Last night, David Letterman returned to the airwaves. There was joking, there was apologizing, there was apolo-joking (Sarah Palin), there was banjo playing. It was actually one of the best hours of live (to-tape) TV I can remember seeing. Hopefully you caught it, but if not, here is most of it: the monologue, the apology, [...]

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Well, it is what he does. For tonight’s monologue, taped earlier at the Ed Sullivan theater, Dave Letterman returned to his show with a monologue — a very topical one.