In a 2002 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Birkitt called Letterman "the best boss I've ever had."
She expanded on that claim in a 2003 interview with her alma mater, telling a Wake Forest publication:
Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to play catch with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have.
― velko, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
full monty amirite
― brownie, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to make love with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have.
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
can't believe nobody caught that
this puts "did you see or touch any monkeys" in a whole new context
A SEXUAL CONTEXT IN FACT
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
in the bed.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if Letterman will now apologize for all the mercilous ribbing of Bill Clinton's peccadilloes.
― o. nate, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
No, he really only ribbed for our pleasure.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I really stopped watching him when the Clinton dick jokes became a nightly staple, but this adds an amusing sheen of hypocrisy.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
not so sure hypocrisy is the right word for it, since his Clinton jokes were never really self-righteous criticisms of adultery as much as they were just general laffs about the ridiculousness of it all. in this case Letterman is openly poking fun at himself about it, too, so the sheen is really more irony than anything.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
You mean we're not gonna give DL a moralistic beatdown for using his boss-man position to score with women? That's just for, oh, maybe another hot thread this week?
(I am NOT drawing any equivalencies btwn the respective artists' actions, which are very different, so far as we know)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I've read your writing elsewhere and know you cannot possibly be that fucking stupid.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you.
Cuddly ol' Uncle Dave has built up enough goodwill that ppl will tend to forgive him, tho. SEE?
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
TELEVISION IS A COOL MEDIUM
i have not read your writing elsewhere so as far as i know you are that fucking stupid
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I already figured Letterman was just another Arthur Godfrey-type horrible boss before this.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I just watched Letterman's confession from last night, and I think "I am a tower of Midwestern Lutheran guilt" is probably the most honest thing he's ever said on TV.
Also, being in his position in American culture is very much like holding elected office. There's not much difference anymore.
I know from your "writing" what a fucking dick you are, n/a.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
well whatever cocktail of emotions Jay Leno is a tower of, it's not very good at producing lols
xp oh he's a dirtbag for sure, and it must feel extraordinary to know you are not among the fools who have been duped into making an emotional investment into the moral character of this Legendary Entertainment Celebrity
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
no, I have some warm feelings toward DL, given that he made one of the few must-watch shows in the last quarter-century of American TV (from '82 til maybe the Crispin Glover kick -- was that around '92?). AND I give him points for declaring himself "creepy."
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
'87, but yeah that's about '92 in Morbs years
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, yer right, his studio audience went tourist/frat by the end of the '80s.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
j'deteste an impure studio audience
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
when I couldn't get in anymore on the air date, yeah!
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
has Bernard-Henri Levy issued a statement yet?
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
his "confession" was really well-played, rhetorically! and, yes, really Midwestern, especially compared to the usual ritual of public apology, which tends to be very, umm, self-centric
its most clearly set-up laugh line -- "it would be embarrassing for the women" -- doubles as a serious, true, and decent statement that digging into Letterman's dirt would surely be way worse for them than him; I can't help but be impressed with the neatness of that. and the whole thing managed to honor the entertainment contract of being interesting and non-sensationally watchable without making any jokes or big gestures out of anything (apart from I guess the weirdness of being blackmailed)
this is like the second time someone had gotten all criminally up in Letterman's life in an attempt to get money, isn't it?
― nabisco, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ haha it should be clear there that I'm fundamentally not too interested in his personal life and more interested in his rhetorical approach
― nabisco, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
top ten reasons i am having sex with u
― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, October 2, 2009 10:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
^_^
― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
You just know #1 on that list would be something anti-climactic like "Cause you're a woman!"
oh dave
― Cunga, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
what a disaster for cbs
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
it is kinda crepy thinking how he always made stephanie wear weird outfits on the show
― bnw, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
They're all grownups; meeting people at work that you have relationships with is acceptable, being penalized at work for declining to partake in relationship with boss is not. I hardly think we are dealing with the latter framework so am movin' on along...
― edward everett horton hears a who (suzy), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco, as far as I know the other major legal snafu was the crazy woman stalking him and breaking into his house repeatedly. No money angle that I recall.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody plotted to kidnap his kid a couple years ago
― alex b. skeaton (tremendoid), Friday, 2 October 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
when i first saw this i wanted to joke: "i wonder if it's that assistant he always had on who would imitate her boyfriend's dance and shit." and, shit, it was. fuck robert haldeman, that dude is a fucking faggot and read his girlfriend's diary and got his feelings hurt, charge it to the game you gay-ass 48 hours producing bitch. MR SUPERTRICK, MR SUPERSNITCH, YOU WANNA EXTORT ME CAUSE I FUCKED YO BITCH? YOU SHOULDA HAD YOUR CAPE ON TIGHT THAT NIGHT
― dylannn, Friday, 2 October 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Do we know if any of this happened post-marriage? (Not that he wasn't as good as married before.)
― nickn, Friday, 2 October 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this afternoon i discovered a whole new realm of Things I Don't Want on My TV: wolf blitzer talking about dave letterman's sex life.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 October 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
If the sex tape ever comes out it is going to be as gross as that Duck Phillips/Peggy sex scene on Mad Men.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 2 October 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Letterman fucking Monty is hilariously creepy, I love it.
― unable to correctly pronounce comedy internet nickname (King Boy Pato), Friday, 2 October 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.1495007.1254501301!image/3550389085.jpg_gen/derivatives/feature_416/3550389085.jpg
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Friday, 2 October 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Deep in the Nikki Finke thread comments on it all:
As a guy it is getting boring seeing these old seniors on tvhaving sex issues. We already have to see the commercials ofold folks in bathtubs talking about sex. Now we got Bob Barker, Dave,etc etc. Go Home old folks and take the old directors and producers with you.CBS = OLD PEOPLE SEX NETWORKComment by Mr. G — October 2, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't imagine Jay Leno having any sort of sex scandal, he seems like he doesn't have any genitalia.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
A car, maybe.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh hey, from his sex manual:
http://squadron-mx5.net/sitebuilder/images/jay_leno-390x600.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
He really pumped the car's gas that night.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm confused, did letterman say something really creepy or insensitive about this or something after the fact (i havent been tabloidin' it up like yall). what's the big deal besides him cheating on his gf (his business) and how is this being spun like he's taking advantage of his young employees/sexist?
― wH1N1 g. swinegarten (k3vin k.), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post -- Caught in flagrante:
http://image.motortrend.com/f/editorial/publishers-blog-first-2008-dodge-challenger-delivered/9676580+cr1+re0+ar1/jay-leno-in-car.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
He does look very guilty there. I bet oil was dribbling everywhere.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
it's only a big story because of the blackmail - would be a news blip otherwise. there is nothing saucy about this.
― iatee, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
― dylannn, Friday, October 2, 2009 5:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha
― xhuxk mangione (deej), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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