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David Letterman is a real-life talk show host seen in a couch gag.

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  • David Letterman is a real-life talk show host seen in a couch gag.
  • David Letterman was the host of the CBS late night variety show called, "The Late Show With David Letterman" and is also a part time postman for Western Union, a self proclaimed greatest ever greeter Walmart has ever seen, and holds the world record for most times a jacket has been buttoned up and then unbuttoned repeatedly during a 55 minute time slot. Letterman took over from Johnny Carson. Letterman was Carson's second choice to take over his position, his first choice was Jay Leno but Leno's enormous chin would not fit between the entrance doors to the the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City so Letterman got the contract.
  • David Letterman is a talk-show host of Late Night with David Letterman. In the episode "Rixty Minutes," the Smith family watched an episode of Late Night with David Letterman from the alternate dimension of C-500A where Jerry Smith was famous. Jerry was on the talk show talking with C-500A's David Letterman about one of his movies.
  • David Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is a late night American talk show host. In 1993 he became the host of CBS's Late Show.
  • David Letterman is an American television host best known for hosting Late Night With David Letterman from 1982 until 1992, after which he left NBC due to Jay Leno being named Johnny Carson's successor of The Tonight Show. The next year he began The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS, which he has hosted since with Paul Shaffer from August 30th 1993 until May 20th 2015.
  • Letterman got his start in show business as a weatherman in Indiana before making his move to California to be a comedy writer. Performing stand-up comedy at The Comedy Store, he got his first major break as a cast member on Mary Tyler Moore's variety show Mary. Guest appearances on Mork & Mindy and followed, leading to numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 2013, Letterman surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late night talk show host in American TV history. In total, Letterman hosted 6,028 episodes over a period of 33 years.
  • During the afterparty in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Stewie explains about appearing on talk shows including Late Show with David Letterman after Family Guy was canceled. When he drops his jumper in front of David, Paul Shaffer gets a big laugh. He had James Woods, whose identity Peter Griffin assumed, as a guest in "Back to the Woods". "Woods" was promoting his new HBO TV film called September 11, 2000-and-fun, co-starring David Spade. He was voiced by his most well-known impressionist Dave Van Dam. David appears in "Ratings Guy" reading Good Night, Truck to Peter.
  • David Letterman is an American television talk show host and comedian who serves as a desperate substitute for 11:30 program among people too poor to afford basic cable. While not completely worthless, due to his decision to feature Stephen Colbert as a guest on a couple of occasions thus far, Letterman clearly lives his life in the shadow of his more successful time slot competitor. In 2015, Letterman will finally get off the air and be replaced by Kevin Spacey.
  • David Letterman (born 1947) is a late-night Talk Show host famous for defining the genre in the post-Johnny Carson era. Letterman's shows (The David Letterman Show in 1980, Late Night from 1982-93, and The Late Show since then) came to be known as examples of the "Anti-Talk Show", a show that is relentlessly self-aware and intent on deconstructing the conventions of the very medium that gives it life.
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