Dave Letterman - c/d?

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)

I've read your writing elsewhere and know you cannot possibly be that fucking stupid.

thank you.

Cuddly ol' Uncle Dave has built up enough goodwill that ppl will tend to forgive him, tho. SEE?

TELEVISION IS A COOL MEDIUM

i have not read your writing elsewhere so as far as i know you are that fucking stupid

I already figured Letterman was just another Arthur Godfrey-type horrible boss before this.

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.

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

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."

'87, but yeah that's about '92 in Morbs years

yeah, yer right, his studio audience went tourist/frat by the end of the '80s.

j'deteste an impure studio audience

when I couldn't get in anymore on the air date, yeah!

has Bernard-Henri Levy issued a statement yet?

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?

^^ haha it should be clear there that I'm fundamentally not too interested in his personal life and more interested in his rhetorical approach

top ten reasons i am having sex with u

― gore vitalic (s1ocki), Friday, October 2, 2009 10:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

^_^

You just know #1 on that list would be something anti-climactic like "Cause you're a woman!"

oh dave

what a disaster for cbs

it is kinda crepy thinking how he always made stephanie wear weird outfits on the show

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...

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.

somebody plotted to kidnap his kid a couple years ago

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

Do we know if any of this happened post-marriage? (Not that he wasn't as good as married before.)

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.

If the sex tape ever comes out it is going to be as gross as that Duck Phillips/Peggy sex scene on Mad Men.

Letterman fucking Monty is hilariously creepy, I love it.

http://www.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.1495007.1254501301!image/3550389085.jpg_gen/derivatives/feature_416/3550389085.jpg

Deep in the Nikki Finke thread comments on it all:

As a guy it is getting boring seeing these old seniors on tv
having sex issues. We already have to see the commercials of
old 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 NETWORK
Comment by Mr. G — October 2, 2009 @ 12:36 pm

I can't imagine Jay Leno having any sort of sex scandal, he seems like he doesn't have any genitalia.

A car, maybe.

Oh hey, from his sex manual:

http://squadron-mx5.net/sitebuilder/images/jay_leno-390x600.jpg

He really pumped the car's gas that night.

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?

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

He does look very guilty there. I bet oil was dribbling everywhere.

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?

it's only a big story because of the blackmail - would be a news blip otherwise. there is nothing saucy about this.

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, October 2, 2009 5:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha

definition of a player hater real talk

Dave's original head writer, who essentially created the NBC show, was his longtime "fiancee" Merrill Markoe.

This just smacks of Bob Hope in his 60s having gals stashed all around L.A. (at least Dave is still funnier than Old Hope.)

this smacks of dr. morbius being a player hater

CBS = OLD PEOPLE SEX NETWORK

^not since Angie Lansbury left

It's like Murder She Wrote
Once I get you out them clothes

Privacy is a the door,
still they can hear you screaming "more"

*insert photo of Dick Van Dyke on Diagnosis Murder*

Privacy is a the door,
still they can hear you screaming "more"

*insert photo of Dick Van Dyke on Diagnosis Murder*

insert photo of Dick Van Dyke on Mary Tyler Moore

Love Halderman's lawyer here:

"I'm not saying he didn't take the check," Shargel told Maggie Rodriguez on CBS’ “The Early Show." “But the question at the end of the day is, what was his intent? One of the things that the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, one of the elements of the offense, is that Joe Halderman had specific criminal intent. And I say to you and to the public that we shouldn't rush to judgment, because I think, at the end of the day, when the case is tried and after the cross-examination of David Letterman and the full story comes out, I'm confident that a jury will not find that specific criminal intent."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCGv9y4crQ

after the cross-examination of David Letterman and the full story comes out...

Am I the only one who reads this part of the quote from the lawyer as a veiled threat? WTF are we supposed to make of this, that Letterman just felt strangely compelled to give this guy a $2 million check for some as-yet-unknown reason that will come out in court?