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href="#Second_signing_with_CBS"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5 Second signing with CBS </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_signing_with_CBS-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retirement_from_Late_Show" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retirement_from_Late_Show"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.6 Retirement from Late Show </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retirement_from_Late_Show-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-Late_Show" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-Late_Show"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Post-Late Show </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Post-Late_Show-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Post-Late Show subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Post-Late_Show-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Netflix" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Netflix"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Netflix </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Netflix-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_exchanges_and_incidents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_exchanges_and_incidents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Notable exchanges and incidents </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Notable_exchanges_and_incidents-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Notable exchanges and incidents subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Notable_exchanges_and_incidents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-NBC_and_Johnny_Carson" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#NBC_and_Johnny_Carson"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 NBC and Johnny Carson </div> </a> <ul id="toc-NBC_and_Johnny_Carson-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oprah_Winfrey" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Oprah_Winfrey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Oprah Winfrey </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Oprah_Winfrey-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2007–2008_writers'_strike" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2007–2008_writers'_strike"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 2007–2008 writers' strike </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2007–2008_writers'_strike-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Palin_joke" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Palin_joke"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Palin joke </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Palin_joke-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Al-Qaeda_death_threat" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Al-Qaeda_death_threat"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 Al-Qaeda death threat </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Al-Qaeda_death_threat-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Appearances_in_other_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Appearances_in_other_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Appearances in other media </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Appearances_in_other_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Business_ventures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Business_ventures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Business ventures </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Business_ventures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Influences" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Influences"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Influences </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Influences-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Personal life </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Personal life subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Marriages,_relationships,_and_family" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marriages,_relationships,_and_family"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Marriages, relationships, and family </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marriages,_relationships,_and_family-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Friendship_with_Foo_Fighters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Friendship_with_Foo_Fighters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Friendship with Foo Fighters </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Friendship_with_Foo_Fighters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Extortion_attempt_and_revelation_of_affairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Extortion_attempt_and_revelation_of_affairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.3 Extortion attempt and revelation of affairs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Extortion_attempt_and_revelation_of_affairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Stalking_incidents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stalking_incidents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.4 Stalking incidents </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stalking_incidents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Interests" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interests"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.5 Interests </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interests-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Filmography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Filmography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Filmography </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Filmography subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.1 Film </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Documentary_feature_films" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Documentary_feature_films"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.2 Documentary feature films </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Documentary_feature_films-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.3 Television </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards,_honors_and_legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards,_honors_and_legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Awards, honors and legacy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Awards,_honors_and_legacy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Awards, honors and legacy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Awards,_honors_and_legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-David_Letterman_Communication_and_Media_Building" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#David_Letterman_Communication_and_Media_Building"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.1 David Letterman Communication and Media Building </div> </a> <ul id="toc-David_Letterman_Communication_and_Media_Building-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_nominations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_nominations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.2 Awards and nominations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_nominations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.3 The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" 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Available in 67 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-67" aria-hidden="true" > 67 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="ديفيد ليترمان – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ديفيد ليترمان" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8" title="ডেভিড লেটারম্যান – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডেভিড লেটারম্যান" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Дейвид Летърман – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дейвид Летърман" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Deitsch" data-language-local-name="Pennsylvania German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deitsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86" title="دیوید لترمن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیوید لترمن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-got mw-list-item"><a href="https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%85%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%B3_%F0%90%8C%BB%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%84%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%82%F0%90%8C%BC%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%BD" title="𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌳 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽 – Gothic" lang="got" hreflang="got" data-title="𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌳 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽" data-language-autonym="𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺" data-language-local-name="Gothic" class="interlanguage-link-target">𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%EB%A0%88%ED%84%B0%EB%A8%BC" title="데이비드 레터먼 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데이비드 레터먼" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F" title="דייוויד לטרמן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דייוויד לטרמן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deivids_Letermans" title="Deivids Letermans – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Deivids Letermans" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Дејвид Летерман – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Дејвид Летерман" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a 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Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3" title="デイヴィッド・レターマン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デイヴィッド・レターマン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Леттерман, Дэвид – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Леттерман, Дэвид" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DA%A4%D8%AF_%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="دەیڤد لێتەرمان – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="دەیڤد لێتەرمان" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Дејвид Летерман – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Дејвид Летерман" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%94_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%99" title="เดวิด เลตเทอร์แมน – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เดวิด เลตเทอร์แมน" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Девід Леттерман – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Девід Леттерман" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="David Letterman" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" 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class="infobox-label">Medium</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Stand-up</li><li>television</li><li>film</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ball_State_University" title="Ball State University">Ball State University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1970–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Comedic_genres" title="Comedic genres">Genres</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Observational_comedy" title="Observational comedy">Observational comedy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black comedy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Surreal_humor" class="mw-redirect" title="Surreal humor">surreal humor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Insult_comedy" title="Insult comedy">insult comedy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Deadpan" title="Deadpan">deadpan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject(s)</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States" title="Culture of the United States">American culture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">American politics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Everyday_life" title="Everyday life">everyday life</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pop_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Pop culture">pop culture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/World_news" title="World news">current events</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Human_behavior" title="Human behavior">human behavior</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Michelle Cook</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1968; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1977)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Regina Lasko</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2009)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable works and roles</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist" style="text-indent:-1em;margin-left:1em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_David_Letterman_Show" title="The David Letterman Show">The David Letterman Show</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a> (1982–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a> (1993–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Next_Guest_Needs_No_Introduction_with_David_Letterman" title="My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman">My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman</a> (2018–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Letterman_Autograph.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/David_Letterman_Autograph.svg/128px-David_Letterman_Autograph.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/David_Letterman_Autograph.svg/192px-David_Letterman_Autograph.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/David_Letterman_Autograph.svg/256px-David_Letterman_Autograph.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="398" data-file-height="332" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer and producer. He hosted <a href="/wiki/Late-night_television" title="Late-night television">late-night television</a> talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a> on <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of <a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a> on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>. In total, Letterman hosted 6,080 episodes of Late Night and Late Show,<a href="#cite_note-YahooNews-1">[1]</a> surpassing his friend and mentor <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a> as the longest-serving late-night talk show host in American television history.<a href="#cite_note-HollywoodReporter-2">[2]</a> He is also a television and film producer. His company, <a href="/wiki/Worldwide_Pants" title="Worldwide Pants">Worldwide Pants</a>, produced his shows as well as <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_(American_talk_show)" title="The Late Late Show (American talk show)">The Late Late Show</a> and several primetime comedies, the most successful of which was the CBS <a href="/wiki/Sitcom" title="Sitcom">sitcom</a> <a href="/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Raymond" title="Everybody Loves Raymond">Everybody Loves Raymond</a>. Several late-night hosts have cited Letterman's influence, including <a href="/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien" title="Conan O'Brien">Conan O'Brien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon" title="Jimmy Fallon">Jimmy Fallon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seth_Meyers" title="Seth Meyers">Seth Meyers</a> (each of whom succeeded Letterman on <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_(NBC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Night (NBC)">Late Night</a>), <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> (his successor on <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_(franchise)" title="The Late Show (franchise)">The Late Show</a>), <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel" title="Jimmy Kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a>. Since 2018, he has hosted the <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> series <a href="/wiki/My_Next_Guest_Needs_No_Introduction_with_David_Letterman" title="My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman">My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career">edit</a>]</div> Letterman was born in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, Indiana, on April 12, 1947, and he has two sisters, one older and one younger.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 15, 1915 – February 13, 1973),<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> was a florist.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> His mother, <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Mengering" title="Dorothy Mengering">Dorothy Marie Letterman Mengering</a> (née Hofert; July 18, 1921 – April 11, 2017),<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> a church secretary for the <a href="/wiki/Second_Presbyterian_Church_(Indianapolis,_Indiana)" title="Second Presbyterian Church (Indianapolis, Indiana)">Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis</a>, was an occasional figure on Letterman's show, usually at holidays and birthdays.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> Letterman grew up on the north side of Indianapolis, in the <a href="/wiki/Broad_Ripple" class="mw-redirect" title="Broad Ripple">Broad Ripple</a> area, about 12 miles (19 km) from the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Motor_Speedway" title="Indianapolis Motor Speedway">Indianapolis Motor Speedway</a>. He enjoyed collecting model cars, including racers.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> In 2000, he told an interviewer for <a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a> that, while growing up, he admired his father's ability to tell jokes and be the life of the party. Harry Joseph Letterman survived a heart attack at the age of 36 when David was a young boy. The fear of losing his father was constantly with Letterman as he grew up.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The elder Letterman died of a second heart attack in 1973<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> at the age of 57. Letterman attended his hometown's <a href="/wiki/Broad_Ripple_High_School" title="Broad Ripple High School">Broad Ripple High School</a> and worked as a stock boy at the local Atlas Supermarket.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> According to the Ball State Daily News, he originally wanted to attend <a href="/wiki/Indiana_University" title="Indiana University">Indiana University</a>, but his <a href="/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_United_States" title="Academic grading in the United States">grades</a> were not good enough, so he instead attended <a href="/wiki/Ball_State_University" title="Ball State University">Ball State University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Muncie,_Indiana" title="Muncie, Indiana">Muncie, Indiana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> He is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Chi" title="Sigma Chi">Sigma Chi</a> fraternity, and graduated in 1969 from what was then the Department of Radio and Television. A self-described average student, Letterman later endowed a scholarship for what he called "C students" at Ball State.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Though he registered for the draft and passed his physical after graduating from college, he was not drafted for service in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam</a> because he received a <a href="/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)" class="mw-redirect" title="Draft lottery (1969)">draft lottery</a> number of 346 (out of 366).<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Letterman began his broadcasting career as an announcer and newscaster at the college's student-run radio station—<a href="/wiki/WBST" title="WBST">WBST</a>—a 10-watt campus station that is now part of <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Public_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Public Radio">Indiana Public Radio</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BSU-PR-15">[15]</a> He was fired for treating classical music with irreverence.<a href="#cite_note-BSU-PR-15">[15]</a> He then became involved with the founding of another campus station—WAGO-AM 570 (now <a href="/wiki/WCRD" title="WCRD">WCRD</a>, 91.3).<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> He credits <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dixon_(entertainer)" title="Paul Dixon (entertainer)">Paul Dixon</a>, host of the <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dixon_Show" title="Paul Dixon Show">Paul Dixon Show</a>, a Cincinnati-based talk show also shown in Indianapolis while he was growing up, for inspiring his choice of career:<a href="#cite_note-dixon-17">[17]</a> <blockquote>I was just out of college [in 1969], and I really didn't know what I wanted to do. And then all of a sudden I saw him doing it [on TV]. And I thought: That's really what I want to do!</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weatherman">Weatherman</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Weatherman">edit</a>]</div> Soon after graduating from Ball State in 1969, Letterman began his career as a radio talk show host on <a href="/wiki/WNTS" title="WNTS">WNTS</a> and on Indianapolis television station WLWI (which changed its call sign to <a href="/wiki/WTHR" title="WTHR">WTHR</a> in 1976) as an anchor and <a href="/wiki/Weather_presenter" title="Weather presenter">weatherman</a>. He received some attention for his novel on-air delivery, which included congratulating a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical storm">tropical storm</a> for being upgraded to a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">hurricane</a>, as well as for predicting <a href="/wiki/Hailstones" class="mw-redirect" title="Hailstones">hailstones</a> "the size of canned hams".<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Letterman also occasionally reported the weather and the day's very high and low temps for fictitious cities ("Eight inches of snow in Bingree and surrounding areas"). On another occasion, he riffed that the state border between Indiana and Ohio had been erased, when a satellite map accidentally omitted it, jokingly attributing it to dirty political dealings: "The higher-ups have removed the border between Indiana and Ohio, making it one giant state. Personally, I'm against it. I don't know what to do about it."<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Letterman also starred in a local kiddie show, hosted a late-night TV show called "Freeze-Dried Movies" (a show in which he once acted out a scene from <a href="/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)" title="Godzilla (1954 film)">Godzilla</a> (1954) using plastic dinosaurs), and hosted a talk show that aired early on Saturday mornings called Clover Power,<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> in which he interviewed <a href="/wiki/4-H" title="4-H">4-H</a> members about their projects.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In 1971, Letterman appeared as a pit road reporter for <a href="/wiki/ABC_Sports" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Sports">ABC Sports</a>' tape-delayed coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1971_Indianapolis_500" title="1971 Indianapolis 500">Indianapolis 500</a>, which was his first nationally telecast appearance (WLWI was the local ABC affiliate at the time).<a href="#cite_note-indy-22">[22]</a> He was initially introduced as <a href="/wiki/Chris_Economaki" title="Chris Economaki">Chris Economaki</a>, but this was corrected at the end of the interview (<a href="/wiki/Jim_McKay" title="Jim McKay">Jim McKay</a> announced his name as Dave Letterman). Letterman interviewed <a href="/wiki/Mario_Andretti" title="Mario Andretti">Mario Andretti</a>, who had just crashed out of the race.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Move_to_Los_Angeles">Move to Los Angeles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Move to Los Angeles">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Comedy_Store.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Comedy_Store.jpg/220px-The_Comedy_Store.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Comedy_Store.jpg/330px-The_Comedy_Store.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Comedy_Store.jpg/440px-The_Comedy_Store.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1624" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption>Letterman's comedic career took hold in the 1970s at <a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_Store" title="The Comedy Store">The Comedy Store</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a></figcaption></figure> In 1975, encouraged by his then-wife Michelle and several of his <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Chi" title="Sigma Chi">Sigma Chi</a> fraternity brothers, Letterman moved to <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, with the hope of becoming a comedy writer.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> He and Michelle packed their belongings in his pickup truck and headed west.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> As of 2012, he still owned the truck.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> In Los Angeles, he began performing comedy at <a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_Store" title="The Comedy Store">The Comedy Store</a>.<a href="#cite_note-walker2012-27">[27]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Walker" title="Jimmie Walker">Jimmie Walker</a> saw him on stage; with an endorsement from <a href="/wiki/George_Miller_(comedian)" title="George Miller (comedian)">George Miller</a>, Letterman joined a group of comedians whom Walker hired to write jokes for his stand-up act, a group that at various times also included <a href="/wiki/Jay_Leno" title="Jay Leno">Jay Leno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Mooney_(comedian)" title="Paul Mooney (comedian)">Paul Mooney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Schimmel" title="Robert Schimmel">Robert Schimmel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Jeni" title="Richard Jeni">Richard Jeni</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louie_Anderson" title="Louie Anderson">Louie Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elayne_Boosler" title="Elayne Boosler">Elayne Boosler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Byron_Allen" title="Byron Allen">Byron Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Handey" title="Jack Handey">Jack Handey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Oedekerk" title="Steve Oedekerk">Steve Oedekerk</a>.<a href="#cite_note-walker2012-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> By the summer of 1977, Letterman was a writer and regular on the six-week summer series The <a href="/wiki/Starland_Vocal_Band" title="Starland Vocal Band">Starland Vocal Band</a> Show, broadcast on CBS.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> He hosted a 1977 pilot for a game show called The Riddlers<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> (which was never picked up), and co-starred in the <a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a>-produced comedy special <a href="/wiki/Peeping_Times" title="Peeping Times">Peeping Times</a>, which aired in January 1978. Later that year, Letterman was a cast member on <a href="/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore" title="Mary Tyler Moore">Mary Tyler Moore</a>'s variety show, <a href="/wiki/Mary_(1978_TV_series)" title="Mary (1978 TV series)">Mary</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> He made a guest appearance on <a href="/wiki/Mork_%26_Mindy" title="Mork & Mindy">Mork & Mindy</a> (as a parody of <a href="/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training" title="Erhard Seminars Training">EST</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Werner_Erhard" title="Werner Erhard">Werner Erhard</a>)<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> and appearances on game shows such as <a href="/wiki/The_$20,000_Pyramid" class="mw-redirect" title="The $20,000 Pyramid">The $20,000 Pyramid</a>,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Gong_Show" title="The Gong Show">The Gong Show</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Squares" title="Hollywood Squares">Hollywood Squares</a>, <a href="/wiki/Password_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="Password Plus">Password Plus</a>,<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liar%27s_Club" title="Liar's Club">Liar's Club</a>, as well as the Canadian cooking show <a href="/wiki/Celebrity_Cooks" title="Celebrity Cooks">Celebrity Cooks</a> (November 1977), talk shows such as <a href="/wiki/90_Minutes_Live" title="90 Minutes Live">90 Minutes Live</a> (February 24<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> and April 14, 1978),<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Mike_Douglas_Show" title="The Mike Douglas Show">The Mike Douglas Show</a> (April 3, 1979 and February 7, 1980). He was also <a href="/wiki/Screen_test" title="Screen test">screen tested</a> for the lead role in the 1980 film <a href="/wiki/Airplane!" title="Airplane!">Airplane!</a>, a role that eventually went to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hays" title="Robert Hays">Robert Hays</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Letterman's brand of dry, sarcastic humor caught the attention of scouts for <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson" title="The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson">The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson</a>, and he was soon a regular guest on the show. He became a favorite of Carson and was a regular guest host for the show beginning in 1978. Letterman credits Carson as the person who influenced his career the most.<a href="#cite_note-rose-39">[39]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NBC">NBC</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: NBC">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Morning_show">Morning show</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Morning show">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_David_Letterman_Show" title="The David Letterman Show">The David Letterman Show</a></div> On June 23, 1980, Letterman was given his own morning comedy show on <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_David_Letterman_Show" title="The David Letterman Show">The David Letterman Show</a>. It was originally 90 minutes long but was shortened to 60 minutes in August 1980.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The show was a critical success, winning two <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Awards</a>, but was a ratings disappointment and was canceled, the last show airing October 24, 1980.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_Night_with_David_Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Late Night with David Letterman">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg/220px-Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg/330px-Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg/440px-Jerry_Lewis_with_David_Letterman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="991" data-file-height="675" /></a><figcaption>Letterman interviewing comedian <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lewis" title="Jerry Lewis">Jerry Lewis</a> in 1982</figcaption></figure> NBC kept Letterman on its payroll to try him in a different time slot. <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a> debuted February 1, 1982; the first guest was <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Murray went on to become one of Letterman's most recurrent guests, guesting on his later CBS show's celebration of his 30th anniversary in late-night television, which aired January 31, 2012, and on the final CBS show, which aired May 20, 2015. The show ran Monday through Thursday nights at 12:30 a.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_time_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern time zone">Eastern Time</a>, immediately following <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson" title="The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson">The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson</a> (a Friday night broadcast was added in June 1987). It was seen as edgy and unpredictable, and soon developed a cult following (particularly among college students). Letterman's reputation as an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acerbic" class="extiw" title="wikt:acerbic">acerbic</a> interviewer was borne out in verbal sparring matches with <a href="/wiki/Cher" title="Cher">Cher</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> (who even called him an "asshole" on the show),<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/Shirley_MacLaine" title="Shirley MacLaine">Shirley MacLaine</a>,<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grodin" title="Charles Grodin">Charles Grodin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Madonna" title="Madonna">Madonna</a>. The show also featured comedy segments and running characters, in a style heavily influenced by the 1950s and 1960s programs of <a href="/wiki/Steve_Allen" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> The show often featured quirky, genre-mocking regular features, including "Stupid Pet Tricks"<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> (which had its origins on Letterman's morning show), Stupid Human Tricks,<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> dropping various objects off the roof of a five-story building,<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> demonstrations of unorthodox clothing (such as suits made of <a href="/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" title="Alka-Seltzer">Alka-Seltzer</a>,<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <a href="/wiki/Velcro" class="mw-redirect" title="Velcro">Velcro</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suet" title="Suet">suet</a>), a recurring <a href="/wiki/Top_10_list_(David_Letterman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Top 10 list (David Letterman)">Top 10 list</a>, the Monkey-Cam<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> (and the Audience Cam), a facetious letter-answering segment,<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> several "Film[s] by My Dog Bob" in which a camera was mounted on Letterman's own dog<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> (often with comic results) and Small Town News,<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> all of which moved with Letterman to CBS. Other episodes included Letterman using a bullhorn to interrupt a live interview on <a href="/wiki/Today_(NBC_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="Today (NBC program)">The Today Show</a> on August 19, 1985, announcing that he was the NBC News president <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_K._Grossman" title="Lawrence K. Grossman">Lawrence K. Grossman</a> and that he was not wearing any pants;<a href="#cite_note-todayshow-56">[56]</a> walking across the hall to Studio 6B, at the time the news studio for <a href="/wiki/WNBC-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBC-TV">WNBC-TV</a>, and interrupting <a href="/wiki/Al_Roker" title="Al Roker">Al Roker</a>'s weather segments during <a href="/wiki/Live_at_Five_(WNBC_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Live at Five (WNBC TV series)">Live at Five</a>; and staging "elevator races", complete with commentary by NBC Sports' <a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a>. In one appearance, in 1982, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Kaufman" title="Andy Kaufman">Andy Kaufman</a> (who was wearing a neck brace) appeared with professional wrestler <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lawler" title="Jerry Lawler">Jerry Lawler</a>, who slapped and knocked the comedian to the ground (Lawler and Kaufman's friend <a href="/wiki/Bob_Zmuda" title="Bob Zmuda">Bob Zmuda</a> later revealed that the incident was <a href="/wiki/Work_(professional_wrestling)" class="mw-redirect" title="Work (professional wrestling)">staged</a>).<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="CBS">CBS</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: CBS">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_Show_with_David_Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Late Show with David Letterman">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_(3619184146).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg/220px-Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg/330px-Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg/440px-Ed_Sullivan_Theater_-_Late_Show_With_David_Letterman_%283619184146%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sullivan_Theater" title="Ed Sullivan Theater">Ed Sullivan Theater</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a> was recorded</figcaption></figure> In 1992, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a> retired, and many fans, and Carson himself, believed that Letterman would become the new host of The Tonight Show. When NBC instead gave the job to Jay Leno, Letterman departed NBC to host his own late-night show on CBS, opposite <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show" title="The Tonight Show">The Tonight Show</a> at 11:30 p.m., called the Late Show with David Letterman. The new show debuted on August 30, 1993, and was taped at the historic Ed Sullivan Theater, where <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sullivan" title="Ed Sullivan">Ed Sullivan</a> broadcast his <a href="/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">eponymous variety series</a> from 1948 to 1971. For Letterman's arrival, CBS spent $8 million in renovations.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> CBS also signed Letterman to a three-year, $14 million/year contract,<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> doubling his Late Night salary. But while the expectation was that Letterman would retain his unique style and sense of humor with the move, Late Show was not an exact replica of his old NBC program. The monologue was lengthened. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Shaffer" title="Paul Shaffer">Paul Shaffer</a> and the <a href="/wiki/World%27s_Most_Dangerous_Band" class="mw-redirect" title="World's Most Dangerous Band">World's Most Dangerous Band</a> followed Letterman to CBS, but they added a brass section and were <a href="/wiki/Rebranded" class="mw-redirect" title="Rebranded">rebranded</a> the <a href="/wiki/CBS_Orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="CBS Orchestra">CBS Orchestra</a> (at Shaffer's request); a small band had been mandated by Carson while Letterman occupied the 12:30 slot. Additionally, because of intellectual property disagreements, Letterman was unable to import many of his Late Night segments verbatim,<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> but he sidestepped this problem by simply renaming them (the "Top Ten List" became the "Late Show Top Ten", "Viewer Mail" became the "CBS Mailbag", etc.). <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine wrote, "Letterman's innovation ... gained power from its rigorous formalism"; as his biographer <a href="/wiki/Jason_Zinoman" title="Jason Zinoman">Jason Zinoman</a> puts it, he was "a fascinatingly disgruntled eccentric trapped inside a more traditional talk show".<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Popularity">Popularity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Popularity">edit</a>]</div> The Late Show's main competitor was NBC's <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show" title="The Tonight Show">The Tonight Show</a>, which <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno" title="The Tonight Show with Jay Leno">Jay Leno hosted</a> for 22 years from 1992 to 2014, except from June 1, 2009, to January 22, 2010, when Conan O'Brien hosted. In 1993 and 1994, the Late Show consistently gained higher ratings than The Tonight Show. But in 1995, ratings dipped and Leno's show consistently beat Letterman's in the ratings from the time that <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Grant" title="Hugh Grant">Hugh Grant</a> came on Leno's show after Grant's arrest for soliciting a prostitute.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> Leno typically attracted about five million nightly viewers between 1999 and 2009. The Late Show lost nearly half its audience during its competition with Leno, attracting 7.1 million viewers nightly in its 1993–94 season and about 3.8 million per night as of Leno's departure in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> In the final months of his first stint as host of The Tonight Show, Leno beat Letterman in the ratings by a 1.3 million-viewer margin (5.2 million to 3.9 million), and <a href="/wiki/Nightline" title="Nightline">Nightline</a> and the Late Show were virtually tied.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Once O'Brien took over Tonight, Letterman closed the gap in the ratings.<a href="#cite_note-Roberts_helps-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roberts_sides-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-Who's_loyal-67">[67]</a> O'Brien initially drove the median age of Tonight Show viewers from 55 to 45, with most older viewers opting to watch the Late Show instead.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> After Leno returned to The Tonight Show, Leno regained his lead.<a href="#cite_note-Ratings_2011-69">[69]</a> Letterman's shows have garnered both critical and industry praise, receiving 67 <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Award</a> nominations, winning 12 times in his first 20 years in late night television. From 1993 to 2009, Letterman ranked higher than Leno in the annual <a href="/wiki/Harris_Insights_%26_Analytics" class="mw-redirect" title="Harris Insights & Analytics">Harris Poll</a> of Nation's Favorite TV Personality 12 times.<a href="#cite_note-harris09-70">[70]</a> For example, in 2003 and 2004 Letterman ranked second in that poll, behind only <a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey" title="Oprah Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a>, a year that Leno was ranked fifth.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Leno was higher than Letterman on that poll three times during the same period, in 1998, 2007, and 2008.<a href="#cite_note-harris09-70">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hosting_the_Academy_Awards">Hosting the Academy Awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hosting the Academy Awards">edit</a>]</div> On March 27, 1995, Letterman hosted the <a href="/wiki/67th_Academy_Awards" title="67th Academy Awards">67th Academy Awards</a> ceremony. Critics blasted what they deemed his poor performance, noting that his irreverent style undermined the traditional importance and glamor of the event.<a href="#cite_note-John_O'Connor-72">[72]</a> In a joke about their unusual names (inspired by a celebrated comic essay in The New Yorker, "Yma Dream" by Thomas Meehan), he started off by introducing <a href="/wiki/Uma_Thurman" title="Uma Thurman">Uma Thurman</a> to Oprah Winfrey, and then both of them to <a href="/wiki/Keanu_Reeves" title="Keanu Reeves">Keanu Reeves</a>: "Oprah...Uma. Uma...Oprah," "Have you kids met Keanu?" This and many of his other jokes fell flat.<a href="#cite_note-John_O'Connor-72">[72]</a> Although Letterman attracted the highest ratings to the annual telecast since 1983, many felt that the bad publicity he generated caused a decline in the Late Show's ratings.<a href="#cite_note-RS-73">[73]</a> Letterman recycled the apparent debacle into a long-running gag. On his first show after the Oscars, he joked, "Looking back, I had no idea that thing was being televised." He lampooned his stint two years later, during <a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a>'s opening Oscar skit, which also parodied the plane-crashing scenes from that year's chief nominated film, <a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">The English Patient</a>. For years afterward, Letterman recounted his hosting the Oscars, although the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</a> continued to hold Letterman in high regard and invited him to host the Oscars again.<a href="#cite_note-NF-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bruce-75">[75]</a> On September 7, 2010, he made an appearance on the premiere of the 14th season of <a href="/wiki/The_View_(talk_show)" title="The View (talk show)">The View</a>, and confirmed that he had been considered for hosting again. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heart_surgery_hiatus">Heart surgery hiatus</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Heart surgery hiatus">edit</a>]</div> On January 14, 2000, a routine checkup revealed that an artery in Letterman's heart was severely obstructed. He was rushed to <a href="/wiki/New_York_Presbyterian_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Presbyterian Hospital">New York Presbyterian Hospital</a> for emergency <a href="/wiki/Coronary_artery_bypass_surgery" title="Coronary artery bypass surgery">quintuple bypass</a> surgery.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> During the first weeks of his recovery, reruns of the Late Show were shown and introduced by friends of Letterman, including <a href="/wiki/Norm_Macdonald" title="Norm Macdonald">Norm Macdonald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drew_Barrymore" title="Drew Barrymore">Drew Barrymore</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Who's_loyal-67">[67]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ray_Romano" title="Ray Romano">Ray Romano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Hunt" title="Bonnie Hunt">Bonnie Hunt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Megan_Mullally" title="Megan Mullally">Megan Mullally</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Regis_Philbin" title="Regis Philbin">Regis Philbin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grodin" title="Charles Grodin">Charles Grodin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Lane" title="Nathan Lane">Nathan Lane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julia_Roberts" title="Julia Roberts">Julia Roberts</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Who's_loyal-67">[67]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld" title="Jerry Seinfeld">Jerry Seinfeld</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steven_Seagal" title="Steven Seagal">Steven Seagal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danny_DeVito" title="Danny DeVito">Danny DeVito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Jessica_Parker" title="Sarah Jessica Parker">Sarah Jessica Parker</a>. Later, while still recovering from surgery, Letterman revived the late-night talk show tradition of "guest hosts" that had virtually disappeared on network television during the 1990s, allowing <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kathie_Lee_Gifford" title="Kathie Lee Gifford">Kathie Lee Gifford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dana_Carvey" title="Dana Carvey">Dana Carvey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janeane_Garofalo" title="Janeane Garofalo">Janeane Garofalo</a>, and others to host new episodes of the Late Show. Upon his return to the show on February 21, 2000, Letterman brought all but one of the doctors and nurses on stage who had participated in his surgery and recovery (with extra teasing of a nurse who had given him bed baths—"This woman gave me a bath!"),<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> including Drs. O. Wayne Isom and <a href="/wiki/Louis_Aronne" title="Louis Aronne">Louis Aronne</a>, who frequently appeared on the show. For a number of episodes, Letterman continued to crack jokes about his bypass, including saying: "Bypass surgery: it's when doctors surgically create new blood flow to your heart. A bypass is what happened to me when I didn't get The Tonight Show! It's a whole different thing." In a later running gag, he lobbied Indiana to rename the freeway circling Indianapolis (<a href="/wiki/Interstate_465" title="Interstate 465">I-465</a>) "The David Letterman Bypass". He also featured a montage of faux news coverage of his bypass surgery, including a clip of Letterman's heart for sale on the <a href="/wiki/Home_Shopping_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Shopping Network">Home Shopping Network</a>. Letterman became friends with his doctors and nurses. In 2008, <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> wrote: <blockquote>He hosted a doctor and nurse who'd helped perform the emergency quintuple-bypass heart surgery that saved his life in 2000. "These are people who were complete strangers when they opened my chest," he says. "And now, eight years later, they're among my best friends."<a href="#cite_note-rs2008-78">[78]</a></blockquote> Additionally, Letterman invited the band <a href="/wiki/Foo_Fighters" title="Foo Fighters">Foo Fighters</a> to play "<a href="/wiki/Everlong" title="Everlong">Everlong</a>",<a href="#cite_note-mtvfoo-79">[79]</a> introducing them as "my favorite band, playing my favorite song."<a href="#cite_note-salonfoo-80">[80]</a> During Letterman's last show, on which Foo Fighters appeared, Letterman said that Foo Fighters had been in the middle of a South American tour that they canceled to play on his comeback episode.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> In February 2003, Letterman again handed the reins of the show to several guest hosts (including <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brad_Garrett" title="Brad Garrett">Brad Garrett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg" title="Whoopi Goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Costello" title="Elvis Costello">Elvis Costello</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_McEnroe" title="John McEnroe">John McEnroe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vince_Vaughn" title="Vince Vaughn">Vince Vaughn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Will_Ferrell" title="Will Ferrell">Will Ferrell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Hunt" title="Bonnie Hunt">Bonnie Hunt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luke_Wilson" title="Luke Wilson">Luke Wilson</a>, and bandleader Paul Shaffer) when he was diagnosed with a severe case of <a href="/wiki/Shingles" title="Shingles">shingles</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-EW2003-84">[84]</a> Later that year, Letterman made regular use of guest hosts—including <a href="/wiki/Tom_Arnold_(actor)" title="Tom Arnold (actor)">Tom Arnold</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kelsey_Grammer" title="Kelsey Grammer">Kelsey Grammer</a>—for shows broadcast on Fridays. In March 2007, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Sandler" title="Adam Sandler">Adam Sandler</a>, who had been scheduled to be the lead guest, served as a guest host while Letterman was ill with a stomach virus.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_signing_with_CBS">Second signing with CBS</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Second signing with CBS">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_on_the_Late_Show.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2333" /></a><figcaption>Letterman interviewing President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in 2009</figcaption></figure> In March 2002, as Letterman's contract with CBS neared expiration, <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> offered him the time slot for long-running news program <a href="/wiki/Nightline" title="Nightline">Nightline</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ted_Koppel" title="Ted Koppel">Ted Koppel</a>. Letterman was interested, as he believed he could never match Leno's ratings at CBS due to Letterman's complaint of weaker <a href="/wiki/Lead-in" class="mw-redirect" title="Lead-in">lead-ins</a> from CBS's <a href="/wiki/11_O%27Clock_News" class="mw-redirect" title="11 O'Clock News">late local news</a> programs, but was reluctant to replace Koppel.<a href="#cite_note-battle-86">[86]</a> He addressed his decision to re-sign on the air, stating that he was content at CBS and that he had great respect for Koppel. On December 4, 2006, CBS revealed that Letterman signed a new contract to host Late Show with David Letterman through the fall of 2010. "I'm thrilled to be continuing on at CBS," said Letterman. "At my age you really don't want to have to learn a new commute."<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Letterman further joked about the subject by pulling up his right pants leg, revealing a tattoo, presumably temporary, of the ABC logo. "Thirteen years ago, David Letterman put CBS late night on the map and in the process became one of the defining icons of our network," said <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Moonves" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Moonves">Leslie Moonves</a>, president and CEO of CBS Corporation. "His presence on our air is an ongoing source of pride, and the creativity and imagination that the Late Show puts forth every night is an ongoing display of the highest quality entertainment. We are truly honored that one of the most revered and talented entertainers of our time will continue to call CBS 'home.'"<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> According to a 2007 article in <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> magazine, Letterman earned $40 million a year.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> A 2009 article in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, however, said his salary was estimated at $32 million.<a href="#cite_note-nyt09carter-90">[90]</a> In June 2009, Letterman's Worldwide Pants and CBS reached an agreement to continue the Late Show until at least August 2012. The previous contract had been set to expire in 2010, and the two-year extension was shorter than the typical three-year contract period negotiated in the past.<a href="#cite_note-nyt09carter-90">[90]</a> Worldwide Pants agreed to lower its fee for the show, though it had remained a "solid moneymaker for CBS" under the previous contract.<a href="#cite_note-nyt09carter-90">[90]</a> On the February 3, 2011 edition of the Late Show, during an interview with <a href="/wiki/Howard_Stern" title="Howard Stern">Howard Stern</a>, Letterman said he would continue to do his talk show for "maybe two years, I think."<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> In April 2012, CBS announced it had extended its contract with Letterman through 2014.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> His contract was subsequently extended to 2015.<a href="#cite_note-New_Contract-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retirement_from_Late_Show">Retirement from Late Show</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Retirement from Late Show">edit</a>]</div> During the taping of his show on April 3, 2014, Letterman announced that he had informed CBS president <a href="/wiki/Les_Moonves" title="Les Moonves">Leslie Moonves</a> that he would retire from hosting Late Show by May 20, 2015.<a href="#cite_note-retire-94">[94]</a> Later in his retirement Letterman occasionally stated, in jest,<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> that he had been fired.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> It was announced soon after that comedian and political satirist Stephen Colbert would succeed Letterman.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Letterman's last episode aired on May 20, 2015, and opened with a presidential sendoff featuring four of the five living American presidents, <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, and Barack Obama, each mimicking the late president <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a>'s statement "Our long national nightmare is over." It also featured cameos from <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(American_game_show)" title="Wheel of Fortune (American game show)">Wheel of Fortune</a> (the latter with a puzzle saying "Good riddance to David Letterman"), a Top Ten List of "things I wish I could have said to David Letterman" performed by regular guests including <a href="/wiki/Alec_Baldwin" title="Alec Baldwin">Alec Baldwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Walters" title="Barbara Walters">Barbara Walters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, Jerry Seinfeld, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Carrey" title="Jim Carrey">Jim Carrey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Rock" title="Chris Rock">Chris Rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julia_Louis-Dreyfus" title="Julia Louis-Dreyfus">Julia Louis-Dreyfus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peyton_Manning" title="Peyton Manning">Peyton Manning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Fey" title="Tina Fey">Tina Fey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>, and closed with a montage of scenes from both his CBS and NBC series set to a live performance of "<a href="/wiki/Everlong" title="Everlong">Everlong</a>" by Foo Fighters. The final episode of Late Show with David Letterman was watched by 13.76 million viewers in the United States with an audience share of 9.3/24, earning the show its highest ratings since following the <a href="/wiki/1994_Winter_Olympics" title="1994 Winter Olympics">1994 Winter Olympics</a> on February 25, 1994, and the show's highest demo numbers (4.1 in adults 25–54 and 3.1 in adults 18–49) since Oprah Winfrey's first Late Show appearance following the ending of her feud with Letterman on December 1, 2005. Bill Murray, who had been his first guest on Late Night, was his final guest on Late Show. In a rarity for a late-night show, it was also the highest-rated program on network television that night, beating out all prime-time shows.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> In total, Letterman hosted 6,080 episodes of Late Night and Late Show,<a href="#cite_note-YahooNews-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-TVGuide-99">[99]</a> surpassing friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late-night talk show host in U.S. television history.<a href="#cite_note-HollywoodReporter-2">[2]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Late_Show">Post-Late Show</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Post-Late Show">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_letterman_(47966353856).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg/170px-David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg/255px-David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg/340px-David_letterman_%2847966353856%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1901" data-file-height="2454" /></a><figcaption>Letterman at the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_500" title="Indianapolis 500">Indianapolis 500</a></figcaption></figure> In the months following the end of Late Show, Letterman was seen occasionally at sports events such as the Indianapolis 500, during which he submitted to an interview with a local publication.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> He made a surprise appearance on stage in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, Texas when he was invited up for an extended segment during Steve Martin's and <a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a>'s A Very Stupid Conversation show, saying "I retired, and...I have no regrets," Letterman told the crowd after walking on stage. "I was happy. I'll make actual friends. I was complacent. I was satisfied. I was content, and then a couple of days ago <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> said he was running for president. I have made the biggest mistake of my life, ladies and gentlemen" and then delivering a Top Ten List roasting <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016">Trump's presidential campaign</a> followed by an onstage conversation with Martin and Short. Cellphone recordings of the appearance were posted on <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> by audience members and widely reported in the media.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> In 2016, Letterman joined the climate change documentary show <a href="/wiki/Years_of_Living_Dangerously" title="Years of Living Dangerously">Years of Living Dangerously</a> as one of its celebrity correspondents.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> In season two's premiere episode, Letterman traveled to <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> to investigate the country's efforts to expand its inadequate energy grid, power its booming economy, and bring electricity to 300 million citizens for the first time. He also interviewed Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> and traveled to rural villages where power is a scarce luxury and explored the United States' role in India's energy future.<a href="#cite_note-PR-104">[104]</a> On April 7, 2017, Letterman gave the induction speech for the band <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Jam" title="Pearl Jam">Pearl Jam</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Rock_%26_Roll_Hall_Of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame">Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame</a> at a ceremony held at the <a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York City">Brooklyn, New York City</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> Also in 2017, Letterman and <a href="/wiki/Alec_Baldwin" title="Alec Baldwin">Alec Baldwin</a> co-hosted <a href="/wiki/The_Essentials_(TCM)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Essentials (TCM)">The Essentials</a> on <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">Turner Classic Movies</a>. Letterman and Baldwin introduced seven films for the series.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Netflix">Netflix</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Netflix">edit</a>]</div> In 2018, Letterman began hosting a six-episode monthly series of hour-long programs on <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> consisting of long-form interviews and field segments.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> The show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, premiered January 12, 2018 with <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> as its first guest.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> The second season premiered on May 31, 2019.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Season 3 premiered on October 21, 2020, and includes <a href="/wiki/Kim_Kardashian_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Kardashian West">Kim Kardashian West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr." title="Robert Downey Jr.">Robert Downey Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lizzo" title="Lizzo">Lizzo</a> as guests.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> Season 4 premiered on May 20, 2022, with <a href="/wiki/Billie_Eilish" title="Billie Eilish">Billie Eilish</a> as the first guest.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> In October 2022, Letterman traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine, to film a special standalone episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, interviewing Ukrainian president <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_exchanges_and_incidents">Notable exchanges and incidents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Notable exchanges and incidents">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NBC_and_Johnny_Carson">NBC and Johnny Carson</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: NBC and Johnny Carson">edit</a>]</div> In spite of Johnny Carson's clear intention to pass his title to Letterman, NBC selected Jay Leno to host The Tonight Show after Carson's departure.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Letterman maintained a close relationship with Carson through his break with NBC. Three years after he left for CBS, <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> produced a made-for-television movie called <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Shift_(film)" title="The Late Shift (film)">The Late Shift</a>, based on a book by The New York Times reporter Bill Carter, chronicling the battle between Letterman and Leno for the Tonight Show hosting spot. Carson later made a few <a href="/wiki/Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo appearances</a> as a guest on Letterman's show. Carson's final television appearance was on May 13, 1994, on a Late Show episode taped in Los Angeles, when he made a surprise appearance during a <a href="/wiki/Top_Ten_list_(David_Letterman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Top Ten list (David Letterman)">Top 10 list</a> segment. In early 2005, it was revealed that Carson occasionally sent jokes to Letterman, who used them in his monologue; according to CBS senior vice president <a href="/wiki/Peter_Lassally" title="Peter Lassally">Peter Lassally</a> (a onetime producer for both men), Carson got "a big kick out of it."<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> Letterman would do a characteristic Carson golf swing after delivering one of his jokes. In a tribute to Carson, all the opening monologue jokes during the first show after Carson's death were by Carson. Lassally also claimed that Carson had always believed Letterman, not Leno, to be his "rightful successor".<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> During the early years of the Late Show's run, Letterman occasionally used some of Carson's trademark bits, including "<a href="/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent" title="Carnac the Magnificent">Carnac the Magnificent</a>" (with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Shaffer" title="Paul Shaffer">Paul Shaffer</a> as Carnac), "Stump the Band", and the "Week in Review". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oprah_Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Oprah Winfrey">edit</a>]</div> Oprah Winfrey appeared on Letterman's show when he was hosting NBC's Late Night on May 2, 1989. After that appearance, the two had a 16-year feud<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> that arose, as Winfrey explained to Letterman after it had been resolved, as a result of the acerbic tone of their 1989 interview, of which she said that it "felt so uncomfortable to me that I didn't want to have that experience again". The feud apparently ended on December 2, 2005, when Winfrey appeared on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman in an event Letterman jokingly called "the <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a> of Love".<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> Winfrey and Letterman also appeared together in a Late Show promo aired during CBS's coverage of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLI" title="Super Bowl XLI">Super Bowl XLI</a> in February 2007, with the two sitting next to each other on a couch watching the game. Since the game was played between the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Colts" title="Indianapolis Colts">Indianapolis Colts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a>, the Indianapolis-born Letterman wore a Peyton Manning jersey, while Winfrey, whose show was taped in Chicago, wore a <a href="/wiki/Brian_Urlacher" title="Brian Urlacher">Brian Urlacher</a> jersey.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> On September 10, 2007, Letterman made his first appearance on <a href="/wiki/The_Oprah_Winfrey_Show" title="The Oprah Winfrey Show">The Oprah Winfrey Show</a> at <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> in New York City. Three years later, during CBS's coverage of <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIV" title="Super Bowl XLIV">Super Bowl XLIV</a> between the Colts and the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a>, the two appeared again in a Late Show promo, this time with Winfrey sitting on a couch between Letterman and Leno. Letterman wore the retired <abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> 70 jersey of <a href="/wiki/Art_Donovan" title="Art Donovan">Art Donovan</a>, a member of the Colts' Hall of Fame and a regular Letterman guest. The appearance was Letterman's idea: Leno flew to New York City on an NBC corporate jet, sneaking into the <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sullivan_Theater" title="Ed Sullivan Theater">Ed Sullivan Theater</a> during the Late Show's February 4 taping wearing a disguise and meeting Winfrey and Letterman at a living room set created in the theater's balcony, where they taped their promo.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Winfrey interviewed Letterman in January 2013 on <a href="/wiki/Oprah%27s_Next_Chapter" class="mw-redirect" title="Oprah's Next Chapter">Oprah's Next Chapter</a>. They discussed their feud and Winfrey revealed that she had had a "terrible experience" while appearing on Letterman's show years earlier. Letterman could not recall the incident but apologized.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2007–2008_writers'_strike">2007–2008 writers' strike</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 2007–2008 writers' strike">edit</a>]</div> Late Show went off air for eight weeks in 2007 during November and December because of the <a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike">Writers Guild of America strike</a>. Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, was the first company to make an individual agreement with the WGA,<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> allowing his show to come back on the air on January 2, 2008. In his first episode back, he surprised the audience with a newly grown <a href="/wiki/Beard" title="Beard">beard</a>, which signified solidarity with the strike.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> His beard was shaved off during the show on January 7, 2008. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Palin_joke">Palin joke</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Palin joke">edit</a>]</div> On June 8 and 9, 2009, Letterman told two sexually themed jokes about a daughter (never named) of <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a> on his TV show. These included a statutory rape joke about Palin's then 14-year-old daughter, Willow, and MLB player <a href="/wiki/Alex_Rodriguez" title="Alex Rodriguez">Alex Rodriguez</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NOW-123">[123]</a> Palin was in New York City at the time with Willow, and none of her other children were at the game.<a href="#cite_note-NOW-123">[123]</a> In a statement posted on the Internet, Palin said, "I doubt [Letterman would] ever dare make such comments about anyone else's daughter" and that "laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is disgusting."<a href="#cite_note-Palin_vs._Letterman_–_ABC_News-124">[124]</a> On his June 10 show, Letterman responded to the controversy, saying the jokes were meant to be about Palin's 18-year-old daughter, <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Palin" title="Bristol Palin">Bristol</a>, whose pregnancy as an unmarried teenager had caused some controversy during the <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_of_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election of 2008">United States presidential election of 2008</a>. "These are not jokes made about [Palin's] 14-year-old daughter ... I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl."<a href="#cite_note-Palin_vs._Letterman_–_ABC_News-124">[124]</a> His remarks did not end public criticism. The <a href="/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women" title="National Organization for Women">National Organization for Women</a> (NOW) released a statement supporting Palin, noting that Letterman had made "[only] something of an apology."<a href="#cite_note-NOW-123">[123]</a> When the controversy failed to subside, Letterman addressed the issue again on his June 15 show, faulting himself for the error and apologizing "especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke."<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Rodriguez demanded an apology for implying that he was a child molester. Letterman never specifically apologized to Rodriguez.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Al-Qaeda_death_threat">Al-Qaeda death threat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Al-Qaeda death threat">edit</a>]</div> On August 17, 2011, it was reported that an <a href="/wiki/Islamic_militants" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic militants">Islamist militant</a> had posted a death threat against Letterman on a website frequented by <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> supporters, calling on American Muslims to kill him for making a joke about the death of <a href="/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri" title="Ilyas Kashmiri">Ilyas Kashmiri</a>, an Al-Qaeda leader who was killed in a June 2011 drone strike in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> In his August 22 show, Letterman joked about the threat, saying "State Department authorities are looking into this. They're not taking this lightly. They're looking into it. They're questioning, they're interrogating, there's an electronic trail—but everybody knows it's Leno."<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances_in_other_media">Appearances in other media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Appearances in other media">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Letterman_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/David_Letterman_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="199" height="259" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="199" data-file-height="259" /></a><figcaption>Letterman receiving the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Medallion, December 2012</figcaption></figure> Letterman appeared in the pilot episode of the short-lived 1986 series Coach Toast, and appears with a bag over his head as a guest on Bonnie Hunt's 1990s sitcom <a href="/wiki/The_Building_(TV_series)" title="The Building (TV series)">The Building</a>. He appeared in The Simpsons as himself in a couch gag when the Simpsons find themselves (and the couch) in Late Night with David Letterman. He had a cameo in the feature film <a href="/wiki/Cabin_Boy" title="Cabin Boy">Cabin Boy</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Chris_Elliott" title="Chris Elliott">Chris Elliott</a>, who worked as a writer for Letterman. In this and other appearances, Letterman is listed in the credits as "Earl Hofert", the name of Letterman's maternal grandfather. He also appeared as himself in the <a href="/wiki/Howard_Stern" title="Howard Stern">Howard Stern</a> biographical film <a href="/wiki/Private_Parts_(1997_film)" title="Private Parts (1997 film)">Private Parts</a> and the 1999 <a href="/wiki/Andy_Kaufman" title="Andy Kaufman">Andy Kaufman</a> biopic <a href="/wiki/Man_on_the_Moon_(film)" title="Man on the Moon (film)">Man on the Moon</a>, in a few episodes of <a href="/wiki/Garry_Shandling" title="Garry Shandling">Garry Shandling</a>'s 1990s TV series <a href="/wiki/The_Larry_Sanders_Show" title="The Larry Sanders Show">The Larry Sanders Show</a>, and in "<a href="/wiki/The_Abstinence" title="The Abstinence">The Abstinence</a>", a 1996 episode of the sitcom <a href="/wiki/Seinfeld" title="Seinfeld">Seinfeld</a>. Letterman provided vocals for the <a href="/wiki/Warren_Zevon" title="Warren Zevon">Warren Zevon</a> song "Hit Somebody" from <a href="/wiki/My_Ride%27s_Here" title="My Ride's Here">My Ride's Here</a>,<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> and provided the voice for Butt-head's father in the 1996 animated film <a href="/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-Head_Do_America" title="Beavis and Butt-Head Do America">Beavis and Butt-Head Do America</a>, again credited as Earl Hofert. Letterman was the focus of The Avengers on "Late Night with David Letterman", issue 239 (January 1984) of the <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel</a> comic book series <a href="/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" title="Avengers (comics)">The Avengers</a>, in which the title characters (specifically <a href="/wiki/Hawkeye_(Clint_Barton)" title="Hawkeye (Clint Barton)">Hawkeye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Man" title="Wonder Man">Wonder Man</a>, <a href="/wiki/Black_Widow_(Natasha_Romanova)" title="Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)">Black Widow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beast_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast (comics)">Beast</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Black_Panther_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Panther (comics)">Black Panther</a>) are guests on <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night</a>.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> A parody of Letterman named David Endochrine is gassed to death along with his bandleader, Paul, and their audience in <a href="/wiki/Frank_Miller" title="Frank Miller">Frank Miller</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns" title="The Dark Knight Returns">The Dark Knight Returns</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> In <a href="/wiki/SWAT_Kats:_The_Radical_Squadron" title="SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron">SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron</a>, Letterman was parodied as "David Litterbin". Letterman appears in issues 13–14 and 18 of <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Pekar" title="Harvey Pekar">Harvey Pekar</a>'s autobiographical comic book <a href="/wiki/American_Splendor" title="American Splendor">American Splendor</a>. Those issues show Pekar's accounts of appearances on Late Night. In 2010, a documentary directed by <a href="/wiki/Joke_Fincioen" title="Joke Fincioen">Joke Fincioen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Biagio_Messina" title="Biagio Messina">Biagio Messina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dying_to_do_Letterman" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying to do Letterman">Dying to do Letterman</a>, was released, featuring <a href="/wiki/Steve_Mazan" title="Steve Mazan">Steve Mazan</a>, a standup comic, who has cancer and wants to appear on Letterman's show. The film won best documentary and jury awards at the <a href="/wiki/Cinequest_Film_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Cinequest Film Festival">Cinequest Film Festival</a>.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> Mazan published a book of the same name (full title Dying to Do Letterman: Turning Someday into Today) about his own saga.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> Letterman appeared as a guest on CNN's <a href="/wiki/Piers_Morgan_Tonight" class="mw-redirect" title="Piers Morgan Tonight">Piers Morgan Tonight</a> on May 29, 2012, when he was interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Regis_Philbin" title="Regis Philbin">Regis Philbin</a>, the guest host and Letterman's longtime friend. Philbin again interviewed Letterman (and Shaffer) while guest-hosting CBS's <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_(CBS_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)">The Late Late Show</a> (between the tenures of <a href="/wiki/Craig_Ferguson" title="Craig Ferguson">Craig Ferguson</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Corden" title="James Corden">James Corden</a>) on January 27, 2015.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> In June 2013, Letterman appeared in the second episode of season two of <a href="/wiki/Comedians_in_Cars_Getting_Coffee" title="Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> On November 5, 2013, he and <a href="/wiki/Bruce_McCall" title="Bruce McCall">Bruce McCall</a> published a fiction satire book, This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me), <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-399-16368-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-399-16368-9">0-399-16368-9</a>. In Week 13 of the <a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021 NFL season</a>, Letterman joined Peyton and <a href="/wiki/Eli_Manning" title="Eli Manning">Eli Manning</a> on their <a href="/wiki/Manningcast" title="Manningcast">Manningcast</a> feed of the <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a> game between the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Patriots" title="New England Patriots">New England Patriots</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a>. Letterman mocked <a href="/wiki/Bill_Belichick" title="Bill Belichick">Bill Belichick</a> after he was caught on camera wiping his nose with his shirt, and was in the middle of recalling being with <a href="/wiki/Roger_Goodell" title="Roger Goodell">Roger Goodell</a> when Goodell was booed at the unveiling of <a href="/wiki/Peyton_Manning" title="Peyton Manning">Peyton Manning</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Peyton_Manning" title="Statue of Peyton Manning">statue</a> in Indianapolis when ESPN suddenly cut to commercials.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> On February 1, 2022, Letterman was the guest on <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_Seth_Meyers" title="Late Night with Seth Meyers">Late Night with Seth Meyers</a>, marking the 40th anniversary of the franchise's debut.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> On November 20, 2023, Letterman returned to the Ed Sullivan theater on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<a href="#cite_note-return-138">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_ventures">Business ventures</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Business ventures">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-BLP_sources_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-BLP_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">biography of a living person</a> needs additional <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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The company also produces feature films and documentaries and founded its own record label, Clear Entertainment.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> Worldwide Pants received significant attention in December 2007 after it was announced that it had independently negotiated its own contract with the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_East" title="Writers Guild of America, East">Writers Guild of America, East</a>, thus allowing Letterman, Craig Ferguson, and their writers to return to work, while the union continued its strike against production companies, networks, and studios with whom it had not yet reached agreements. Letterman, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Rahal" title="Bobby Rahal">Bobby Rahal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lanigan" title="Mike Lanigan">Mike Lanigan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mi-Jack_Products" title="Mi-Jack Products">Mi-Jack Products</a> co-own <a href="/wiki/Rahal_Letterman_Lanigan_Racing" title="Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing">Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing</a>, an auto racing team competing in the <a href="/wiki/WeatherTech_SportsCar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="WeatherTech SportsCar Championship">WeatherTech SportsCar Championship</a> and <a href="/wiki/IndyCar" title="IndyCar">NTT IndyCar</a> series. The team has twice won the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_500" title="Indianapolis 500">Indianapolis 500</a>: in <a href="/wiki/2004_Indianapolis_500" title="2004 Indianapolis 500">2004</a> with driver <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rice" title="Buddy Rice">Buddy Rice</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/2020_Indianapolis_500" title="2020 Indianapolis 500">2020</a> with <a href="/wiki/Takuma_Sato" title="Takuma Sato">Takuma Sato</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming" class="mw-redirect" title="The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming">The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming</a> is a private foundation through which Letterman has donated millions of dollars to charities and other nonprofit organizations in Indiana and <a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a>, celebrity-affiliated organizations such as <a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Hole_in_the_Wall_Gang_Camp" title="Hole in the Wall Gang Camp">Hole in the Wall Gang Camp</a>, Ball State University, the <a href="/wiki/American_Cancer_Society" title="American Cancer Society">American Cancer Society</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Salvation_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvation Army">Salvation Army</a>, and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res" title="Médecins Sans Frontières">Médecins Sans Frontières</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influences">Influences</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Influences">edit</a>]</div> Letterman's biggest influence and mentor was Johnny Carson.<a href="#cite_note-rose-39">[39]</a> Other comedians who influenced Letterman were <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dixon_(entertainer)" title="Paul Dixon (entertainer)">Paul Dixon</a>,<a href="#cite_note-dixon-17">[17]</a> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Allen" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Winters" title="Jonathan Winters">Jonathan Winters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garry_Moore" title="Garry Moore">Garry Moore</a>,<a href="#cite_note-rose-39">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jack_Paar" title="Jack Paar">Jack Paar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Rickles" title="Don Rickles">Don Rickles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/David_Brenner" title="David Brenner">David Brenner</a>. Although <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs" title="Ernie Kovacs">Ernie Kovacs</a> has also been mentioned as an influence,<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> Letterman has denied this.<a href="#cite_note-rose-39">[39]</a> Comedians influenced by Letterman include <a href="/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien" title="Conan O'Brien">Conan O'Brien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Romano" title="Ray Romano">Ray Romano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel" title="Jimmy Kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, Jay Leno, <a href="/wiki/Arsenio_Hall" title="Arsenio Hall">Arsenio Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Wilmore" title="Larry Wilmore">Larry Wilmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seth_Meyers" title="Seth Meyers">Seth Meyers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norm_Macdonald" title="Norm Macdonald">Norm Macdonald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon" title="Jimmy Fallon">Jimmy Fallon</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Oliver" title="John Oliver">John Oliver</a>,<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Corden" title="James Corden">James Corden</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Letterman has <a href="/wiki/Tinnitus" title="Tinnitus">tinnitus</a>, a symptom of <a href="/wiki/Hearing_loss" title="Hearing loss">hearing loss</a>. On the Late Show in 1996, he talked about his experience with tinnitus during an interview with <a href="/wiki/William_Shatner" title="William Shatner">William Shatner</a>, who has severe tinnitus caused by an on-set explosion. Letterman has said that he was initially unable to pinpoint the noise inside his head and that he hears a constant ringing in his ears.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> Letterman no longer drinks alcohol. On more than one occasion, he said that he had once been a "horrible alcoholic" and had begun drinking around the age of 11 or 13 and continued until 1981 when he was 34. He has said that in 1981, "I was drunk 80% of the time ... I loved it. I was one of those guys, I looked around, and everyone else had stopped drinking and I couldn't understand why."<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> When he was shown drinking what appears to be alcohol on the Late Show, it was actually apple juice.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> In 2015, Letterman said of his anxiety: "For years and years and years—30, 40 years—I was anxious and <a href="/wiki/Hypochondriac" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypochondriac">hypochondriacal</a> and an alcoholic, and many, many other things that made me different from other people." He became calmer through a combination of <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation" title="Transcendental Meditation">Transcendental Meditation</a> and low doses of medication.<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone-148">[148]</a> Letterman is a <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a>, a religious tradition he was originally brought up in by his mother,<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> though he once said he was motivated by "<a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>, Midwestern guilt".<a href="#cite_note-latimes1-150">[150]</a> In August 2021, Letterman was hospitalized in <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence, Rhode Island</a>, after hitting his head on the sidewalk and falling unconscious. He favorably recalled the care he received at <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Hospital" title="Rhode Island Hospital">Rhode Island Hospital</a> in a video released by the hospital's owner.<a href="#cite_note-providence-151">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriages,_relationships,_and_family">Marriages, relationships, and family</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Marriages, relationships, and family">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/220px--David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="237" data-mwtitle="David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="3840" data-height="2160" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm/David_Letterman_Tells_Neal_Brennan_Why_He_Regrets_Having_Kids_Too_Late.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video><figcaption>Letterman on becoming a father late in life, 2022</figcaption></figure> On July 2, 1968,<a href="#cite_note-youtube=EJ46v_EDolg-152">[152]</a> Letterman married his college sweetheart, Michelle Cook, in Muncie, Indiana; they divorced in 1977.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> He also had a long-term cohabiting relationship with the former head writer and producer on Late Night, <a href="/wiki/Merrill_Markoe" title="Merrill Markoe">Merrill Markoe</a>, from 1978 to 1988. Markoe created several Late Night staples, such as "Stupid Pet/Human Tricks".<a href="#cite_note-Time-154">[154]</a> Time magazine wrote that theirs was the defining relationship of Letterman's career, with Markoe also acting as his writing partner. She "put the surrealism in Letterman's comedy."<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> Letterman and Regina Lasko started dating in February 1986, while he was still living with Markoe. Lasko gave birth to their son, Harry Joseph Letterman, on November 3, 2003. Harry is named after Letterman's father.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> In 2005, police discovered a plot to kidnap Letterman's son and demand a $5 million ransom. Kelly Frank, a house painter who had worked for Letterman, was charged in the conspiracy.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> Letterman and Lasko wed on March 19, 2009, in a quiet courthouse civil ceremony in <a href="/wiki/Choteau,_Montana" title="Choteau, Montana">Choteau, Montana</a>, where he had purchased a ranch in 1999.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a><a href="#cite_note-letterman2-159">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-letterman3-160">[160]</a> Letterman announced the marriage during the taping of his show of March 23, shortly after congratulating <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a> on his marriage the week before. Letterman told the audience he nearly missed the ceremony because his truck became stuck in mud two miles from their house.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> The family resides in <a href="/wiki/North_Salem,_New_York" title="North Salem, New York">North Salem, New York</a>, on a 108-acre (44-hectare) estate.<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Friendship_with_Foo_Fighters">Friendship with Foo Fighters</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Friendship with Foo Fighters">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Foo_Fighters_-_Rock_am_Ring_2018-5671_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2122" data-file-height="2775" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dave_Grohl" title="Dave Grohl">Dave Grohl</a> was a frequent guest on The Late Show and performed on the program several times with <a href="/wiki/Foo_Fighters" title="Foo Fighters">Foo Fighters</a> between 1995 and 2014</figcaption></figure> Letterman has had a close relationship with the <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/Foo_Fighters" title="Foo Fighters">Foo Fighters</a> since its appearance on his first show upon his return from heart surgery. The band appeared many times on the Late Show, including a week-long stint in October 2014. While introducing the band's performance of "<a href="/wiki/Miracle_(Foo_Fighters_song)" title="Miracle (Foo Fighters song)">Miracle</a>" on the October 17, 2014, show, Letterman told the story of how a souvenir video of himself and his four-year-old son learning to ski used the song as background music, unbeknownst to Letterman until he saw it. He said: "This is the second song of theirs that will always have great, great meaning for me for the rest of my life". This was the first time the band had heard this story.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a><a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> Worldwide Pants co-produced <a href="/wiki/Dave_Grohl" title="Dave Grohl">Dave Grohl</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Foo_Fighters:_Sonic_Highways" title="Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways">Sonic Highways</a> TV series. "Letterman was the first person to get behind this project", Grohl said.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Extortion_attempt_and_revelation_of_affairs">Extortion attempt and revelation of affairs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Extortion attempt and revelation of affairs">edit</a>]</div> On October 1, 2009, Letterman announced on his show that he had been the victim of a <a href="/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmail</a> attempt by a person threatening to reveal his sexual relationships with several of his female employees—a fact Letterman immediately thereafter confirmed.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> He said that someone had left a package in his car with material he said he would write into a screenplay and a book if Letterman did not pay him $2 million. Letterman said that he contacted the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan District Attorney">Manhattan District Attorney</a>'s office and partook in a <a href="/wiki/Sting_operation" title="Sting operation">sting operation</a> that involved the handover of a fake check to the extortionist.<a href="#cite_note-CBS-167">[167]</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Halderman" title="Joe Halderman">Joe Halderman</a>, a producer of the CBS news magazine television series <a href="/wiki/48_Hours_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="48 Hours (TV series)">48 Hours</a>, was arrested around noon (EST) on October 1, 2009, after trying to deposit the check. He was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury following testimony from Letterman and pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted <a href="/wiki/Grand_larceny" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand larceny">grand larceny</a> on October 2, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters1002-168">[168]</a> Halderman pleaded guilty in March 2010 and was sentenced to six months in prison, followed by probation and community service.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> A central figure in the case and one of the women with whom Letterman had had a sexual relationship was his longtime personal assistant <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Birkitt" title="Stephanie Birkitt">Stephanie Birkitt</a>, who often appeared on the show. She had also worked for 48 Hours.<a href="#cite_note-huffpo-170">[170]</a> Until a month before the revelations, she had shared a residence with Halderman,<a href="#cite_note-NYT1-171">[171]</a> who allegedly had copied her personal diary and used it, along with private emails, in the blackmail package.<a href="#cite_note-diary-172">[172]</a> In the days following the initial announcement of the affairs and the arrest, several prominent women, including <a href="/wiki/Kathie_Lee_Gifford" title="Kathie Lee Gifford">Kathie Lee Gifford</a>, co-host of NBC's <a href="/wiki/Today_(NBC_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="Today (NBC program)">Today Show</a>, and NBC news anchor <a href="/wiki/Ann_Curry" title="Ann Curry">Ann Curry</a>, questioned whether Letterman's affairs with subordinates created an unfair working environment.<a href="#cite_note-bauder-173">[173]</a> A spokesman for Worldwide Pants said that the company's <a href="/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment">sexual harassment</a> policy did not prohibit sexual relationships between managers and employees.<a href="#cite_note-latimesharassment-174">[174]</a> According to business news reporter Eve Tahmincioglu, "CBS suppliers are supposed to follow the company's business conduct policies" and the CBS 2008 Business Conduct Statement states that "If a consenting romantic or sexual relationship between a supervisor and a direct or indirect subordinate should develop, CBS requires the supervisor to disclose this information to his or her Company's Human Resources Department".<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> On October 3, 2009, <a href="/wiki/TMZ" title="TMZ">TMZ</a> reported that a former CBS employee, Holly Hester, had had a yearlong secret affair with Letterman in the early 1990s while she was his intern and a student at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> On October 5, 2009, Letterman devoted a segment of his show to a public apology to his wife and staff.<a href="#cite_note-msnbcapology-177">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnnapology-178">[178]</a> Three days later, Worldwide Pants announced that Birkitt had been placed on a "paid leave of absence" from the Late Show.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph-179">[179]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stalking_incidents">Stalking incidents</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Stalking incidents">edit</a>]</div> Beginning in May 1988, Letterman was stalked by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Ray" title="Margaret Mary Ray">Margaret Mary Ray</a>, a woman with <a href="/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>. She stole his <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a>, camped out on his tennis court, and repeatedly broke into his house. Her exploits drew national attention, with Letterman occasionally joking about her on his show, though he never named her. After she died by suicide at age 46 in October 1998, Letterman told The New York Times that he had great compassion for her.<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> A spokesperson for Letterman said: "This is a sad ending to a confused life."<a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a> In 2005, a woman was able to obtain a <a href="/wiki/Restraining_order" title="Restraining order">restraining order</a> from a <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> judge, prohibiting Letterman from contacting her. She claimed he had sent her coded messages via his television program, causing her bankruptcy and emotional distress.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a> Law professor <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Volokh" title="Eugene Volokh">Eugene Volokh</a> called the case "patently <a href="/wiki/Frivolous_lawsuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Frivolous lawsuit">frivolous</a>".<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interests">Interests</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Interests">edit</a>]</div> Letterman is a car enthusiast and owns an extensive collection. In 2012, it was reported that the collection consisted of ten <a href="/wiki/Ferrari" title="Ferrari">Ferraris</a>, eight <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsches</a>, four <a href="/wiki/Austin-Healey" title="Austin-Healey">Austin-Healeys</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Honda" title="Honda">Honda</a> motorcycles, a <a href="/wiki/Chevy" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevy">Chevy</a> pickup, and one car each from automakers <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Cars" title="Jaguar Cars">Jaguar</a>, <a href="/wiki/MG_Cars" title="MG Cars">MG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volvo" title="Volvo">Volvo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cadillac" title="Cadillac">Cadillac</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pontiac_(automobile)" title="Pontiac (automobile)">Pontiac</a>.<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> He often drives two electric vehicles, a <a href="/wiki/Tesla_S" class="mw-redirect" title="Tesla S">Tesla Model S</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes</a>. In his 2013 appearance on <a href="/wiki/Comedians_in_Cars_Getting_Coffee" title="Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld" title="Jerry Seinfeld">Jerry Seinfeld</a>'s conversation with Letterman was filmed in Letterman's <a href="/wiki/Volvo_900_Series#1994–1998" title="Volvo 900 Series">1995 Volvo 960 station wagon</a>, which is powered by a 380-horsepower racing engine. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> had the car built for Letterman.<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Filmography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Film">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cabin_Boy" title="Cabin Boy">Cabin Boy</a> </td> <td>Old Salt In Fishing Village </td> <td>Credited as Earl Hofert </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eddie_(film)" title="Eddie (film)">Eddie</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Cameo </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-Head_Do_America" title="Beavis and Butt-Head Do America">Beavis and Butt-Head Do America</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6tley_Cr%C3%BCe" title="Mötley Crüe">Mötley Crüe</a> roadie (voice) </td> <td>Credited as Earl Hofert </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Private_Parts_(1997_film)" title="Private Parts (1997 film)">Private Parts</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Cameo </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Man_on_the_Moon_(film)" title="Man on the Moon (film)">Man on the Moon</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Cameo </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Strangers_with_Candy_(film)" title="Strangers with Candy (film)">Strangers with Candy</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>Executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sully_(film)" title="Sully (film)">Sully</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Cameo </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Between_Two_Ferns:_The_Movie" title="Between Two Ferns: The Movie">Between Two Ferns: The Movie</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norm_Macdonald:_Nothing_Special" title="Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special">Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Stand-up special <a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentary_feature_films">Documentary feature films</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Documentary feature films">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Title </th> <th scope="col" width="65">Role </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grizzly_Man" title="Grizzly Man">Grizzly Man</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Archive footage from a 2001 <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Show with David Letterman">The Late Show with David Letterman</a> episode starring <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell" title="Timothy Treadwell">Timothy Treadwell</a>. Cut for the DVD release. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Television">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role(s) </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Starland_Vocal_Band" title="Starland Vocal Band">Starland Vocal Band</a> Show </td> <td>Announcer / Various </td> <td>6 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mary_(1978_TV_series)" title="Mary (1978 TV series)">Mary</a> </td> <td>Announcer / Various </td> <td>3 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peeping_Times" title="Peeping Times">Peeping Times</a> </td> <td>Dan Cochran </td> <td>Television film </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td>Fast Friends </td> <td>Matt Morgan </td> <td>Television film </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mork_%26_Mindy" title="Mork & Mindy">Mork & Mindy</a> </td> <td>Ellsworth </td> <td>Episode: "<a href="/wiki/Mork_Goes_Erk" title="Mork Goes Erk">Mork Goes Erk</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Hour" title="The Mary Tyler Moore Hour">The Mary Tyler Moore Hour</a> </td> <td>Various roles </td> <td>8 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Password_Plus_and_Super_Password" title="Password Plus and Super Password">Password Plus</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Game Show Participant / Celebrity Guest Star </td></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_David_Letterman_Show" title="The David Letterman Show">The David Letterman Show</a> </td> <td>Himself (host) </td> <td>90 episodes; also creator, writer and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Open_All_Night_(TV_series)" title="Open All Night (TV series)">Open All Night</a> </td> <td>Man in Suit </td> <td>Episode: "Buckaroo Buddies" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982–1993 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a> </td> <td>Himself (host) </td> <td>1,819 episodes; also creator, writer and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/38th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="38th Primetime Emmy Awards">38th Primetime Emmy Awards</a> </td> <td>Himself (co-host) </td> <td>Special </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993–2015 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a> </td> <td>Himself (host) </td> <td>4,263 episodes; also creator, writer and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Murphy_Brown" title="Murphy Brown">Murphy Brown</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "Bump in the Night" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Building_(TV_series)" title="The Building (TV series)">The Building</a> </td> <td>The Thief </td> <td>5 episodes; also executive producer Also appeared in Episode: "Damned If You Do" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993–1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Larry_Sanders_Show" title="The Larry Sanders Show">The Larry Sanders Show</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-Head" title="Beavis and Butt-Head">Beavis and Butt-Head</a> </td> <td>Himself (voice) </td> <td>Episode: "Late Night with Butt-head" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/67th_Academy_Awards" title="67th Academy Awards">67th Academy Awards</a> </td> <td>Himself (host) </td> <td>Television special </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995–1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_with_Tom_Snyder" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder">The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>777 episodes; co-creator and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995–1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_(TV_series)" title="Bonnie (TV series)">Bonnie</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>13 episodes; also executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Nanny" title="The Nanny">The Nanny</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "Pen Pal" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Favorite_Deadly_Sins" title="Favorite Deadly Sins">Favorite Deadly Sins</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Television film </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Dana_Carvey_Show" title="The Dana Carvey Show">The Dana Carvey Show</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seinfeld" title="Seinfeld">Seinfeld</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "<a href="/wiki/The_Abstinence" title="The Abstinence">The Abstinence</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_High_Life_(1996_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The High Life (1996 TV series)">The High Life</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>8 episodes; also executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996–2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Raymond" title="Everybody Loves Raymond">Everybody Loves Raymond</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>210 episodes; also executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997–1998 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spin_City" title="Spin City">Spin City</a> </td> <td>Himself / Rags </td> <td>2 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cosby_(TV_series)" title="Cosby (TV series)">Cosby</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999–2004 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_with_Craig_Kilborn" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn">The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>1,190 episodes; co-creator and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000–2004 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ed_(TV_series)" title="Ed (TV series)">ED</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>83 episodes; executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005–2014 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_with_Craig_Ferguson" title="The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson">The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>2,058 episodes; co-creator and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Knights_of_Prosperity" title="The Knights of Prosperity">The Knights of Prosperity</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">none </td> <td>13 episodes; also executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a> </td> <td>Himself (voice) </td> <td>Episode: "<a href="/wiki/The_D%27oh-cial_Network" title="The D'oh-cial Network">The D'oh-cial Network</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018–present </td> <td><a href="/wiki/My_Next_Guest_Needs_No_Introduction_with_David_Letterman" title="My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman">My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman</a> </td> <td>Himself (host) </td> <td>Also creator, writer and executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_Store_(TV_series)" title="The Comedy Store (TV series)">The Comedy Store</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2024 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stupid_Pet_Tricks_(TV_series)" title="Stupid Pet Tricks (TV series)">Stupid Pet Tricks</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "Late Night Memories"; also executive producer </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Mulaney_Presents:_Everybody%27s_in_LA" title="John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA">John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td>Episode: "Earthquakes"<a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards,_honors_and_legacy">Awards, honors and legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Awards, honors and legacy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_David_Letterman" title="List of awards and nominations received by David Letterman">List of awards and nominations received by David Letterman</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="David_Letterman_Communication_and_Media_Building">David Letterman Communication and Media Building</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: David Letterman Communication and Media Building">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg/220px-David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg/330px-David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg/440px-David_Letterman_Emmy_1987.jpg 2x" data-file-width="775" data-file-height="1201" /></a><figcaption>Letterman at the <a href="/wiki/39th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="39th Primetime Emmy Awards">39th Primetime Emmy Awards</a> in 1987</figcaption></figure> In 1996, Letterman was ranked 45th on <a href="/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a>'s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.<a href="#cite_note-189">[189]</a><a href="#cite_note-TVGuide-99">[99]</a> In 2002, The Late Show with David Letterman was ranked seventh on <a href="/wiki/TV_Guide%27s_50_Greatest_TV_Shows_of_All_Time" title="TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time">TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time</a>.<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a> On September 7, 2007, Letterman visited his alma mater, Ball State University in <a href="/wiki/Muncie,_Indiana" title="Muncie, Indiana">Muncie, Indiana</a>, for the dedication of a communications facility named in his honor for his dedication to the university. The $21 million, 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) David Letterman Communication and Media Building opened for the 2007 fall semester. Thousands of Ball State students, faculty, and local residents welcomed Letterman back to Indiana.<a href="#cite_note-building-191">[191]</a> Letterman's emotional speech touched on his struggles as a college student and his late father, and also included the "top ten good things about having your name on a building", finishing with "if reasonable people can put my name on a $21 million building, anything is possible."<a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a> Over many years Letterman "<a href="/wiki/The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming#Ball_State" class="mw-redirect" title="The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming">has provided substantial assistance</a> to [Ball State's] Department of Telecommunications, including an annual scholarship that bears his name."<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a> At the same time, Indiana Governor <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Daniels" title="Mitch Daniels">Mitch Daniels</a> gave Letterman a <a href="/wiki/Sagamore_of_the_Wabash" class="mw-redirect" title="Sagamore of the Wabash">Sagamore of the Wabash</a> award, which recognizes distinguished service to the state of Indiana.<a href="#cite_note-building-191">[191]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations">edit</a>]</div> In his capacities as a performer, producer, or as part of a writing team, Letterman is among the most nominated people in the history of the Emmy Awards, with 52 nominations, winning two Daytime Emmys and ten Primetime Emmys since 1981. He won four <a href="/wiki/American_Comedy_Awards" title="American Comedy Awards">American Comedy Awards</a> and in 2011 became the first recipient of the Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence at <a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_Awards" title="The Comedy Awards">The Comedy Awards</a>.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a> Letterman was a recipient of the 2012 <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Kennedy Center Honors</a>, where he was called "one of the most influential personalities in the history of television, entertaining an entire generation of late-night viewers with his unconventional wit and charm."<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a> On May 16, 2017, Letterman was named the next recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain_Prize_for_American_Humor" title="Mark Twain Prize for American Humor">Mark Twain Prize for American Humor</a>, the award granted annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He received the prize in a ceremony on October 22, 2017.<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Letterman_Foundation_for_Courtesy_and_Grooming">The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming">edit</a>]</div> The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming (LFCG) was an American private <a href="/wiki/Foundation_(charity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation (charity)">foundation</a> whose president and primary contributor was David Letterman. Its treasurer was Fred Nigro, who has appeared on <a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a>, where he has been identified as Letterman's accountant. The foundation operated out of Nigro's Los Angeles offices. LFCG was founded in August 1993 as the DL Foundation. Since at least 2001, LFCG was known as the American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming, until it assumed its current name, in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-2011caci-197">[197]</a> According to LFCG's tax returns (<a href="/wiki/Form_990" title="Form 990">Form 990</a>-PF), made available by the <a href="/wiki/Foundation_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation Center">Foundation Center</a>, for the years from 2001 through 2011, LFCG donated a total of over $9.2 million to various foundations and other organizations.<a href="#cite_note-fdncenter-198">[198]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Letterman&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-YahooNews-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-YahooNews_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-YahooNews_1-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/photos/david-letterman-signs-off-after-33-years-and-6-028-shows-1432171593-slideshow/">"David Letterman signs off after 33 years and 6,080 shows"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>. 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Indianapolis Star.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=It%27s+no+joke%3A+Ball+State+dedicates+building+in+Letterman%27s+honor&rft.date=2007-09-08&rft.aulast=Lloyd&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indystar.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Farticle%3FAID%3D200781121039&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Letterman" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1">Ball State University (September 7, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713061140/http://www.bsu.edu/web/news/letterman/">David Letterman Communication and Media Building</a> (videos). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bsu.edu/web/news/letterman">the original</a> on July 13, 2011. 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HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-237721-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-237721-0"><bdi>978-0-06-237721-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Letterman+%E2%80%93+The+Last+Giant+of+Late+Night&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-0-06-237721-0&rft.aulast=Zinoman&rft.aufirst=Jason&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Letterman" class="Z3988">, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/books/review/letterman-biography-jason-zinoman.html">"Book Review: The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation"</a> by Tom Carson, The New York Times, April 10, 2017</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcShane2017" class="citation news cs1">McShane, Larry (March 11, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/david-letterman-ugly-personality-no-laughing-matter-colleagues-article-1.2995387">"Late-night legend David Letterman's ugly personality no laughing matter, former colleagues say"</a>. <a href="/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Daily+News&rft.atitle=Late-night+legend+David+Letterman%27s+ugly+personality+no+laughing+matter%2C+former+colleagues+say&rft.date=2017-03-11&rft.aulast=McShane&rft.aufirst=Larry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2Fdavid-letterman-ugly-personality-no-laughing-matter-colleagues-article-1.2995387&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Letterman" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a 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Indianapolis 500">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Indianapolis_500" title="1984 Indianapolis 500">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Indianapolis_500" title="1985 Indianapolis 500">1985</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live coverage (ABC Sports)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1986_Indianapolis_500" title="1986 Indianapolis 500">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Indianapolis_500" title="1987 Indianapolis 500">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Indianapolis_500" title="1988 Indianapolis 500">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Indianapolis_500" title="1989 Indianapolis 500">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Indianapolis_500" title="1990 Indianapolis 500">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Indianapolis_500" title="1991 Indianapolis 500">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Indianapolis_500" title="1992 Indianapolis 500">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Indianapolis_500" title="1993 Indianapolis 500">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Indianapolis_500" title="1994 Indianapolis 500">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Indianapolis_500" title="1995 Indianapolis 500">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Indianapolis_500" title="1996 Indianapolis 500">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Indianapolis_500" title="1997 Indianapolis 500">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Indianapolis_500" title="1998 Indianapolis 500">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Indianapolis_500" title="1999 Indianapolis 500">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Indianapolis_500" title="2000 Indianapolis 500">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Indianapolis_500" title="2001 Indianapolis 500">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Indianapolis_500" title="2002 Indianapolis 500">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Indianapolis_500" title="2003 Indianapolis 500">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Indianapolis_500" title="2004 Indianapolis 500">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_Indianapolis_500" title="2005 Indianapolis 500">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Indianapolis_500" title="2006 Indianapolis 500">2006</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live coverage (<a href="/wiki/ESPN_on_ABC" title="ESPN on ABC">ESPN on ABC</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Indianapolis_500" title="2007 Indianapolis 500">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Indianapolis_500" title="2008 Indianapolis 500">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Indianapolis_500" title="2009 Indianapolis 500">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Indianapolis_500" title="2010 Indianapolis 500">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Indianapolis_500" title="2011 Indianapolis 500">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Indianapolis_500" title="2012 Indianapolis 500">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Indianapolis_500" title="2013 Indianapolis 500">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Indianapolis_500" title="2014 Indianapolis 500">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Indianapolis_500" title="2015 Indianapolis 500">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Indianapolis_500" title="2016 Indianapolis 500">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Indianapolis_500" title="2017 Indianapolis 500">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Indianapolis_500" title="2018 Indianapolis 500">2018</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hosts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicole_Briscoe" title="Nicole Briscoe">Nicole Briscoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Brockman" title="Charlie Brockman">Charlie Brockman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Czarniak" title="Lindsay Czarniak">Lindsay Czarniak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Diles" title="Dave Diles">Dave Diles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gannon" title="Terry Gannon">Terry Gannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Jenkins" title="Bob Jenkins">Bob Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McKay" title="Jim McKay">Jim McKay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Page" title="Paul Page">Paul Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Schenkel" title="Chris Schenkel">Chris Schenkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Stewart" title="Jackie Stewart">Jackie Stewart</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sports_commentator" title="Sports commentator">Lap-by-lap</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Benjamin_(announcer)" title="Rick Benjamin (announcer)">Rick Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Bestwick" title="Allen Bestwick">Allen Bestwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Brockman" title="Charlie Brockman">Charlie Brockman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todd_Harris" title="Todd Harris">Todd Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Jenkins" title="Bob Jenkins">Bob Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Lampley" title="Jim Lampley">Jim Lampley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McKay" title="Jim McKay">Jim McKay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Page" title="Paul Page">Paul Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Reid" title="Marty Reid">Marty Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Schenkel" title="Chris Schenkel">Chris Schenkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Stewart" title="Jackie Stewart">Jackie Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Trautwig" title="Al Trautwig">Al Trautwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Varsha" title="Bob Varsha">Bob Varsha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">Color commentators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Arute" title="Jack Arute">Jack Arute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Beekhuis" title="Jon Beekhuis">Jon Beekhuis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cheever" title="Eddie Cheever">Eddie Cheever</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gil_de_Ferran" title="Gil de Ferran">Gil de Ferran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Economaki" title="Chris Economaki">Chris Economaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Goodyear" title="Scott Goodyear">Scott Goodyear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_Johnstone" title="Parker Johnstone">Parker Johnstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arie_Luyendyk" title="Arie Luyendyk">Arie Luyendyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Posey" title="Sam Posey">Sam Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Priestley" title="Jason Priestley">Jason Priestley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Rice" title="Larry Rice">Larry Rice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Sneva" title="Tom Sneva">Tom Sneva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyn_St._James" title="Lyn St. James">Lyn St. James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Stewart" title="Jackie Stewart">Jackie Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Sullivan" title="Danny Sullivan">Danny Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Unser" title="Bobby Unser">Bobby Unser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusty_Wallace" title="Rusty Wallace">Rusty Wallace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodger_Ward" title="Rodger Ward">Rodger Ward</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sideline_reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Sideline reporter">Pit reporters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Arute" title="Jack Arute">Jack Arute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Beekhuis" title="Jon Beekhuis">Jon Beekhuis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Beisner-Buck" title="Michelle Beisner-Buck">Michelle Beisner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Brockman" title="Charlie Brockman">Charlie Brockman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_DeBruhl" title="Rick DeBruhl">Rick DeBruhl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donna_de_Varona" title="Donna de Varona">Donna de Varona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Diles" title="Dave Diles">Dave Diles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Economaki" title="Chris Economaki">Chris Economaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Flemming" title="Bill Flemming">Bill Flemming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Gandolf" title="Ray Gandolf">Ray Gandolf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jerry_Gappens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerry Gappens (page does not exist)">Jerry Gappens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Gerould" title="Gary Gerould">Gary Gerould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Gudel" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Gudel">Leslie Gudel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Hammons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Hammons (page does not exist)">Brian Hammons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todd_Harris" title="Todd Harris">Todd Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Hein (page does not exist)">Don Hein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Holderness_Family" title="The Holderness Family">Penn Holderness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Lampley" title="Jim Lampley">Jim Lampley</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">David Letterman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Little" title="Jamie Little">Jamie Little</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McKay" title="Jim McKay">Jim McKay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Nuber" title="Larry Nuber">Larry Nuber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brienne_Pedigo" title="Brienne Pedigo">Brienne Pedigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Punch" title="Jerry Punch">Jerry Punch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Posey" title="Sam Posey">Sam Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Pruett" title="Scott Pruett">Scott Pruett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Reid" title="Marty Reid">Marty Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyn_St._James" title="Lyn St. James">Lyn St. James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Schenkel" title="Chris Schenkel">Chris Schenkel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Simon_(broadcaster)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anne Simon (broadcaster) (page does not exist)">Anne Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Steele&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cameron Steele (page does not exist)">Cameron Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Stephens" title="Bill Stephens">Bill Stephens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Trautwig" title="Al Trautwig">Al Trautwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitaker" title="Jack Whitaker">Jack Whitaker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Delta_Force" title="The Delta Force">The Delta Force</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alan_Silvestri" title="Alan Silvestri">Alan Silvestri</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/IndyCar_Series" title="IndyCar Series">IndyCar Series</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1996_Indy_Racing_League" title="1996 Indy Racing League">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_Indy_Racing_League" title="1996–97 Indy Racing League">1996–97</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Indy_Racing_League" title="1998 Indy Racing League">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Indy_Racing_League" title="1999 Indy Racing League">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Indy_Racing_League" title="2000 Indy Racing League">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Indy_Racing_League" title="2001 Indy Racing League">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Indy_Racing_League" title="2002 Indy Racing League">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_IndyCar_Series" title="2003 IndyCar Series">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_IndyCar_Series" title="2004 IndyCar Series">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_IndyCar_Series" title="2005 IndyCar Series">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_IndyCar_Series" title="2006 IndyCar Series">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_IndyCar_Series" title="2007 IndyCar Series">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_IndyCar_Series" title="2008 IndyCar Series">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_IndyCar_Series" title="2009 IndyCar Series">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_IndyCar_Series" title="2010 IndyCar Series">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_IndyCar_Series" title="2011 IndyCar Series">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_IndyCar_Series" title="2012 IndyCar Series">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_IndyCar_Series" title="2013 IndyCar Series">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_IndyCar_Series" title="2014 IndyCar Series">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_IndyCar_Series" title="2015 IndyCar Series">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_IndyCar_Series" title="2016 IndyCar Series">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_IndyCar_Series" title="2017 IndyCar Series">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_IndyCar_Series" title="2018 IndyCar Series">2018</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Championship_Auto_Racing_Teams" title="Championship Auto Racing Teams">CART</a> / <a href="/wiki/Champ_Car" class="mw-redirect" title="Champ Car">Champ Car</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_SCCA/CART_Indy_Car_Series" title="1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1980 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1981 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1982 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1983 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1984 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1985 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1986 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1988 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1989 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1990 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_CART_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1992 PPG Indy Car World Series">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1993 PPG Indy Car World Series">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1994 PPG Indy Car World Series">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1995 PPG Indy Car World Series">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_PPG_Indy_Car_World_Series" title="1996 PPG Indy Car World Series">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_CART_PPG_World_Series" title="1997 CART PPG World Series">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_CART_FedEx_Championship_Series" title="1998 CART FedEx Championship Series">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_CART_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 CART season">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_CART_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 CART season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_CART_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 CART season">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Champ_Car_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Champ Car season">2007</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Auto_Club" title="United States Auto Club">USAC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1965_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1965 USAC Championship Car season">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1966 USAC Championship Car season">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1967 USAC Championship Car season">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1968 USAC Championship Car season">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1969 USAC Championship Car season">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1970 USAC Championship Car season">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1971 USAC Championship Car season">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1972 USAC Championship Car season">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1973 USAC Championship Car season">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1974 USAC Championship Car season">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1975 USAC Championship Car season">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1976 USAC Championship Car season">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1977 USAC Championship Car season">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_USAC_Championship_Car_season" title="1978 USAC Championship Car season">1978</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=IndyCar%20">- ABCNews.com</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" 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