David Letterman to retire from 'Late Show' in 2015

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Omaha

Chris Rock is still alive, but Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell finished off his career.

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[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Chris Rock would be a nice replacement. He's probably too edgy for the Blue Haired network though.
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[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Better 15 min show? Nat X or Lionel Osbourne?

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[Predarat]

please no Chelsea Handler, she is damn awful.

[Bob Dole]

The late night guy of Bob Dole's generation. Bob Dole remembers a full dorm lounge watching the first season.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

The late night guy of Bob Dole's generation. Bob Dole remembers a full dorm lounge watching the first season.

**** David Letterman for making me feel old!

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

**** David Letterman for making me feel old!

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[Simply Red]

I always thought David was fairly funny - His style got a little tired post Y2k IMO.

[shakesthecat]

I remember being in high school watching the morning show in 1980 with my Mom. (HBD, Mom!)

Yes, the show has lost it's edge lately, but I've grown up/old watching Letterman.

He'll be missed.

[RealSNR]

When did Dave start doing Top Ten lists?

That was a terrible ****ing decision. Those have never been funny.

[Jamie]

I think Leno's mistake (or at least his first mistake) was not telling NBC to go **** themselves when they came to him with the whole Conan succession plan in 2004. If he does that Conan probably goes to Fox and none of this nonsense ever happens.

[Line Judge]

Not soon enough.

[Anyong Bluth]

Stern isn't delighted with Sirius and has cut down to max 3 days a week. With other days off and vacation I bet he wont do over 120 shows this year tops. You don't think he'd be tempted to take that way bigger audience on network vs Sirius, and it's 5 x 45min shows a week - or roughly about 2 days of his radio show and actually less work than his cutback radio show now.

You don't think he wants a larger audience and Q rating? Why else do AGT? Fits perfectly with expanding his fanbase and people seeing him that wouldn't otherwise and just think he's crude and sleazy, even though he's a master at the interview.

As for Louis, he needs cable and a longer leash IMO, dude's a true genius and if you know his deal with Fx there's not a chance in hell he's going to be overlorded and put up with network politicking.

[The Bad Guy]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

Stern isn't delighted with Sirius and has cut down to max 3 days a week. With other days off and vacation I bet he wont do over 120 shows this year tops. You don't think he'd be tempted to take that way bigger audience on network vs Sirius, and it's 5 x 45min shows a week - or roughly about 2 days of his radio show and actually less work than his cutback radio show now.

You don't think he wants a larger audience and Q rating? Why else do AGT? Fits perfectly with expanding his fanbase and people seeing him that wouldn't otherwise and just think he's crude and sleazy, even though he's a master at the interview.

As for Louis, he needs cable and a longer leash IMO, dude's a true genius and if you know his deal with Fx there's not a chance in hell he's going to be overlorded and put up with network politicking.

Stern loves the Sirius platform. He's had issues with management and false promises, and doing a late night talk show is much more than just 45 minutes of their time each day. He's working at that gig a lot more than Sirius. He's uncensored at Sirius and that's gold for Howard. Plus, he's not bringing that entire crew with him to a late night talk show. Gary would likely make it, and so would Robin, but I doubt the rest of them would have a place.

The gig he has at Sirius is gold. A Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday schedule is a walk in the park compared to Letterman's.

Why do AGT? Because Stern thinks he's an authority on everything. He loves to give his opinions and that's a good platform for him to critique. He has reached a wider audience that would never listen to his radio program and has become more endeared with AGT.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by The Bad Guy

Stern loves the Sirius platform. He's had issues with management and false promises, and doing a late night talk show is much more than just 45 minutes of their time each day. He's working at that gig a lot more than Sirius. He's uncensored at Sirius and that's gold for Howard. Plus, he's not bringing that entire crew with him to a late night talk show. Gary would likely make it, and so would Robin, but I doubt the rest of them would have a place.

The gig he has at Sirius is gold. A Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday schedule is a walk in the park compared to Letterman's.

Why do AGT? Because Stern thinks he's an authority on everything. He loves to give his opinions and that's a good platform for him to critique. He has reached a wider audience that would never listen to his radio program and has become more endeared with AGT.

Don't disagree with you actually, just playing devil's advocate.

I'd just as soon he stick with his radio show and 4+ hours on a daily basis. My only wish is he would go back to 5 days. I'd really like if he at least did 4 days and have a Friday show. Have an off day on Wednesday or Thursday.

He's just off so much, but lately he's seemed happier with doing the show, so I'll take his abbreviated schedule versus him hanging it up for good.

I honestly think he'd go crazy if he ever tried to retire from everything. He's even said if he did he'd probably stream an open mic and just **** around from his house over the Internet.