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And the ad-libs were always from somewhere where you wouldn't have ever thought of them yourself. maybe some of the great letterman writers would have. but i mean, most people, most comedians, i don't think, would come up with the brilliantly funny things he said. and there was a lot of satire inway did, as well. kind of instant satire. and and they talk about sound comedy, you know? but you have to know where to look for it. you know to know where to find it, too p you can't just find this by warning down the streets. he had great instincts. >> rod burnett, the former head write he of the sho...

Stuff about all these people are more talented than i am and i just do a job, i think that is false modesty. i think dave probably thinks pretty highly of himself, but he doesn't like to say those things out loud. i think it's a midwestern trait, i think. so he keeps talking himself down self-deprecating remarks and so on. but he was one of the great entertainers, i think, in the history of the medium. >> kevin, talk about how dave feels about it because my impression from you writers who i've known forever is that dave -- i get the impression he was never really satisfied with any given show ...

Of the mcdone al's or wherever they were you know they may -- i don't know, maybe they had to shoot for three hours to get two minutes of that. i don't know. but the stuff dave came up with i don't think, was written in advance. he had a great mind. well, he still does as far as we know. but he was so fast and so sharp. and the ad-libs were always from somewhere where you wouldn't have ever thought of them yourself. maybe some of the great letterman writers would have. but i mean most people most comedians, i don't think, would come up with the brilliantly funny things he said. and there was a...

Yous beforehanding the show over to the music of the foo fighters and the high speed montage of decades of dave. here are david letterman's last words to his audience. >> throughout the years of this show and the show at nbc, i have been blessed and lucky to work with men and women who are smarter than i am and funnier than i am. the people who watch this show there's nothing i can do to ever repay you. thank you for everything. you've given me everything. and thank you again. >> all right. that's pretty much all i got. the only thing i have left to do for the last time on a television program...

Television. television, you know, splittered up into a million channels and instead of three networks which we had 50 years ago when dave was growing up and i was, you know now we have a woodworking channel and a trout fishing channel and all of that. and i don't think we're going to have the kind of unity we had. and this is really a truism by this point, that we had with dave. and, you know it was even greater with johnny carson when johnny said good night i think there were like 50 million viewers. when dave said good night, there were like 13 million viewers and less than half. that's no r...