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This morning i wake up and next to me in bed is the head of a peacock. so i don t know. broadway s ed sullivan theater. it s a marvelous, wonderful edifice, and we couldn t be happier to be here. august 1993. the thing more than anything else, it was the double balcony, and it was enormous. ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful program tonight, bill murray, billy joel. dave s first night on a new network. welcome broadway, baby. in a new time slot. when the dust of the late night war settled, jay leno had the tonight show and dave had a multimillion-dollar deal with cbs. it was a risky move. cbs did not have anything in their history of late night. so letterman comes on, and his first few months on the air was absolute can t-miss television. it s a joke, okay? it is me, you jerk. ....
Night host in history. the one fixed point in the ever changing late night sky. he s had more than 18,000 guests. howard stern. many of them regulars. a little thing right in there. yeah. julia roberts [ applause ] you know, there was a time, dave, when i asked you on a date. turn off the cameras. clear the audience, turn off the cameras. after more than 30 years on air for letterman, his younger rivals are grabbing those coveted younger viewers. . i want to rock right now he s not surprising anyone at this point by being david letterman. and yet he s still doing things ....
Many of them, regulars. no! a little thing right in there. yeah! julia roberts! you know, there was a time, dave, when i asked you on a date. wait a minute, turn off the cameras! clear the audience. turn off the cameras! jerry seinfeld. i m not going to mexico. why would i? their food is already here. after more than 30 years on air for letterman, his younger rivals are grabbing those coveted viewers. i want to rock right now you know, he s not surprising anybody at this point by being david letterman. we all know what david letterman is. yet he s still doing things you absolutely have to see. it s too damned hot! there you go! late-night observer bill carter has been seeing signs that dave has been winding down. he really hasn t done any of the bits he used to do. ....
On air for letterman, his younger rivals are grabbing those coveted viewers. i want to rock right now you know, he s not surprising anybody at this point by being david letterman. we all know what david letterman is. yet he s still doing things you absolutely have to see. it s too damned hot! there you go! late-night observer bill carter has been seeing signs that dave has been winding down. he really hasn t done any of the bits he used to do. he doesn t really he doesn t even go to rehearsal. there are people who say he probably should have left when he was closer to the peak. but i think it s really been very hard for him. when this show stops being fun, i will retire ten years later. then, last april, letterman made a shocking reveal about a ....
Letterman s late show. it really hurt letterman and it became an extremely difficult struggle for him to count all that momentum at nbc. if you want to influence a congressman, you have to send him a full beer can. that s not jay leno went on to win the ratings wars for 15 years. gradually, dave made peace with it. he is more comfortable as the hipper, slightly skewed show with the slightly skewed attitude than being at number one. it doesn t matter what the ratings are. it really doesn t matter. the fact of the matter is, dave is the best there ever was. dave started something. in 2000, dave showed a much softer side after emergency heart bypass surgery and five weeks off the air, he returned, giving a touching tribute to the hospital staff who helped him. these men and women right here saved my life. and when dave shows his human ....