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Yeah,hugh laurie should be good,don't think he's been on letterman before.

brian regan is always good for a laugh as is jungle jack

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I know what you mean.

he does come across as a dufus sometimes but he knows his animals & he never fails to crack me up,kind of an american croc hunter

i love it when dave always asks him to bring out one at a time,and of course jack always does the opposite  

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Yeah ,ruperts great,and i remember when they used to do that, ive basically been watching since it started on nine,in '93

it was cool whe they gave him his own giant poster,in recognition of all the stuff he's had to put up with from dave!

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I have my own late show coffee cup.

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I want one.
Also, I bet they'de sell okay on ebay here in Australia.  Wouldn't be worth the trip but it popped into my head anyway.

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I want one.
Also, I bet they'de sell okay on ebay here in Australia.  Wouldn't be worth the trip but it popped into my head anyway.

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Bruce willis is always great entertainment value. I especially liked the clip from miami vice that predated moonlighting..'the guys scum'

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That is unusual,he sometimes takes a week off,but not a couple of days,must be something personal.

Stern & Franken should be fun interviews as usual..

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Jodie was much better in Catch Fire ... try to find yourself a copy

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You can never have too much Billy.

Be interesting to see what Julia looks like now.Think it may be her first time on Letterman.

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lol!

*yawns*

Sorry the gilmore girls are tres annoying.

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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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Just glad to have dave back after two weeks of wimbledon.

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Only once or maybe twice.
most times the tennis ran late and they played that stupid live comedy show.
and the one episode they did play was a repeat.

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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."

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Jay Leno

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.

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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.

More on The Fray

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A Good Laugh:
7/10/2006

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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.”

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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.

Earnings estimates are for June 2005 to June 2006. Figures rounded off where appropriate. Exact figures available on Forbes.com. Includes dollars earned solely from entertainment income. Management, agent and attorney fees have not been deducted. Estimates by forbes; sources include Billboard, Pollstar, Adams Media Research, Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BookScan. Rankings are generated by combining earnings with other metrics: Web mentions on Google press clips compiled by LexisNexis; TV/radio mentions by Factiva; and number of times a celebrity's face appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines.

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t's Jay Leno vs. David Letterman

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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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Is NASCAR next for Patrick?
By Ed Hinton
The Orlando Sentinel
Danica Patrick's contract expires with the IRL's Rahal-Letterman Racing team at the end of this season.
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Danica Patrick's contract expires with the IRL's Rahal-Letterman Racing team at the end of this season.

JOLIET, Ill. (MCT) - Danica Patrick could become the next star driver to defect from another major racing series to NASCAR.

"I'm trying to get her here (into NASCAR)," said T.J. Patrick, father of the woman who dazzled the motor racing world last year by nearly winning the Indianapolis 500, but has struggled with a mediocre Indy Racing League car ever since.

T.J. Patrick, who has managed his daughter's career since her childhood, was at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, holding exploratory talks with some Nextel Cup teams and sponsors about the possibility of Danica leaving the IRL for NASCAR as early as next year

Her contract expires with the IRL's Rahal-Letterman Racing team, co-owned by TV comic David Letterman, at the end of this season. In addition to considering NASCAR, the Patricks are negotiating with other IRL teams - and appear unlikely to renew with Rahal-Letterman next year.

Bobby Rahal, co-owner of Rahal Letterman racing, declined comment through a spokesperson.

The Patrick family is from Roscoe, Ill., but Danica, 24, now lives in Phoenix with her husband and wasn't at Sunday's USG Sheetrock 400 NASCAR race.

T.J. and Danica's mother, Bev, came to the Joliet track because "we've had some inquiries" from NASCAR teams, T.J. said.

Young American open-wheel drivers have been steering steadily away from IndyCars and into NASCAR for the past decade_from Jeff Gordon to Tony Stewart to Ryan Newman to Kasey Kahne.

They come for much more money, fame, what they consider more intense competition, and the sheer volume of racing.

The Patricks were in the Nextel Cup garage area as guests of the powerful Roush Racing team, which fields Fords for Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Jamie McMurray and Mark Martin.

There have been other women in NASCAR.

Janet Guthrie, also an Indy-Car pioneer, was the first, competing in 33 Winston Cup races between 1976 and 1980 with five top-10 finishes.

Patty Moise of Jacksonville raced in the Busch Series in the 1980s.

Shawna Robinson ran a limited Winston Cup schedule in the late 1990s. And Erin Crocker is a promising developmental driver who currently competes in the Craftsman Truck Series.

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Do not get me started on playing the David Letterman lottery game when there is any sporting event on