David Letterman to retire in 2015. Stephen Colbert to take over.

You're right. I forgot to mention Lou as well.

And that was certainly proper and fitting as Lou was as quintessentially "New York" as Dave...

 

I couldn't stop laughing during the end montage when they flashed the picture of Dave doing the Selsun Blue test. Its tingling..that means it working!

 

It will be pronounced "Col-bear" as it always has been- my brother worked with him on his first show "Exit 57" and that's how he pronounced it back then-

 

And yet, for some reason you still watched. Genius.

 

My endurance strategy was to smile and laugh at goofy stuff, and it worked. I had a pretty good time with a familiar old friend.

 

Saw him do standup in 1990--very funny.

 

Larry's doing infomercials now, I do find that kind of pathetic.

 

We all gotta eat. Larry does as well.

 

Please don't provoke more responses from him, he's already made his point in all these letterman threads over and over and over

 

I think Dave and his audience would both understand that he was doing something for fun on a smaller scale and wouldn't have the same kind of expectations, just as nobody expects "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" to get the attention "Seinfeld" did. It's not like anybody would be thinking, "wow, is this all he could get?" Everybody knows he doesn't need the work.

 

I don't understand why they are throwing out theater seats. Of course they will renovate the stage and build a new set, but are they really going to replace every seat in the house? Seems totally unnecessary.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm still hoping this set-in-the-dumpster thing is Dave's final elaborate gag.

 

Here's what I've been waiting for, a detailed and annotated listing of every shot used in the closing montage...

https://www.facebook.com/adam.nedef...98102.1073741832.608003101&type=1&pnref=story

 

Well, that has to be the funniest billboard I have ever seen. And stealing NBCs thunder at the same time! Hilarious.

 

I don't know for sure if they're getting rid of all of the seats, maybe these were just broken.

 

I really didn't like Larry much. He just seemed so arrogant, and he would butt in during interviews all the time. Glad to see him gone. I caught one of his podcasts recently with his wife, just out of curiosity...and sometimes he does snag a good guest...anyway, it was awful as well.

 

I was at the 5/19 show and it was a total blast. Third row off to the side of Dave's desk.

After Bill Murray's bizarre segment Dave went over to this producers and said "What was THAT??!"

The whole room smelled like cake.

 

As for what Letterman might do now, he does apparently still hold a stake in Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, with team entries in American Le Mans and Indy Racing League. Some role there might be in the future.

If nothing else, he and Brian Williams could go watch car races together.

 

Loved Paul's Roy Orbison concert tee

 

Exactly,

That was the only good part of the show that I saw. Dave's monologue was dull. All in all, watching him for the first time in 10 years makes me realize why I stopped watching. But Dave has been a genius and his NBC days were the best late night show ever. The beginning of CBS was ok but from 2000 on the only good thing for me was the musical guests.

 

Dave at the afterparty:



http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2015/05/21/david-letterman-last-episode-afterparty-outfit/

http://www.people.com/article/david-letterman-final-show-afterparty

 

Dismantling (and trashing) of the set:

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertain...n-dumpsters-hours-after-final-episode-2015215

 

I'm not a fashion expert or anything, but that outfit is awful. The fit looks like a little boy playing dress-up in his father's pants and jacket. Then the awful pattern and colors. Then the shoes. Damn. I guess this is how Dave dresses himself when left to his own devices?

 

From the comments on that article, it sounds like the amount of stuff that was being thrown away is being exaggerated in the news stories. Key pieces like the desk and the large bridge were being taken away, not thrown out (as you can see in the last picture).

 

I'm confused because in this shot...it's clearly not the same pair of pants... This seems more realistic:

 

It's probably just the light hitting them differently.