Didn’t know he was still on the air.

Where will they ever find another left wing host?

Frst Olbermann and now this!! Pretty soon there won’t be any angry libs on the air. What’s the fun in that?

If Letterman goes, where will libs get their nightly hate fix?

I’ll miss the Palin jokes. No one else ever seems to do them.

Letterman/Stern…please bring your boundless talents to, Cairo. I will pay for your (one way) trip. Oh…the beauty of seeing these two flunkies in the middle of the fray. Take them both off the air yesterday, and I will forfeit my ticket to the resurrection.

If his contract is up in 2013 this was probably just the first of many veiled threats to up his pay. Why would he retire, to spend more time with his wife? heh…

I guess the freaks do come out during the day(see comments above)!! Dave Letterman is a comedic genius and whenever he leaves, he will be missed!!

Letterman retiring?

Damn. Now I’ll have to find another show to put me to sleep.

mcf1757 said:
I guess the freaks do come out during the day(

You just proved it, son!

writer said:
Where will they ever find another left wing host?

I think Craig Ferguson will take over when Letterman leaves. If I’m correct, when Ferguson signed on to do Late Late show, it was stipulated that Ferguson would automatically take over from Letterman when he left.

Now, left wing? I don’t know. I don’t think he cares all that much about American politics and really isn’t on a side. I notice when a left winger is on the show and says something about Palin or another right-winger, Ferguson kinda talks about something else. I don’t think he wants to be perceived as a left or right winger. He just wants to make people laugh, which he is extremely successful at, IMHO.

Craig doesn’t seem to have Letterman’s bitterness. But if CBS starts throwing a Letterman-type salary at him, maybe he’ll become snooty just like Dave did.

writer said:
Craig doesn’t seem to have Letterman’s bitterness.

I think Dave made CBS put that into his contract. That along with hate, anger, and acrimony.

I’ll miss Dave. He is the best in handling terrible interviews. ie, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Courtney Love. Nobody else except maybe Craig Ferguson is as witty, bright as he is. He’s the best IMHO.
Liberal, progressive and proud of it.

artemesia said:
Liberal, progressive and proud of it.

So you are the one.

mcf1757 said:
Dave Letterman is a comedic genius and whenever he leaves, he will be missed!!

He was funnier when he was a weather man back in Indiana. He’d be the comedic genius on a very short bus.

That picture . Why is Letterman talking about retirement to Rep . Wasserman-Schultz ?

The Lantern of Truth said:
That picture . Why is Letterman talking about retirement to Rep . Wasserman-Schultz ?

Hahahahahahahahahaha she is UGLY!!!!!!!1111 (Shhhhh don’t say that too LOUD – someone might point out the IRONY when we call the left SEXIST for attacking Saint Sarah!!!!11 [Even though doing so gives me a RAGING Freedom Chubby!!!1]!!!1)

The left attacks Palin? When did that start?

Does ANYBODY really care what the lunatic-left woman-abuser, reject from the Hair Club for Men and all-around perv letterman does has to say about ANYTHING? Who is pathetic enough to actually watch this reprobate – aside from those morons that find “Stupid Pet Tricks” the most intellectually challenging part of their life?

Letterman has sucked ever since Chris Elliot left the show. And he’s really sucked for the past ten years since he took a hard left turn and became a humorless Leftist Asshat.

So what, now he’s just going to be a bitter old man without a TV show?

David Letterman:
I look at you the same way most Egyptians look at Hosni Mubarak. I know you’ll leave eventually, but tomorrow would be better.

Letterman is great, I don’t really care about his politics, he’s a clever guy. Jay Leno isn’t funny, the show usually has zero laughs.

Everyone hates Leno, they like Conan and Dave now.

stoogedudes said:
I think Craig Ferguson will take over when Letterman leaves. If I’m correct, when Ferguson signed on to do Late Late show, it was stipulated that Ferguson would automatically take over from Letterman when he left.

Actually it was exactly the opposite. Ferguson got the Late Late Show because he was willing to sign a contract that didn’t promise him the Late Show.

Snowspot said:
Letterman is great, I don’t really care about his politics, he’s a clever guy.

Yes it is a shame that some of the posters here are so blinded by their own hate that they have to politicize even the most innocuous threads.

Letterman can’t go too soon.

He’s useless as tits on a bull.

I will say Leno doesn’t seem to have recovered from last year, probably never will.

Of course both of these men started out as prodigies and it is going to end up as another two leaders of a vertical market, late night and Howard radio, that will never be replaced. I watch Jay Leno always because I like him personally and would rather be exposed to his natural, folksy yet Las Vegas delivery. Remember that as a kid I began the loop by being in huge admiration of Steve Allen who I always considered to be Rubic Cube genius. Then Jack Parr whose odd subject matter made him even more attractive to viewers. Johnny for my generation was the top dog. Getting back to Letterman retiring and even though I believe him to be much too critical, caustic and disrespectful as he always was to Sarah Palin, nevertheless he is still to be cherished as perhaps the last of the quick witted late night showman of another time, impossible as in the case of Leno to replicate. Do you realize that we have not discovered another Jackie Wilson, Mr. Excitement in 50 years. No more Bob Dylans or Elvis or Led Zep. I don’t see why Dave should retire unless that is his wish. Sure, I do not watch him but as we used to say that and 50cents will get you on the subway.

No, I think he felt like he had to give an answer and just threw out 2 years. I don’t think he will retire.

“….. so blinded by their own hate that they have to politicize even the most innocuous threads.”

Exactly, James. That’s what Letterman’s been doing, and his political bitterness has sucked the comedic life from the show.

JamesA1102 said:
Actually it was exactly the opposite. Ferguson got the Late Late Show because he was willing to sign a contract that didn’t promise him the Late Show.

I was referring to what Bill Carter wrote in his latest book about the Late Night shift. You may be correct, but here is what I read:

Bill Carter said:
Attention and better ratings followed…Ferguson won a guarantee that he would be the successor to David Letterman, should there ever-Heaven forbid- be a sudden need for a new host of the Late Show. It wasn’t anything like a five-year ticket to the big chair, but it was the CBS version of the Prince of Wales clause.

Credit to Bill Carter for this passage.

Here’s a BOMBSHELL for you.

In either case, Letterman’s contract–at its current amount–will NOT be renewed. His ratings simply make it economically unfeasible to do so. No one will cry when this small-minded little man finally slips away into the shadows of irrelevancy.

STFU and go back to your Tea Party…
I bet you are also mad because he makes jokes about people like Sarah Palin too. She deserves every single joke sent her way. She is a dunce as is the Tea Party.

His ratings are awesome. Better than the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

It sounds like you simply want him to go away.