That was embarrassing--like listening to someone's precocious 10 year old tell a go nowhere story and everyone has to pretend to be impressed. Keep in mind, letterman's show on CBS, especially post-2000 was very regimented and managed with the pre-interviews and everything going through the producers, at this time the Stangels. So this is the story, bumping into Ron Howard at a Starbucks, that Opie mustered to the table. Their Leno appearance was similar--Ant took control, was conversational and funny (probably had a few beers in the green room), good rapport and timing, then Opie's sitting there awkwardly like a kid at his 8th grade graduation trying to not fart or fall asleep.