All the guests last week were great though I haven't watched the one with Robert Duvall as yet. One exception was Lindsay Lohan who seemed to irritate Dave but I could be wrong. Sandra Bullock was cool and her new movie looks very interesting. Tim Russert and even Paris were also entertaining.
This weeks guests look especially interesting including as you noted the loopy and always fun Amy Sedaris.
All the guests last week were great though I haven't watched the one with Robert Duvall as yet. One exception was Lindsay Lohan who seemed to irritate Dave but I could be wrong. Sandra Bullock was cool and her new movie looks very interesting. Tim Russert and even Paris were also entertaining.
This weeks guests look especially interesting including as you noted the loopy and always fun Amy Sedaris.
Looking forward also to Brandon Routh & Al Gore.
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Robert is the epitome of cool ... they discuss NASCAR racing
Lindsey, while Lindsey is just being Lindsey. I don't think she understood that David is not really impressed with someone being "a Star". I mean, come on, he hangs around with people like Paul Newman on the weekends
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
July 7, 2006, 10:11AM David Letterman rerun featured jokes about Ken Lay
By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
A great comedian needs good material and good timing. Wednesday night's rerun of The Late Show With David Letterman may have had one but lacked the other: The repeat included jokes about Ken Lay who died Wednesday of a heart attack.
The Late Show, which is dark this week, selected reruns well in advance of their airing. A call to Worldwide Pants, producer of the show, was not returned by press time Thursday.
Susan McEldoon, Channel 11 vice president and station manager, issued an apology.
"We apologize to our viewers for the unfortunate timing of the CBS rebroadcast," she said. "Channel 11 was unaware of the content of the show at the time of the broadcast and has expressed our concern to CBS."
Today Warren Buffett announced he's giving away his multibillion-dollar fortune to charity rather than leaving it to his kids. He said he doesn't believe that somebody's son should inherit his father's "position in society." Today, President Bush immediately put him under surveillance.
The New York Knicks coach Larry Brown has been fired. Larry knew he was in trouble when team president Isiah Thomas told him, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
David Letterman
Well, I have to tell you some bad news: crime in New York City is out of control right now. Crime is out of control. To give you an idea how bad it is, earlier today, the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
But that program to track terrorists' money was working. That's the sad thing. As a matter of fact, last month, we switched Osama bin Laden to a lower-interest checking account.
Conan O'Brien
This week, President Bush urged the Senate to give him line-item veto power. Later the president said that line-item veto power would be nice, but what he really wants is X-ray vision.
This week, Washington, D.C., received a foot of rain and part of the I.R.S. building was flooded. The bad news? Part of the I.R.S. building was NOT flooded.
The Fray Plays The Late Show The Fray to The Late Show with David Letterman July 10.
By Krista Desens
[The Fray] NEW YORK, NY Monday Jul.10.2006 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- David Letterman's got The Fray tonight, July 10th.
During this evening's episode of "The Late Show with David Letterman," pop-rock band The Fray performs a song off their debut full-length album "How To Save A Life."
Other guests on Monday night's program include Nicole Richie and John Witherspoon.
"The Late Show with David Letterman" airs weeknights at 11:30 pm ET/PT on CBS. Check your local listings for further information.
David Letterman: “It is so hot today, that Al Gore has a new movie, ‘An Inconvenient Rash.’”
David Letterman: “It was so hot today, President Bush met with European leaders just for the chilly reception.”
Conan O’Brien: “Earlier today in the world cup, this is the latest. Mexico lost to Portugal, but still advanced to the second round. Yeah, they still advanced to the second round, yeah. Actually Mexico snuck into the second round through a hole in the fence.”
Although famously low-key off-camera, Letterman is one of late night television's biggest stars. "Late Night With David Letterman" earned him $40 million this year, more than rival Jay Leno. (Letterman owns a stake in the show.) This year he had Oprah Winfrey as a guest. The two publicly patched up a long-standing rift. And earlier this year he scooped the world when Britney Spears appeared on his program to announce her pregnancy. Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, is responsible for hit shows like "Everybody Loves Raymond," which just ended its nine-year run.
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It's seems that neither late-night talk show host has been dominating television, although Jay Leno seems to have the upper hand over David Letterman. See full image
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As his tut-tutting chat with the mean girl of the moment showed, Jay Leno is a terrible interviewer.
It doesn't matter. Leno flubbed his conversation with the right-wing polemicist Ann Coulter last Wednesday, but somehow, the middlebrow, sometimes downright mealy mouthed star of "The Tonight Show" on NBC is turning out to be the cool late-night host. That's mainly because CBS's David Letterman, who was the Jon Stewart of his day, now seems resigned to a staid second place.
Leno, who will be replaced by Conan O'Brien in 2009, can afford to slack off, but it is Letterman who seems to be taking too many of his shows pass/fail. And it's a shame, because the host of CBS's "Late Show" is the comedian intellectually and temperamentally most suited to taking on the conservative enfant terrible and giving her a much-deserved public swat.
Leno has higher ratings. He averages 5.8 million viewers a night, while Letterman draws about 4.3 million, and that explains why the more desirable guests -- Al Gore, Jennifer Aniston or Simon Cowell -- usually choose to appear first on "The Tonight Show." But Leno, the comedian who was chosen by NBC over Letterman in 1993 for his Rotarian likability and mainstream comic style, suddenly seems to be the sharper host. These days, his monologues often have more range and political bite than Letterman's, or maybe it is just that on too many nights, Letterman seems unamused by his own jokes.
Last Wednesday, for example, Letterman made a crack about Coulter that was more hostile than witty. (Citing an item about a New Zealand sex show involving live bulls and a simulated cow, he added, "Good to see Ann Coulter getting some work.") Leno had a funnier conceit about his guest in Tuesday night's monologue, saying that the controversial Coulter required heightened airspace security because her supporters were "worried Dorothy's house could land on her."
Leno's inability to engage his ferocious guest in a less-scripted give-and-take made for an unmemorable television event. Mostly it was notable that at the height of the furor over Coulter's malevolent remarks about Sept 11. widows ("I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.") viewers had to turn to "The Tonight Show" to see a professional comic try to match wits with her.
Letterman is far more experienced and deft at tangling with ideological divas. He humorously, but acidly, put the Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly in his place in January, and he handled Howard Stern just as smoothly in March. But authors on book tours usually prefer the safer waters and higher ratings of "The Tonight Show." So did Coulter, whose noisy diatribes against the Sept. 11 widows helped put her latest book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," at the top of the New York Times best-sellers list.
Coulter strutted onto the stage in a slinky black cocktail dress and a bellicose mood: Rush Limbette. But Leno, who seemed embarrassed by the fuss, tried to reason with Coulter and appeal to her better nature.
On Wednesday, she defended her comments about the widows by saying that they, such as Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar activist whose son died in Iraq, unfairly promote a liberal political agenda while hiding behind their inviolate status as victims.
The comedian George Carlin, famous for his iconoclastic irreverence and eagerness to speak up, sat alongside Coulter and didn't make a peep. Leno didn't score a point.
Over on CBS, Letterman chatted amiably but meanderingly with Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central, looking oddly sidelined from the week's media fracas. At his best, nobody is more subversively funny or more appealing than the host of "Late Show," but it's been a while since he put his best efforts on air.
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