[RetiredTexasVet]

As one person opined “finally the nightmare ends”.

[Crystal Palace East]

He was NOT funny. His writers were. All Letterman’s so-called funny bits were totally scripted for him.

In addition, he openly confessed to having sexual affairs with female staffers so they could keep their jobs... and the audience though it was funny.

[napscoordinator]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/05/21/final-broadcast-of-late-show-with-david-letterman-delivers-largest-audience-since-1994/407030/

Not sure where you got your numbers from but they are wrong. I think he was a jerk but spreading false information makes us all look bad especially to the liberals who will laugh at us getting something wrong like that especially off by 11 million. I am glad he is done though.

[Churchillspirit]

Good riddance to the leftist jerk.

[South40]

[Minutemen]

Good riddance. Never could stand that gap-toothed LIB.

[Swede Girl]

I loved his early shows. Once he got lefty political I just could not watch. I would not have guessed his left leanings early on. He is middle America and down to earth in his roots and the liberal crap didn't make sense to me. Instant turnoff....and I did turn him off the last 10 plus years or so. I watched the last show and it was great due to the overview and lack of politics.

Johnny was smart about keeping politics off of his show. He had his own demons, but he was watchable and funny to the very end. What a great final show he had with Bette Midler. Classy.

[dennisw]

Where was Jay Leno’s sendoff? It seemed minimal to me. It took place in Los Angeles which helps a bit while Dave Letterman’s took place in a densely packed urban New Jack City.

The week of butt kissing and fawning over Letterman was absurd. Last time I liked this guy was circa 1986 when he had Steve Winwood on and I mentioned it to an acquaintance who immediately chimed in that he saw it to.. Dave was funny back then and into the early 1990s

[dennisw]

Dave has been an icon for mindless liberals for at least two decades and I doubt I have bothered seeing him for more than 5 minutes since then//////////

Of course I will look at selected old Dave Letterman show bits on you tube when he had a musician on that I liked such as Peter Gabriel— Red Rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=39&v=355PAQ883dA

[TexasCruzin]

Dave can take a long walk on a short pier. Next stop.. HELL.

[max americana]

I knew he was a far lefty who hated Bush and any form of Republicans. Met him a year ago in L.A. and I REALLY wanted to kick his ass as my hatred for liberals is intense.

[Skooz]

This is one of the best written articles I have read in a long time. Almost every sentence is a potential pull quote.

And it is spot on.

[budj]

I remember the blogger “Firehat” who didn’t care for Letterman. He once said there’s more to comedy than making a stupid face. When the stories of DL’s perverted abuse of women hit I couldn’t stand to see or hear him anymore. He was a pathetic excuse for a man.

[Ciexyz]

I watch retro TV in his time slot.

[TChad]

If you think mainstream media outlets are carrying on over his exit, wait until network television dies its inevitable demographic death.

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

[publius911]

My wild guess, as one of those who never watched a single episode of David Letterman, is that I'm not alone.

The last few weeks, I'm guessing, they was a definite dent in viewership for CBS and all their local affiliates.

After the first two days of the visual abuse, I simply locked CBS out; I was David Lettermanned out.

. Most of my favorite series are on CBS, but most are on hiatus!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[BradyLS]

I liked him in the 80’s and the early 90’s. But by then, I’d figured out that his jokes only skewered the right and, ironically, his guests—especially the average Americans that came on to do Stupid Pet Tricks and later Stupid Human Tricks. I thought he was showing his audience stupid, funny tricks. No, he was showcasing what he and his staff considered to be _stupid humans._

Treating average Americans like idiots, going after targets on the right almost exclusively, and being snarky to guests is the impression Dave left on me almost twenty years _before_ he retired. He wasn’t fun to watch and when he went after the Palins, I asked honestly why anyone was surprised that Dave would go for cheap laughs at the expense of mother and her kid like that. That’s where and who he was long ago.

I can imagine that some acquired snarkiness stemmed from the fact that he was from Indiana. I’ve seen clips of when he was a young weatherman cracking jokes. He was likable back in the early 80’s, before he made the step up first to a daytime talk show and then to late night. Someone might have underestimated or slighted him for being a Midwesterner. But instead of showing the sterner stuff Midwesterners are made of, he simply made the easier jump to going after soft targets to please his media peers.

Too bad he let himself adapt to his environment rather than the other way around.

[AmericaUnite]

So right. He was mean and not funny.

[octex]

Greenfield’s article is SO very accurate! I think I’ve only watched Letterman about a half-dozen times in all of the years he’s been on; and that was only because of who he had as a guest. ...The letch was NOT funny, just as Conan isn’t.

[LowOiL]

Great article.