[MuttTheHoople]

I used to be a HUGE Letterman fan. He started turning me off in the late 1980's when he tried to do a show during the Writer's Strike...he was absolutely horrible.

That showed me he was nothing without his writers as a crutch. You can watch "funny Letterman" every night on the Conan O'Brien show.

Also, Letterman used to abuse (emotionally and sexually) his female staff workers. Finally, his bit against Bristol Palin . He deserves to be throat-punched.

[Captain Peter Blood]

That was the same time that Carson was waiting for the strike to be over and then decided to go back on and write his own stuff. Well Carson really was pretty talented and a good writer. I tell you the stuff Carson was writing was better than what his writers were doing and it was really funny stuff.

So interesting that Letterman was trying to imitate his hero and could not do it. Should have had Carson writing for him.