By the end of the ’80s, Letterman was the king of hip and cool. He now smoked cigars and assumed “a statelier air.” Notably, he no longer made a show of despising celebrities, as he had for a decade.
When Barbara Walters booked him as a guest interview on one of her specials, he walked around the office openly expressing his admiration for her.
“What happened, Dave?” asked head writer Steven O’Donnell.
"Ferocious fear of failure". Why didn't he use to drive him to beat Leno? Never got the hype. Always came off like he didn't give a shit enough to bother trying as if he thought he was above it all. Isn't my half-assed monologue genius because it's anti-monologue? The audience expects 10 minutes of standup topical jokes, but not this guy. Nah, he's above it all.
That's all they could dig up out of a 30 year career in the business? What horse shit. He was mean to a stand-in musician once well what a fucking asshole! Are you kidding me?
(Actually the only awful part of the story is that (((Paul Shaffer))) uses 'cat' to describe musicians.)
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n/a F_H_Rileys_MaitreD 2017-03-12
By the end of the ’80s, Letterman was the king of hip and cool. He now smoked cigars and assumed “a statelier air.” Notably, he no longer made a show of despising celebrities, as he had for a decade.
When Barbara Walters booked him as a guest interview on one of her specials, he walked around the office openly expressing his admiration for her.
“What happened, Dave?” asked head writer Steven O’Donnell.
“They are like my peers now,” the host told him.
n/a OpieCouldaBeenAModel 2017-03-12
"Ferocious fear of failure". Why didn't he use to drive him to beat Leno? Never got the hype. Always came off like he didn't give a shit enough to bother trying as if he thought he was above it all. Isn't my half-assed monologue genius because it's anti-monologue? The audience expects 10 minutes of standup topical jokes, but not this guy. Nah, he's above it all.
n/a CompoundMediaPR 2017-03-12
That stupid article really thinks it's dropping some unexpected shit about Letterman. Breaking - most funny people are paranoid mental patients.
n/a F_H_Rileys_MaitreD 2017-03-12
Yeah, but the reason I posted it was because it made me think of how Stern is a complete sycophantic shadow of his former self.
n/a Ronvsfez 2017-03-12
You're a complete faggot
n/a F_H_Rileys_MaitreD 2017-03-12
You're at least a casual weekend cocksucker.
n/a literalotherkin 2017-03-12
That's all they could dig up out of a 30 year career in the business? What horse shit. He was mean to a stand-in musician once well what a fucking asshole! Are you kidding me?
(Actually the only awful part of the story is that (((Paul Shaffer))) uses 'cat' to describe musicians.)
n/a Billyassman 2017-03-12
He was funny in the afternoon the END.