david letterman show-related stories
Posted Nov 9th 2009 8:13PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It looks like we've got the makings of a fight on our hands.
Robert Halderman, the man accused of extorting David Letterman and turning the always funny
Late Show into a storm of innuendo and gossip, wants his case to go to trial and most likely won't accept a plea deal or make some sort of arrangement with prosecutors.
So far, he's got two things going for him: a whirlwind of press surrounding his case and the fallout of his arrest and money.
The New York Observer reports he's raised almost $100,000 in legal funds for his case.
I hope this doesn't happen, but is it just me or is it starting to look like Halderman's trial could actually hurt Letterman and company more than it helps him?
Posted Oct 24th 2009 7:38PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It turns out the David Letterman sex scandal hasn't reached its climax. It was just napping.
The National Enquirer reports that the
Late Show host may have been caught on camera getting it on with a member of his staff.
The footage in question came from a surveillance camera in the show's offices that Letterman and his "much younger female co-worker" did not know had been installed in the building. The tape may be released when Robert Halderman, Letterman's extorter, goes to trial or when some sick son of a bitch with nothing but time on his hands and bandwidth to waste decides to post the thing on the Internet. For the sake of humanity, its vision and waning sex drives, don't. Just don't.
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Posted Oct 12th 2009 4:33PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It's official, "pulling a Letterman" means sleeping with a co-worker. Why? Because I said so.
It seems that
ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been in a relationship with a member of his staff as well. This time, the host has been dating the show's head writer Molly McNeary for "several months."
This forced Fox News to pose the question if Kimmel is "pulling a Letterman" and ask if he should be forced to apologize on the air to
Ben Affleck. That normally would be hilarious if Fox News didn't handle all of their news with the same level of integrity and tact.
And yes, I'm jealous they came up with that line first.
Posted Oct 9th 2009 10:26AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
That bastion of journalistic excellence,
Entertainment Weekly, unveiled their new cover and (surprise!) Letterman made the cover. It features the
Late Show host without pants, which in any other context would be the lowest selling issue of
EW since Ernest Borgnine forgot to put on underpants.
My problem isn't with the picture, although it seems it probably should be. It's the headline. Is "Oh, Dave" the best they could do? Hell, "Where the Wild Things Are" would be ten times better and save a fifth of the print space. Write a better headline in the comments section below and we'll feature the best ones in a future post.
Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, News, Reality-Free
One notably close figurehead in David Letterman-gate seems to have gone overlooked, a shiny bald one.
Letterman's longtime sidekick and band leader Paul Shaffer has just released a new memoir called
We'll Be Here the Rest of Our Lives about his rise to late night music infamy. He talked more than a few ears off about his own life in music, but he's kept very hush-hush on the whole Letterman brewhaha.
"You know, I just can't talk about it," Shaffer told a
Time reporter in a recent interview. "There is a legal proceeding going on. I've been advised that I can't comment on that stuff."
He couldn't even tell
Harry Smith on CBS' Early Show on his own network just what the mood is like around
Late Show central. However, the rest of both interviews offer a very interesting peak into a life in music that has spanned just about every end of the TV dial and a very funny diversion from Smith's persistent reporter powers to get something out of him about the whole scandal. Something tells me Shaffer would have made one hell of a good press secretary.
Posted Oct 7th 2009 2:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It's become the new scandal of the week of the century that just won't go away. Now
TVTattle.com has discovered that Stephanie Birkitt, the "former" Late Show employee who had a fling with host David Letterman, is still getting credit in the show's closing credits.
The image above lists Birkitt, the girl who also worked in front of the camera as Vicki the prize girl during the show's "Know Your Current Events" bit, as Letterman's assistant.
Talk about a scandal that literally just won't go away. Of course, there are a number of explanations for this (it's just an inside joke, it was a mistake, etc.) Keep watching the closing credits and see if her name still pops up under the "assistants" slot and be sure to let us know below if you see it.
Posted Aug 21st 2009 9:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, News, Ratings, Reality-Free
NBC must be doing a lot of regretting these days for moving Jay Leno to 10 p.m., and not just because it screws up the perfect headline alliteration with his former competition.
It seems that
David Letterman's Late Show reruns are getting higher ratings than Conan O'Brien's brand-spanking new
Tonight Show episodes.
The margins aren't very wide, but it must hurt when a rival is kicking your lily-white hide and he's not even throwing any punches. It's like getting your ass kicked by a one legged Stephen Hawking.
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Posted Jun 28th 2009 9:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Not only did the
"Fire David Letterman" crowd completely fail at their attempt to oust the late night host from his desk chair, but they actually helped him.
That makes them the least successful protest effort since 1977's memorable campaign to
"Keep Pies Away from Anita Bryant." I believe it had something to do with preventing the spread of diabetes.
Variety reports that Letterman surpassed
The Tonight Show in the ratings for the first time in nearly three-and-a-half years while the whole Palin family "Jokegate" debacle was still slowly being scraped off the fan.
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Posted Aug 11th 2008 2:27PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Daytime, Video, Talk Show, Reality-Free
I think I'm one of the very few people - maybe not even David Letterman himself - who remembers the very first
David Letterman Show with a real fondness. No, not NBC's
Late Night with David Letterman, I'm talking about his morning show, which ran on NBC for a very short time in 1980. I'm not quite sure how I watched this show. I would have been in high school in 1980, so I don't know if I skipped school to see some episodes or what (it was way before I had a VCR). Anyway, I thought it was quite good and had some real style, fun regulars (Edie McClurg!) and great guests (Steve Allen, Andy Kaufman). It's interesting to see how much this show resembles later Letterman. I wish he'd bring back some of these segments (like viewer mail and videotaped humor) on his current show.
After the jump is the first part of the September 12, 1980 episode (with original commercials!). After you watch that check out the other three parts
here (on the right). If you've never seen this particular show it's quite intriguing.
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