Dave Letterman - c/d?

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?

I'm no lawyer, but when your client collected the phony blackmail payment, on tape, in a whole big investigation, and then went and attempted to deposit it, I assume you really don't have much left to say besides the claim that it wasn't actually blackmail he intended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S436Nu8i6fg (Dutch parody)

he's got the giggle and the tics down pretty well. Does Dave have any female writers on staff, btw?

The clip that dougzibart posted is fucking funny. Excellent Dave impression. "Oh, for Chrissake!"

Also, warning: unspeakably filthy.

Evil Dave is the best.

Former Letterman writer in VF (a woman; ZERO female writers currently for Dave, Jay, OR Conan):

Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let's address the pertinent questions. Did Dave hit on me? No. Did he pay me enough extra attention that it was noted by another writer? Yes. Was I aware of rumors that Dave was having sexual relationships with female staffers? Yes. Was I aware that other high-level male employees were having sexual relationships with female staffers? Yes. Did these female staffers have access to information and wield power disproportionate to their job titles? Yes. Did that create a hostile work environment? Yes. Did I believe these female staffers were benefiting professionally from their personal relationships? Yes. Did that make me feel demeaned? Completely. Did I say anything at the time? Sadly, no.

Here's what I did: I walked away from my dream job. The show picked up my option after 13 weeks; then, about two months later, while looking for a nicer apartment, I realized I didn't want to commit to a yearlong lease. I'd seen enough to know that I was not going to thrive professionally in that workplace. And although there were various reasons for that, sexual politics did play a major part.

http://gawker.com/5391017/more-true-tales-of-creepiness-and-terror-from-the-letterman-staff

ok

most successful television shows or television production companies, or for that matter television networks, are probably pretty horrible places to work for many reasons and those reasons listed above are usually always kind of a factor. letterman and espn are pretty par for the course (as a result of long hours, high pressure, success, and the lure of $$$ and fame.) none of this is any kind of surprise.

Cheers, David.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU7CknpKlTU

If his wife doesn't make the list of people who hate him, he must have done some world-class explaining.

so Conan on Dave the other night leaves me thinking they are doing a little prepro on a dave leaving the CBS 11:30 slot/conan taking over move. some super quick research shows they have both recently renewed their contracts through April 2014. its just a hunch but it feels like a strong one.

i mean it would be kind of perfect for Conan, right? Also by then Dave will be the longest running late night talk show host

leaves me thinking they are doing a little prepro on a dave leaving the CBS 11:30 slot/conan taking over move

Maybe, maybe not. I think everyone was just waiting for them to get together for exactly what happened: a string of jokes at Leno's expense.

Conan would be a really weird fit for CBS. Their programming skews so old.

sunny successor I think you're right and this is something I've often thought myself.

Conan would make a super new Dave.

(Not a new Super Dave, which was Johnny Knoxville.)

I think everyone was just waiting for them to get together for exactly what happened: a string of jokes at Leno's expense.

almost 2 1/2 years later? that doesn't really sit right with me. Dave spent the majority of the interview driving home his support for Conan. It was a little weird.

What a disaster for CBS

hasn't CO'B proven he can't draw enough at 11:35 for a network? tho who knows what the standard will be 2 years from now.

Conan would be a really weird fit for CBS. Their programming skews so old.

― polyphonic, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:15 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

well, what "skews old" changes over time. people who were 30 when Conan started at late night would be 50 by time of the theoretical move to CBS.

although really Conan and Dave have ALWAYS seemed very friendly and fond of one another and each other's shows, just didn't do a lot together probably because they were on diff't networks etc

i mean it's always seemed totally obvious that Conan's way closer to Dave than Jay in terms of comedy and probably as people too, but that it would've been bad politics to make a show of that before the whole Tonight Show blowup

hasn't CO'B proven he can't draw enough at 11:35 for a network? tho who knows what the standard will be 2 years from now.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dave is losing to leno/fallon repeats at the mo so i guess CBS is used to it and maybe looking long term to when leno finally gives it up and fallon or some other non-comp take the tonight show and everybody is all tonight what?

talk show hosts are a weird occupation, you never really know who will do well in that job until they do it, and a lot of attempts to just throw some likable and famous actor or comedian behind a desk have failed. so it's like, even if Conan wouldn't necessarily thrive in Dave's spot, who else is even a remotely safe bet to take that timeslot on that network, besides, like, John Stewart, who will never do it?

i thought john stewart wanted to do that

really? i always got the sense that he would hate to move from TDS to a more trad 60 minute talk show and that people always bring him up as a candidate for those types of jobs with zero encouragement from him

I think Stewart's been approached a few times for a network gig (most recently for Fallon's job) but wasn't interested.

jon stewart btw

yeah sorry after the first time i posted 'john' instead of 'jon' i was all doh what's wrong with me

"hasn't CO'B proven he can't draw enough at 11:35 for a network? tho who knows what the standard will be 2 years from now."

But he was against Dave then, he'll be against Jay "Big Jaw" Leno in 2014.

And every network (except maybe Nickelodeon) wants to skew younger.