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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.
Letterman, who spent much of his late-night career living in New York, left his hometown of Indianapolis in his early 20s to pursue his dream of a stand-up comedy career in Hollywood.
In the wake of his NBC morning show being cancelled in October 1980 after 18 weeks on the air, [1] David Letterman was still held in high enough regard by the network brass, especially NBC president Fred Silverman, that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian was being courted by a first-run syndication company, NBC gave him a US$20,000 per week ($1,000,000 for a year) deal to sit out a year and ...
Letterman began his late night TV career at NBC, where he hosted the groundbreaking “Late Night With David Letterman” from 1982 to 1993. The show followed Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show.”
Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the Late Show franchise. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, [ 2 ] and was produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants , and CBS Television Studios .
David Letterman speaks onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 7, 2017, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/WireImage/Getty Images)
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 Letterman doesn’t have plans of retiring anytime soon.. Speaking to GQ for the magazine’s Video Cover Story in an interview published Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 77-year-old former talk show ...