Letterman recycled the apparent debacle into a long-running gag. [98] In total, Letterman hosted 6,080 episodes of Late Night and Late Show,[1][4] surpassing friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late-night talk show host in American television history. He enjoyed collecting model cars, including racers. For years afterward, Letterman recounted his hosting the Oscars, although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continued to hold Letterman in high regard and invited him to host the Oscars again. In April 2014, Letterman announced his retirement, and the final show aired on May 20, 2015. [25] He was initially introduced as Chris Economaki, but this was corrected at the end of the interview (Jim McKay announced his name as Dave Letterman). In a rarity for a late-night show, it was also the highest-rated program on network television that night, beating out all prime-time shows. On December 4, 2006, CBS revealed that Letterman signed a new contract to host Late Show with David Letterman through the fall of 2010. Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the Late Show franchise. Lassally also claimed that Carson had always believed Letterman, not Leno, to be his "rightful successor". [12] The elder Letterman died of a second heart attack in 1973,[13] at the age of 57. On more than one occasion, he said that he had once been a "horrible alcoholic" and had begun drinking around the age of 13 and continued until 1981 when he was 34. Episode Review: Late Show With David Letterman Series Finale Find out what critics are saying about David Letterman's final episode... Fall TV Preview: A Guide to New & Returning Broadcast Shows The appearance was Letterman's idea: Leno flew to New York City on an NBC corporate jet, sneaking into the Ed Sullivan Theater during the Late Show's February 4 taping wearing a disguise and meeting Winfrey and Letterman at a living room set created in the theater's balcony, where they taped their promo. [27] As of 2012, he still owned the truck. In this and other appearances, Letterman is listed in the credits as "Earl Hofert", the name of Letterman's maternal grandfather. He had a cameo in the feature film Cabin Boy, with Chris Elliott, who worked as a writer on Letterman's show. [72] For example, in 2003 and 2004 Letterman ranked second in that poll, behind only Oprah Winfrey, a year that Leno was ranked fifth. [15] He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and graduated in 1969 from what was then the Department of Radio and Television. Lasko gave birth to a son in 2003. In a show of emotion, Letterman was nearly in tears as he thanked the health care team with the words "These are the people who saved my life!" Later that year, Letterman made regular use of guest hosts—including Tom Arnold and Kelsey Grammer—for new shows broadcast on Fridays. On his first show after the Oscars, he joked, "Looking back, I had no idea that thing was being televised." [108] The show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, premiered January 12, 2018, with Barack Obama as its first guest. "[82] During Letterman's last show, on which Foo Fighters appeared, Letterman said that Foo Fighters had been in the middle of a South American tour which they canceled to come play on his comeback episode. In 2008, a Rolling Stone interview stated, he hosted a doctor and nurse who'd helped perform the emergency quintuple-bypass heart surgery that saved his life in 2000. While introducing the band's performance of "Miracle" on the show of October 17, 2014, Letterman told the story of how a souvenir video of himself and his four-year-old son learning to ski used the song as background music, unbeknownst to Letterman until he saw it. For Letterman's arrival, CBS spent US$8 million in renovations. He appeared in The Simpsons as himself in a couch gag when the Simpsons find themselves (and the couch) in "Late Night with David Letterman". [134] Worldwide Pants received significant attention in December 2007, after it was announced the company had independently negotiated its own contract with the Writers Guild of America, East, thus allowing Letterman, Craig Ferguson, and their writers to return to work, while the union continued its strike against production companies, networks, and studios with whom it had not yet reached agreements. Her exploits drew national attention, with Letterman occasionally joking about her on his show, although he never referred to her by name. "[21] He also occasionally reported the weather and the day's very high and low temps for fictitious cities ("Eight inches of snow in Bingree and surrounding areas"), on another occasion saying that the state border between Indiana and Ohio had been erased when a satellite map accidentally omitted it, attributing it to dirty political dealings. In 1975, encouraged by his then-wife Michelle and several of his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, Letterman moved to Los Angeles, California, with hope of becoming a comedy writer. He became calmer through a combination of transcendental meditation and low doses of medication. Letterman was the focus of The Avengers on "Late Night with David Letterman", issue 239 (January 1984) of the Marvel comic book series The Avengers, in which the title characters (specifically Hawkeye, Wonder Man, Black Widow, Beast, and Black Panther) are guests on Late Night. [92] His contract was subsequently extended to 2015.[93]. [180], On September 7, 2007, Letterman visited his alma mater, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, for the dedication of a communications facility named in his honor for his dedication to the university. [86] He addressed his decision to re-sign on the air, stating that he was content at CBS and that he had great respect for Koppel. This show included a full orchestra, news breaks, and a … [90], On the February 3, 2011, edition of the Late Show, during an interview with Howard Stern, Letterman said he would continue to do his talk show for "maybe two years, I think. [31] He hosted a 1977 pilot for a game show called The Riddlers[32][33] (which was never picked up), and co-starred in the Barry Levinson-produced comedy special Peeping Times, which aired in January 1978. Letterman's biggest influence and his mentor was Johnny Carson. Since the game was played between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears, the Indianapolis-born Letterman wore a Peyton Manning jersey, while Winfrey, whose show was taped in Chicago, wore a Brian Urlacher jersey. In 2010, a documentary directed by Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina, Dying to do Letterman, was released, featuring Steve Mazan, a stand-up comic, who has cancer and wants to appear on the Letterman show. [28] In Los Angeles, he began performing comedy at The Comedy Store. Time magazine wrote, "Letterman's innovation ... gained power from its rigorous formalism"; as his biographer Jason Zinoman puts it, he was "a fascinatingly disgruntled eccentric trapped inside a more traditional talk show. In early 2005, it was revealed that Carson occasionally sent jokes to Letterman, who used them in his monologue; according to CBS senior vice president Peter Lassally (a onetime producer for both men), Carson got "a big kick out of it. Personally, I'm against it. I was content, and then a couple of days ago Donald Trump said he was running for president. "[123], His remarks did not put an end to public criticism, however. ("The higher-ups have removed the border between Indiana and Ohio, making it one giant state. This was the first time the band had heard this story. Miller, Gregory E.; Schneider, Michael (December 31, 2015). From 1993 to 2015, legendary comedian and talk show host David Letterman interviewed guests and hosted musical performances at 11:35/10:35c weeknights on CBS. In 1993 and 1994, the Late Show consistently gained higher ratings than The Tonight Show. "David Letterman's Off-Center Humor Finds a Home. David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. When NBC instead gave the job to Jay Leno, Letterman departed NBC to host his own late-night show on CBS, opposite The Tonight Show at 11:30 p.m., called the Late Show with David Letterman. His company, Worldwide Pants, produced his shows as well as The Late Late Show and several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, now in syndication. He lampooned his stint two years later, during Billy Crystal's opening Oscar skit, which also parodied the plane-crashing scenes from that year's chief nominated film, The English Patient. Cell phone recordings of the appearance were posted on YouTube by audience members and were widely reported in the media. [29] Jimmie Walker saw him on stage; with an endorsement from George Miller, Letterman joined a group of comedians whom Walker hired to write jokes for his stand-up act, a group that at various times also included Jay Leno, Paul Mooney, Robert Schimmel, Richard Jeni, Louie Anderson, Elayne Boosler, Byron Allen, Jack Handey, and Steve Oedekerk. [29][30], By the summer of 1977, Letterman was a writer and regular on the six-week summer series The Starland Vocal Band Show, broadcast on CBS. He hosted late night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. In one appearance, in 1982, Andy Kaufman (who was wearing a neck brace) appeared with professional wrestler Jerry Lawler, who slapped and knocked the comedian to the ground (Lawler and Kaufman's friend Bob Zmuda later revealed that the incident was staged).[59]. [26] He and Michelle packed their belongings in his pickup truck and headed west. On October 1, 2009, Letterman announced on his show that he had been the victim of a blackmail attempt by a person threatening to reveal his sexual relationships with several of his female employees—a fact Letterman immediately thereafter confirmed. 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