Tonight at 11:35p on CBS, David Letterman is saying goodbye to late night after 33 years, a third of a century. Not only has he influenced many people, he has been a big part of all of the remaining talk show hosts’ lives. Jimmy Kimmel was obsessed with him since he was a teenager. Conan O’Brien would still not be on the air had Letterman not come on to Late Night to save it. Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon were guests on his show when they were starting out. Finally, Seth Meyers wouldn’t have a show if Jay Leno didn’t screw Letterman out of The Tonight Show.
So in the last few days, all of the above took time out of their shows to rightfully salute their hero. So watch them pay tribute to the man who they all have to thank for their jobs. Without him Kimmel would still be doing radio, Conan would be writing for The Simpsons, Fallon would be doing unwatchable movies, Ellen would have another sitcom and Meyers would still be on Saturday Night Live. Come to think of it… Joking, they are all better when they are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW8MY9CD-tQ
Bill Murray was David Letterman’s first guest on NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show, so it is only fitting that he was his last guest. Murray always does something wacky and fun whenever he is on the talk show, and tonight was no different. Scrooge made everyone happy when he came out of a huge cake. Proving you can have your cake and eat it too, if you host late night talk shows for 33 years.
Before David Letterman had 2 late night national talk shows, he had one on Saturday mornings in Indianapolis and he also did weather at the same station, WLWI now WTHR. Even in his mid-20’s back in the early ’70s, you could tell he was going to be a star who would change television forever.
Oprah Winfrey was on David Letterman’s last Friday night show of The Late Show and he had a very important question for her? He asked, “With regard to the girls that you have in school in South Africa and yourself and society and culture generally, what do you think of smoking weed? Are you smoking?” Her reaction is priceless. It is like, WTF is going on here? When she comprehended what he just asked her that, she replied, “Actually no. I haven’t smoked weed in 30 years, really.”
Then the two of them exchanged stories about what they ate to feed their munchies. He ate 2 pints of ice cream and she downed a sleeve of Oreo cookies. That’s all? That ain’t nothing. But then again that is not the same stuff we have now.
BTW can you imagine them high together? That would be so much fun! I am sure he would be asking her to scream his name over and over and she would ask him to say, “Oprah Uma, Uma Oprah!” And they would laugh and laugh as they dipped their Oreos into to the ice cream!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVuS6VSvUXg
Let’s be frank, we all pictured George Clooney using a pair of handcuffs in the bedroom with his lovers, but tonight he used a pair on a man. The Oscar winner doesn’t want David Letterman to retire from The Late Show, so he handcuffed himself to the CBS late night host. Then once they were attached at the wrists, Clooney threw the key into the audience. Only problem is, he didn’t think the whole plan through. Now they are stuck with each other until someone finds the key or they get so sick of each other that one of them gnaws his hand off to break free. Hopefully, one of them saw Saw or 127 Hours for some ideas on how to get out of their situation.
