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May 19, 2015 · David Letterman signs off from US TV after 33 years on the air this week. Without him there would be no Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, writes Keith Uhlich.
May 20, 2015 · The simplest way to understand David Letterman's impact on late-night comedy, 33 years after his debut, is to look at the current state of his competition.
Several late-night hosts have cited Letterman's influence, including Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers (each of whom succeeded Letterman on Late Night), Stephen Colbert (his successor on The Late Show), Jimmy Kimmel, and Jon Stewart. Since 2018, he has hosted the Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
People are finally getting their due for having helped create Late Night with David Letterman, the most important and influential talk show of the last 35 years, in my opinion. Among them director Hal Gurnee, who’d worked with Jack Paar and was able to seamlessly blend the traditional talk show setting with Letterman’s irony and deconstructionism.
Apr 2, 2017 · David Leavitt’s Esquire essay didn’t just trumpet the influence of David Letterman. It also hinted at an intellectual critique of him that would become more common toward the end of the...
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May 20, 2015 · Here now is our Top 10 list of how David Letterman changed late-night TV. 10. Before Letterman, late night was synonymous with one person: Johnny Carson. Letterman has outlasted even his mentor, the late Johnny Carson, who signed off from late night after three decades. Carson created the blueprint of late-night -- monologue, band, witty banter ...
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Sep 14, 2024 · David Letterman (born April 12, 1947, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) is an American late-night talk-show personality, producer, and comedian, best known as the host of the long-running Late Show with David Letterman.
