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Late Show with David Letterman

  • TV Series
  • 1993–2015
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
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7.0/10
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David Letterman, Regis Philbin, Barbara Gaines, Biff Henderson, Alan Kalter, and Paul Shaffer in Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
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The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.

  • Creator
    • David Letterman
  • Stars
    • David Letterman
    • Paul Shaffer
    • Alan Kalter
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    14K
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    • Creator
      • David Letterman
    • Stars
      • David Letterman
      • Paul Shaffer
      • Alan Kalter
    • 53User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    • Won 9 Primetime Emmys
      • 16 wins & 127 nominations total

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    David Letterman
    David Letterman
    • Self - Host…
    Paul Shaffer
    Paul Shaffer
    • Self - Musical Director…
    Alan Kalter
    Alan Kalter
    • Self - Announcer…
    Biff Henderson
    • Self - Stage Manager…
    Regis Philbin
    Regis Philbin
    • Self…
    Barbara Gaines
    • Self - Executive Producer…
    Tony Mendez
    • Self - Cue Card Boy…
    Al Chez
    • Self - Horn Section Yay-Sayer #2…
    Jack Hanna
    Jack Hanna
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    Tom Malone
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    Rupert Jee
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    Bruce Kapler
    • Self - Horn Section Yay-Sayer #3…
    Pat Farmer
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    Johnny Dark
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    Chris Elliott
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    Jeff Altman
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    Joe Grossman
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    Marv Albert
    Marv Albert
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    • Creator
      • David Letterman
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    • Trivia
      Many, including rival talk show host Jay Leno, whom NBC chose over David Letterman as Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show (1962) successor in a bitter competition between the two, saw Carson's Late Show with David Letterman (1993) cameo appearance as a signal that Carson preferred Letterman over Jay.
    • Quotes

      [David is working at McDonald's]

      David Letterman: Welcome to Mc Donald's.

      Customer: Get me a cheeseburger.

      David Letterman: Your order is a cheeseburger?

      Customer: Yep.

      David Letterman: Are you busy right now?

      Customer: I gotta head to work. Why?

      David Letterman: Could you swing by the grocery store and get us a bag of onions?

      Customer: A bag of onions?

      David Letterman: Yeah. We're running low.

      [Later, David takes new customer]

      David Letterman: United 16957, 727. This is Kennedy Ground Control. What's the problem? Power it on in.

      Customer: I have your onions here.

      David Letterman: What?

      Customer: The ten-pound bag of onions.

      David Letterman: You're got the onions? All right. Come on through. We really appreciate it. Thanks for helping out.

    • Connections
      Edited into The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996)

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    Letterman reliably entertaining
    I'm "only" 34 but I've been watching Letterman since I was about 13. He in fact has one of the few shows I can tolerate to watch on TV. I can always count on him to be entertaining. He clearly has it down to a science now and doesn't deviate much from his standard ritual whereas years ago it was always something new and different. That said, his ritual is actually reliably entertaining. Clearly one of the attractions to watching him for so long is the comfortable feeling one has with having the same show play around the same time of night for so many years. Of course, now I use TiVo. The bottom line is that Letterman is truly the best thing going for TV and is a reliably good and entertaining show.
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    • pperrone
    • Feb 5, 2003

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    • Release date
      • August 30, 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Late Show Backstage
    • Filming locations
      • Ed Sullivan Theater - 1697 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Worldwide Pants
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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