The clip that dougzibart posted is fucking funny. Excellent Dave impression. "Oh, for Chrissake!"
Also, warning: unspeakably filthy.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Evil Dave is the best.
― Cousin Larry Soetoro (jeff), Monday, 12 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ok
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers, David.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU7CknpKlTU
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
If his wife doesn't make the list of people who hate him, he must have done some world-class explaining.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Conan would be a really weird fit for CBS. Their programming skews so old.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
sunny successor I think you're right and this is something I've often thought myself.
Conan would make a super new Dave.
― del griffith, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
(Not a new Super Dave, which was Johnny Knoxville.)
― del griffith, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
What a disaster for CBS
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
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, 23 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
― 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?
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
i thought john stewart wanted to do that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think Stewart's been approached a few times for a network gig (most recently for Fallon's job) but wasn't interested.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
jon stewart btw
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah sorry after the first time i posted 'john' instead of 'jon' i was all doh what's wrong with me
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
iirc 'jon' stewart interviewed extensively for and really wanted the show they gave to kimmel, so maybe hes into the 1130 spot but not 1230
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
but also he couldve changed his mind since then
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
interviewed by oprah on 1 of her own network shows, worth finding imo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
So who is going to take over for Dave? Ferguson??
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Whoa, wait. You aren't just being hypothetical!
― pplains, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-letterman-retiring-2014-4
They should replace him with Leno.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
three years longer than Carson
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
He's been coasting for a while, but weirdly, I'm gonna miss the guy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, to answer ss's question, I'm going with Tom Green.
http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com/original/12/Sm9KV005MEJNTUEx_o_2002-03-scott-stevens-on-late-show-w-dave-letterman-w-.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
I'm really going to miss him, he's been on since I can remember. Can't fathom who could possibly replace him. I love Ferguson, but he wouldn't work at the earlier time slot.
― ruth rendell writing as (askance johnson), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
ferguson is the only talk show i really catch any of w/ any regularity and he would be an interesting contrast w/ the jimmys though so much of what works about his show is due to it being the late show. i did watch some of last night's letterman w/ bill murray hijacking the monologue. several years back word was jon stewart was the heir apparent and supposedly getting to pick his successor was part of the deal when he was flirting w/ jumping to abc a few years back but i can't imagine there's any way jon stewart leaves the little kingdom he's built. i know he's phoned it in for quite awhile now but he was still the best at 11:30. the interview baldwin did w/ him on his podcast a couple of years back it seemed like he'd finally achieved some measure of peace or maturity, the show was finally just a job and he seemed more focused on his family. guy's impact and influence on comedy in this country can't be overstated.
― balls, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
i like ferguson well enough, but he seems more a curiosity than an 11:30 competitor. if he really has a right of first refusal clause i don't see cbs not buying him out.
― Clay, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
get this guy imo
http://nowhitenoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/louie-4.jpg
― balls, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
i have given this a lot of thought over the past :38, and i endorse any of the following to replace david letterman
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
OMG, I would love to see Sarah Palin host a network Tonight Show-styled variety show! At least I would for the three days she lasted. Where do I sign!?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
guy's impact and influence on comedy in this country can't be overstated.
OTMFM. His 80s shows were total game-changers.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9eYkpgeeI8
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
letterman is great.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
glad to see him go
― franklin, Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
i know he's phoned it in for quite awhile now but he was still the best at 11:30.
I haven't watched a whole show since the Clinton administration but in those first couple years after Leno took over from Carson Letterman was a balm.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
same with me (haven't watched a full show in years). but letterman's brand of humor will make him cool forever. especially compared to unfunny jay leno.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
i don know how i feel about this prediction these days but the timing is kind of perfect
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― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Friday, 4 April 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link