Quotes about David Letterman

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David Letterman How can you possibly take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan? Bill O'Reilly Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman. David Letterman Have you lost family members in armed conflict? Bill O'Reilly No, I have not. David Letterman Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?

Jay [Leno] is insane. He's not fit to scrub David Letterman's feet. Yes, I don't know why he's beaten David Letterman in the ratings. It's beyond my comprehension. America must be filled with morons who at night lay in bed — the ones who are watching him. They must be in a coma.

In truth, I sat down in 1992 to make a kids' show that I would want to watch with my kids. That would work for me. That would have sincerity in it, but not too much. That would mix what I loved about Monty Python and David Letterman with what I hungered for from Thomas Aquinas and Mother Theresa.

Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

I believe that David Letterman is the greatest talk show host that ever hosted a talk show. He'd be the last person to say that and he'd probably be horrified to hear that, but I really do believe that. Anything I do, I feel, is a pale imitation at best of what he does. I just try to do whatever I can not to imitate him, because that is the inclination when you idolize somebody, when you watch the show every night growing up as a kid.

With audiences nowadays I see it with these late-night people, Jay Leno, David Letterman and so on the audience applauds the jokes rather than laughs at them, which is very discouraging.