Letterman's last show is tonight.
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Been watching the past couple weeks and 2 things seem obvious to me. 1) The reason why I stopped watching was re-affirmed as Dave comes across as bitter and angry so often these days, especially politically. 2) Clips of his old bits and guests are still funny as hell.
Last night he had the guy from Hello Deli on and they ran a clip of their old bit of Dave sending him out into NYC with an earpiece, and Dave would feed him lines to say to people. Hilarious, but hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
Last night he had the guy from Hello Deli on and they ran a clip of their old bit of Dave sending him out into NYC with an earpiece, and Dave would feed him lines to say to people. Hilarious, but hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
Been watching the past couple weeks and 2 things seem obvious to me. 1) The reason why I stopped watching was re-affirmed as Dave comes across as bitter and angry so often these days, especially politically. 2) Clips of his old bits and guests are still funny as hell.
Last night he had the guy from Hello Deli on and they ran a clip of their old bit of Dave sending him out into NYC with an earpiece, and Dave would feed him lines to say to people. Hilarious, but hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
Record is intact. Have never watched a Dave letterman show.Been watching the past couple weeks and 2 things seem obvious to me. 1) The reason why I stopped watching was re-affirmed as Dave comes across as bitter and angry so often these days, especially politically. 2) Clips of his old bits and guests are still funny as hell.
Last night he had the guy from Hello Deli on and they ran a clip of their old bit of Dave sending him out into NYC with an earpiece, and Dave would feed him lines to say to people. Hilarious, but hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
And the left continue to hitch onto the statements intended as comedy to guide their thought process regarding world events even tho the Daves accept no bounds of the impact as long as they can get laughter.
Can someone cite me an instance where the court jester ever led to victory? They are there to entertain the true leaders.
I read where they were one of his favorites. I thought it was a good ending overall.
LOL! I would bet Dave Letterman's IQ is higher than most posters on this board. Dang good final show!
You are 100% correct about Dave's IQ.......BUT 3:16's comment was about the followers. Did you not understand the post? You just proved your own post..... LMAO
Never watched Letterman. I don't really care for the hacky comedy. Moreover, the famous people he interviews are not interesting at all to me.
With that said, Breaking Bad and GoT were/are awesome shows.
It would be very interesting if all the posters on here took an IQ test and the results were published.
Yes it would. Since I already have been tested, I assure you I would be in the top 1% and I also have the "common sense" to go along with it. Unbeatable combination.
I find it equally interesting in the number of people who equate IQ level to actual intelligence vs the ability to learn.
You first - I will follow. If you are too embarrassed, we will go no further.
Yeah, cult following. Most people that have a national TV show for a third of a century have only a cult following.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/20/why-letterman-was-ultimately-a-disappointment-to-gen-x/
This story has a point. It was early 2000's when I stopped watching regularly.
This story has a point. It was early 2000's when I stopped watching regularly.
I can't really disagree with that article. His show was fantastic in the 80s and much of the 90s but for many years now I'd rarely watch and when I did watch, I'd cringe. The show became lazy and unfunny, which is kinda the worst thing you can say about a show like his. By the end he was well entrenched in 3rd in the ratings behind Fallon and Kimmel.
He became political, which is unwise for a show like his, but worst of all it was lazy political humor. Show a clip of W stumbling over some words and laugh at it. Make an easy and unfunny fat joke about Christie. As a comedian such humor would have been well beneath Dave in his prime. But political humor aside, even the regular humor wasn't very good.
One of the great things about the early days was that Dave did so much with so little pomp. In fact, avoiding the pomp in comedy was what he was about to begin with. So he'd do a Top Ten list by just saying "Here's tonight's Top Ten list from our home office in Topeka, Kansas" and then he'd do it and the top ten would be funny and Dave's pauses during it or remarks about it would be funny and the audience would laugh.
By the end of his show, when he did the Top Ten list he'd say "Here's tonight's Top Ten list" and a bunch graphics would come up and go from 10 to 1 and music would play and the audience would applaud and he'd wait for the applause to die down and it was a big to do before the list even started. Then he'd go through the list and the audience would applaud over half of them for some reason. What is the point of applauding a joke? I thought jokes were to be laughed at. And then maybe applaud at the end of the show or the end of a bit to show your appreciation. By the end of the Letterman run the audience would applaud every joke.
So by the end of Letterman's the Top Ten became a giant showy production, the humor of which was an afterthought. By the end people would watch the Letterman Top Ten because it was the Letterman Top Ten. OTOH back in the 80s the people would watch the Letterman Top Ten because it was...funny!
By the end of the Letterman show the point of watching was because it was the Letterman show. But back in the 80s the point of watching the Letterman show was because it was funny. The show was funny and it got big because it was funny but after it got big it focused too much on being big instead of on being funny,.
