David Letterman
American comedian and television host · United States · Comedians · Born 1947 · age 79
David Letterman is read about 2,102 times a day, in 70 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He sat behind the desk longer than anyone - 33 years, 6,080 episodes - and turned late-night into an art of barely concealed contempt. The gap-toothed grin, the cue cards, the studied indifference: every host who followed learned the trade from watching him pretend not to care.
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Letterman's comedic career took hold in the 1970s at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
Letterman interviewing comedian Jerry Lewis in 1982
The Ed Sullivan Theater, where Late Show with David Letterman was recorded
Letterman interviewing President Barack Obama in 2012
Letterman at the 2019 Indianapolis 500
Letterman receiving the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Medallion, December 2012
Dave Grohl was a frequent guest on The Late Show and performed on the program several times with Foo Fighters between 1995 and 2014, and on its final episode in 2015.On YouTube
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Letterman launched Late Night on NBC on February 1, 1982, carrying what he'd learned from Johnny Carson into something stranger and more self-aware. The show moved to CBS in 1993 as the Late Show, and he kept going until May 20, 2015, outlasting Carson's record and becoming the longest-serving late-night host in American television history. His production company, Worldwide Pants, built an empire beyond his own chair, producing The Late Late Show and primetime comedies including Everybody Loves Raymond. Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart - they all cite him. Since 2018 he's hosted My Next Guest Needs No Introduction on Netflix, still asking questions, still wearing the beard.
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