[EveningStar]

The entire writing staff of the David Letterman show has quit over a Top Ten list that Letterman has written himself and plans to read on his CBS-TV show tomorrow night.

"Forget about the fact that he's micromanaging the show and trying to do our job. It's his prerogative to oversee the operation," said an unnamed writer. "But the list just isn't funny."

[EveningStar]

This sounds like BS.

[mewzilla]

So is that Woods is not to picked upon, or is this a union deal?

[SolidWood]

I hope it’s true. But it smells like a ratings ruse. Don’t watch it. That’s all.

[Steely Tom]

Interesting if true.

[Carl LaFong]

This is supposed to be a comedy column. I hope this guy has other sources of income.This ain’t ‘gold’.

[NRPM]

Gotta be satire.

[SolidWood]

Every comedic line the staff suggested was rejected by Letterman.

One of the rejected lines in the staff's version of "Top Ten Stories Tiger Woods is Giving to the Cops" was "If you had a drab, ugly wife named Regina whom you finally married after having her hang around you for two decades, you'd want to knock yourself unconscious by crashing into a fire hydrant, too."

Too good to be true. LOL!!!

[Williams]

Is this a real story? Sounds ridiculous.

[org.whodat]

This sounds like BS.

Wrong, the correct statement is Letterman is so much like bullsh** he'd get lost in a feed lot.

[DannyTN]

"This sounds like BS."

I agree. It's probably a PR campaign to try to raise ratings. From the three lines released, neither letterman's version or the staff's version was funny.

[CaptainK]

It smells like an Onion.

[EveningStar]

That’s what I think.

[llevrok]

Letterman has writers? Who knew?!

[mark3681]

David who?

[FunkyZero]

bah, bs.

letterman is tanking and needs to be in the news right now.

the best thing to do is what I have always done, just not watch letterman because he sucks.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving hypocrite.

[grumpygresh]

Sounds like a desperate ratings stunt for the pervert.

[BobL]

It’s all ratings...no one quits in this economy.

[Dick Bachert]

David WHO???