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The Beginning Of David Letterman
Tonight, David Letterman will host his last episode of the Late Show, bringing an end to a late-night hosting career that began in 1982. Now is a great time to read Peter Kaplan’s old profile of Letterman, which was published in Esquire just a few months before he debuted as the host of Late Night....

Adam Sandler's Tribute To David Letterman Was Actually Funny
Adam Sandler, believe it or not, used to be funny. Maybe that’s because we were thirteen when we first heard They’re All Gonna Laugh At You and it seemed much funnier at the time than it probably would today, but Sandler’s work on SNL and in his first few movies still holds up decently. But consider...

Keith Olbermann Explains Why He Got Into That Dumb Twitter Fight
Keith Olbermann is a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight, and part of their taped conversation has already been uploaded onto YouTube by the show. In it, Olbermann and Letterman discuss the the dumbass Twitter fight he got into with Penn State fans and students that led ESPN to suspe...

Mike Florio Calls Out David Letterman For Being A Comedian
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was a guest on The Late Show last night, and the segment was lighthearted and puffy, as are most of the interviews David Letterman conducts on his show. Obviously, Letterman made some jokes about the Ballghazi scandal, because David Letterman is a comed...

Bob Mould On Friday's <i>Letterman</i> Is Better Than Anything On The Grammys
Bob Mould played Late Show With David Letterman on Friday, and rocked so hard the studio started falling apart. It's superior to anything you'll see on the Grammy Awards tonight....

Louis C.K. Has A Good Take On The Ballghazi Scandal
If you're starting to feel a little suffocated by Ballghazi hysteria, allow funnyman Louis C.K. to bring a little levity into the situation....

Here Is The All-Time "Albert Achievement Awards" Blooper Reel
Veteran announcer Marv Albert has been running blooper reels as a guest on David Letterman's program for decades. In his 126 appearances on either Late Night With David Letterman or Late Show, the "Albert Achievement Awards" (set, always, to that ragtime vamp) have established the canon of sports ...

"That Joke Has Everything": David Letterman, Before <i>Late Night</i>
In December 1981, a month before Late Night With David Letterman debuted on NBC, Peter W. Kaplan profiled the young comedian, and heir-apparent to Johnny Carson, for Esquire. The story is reprinted here with permission....

Keith Olbermann's Tribute To David Letterman Is Great
Keith Olbermann is never better than when he's talking about someone he respects (perhaps because there aren't many of them). Last night was one such occasion, when Olbermann devoted an entire segment to David Letterman's announcement of his impending retirement. "All I keep thinking," Olbermann sai...

David Letterman Announces His 2015 Retirement From The <em>Late Show</em>
The big news was spoiled by—of all people—R.E.M.'s bass player, but here it is straight from the horse's mouth: David Letterman has revealed that he will retire following the expiration of his contract in 2015. ...

Who Was The Best Oscars Host Of The Past 25 Years?
11. James Franco and Anne Hathaway (2011). Always beware of courting the "young," particularly two young people who are basically 50-year-olds in grownup clothing. Franco, stripped of all self-referential schtick, turned into an empty suit with nowhere to hide, and Hathaway's desperate attempts to p...

Watch David Stern Do The Top 10 On <em>The Late Show</em>
It's David Stern's last season as commissioner of the NBA, so the Godfather dropped by The Late Show to make some jokes....