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Birkitt was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire.Her mother is an assistant principal and her father is a dentist. [4] She graduated from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1997, [5] with a bachelor's degree in history and a minor in communications.
Dorothy Marie Mengering (née Hofert, formerly Letterman; July 18, 1921 – April 11, 2017), better known to Late Night and Late Show viewers as Dave's Mom, was the mother of late-night talk show host David Letterman and frequent telephone and live guest on his show.
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer and producer. He hosted late-night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.
David Letterman's mother, Dorothy Mengering, died at the age of 95, a rep for the Letterman family confirmed to CBS News.
She studied at Indiana University, and in 1942, she married Harry Joseph Letterman, who had a florist shop. He died of a heart attack in 1973. (Dave's son, Harry, is named after him.)
David Letterman's longtime bandleader, Paul Shaffer, got his start on TV as a member of SNL's house band, playing keyboards from the show's start until 1980. Shaffer regularly popped up in ...
She claimed she was Letterman's wife and that her son was their child. [4] Over the next several years, she was arrested a total of eight times for trespassing on Letterman's property and other related counts. She claimed she left cookies and an empty Jack Daniel's bottle in the foyer of Letterman's Connecticut home. At one point, she was found ...
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM [2] (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian [3] [4] singer, keyboardist, composer, actor, author, comedian, and musician who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).