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David Letterman
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. 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 total, Letterman hosted 6,080 episodes of Late Night and Late Show, surpassing hi…
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Born 12 April 1947 · Q217298
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2026· 14 entries
Published video “Fun Facts: Proof That History Is Completely Broken | David Letterman”.
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Published video “Dave Letterman’s Fake Documentary Classic | David Letterman”.
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Published video “Nick Offerman Sings a Song With "Minor Nudity" | David Letterman”.
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Published video “Led Zeppelin Heard Their Songs Like Never Before”.
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Published video “Denzel Washington on Boxing, "Flight," and Being James Bond | David Letterman”.
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Published video “Chris Elliott Crashes Letterman to Steal Billy Crystal’s Thunder | David Letterman”.
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Published video “Lauren Bacall Refuses to Be Called a "Living Legend" | David Letterman”.
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Published video “He Got Drunk Before Going On Stage | Letterman #letterman #shorts #garyoldman”.
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Published video “Emma Thompson's Most Unforgettable Moments | David Letterman”.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Peter Lassally, Producer for Johnny Carson and David Letterman, Dies at 93
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Public attention spiked: 29,825 Wikipedia readers in one day, 15.2× the usual 1,965, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Peter Lassally, Producer for Johnny Carson and David Letterman, Dies at 93” (The Hollywood Reporter).
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Public attention spiked: 15,220 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.7× the usual 1,965, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: surely this does not belong in the first sentence
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The Guardian: David Letterman doubts late-night’s future before Colbert finale
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2025· 3 entries
Us Weekly: Did David Letterman Retire After the ‘Late Show’ Ended? Inside His Quiet, But Busy Life
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“From October, 2022. Eight months after Russia invaded his country. This is not a dictator. This is someone who is defending democracy for the world.”
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Letterman appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon while Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band were the guest house band, marking Letterman's first appearance on The Tonight Show since Carson was hos
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2024· 3 entries
“It's time! Darlene Love sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" in our 2024 supercut 🎄👶🏼🏠 youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4”
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“Dave talks about his “audition” for Saturday Night Fever”
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“Dave’s got new merch! Shop here: worldwidepants.store”
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2023· 1 entry
Letterman returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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2022· 2 entries
Letterman was the guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers, marking the 40th anniversary of the franchise's debut
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The existing Letterman YouTube channel, which included previously aired show clips, expanded to include new, original content featuring Letterman and former staffers Barbara Gaines and Mary Barclay, filmed by Walter Kim
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2020· 1 entry
And includes Kim Kardashian West, Robert Downey Jr
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2018· 1 entry
Letterman began hosting a six-episode monthly series of hour-long programs on Netflix consisting of long-form interviews and field segments
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2017· 4 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “Says comedian David Letterman responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by tweeting, “End white privilege today.”” False.
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Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2017).
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Letterman gave the induction speech for the band Pearl Jam into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City
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Letterman and Alec Baldwin co-hosted The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies
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2016· 1 entry
Letterman joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents
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2015· 4 entries
And opened with a presidential sendoff featuring four of the five living American presidents, George H
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“For years and years and years—30, 40 years—I was anxious and hypochondriacal and an alcoholic, and many, many other things that made me different from other people.”
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Reported net worth: $400M (as of 2015).
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Letterman said of his anxiety: "For years and years and years—30, 40 years—I was anxious and hypochondriacal and an alcoholic, and many, many other things that made me different from other people
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2014· 1 entry
Letterman announced that he had informed CBS president Les Moonves that he would retire from hosting Late Show by May 20, 2015
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2013· 1 entry
And Bruce McCall published a fiction satire book, This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me), ISBN 0-399-16368-9
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2012· 2 entries
When he was interviewed by Regis Philbin, the guest host and Letterman's longtime friend
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It was reported that the collection consisted of ten Ferraris, eight Porsches, four Austin-Healeys, two Honda motorcycles, a Chevy pickup, and one car each from automakers Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, MG, Volvo, Cadillac and P
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2011· 1 entry
It was reported that an Islamist militant had posted a death threat against Letterman on a website frequented by Al-Qaeda supporters, calling on American Muslims to kill him for making a joke about the death of Ilyas Kas
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2010· 3 entries
Made an appearance on the premiere of the 14th season of The View, and confirmed that he had been considered for hosting again
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And the two-year extension was shorter than the typical three-year contract period negotiated in the past
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A documentary directed by Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina, Dying to do Letterman, was released, featuring Steve Mazan, a standup comic, who has cancer and wants to appear on Letterman's show
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2009· 4 entries
Letterman devoted a segment of his show to a public apology to his wife and staff
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TMZ reported that a former CBS employee, Holly Hester, had had a yearlong secret affair with Letterman in the early 1990s while she was his intern and a student at New York University
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Letterman announced on his show that he had been the victim of an extortion attempt by a person threatening to reveal his sexual relationships with several of his female employees—a fact Letterman immediately thereafter
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In a quiet courthouse civil ceremony in Choteau, Montana, where he had purchased a ranch in 1999
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2008· 1 entry
Rolling Stone wrote: He hosted a doctor and nurse who'd helped perform the emergency quintuple-bypass heart surgery that saved his life in 2000
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2007· 3 entries
Letterman made his first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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Awarded Sagamore of the Wabash presented by Mitch Daniels (2007).
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During November and December because of the Writers Guild of America strike
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2006· 1 entry
CBS revealed that Letterman signed a new contract to host Late Show with David Letterman through the fall of 2010
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2005· 3 entries
When Winfrey appeared on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman in an event Letterman jokingly called "the Super Bowl of Love"
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A woman was able to obtain a restraining order from a New Mexico judge, prohibiting Letterman from contacting her
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Police discovered a plot to kidnap Letterman's son and demand a $5 million ransom
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2004· 1 entry
With driver Buddy Rice, and in 2020 with Takuma Sato
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2003· 1 entry
And 2004 Letterman ranked second in that poll, behind only Oprah Winfrey, a year that Leno was ranked fifth
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2000· 3 entries
Letterman brought all but one of the doctors and nurses on stage who had participated in his surgery and recovery (with extra teasing of a nurse who had given him bed baths—"This woman gave me a bath
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A routine checkup revealed that an artery in Letterman's heart was severely obstructed
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Told an interviewer for Esquire that, while growing up, he admired his father's ability to tell jokes and be the life of the party
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1998· 1 entry
“This is a sad ending to a confused life.”
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1996· 1 entry
Talked about his experience with tinnitus during an interview with William Shatner, who has severe tinnitus caused by an on-set explosion
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1995· 2 entries
Letterman hosted the 67th Academy Awards ceremony
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Ratings dipped and Leno's show consistently beat Letterman's in the ratings from the time that Hugh Grant came on Leno's show after being arrested for soliciting a prostitute
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1994· 1 entry
On a Late Show episode taped in Los Angeles, when he made a surprise appearance during a Top 10 list segment
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1993· 2 entries
And was taped at the historic Ed Sullivan Theater, where Ed Sullivan broadcast his eponymous variety series from 1948 to 1971
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And 1994, the Late Show consistently gained higher ratings than The Tonight Show
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1992· 1 entry
Johnny Carson retired, and many fans, and Carson himself, believed that Letterman would become the new host of The Tonight Show
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1985· 1 entry
Announcing that he was the NBC News president Lawrence K
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1982· 1 entry
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
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1980· 1 entry
Letterman was given his own morning comedy show on NBC, The David Letterman Show
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1975· 1 entry
Encouraged by his then-wife Michelle and several of his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, Letterman moved to Los Angeles, California, with the hope of becoming a comedy writer
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1971· 1 entry
Letterman appeared as a pit road reporter for ABC Sports' tape-delayed coverage of the Indianapolis 500, which was his first nationally telecast appearance (WLWI was the local ABC affiliate at the time)
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1969· 2 entries
From what was then the Department of Radio and Television
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Letterman began his career as a radio talk show host on WNTS and on Indianapolis television station WLWI (which changed its call sign to WTHR in 1976) as an anchor and weatherman
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1968· 1 entry
Letterman married his college sweetheart, Michelle Cook, in Muncie, Indiana; they divorced in 1977
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-04-12.
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