I think Letterman is really funny. He falls down, however, with his obvious liberalism. He knows nothing about politics. He should stick to being a funny man. I don’t watch him any more because I can’t get past his liberal attitudes.
How long does the network have to hold on to losers?
Rather, Couric, Letterman have been losers for a LONG, LONG time.
Ron Popeil could beat that if he would ever stop counting his money and bring out a new product.
It's always the same old thing.
Harry Smith in the morning, Katie Couric in the evening, and David Letterman at night.
A Trifecta . . always in the ratings cellar.
I think his political views - which he’s been voicing more - are really turning people off.
Maybe because the Bush jokes were getting old!
Not only is letterman not funny but he’s ugly.
1995...the last time I watched his show.
Leno`s charm is that he makes himself appear harmless.
Letterman not only appears, but is angry, and sarcastic. That ain`t funny, and his schtick wore out 15 years ago.
Jimmy Kimmel would be preferable as the replacement for the Tonigh Show. Conan Obrain !? Ufff, worse than old letterman.
It's true that CBS has a high tolerance for "losers," like that Charles Osgood Sunday Morning show that no one watches. This is also the network whose CEO's wife, Julie Chen, has her very own show. She didn't exactly get it through nepotism, but it does explain why she's still around.
But maybe there's something almost admirable in a major corporation, renouncing glitz and showiness and even talent, and running a division or two like a local talent show or country store cracker barrel. And look on the bright side, Dave and Katie save them from making another CSI spin-off.
Late Night with David Letterman on NBC (1980’s) was simply the funniest talk show ever.
I think Letterman got screwed by NBC when they gave it to Leno. Moving to CBS completely changed the perfect dynamic he had on NBC.
That being said, I still Letterman’s influence on comedy (in general) from 1980 onward is very, very underrated. His approach to humor was copied by almost ever new comedian for 15 years after his NBC show premiered.
So can we get out the tar and feathers now?
He was funny 20 years ago when he was silly. Now he just seems a little nasty. Viewers don’t like nasty.
Leno works hard; Letterman doesn’t.
Couple this decline in ratings with a similar decrease in Twinkie sales and the federal government could tout these figures as proof that the War on Drugs is working and that people are smoking less pot.
David Letterman has NEVER been funny. I used to watch, in the vain hope that he would actually say something funny. Unfortunately, I must have missed his "funny" nights.
Letterman is not funny, and Paul Schaeffer is just obnoxious. Craig Ferguson is the best funnyman on TV right now.
“Maybe because David Letterman hasn’t been funny for about the last 10 years?”
exactly.
Those of us who loved him when he was funny back when when we were in college stuck with him for awhile - but it got to be painful to watch after awhile.
Then it got to the point where we married, had kids, and were too tired to suffer through it anyway.
Letterman...overpaid, underworked, thorougly unfunny.
He’s a has been who’s ‘has’ has ‘been’ gone for a long time now. He looks too sour on screen now in his older years.
Letterman has always had that elitist “if you don’t think my jokes funny it is because you simply are not cool enough to understand it” attitude. I never thought he was funny. At all. Too full of himself and his brand of esoteric ultraliberal “humor.”