He's a grumpy old man that's not very funny. His top ten list is almost never funny and he too often has a condescending tone towards his guests.

Leno is funny, O'Brien is funny and Kimmel is funny but Letterman is rarely funny.

Because countless people -- many of them company CEOs, advertising executives and consumers -- feel the complete opposite as you.

ThreadBare said:

Yeah, that's the problem

But he's still grumpy and condescending.

peter430044 said:

Et voila

peter430044 said:

And therein lies his half his charm.

Aside from Arsenio, Letterman and Conan are my favorite late talk show hosts.

Letterman secured his (practically tied-for-first) position the night he walked over to Prince (who'd just finished his performance of "Dolphin" by pretending to die), bent over him and asked something like, "Hey, you OK?" in his clueless-curmudgeon voice.



That and all the winter olympics gags he used to do with his mother. Awesome, for so many other reasons. But those are some of my favorite Dave moments.

I was in the audience on the Mathew Fox night the whole Taco Bell thing had me crying

ThreadBare said:

Solves the problem, everytime

i perfer Leno but Letterman is great

ThreadBare said:

I think it was actually Mayte he spoke to "Is he alright?" cos Prince had been taken offstage.
I remember The Sun having a little column saying he had collapsed onstage.

I love Dave's grumpiness and condesending attitude. Ask any comedian, they'll tell you Letterman is the King.

love letterman!!!!! he's the BEST!!!

ThreadBare said:

Exactly. Dave is funny. And I love when he has Bill O'Reilly on because he literally goes out of his way to make Bill look like the absolute fucking fool he is.

ThreadBare said:

I remember back in '96 when he had P on and the 2 of them were chilling backstage, and I forgot exactly how the skit went, but at the end of the joke, Lettermen ended up spitting out his water (Like this - ) in shock to something either P said or Paul Schaffer said - and then the show started.

ThreadBare said:

Didn't he also, during that same show, keep holding up a cardboard cut out of the symbol Prince was going by at the time in order to basically say "coming up, Prince"...but each time he held the symbol up it had an extra curly cue thing on it that Letterman would snap off of it...and then he would say "Oops, typo"? lol

ThreadBare said:

Also, Prince was on a rant at the time because WB wouldn't release The Gold Experience because they had just released Come, and Prince kept saying the CD was never going to be released in order to try and get fans riled up in protest or some shit like that there...and when David Letterman introduced Prince's musical performance he said something like "Performing a song from his new CD The Gold Experience, a CD that Prince says will never be release...which makes perfect sense why he's here promoting it..."
...And he had the biggest wise-ass grin on his face right after saying that, too lol

Dave is hilarious.

Leno is AWFUL.