KISS: Behind the scenes at David Letterman taping...

College to interns: Stay away from Letterman

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THE PUNCH LINE

"It's fall here in New York City. I spent the whole weekend raking my hate mail." -- David Letterman

Letterman Ratings HUGE...

Story HERE.

Letterman Extortion

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Obama on Letterman tonight Spoiler...

— Letterman has a presidential seal on his coffee mug for this particular show.

— Letterman does a "Top 10" list on reasons why Obama agreed to go on the show.

— One of the "Top Ten" reasons is "I don't know" (meaning that the self-deprecating Letterman isn't quite sure how he scored the POTUS).

— Letterman to Obama, after talking about health care: "Your job is more difficult than my job, that's what I learned here tonight."

— Topics of discussion between Letterman and Obama include health care, Afghanistan and Iraq.

— Obama tells Letterman: "We're not going to recover overnight. Unemployment is still going to be a big problem for at least another year." (hat tip: Reuters)

— When asked if racism is to blame for harsh rhetoric, Obama says, "It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election." (via AP's Phil Elliott)

— Before his interview with Obama, Letterman chatted with a woman in the audience who brought a heart-shaped potato for the president. Obama later said, "The main reason I am here? I wanna see that heart-shaped potato."

— From the pool report:

Top Ten Reasons Why President Obama Agreed To Appear On The Show

10. Heard the lady with the heart-shaped potato was gonna be here.

9. Thought it would be fun to watch someone else get heckled.

8. Something to do with that whole cash for clunkers deal.

7. Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has done it.

6. Someone offers you 600 bucks you take it ladies and gentlemen.

5. We told him Megan Fox would be here.

4. Needed some time to hang out before check in time at his hotel.

3. I have no idea.

2. Said yes, without thinking, like Bush did with Iraq.

1. Wanted to congratulate Dave on the big Emmy win.

Anne Heche on Letterman

Britney Does Dave

Lame Ass Duck

Sarah Palin quit on her stool as governor of Alaska Sunday night, talking about leadership as she did. She clearly imagines herself to someday be the next President of the United States, getting to tell guys like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad where to get off, yet leaves whining about a bad joke from David Letterman. You rarely get political farewells this funny outside the state of New Jersey.
Always with Palin there was this cockeyed idea, usually from the yahoos on the right, the frauds who treat her as being real, that if you attacked her, you were attacking working moms and the “real Americans” she talked about in her speeches, the ones who live far from big cities. Or that you were somehow threatened by this strong woman. From the start, there was as much substance to that as there is to her political thought, which you could fit inside a golf ball.
more HERE
The full transcript of her rambling, 2300-word farewell address is HERE

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McCartney Mania in Manhattan

Paul McCartney returned in grand fashion to the theater that launched his career in Manhattan more than 45 years ago.
It was February of 1964 when The Beatles took the stage on The Ed Sullivan Show and sent the nation into a frenzy that would become "Beatlemania." This time around, however, McCartney passed on the stage for this performance, and instead took the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater with a surprise performance on the marquee for Wednesday's taping of the Late Show with David Letterman.
more HERE
interview video HERE

Emma's Undies

Appearing on the David Letterman show, Emma Watson laughed off her wardrobe malfunction at the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on Tuesday, July 7.
When Letterman displayed a photograph showing her partly disrobed by the stormy weather at the premiere and asked her what is going on in the photo, Emma, 19, responded:
"This is a small wardrobe malfunction that happened. I don't actually know when this happened. At least I am wearing underwear."
more w/entire interview video HERE
Emma arrives at Letterman show pics HERE

THE PUNCHLINE

"I'd like the truffle-crusted halibut."
-- From David Letterman's "Top Ten Questions Bernie Madoff Asked Today in Prison."

THE PUNCHLINE

"It's Letterman -- we still cool?"
-- from David Letterman's Top Ten Messages On Sarah Palin's Answering Machine

THE PUNCHLINE

"It's Gay Pride Week in New York City. Everyone is celebrating. In fact, the Statue of Liberty today was holding a mojito."
-- David Letterman

THE PUNCHLINE

"On Facebook, lists his relationship status as, 'It's complicated.'"
-- From David Letterman's "Top Ten Surprising Facts About Governor Mark Sanford."

THE PUNCHLINE

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held an election victory party. At the party, he thanked the 148 percent of the people who voted for him."
-- David Letterman

Pop Icons : A Dying Breed

An era of American superstar icon status in the realm of entertainment/pop culture is fading ever faster with the passing of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.
In the world of immediacy, attention disorders and frankly, a severe shortage of talent...the pop culture icon is a dying breed...
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's only a handful left...

• Bob Dylan
• Willie Nelson
• Madonna
• Bruce Springsteen
• Prince
• Iggy Pop
• Raquel Welch
  
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Jack Nicholson
• Woody Allen
  
• David Letterman
  

...let us know if you think of any others...
It seems unfathomable that anyone will ever achieve the type of celebrity Jackson or Fawcett were able to achieve and especially the manner in which they became so incredibly popular.

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Examining Sarah Palin's Ego

I'm number one

David Letterman joined Tina Fey as a member of Sarah Palin's supporting cast last week.
Letterman got cheap laughs and attention; Palin got a fresh supply of umbrage—and attention.
Palin is both comfortable and adept at these tabloid squabbles-certainly more than she seems ever likely to be in a substantive environment. Parrying political opponents about policy, or responding to serious queries about the state of the world is just not what Palin does. Even her attacks on President Obama have a canned quality, something along the lines of . . . "socialism, yadda yadda yadda." She leaves the details to Romney or Huckabee or perhaps next week's guest star.
By contrast, Palin seems genuinely animated by her contests with late-night comedians and she is always well-versed in the subject matter, which is, in order:

1. Sarah Palin;
2. What the cultural elite thinks of Sarah Palin;
3. What her supporters properly understand about what the cultural elite thinks of Sarah Palin;
4. Why Sarah Palin, and people who identify with Sarah Palin, are correct to resent the cultural elite for what it thinks of Sarah Palin.
The Week's Francis Wilkinson editorial HERE

Letterman Protest

WOW! ...that is some scary shit...

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