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"Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)
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1 February 1982 (USA)
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David Letterman hosted this popular late-night comedy/talk-show. Often, Dave would go on location or to the phone lines to play pranks...
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Won 5 Primetime Emmys.
Another 4 wins
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37 nominations
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Chris Elliott returns to TV
(From AOL - TVSquad. 17 November 2009, 8:06 AM, PST)
As if Letterman didn't have enough problems...
(From AOL - TVSquad. 27 October 2009, 5:32 PM, PDT)
(From AOL - TVSquad. 17 November 2009, 8:06 AM, PST)
As if Letterman didn't have enough problems...
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The Greatest Comedy-Variety Show Ever.
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(Series Cast Summary - 1 of 88)| David Letterman | ... | Himself - Host / ... (276 episodes, 1982-1993) |
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60 min
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At age six, Lindsay Lohan appeared as a trick-or-treater dressed as garbage for a Halloween skit ("Things You Find on the Bottom of the D Train").
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Himself - Host:
[speaking via megaphone] I'm not wearing pants!
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Referenced in The Last of the Finest (1990)
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"Late Night with David Letterman" is without a doubt the most clever, experimental (apologies to Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs), and downright hysterical television program in TV history. To describe it would be pointless, because so many different things would happen in a given show. From about 1986 to about 1990 was Dave's finest period (he was still smiley sarcastic Dave and hadn't yet become angry sarcastic Dave), but the show was very solid overall. The Top Ten lists on those shows were 50 times better than the lists on the CBS show, and to me are some of the most valuable comic documents of this century, a sort of numerological Dave Barry.
Kids, you think Tom Green was the first person to get into confrontations on camera? Check Dave when he went to bring "those weasels at G.E." a fruit basket and was promptly escorted out. Sure Viewer Mail and Stupid Pet Tricks were Dave's trademarks (both superior to the CBS versions), but it was things like the "Late Night Thrill Cam" and "Network Time Killers" and the show filmed in an airport, and the show that was played at a high speed to "save time," etc. that made Late Night the best thing on TV when it was on.