Posted on 05/21/2015 11:23:02 AM PDT by jimbo123
Dictionary photo above misanthrope!
I swear, up until last night, I thought David Letterman was dead.
Once he no longer had Larry “Bud” Melman to carry him, Dave was toast.
We’re Back!
...O'Brien is no different.
Can't speak to the other hosts, don't/never watch(ed)them.
...though I'm sure what Fallon did to Rep. Bachmann won him accolades from the higher-ups at NBC/MSM.
Limousine liberals, F them and their hypocrisy.
“Kramer should grab the whole set and set it up in his apartment....”
Absolutely my first thought. That was a hilarious episode.
His producer for most of his time on the air was Fred De Cordova, who was a Conservative Republican and was very close to Ronald Reagan. Every so often Fred would be going to D.C. for a gala at the White House or dinner with the Reagan's and Carson might tease him a little but that was it.
Carson, for the most part, did not have a lot of Political guests on. He did, however, have Richard Nixon on his show in the early 1960’s after he was out of office as VP and before he was President and I bet he probably had on Gov. Nelson Rockefeller when the show was in New York.
Watching his show though you would never know anything about his politics. A big part of his audience was middle-America and he wasn't about to do anything to alienate that.
After Losing to Jay Leno, David Letterman’s Bitterness Cost Him His Indiana Soul
NBC chose Leno over Letterman under the assumption his appeal to mainstream Americans would draw a bigger audience. Letterman’s “Late Show” failed to steal the “Tonight Show” crown because NBC was correct.
Once Letterman figured this out, he blamed us — he turned on us, his fans, at least those of us who weren’t urban, left-wing hipsters
It was sometime around 2003 when I began to realize Letterman didn’t like me anymore. His anger was no longer subversive and clever, it was bitter and mean-spirited and palpably real. He was a jerk playing to his loyal audience — urban, cynical, elite, Blue State jerks. The humble, self-deprecating Dave had become the nasty, arrogant Letterman, an unrecognizable bully who reveled in pulling the wings off those he saw as something less.
Chris Christie’s weight; Rush Limbaugh’s personal life; everything Bill O’Reilly; Bush, Cheney, Palin, and the last straw, a statutory rape joke about Palin’s 15 year-old daughter. Suddenly you were a dangerous idiot for protecting the most Indiana of things — your gun.
The man who could make you laugh at yourself now wanted to hurt and humiliate.
Letterman’s politics were never the issue. You can’t share my passion for show business and movies and let politics get in the way. Carlin was probably to the left of Letterman, but Carlin was funny and thoughtful and smart. Watching Letterman berate and hector and attempt to humiliate conservative guests over guns and the climate and the brilliance of Obama was boorish. Describing Mitt Romney as a “felon” was just sad.
The American Heartland had disappointed its own Indiana son, and for more than a decade the son was out for payback
Carson actually wrote jokes for Letterman’s monologue up until his death.
The Merv Griffin set on Seinfeld was my immediate thought when I saw this headline.
I think the viewers always liked Sirajul, Mujibur, Larry "Bud" Melman and Dave's Mom more than they ever liked Dave himself.
That's why I was impressed at what NBC did for the set of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. That was built up in only a few months for something completely brand new.
Carson was a top notch host. There will never be anyone like him. A comic was once if Mr. Carson liked you and invited you back again - you know you made it.
Also even though he was a Democrat he was not a looney moonbat like today’s Democrap. Mr. Carson had many friends that were republicans. He belong to a group of Hollywood Family that all rose when Hollywood was glamorous not trash like today.
Here are 2 Classy Men in a funny late night show
- Johnny Carson & Ronald Reagan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoT561u1zY
“Once he no longer had Larry “Bud” Melman to carry him, Dave was toast.”
After Bud left the show I found out that Letterman wasn’t funny at all, just pathetic.
Me too.
If I remember that episode correctly, Kramer found the Merv set in a dumpster but I haven't seen it in a long time and I may be wrong on that.
Seinfeld was a great show.
Dof you have a citation for that? I think it’s a myth. Letterman doesn’t even do the kind of jokes Carson did.
I remember him being funny when I used to live in Ontario...that was 25 years ago. Since that time he has become a bitter, nasty old man with a typical leftist slant on the world, hatred that he calls humour. I did enjoy ‘Stupid Pet Tricks’ unfortunately, that was on perhaps 10 minutes every second week? That segment sure beat the heck out of the usual ‘Stupid Dave Tricks’ that made up 90% of the show.
Dave, go spend your now much greater free time overcoming your addiction. Y’all don’t come back now, ya hear?
Why? Auctioning is a LOT of work, and you have to store everything until the auction. Too expensive. Get rid of it. In a bottom line oriented business nostalgia is a cost not a revenue.
Check it out —
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carson-feeds-jokes-to-letterman/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/arts/television/24rcar.html?_r=0
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-01-letterman_x.htm
And from Letterman’s tribute to Carson after his death — the opening monologue was all jokes Carson had sent in the last couple of months. (As Letterman mentions in the second clip.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BiHLK5lFvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrxOM3jsxY
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