Premiered August 30, 1993
CBS Late Night Talk Show
Cast:
| Host: | David Letterman |
| Musical Director: | Paul Shaffer |
| Executive Producer: | Rob Burnett |
| Producer: | Maria Pope |
| Announcer: | Alan Kalter |
| Stage Manager: | Biff Henderson |
| Bassist: | Will Lee |
| Percussionist: | Anton Fig |
| Guitarist: | Sid McGinnis |
| Guitarist: | Felicia Michele Collins |
| Horns: | Tom "Bones" Malone |
| Saxophone: | Bruce Kapler |
| Trumpeter/Flugelorn: | Alan Chez |
| Hello Deli Owner: | Rupert Jee |
| Himself: | Calvert DeForest |
| Goodwill Ambassador: | Mujibur Rahman |
| Goodwill Ambassador: | Sirajul Islam |
| Writer/Various Characters: | Gerard Mulligan |
| Cue Card Boy: | Tony Mendez |
| Himself: | George Clarke |
| Himself: | Leonard Tepper |
| Announcer (1993-95): | Bill Wendell |
| Dave's Mom: | Dorothy Mengering |
| Substitute band leader: | Warren Zevon |
David Letterman had hosted Late Night with David Letterman
for more than a decade following Johnny Carson's Tonight Show,
and when Carson retired there were those, including Dave, who
had assumed that when the king retired Prince David would
inherit the throne. Unfortunately, those people did not
include the NBC programming bosses, who gave The Tonight
Show to Jay Leno. Snubbed, Letterman jumped at CBS's offer
of $42 million to appear on CBS opposite Leno's Tonight Show.
Late Show with David Letterman looked pretty much like the
Late Night show, with a few changes. The Ed Sullivan
Theatre, where it was housed, was considerably larger
than his old studio at NBC. Dave couldn't wander into
other shows in progress as he had done on NBC. He did,
however, take cameras into a number of small stores near
the Ed Sullivan Theatre, making minor celebrities out of
the store clerks Sirajul & Mujibar, Rupert Jee, and other
local merchants. Dave ignored NBC's threats to sue and
continued to use comic bits such as "Top 10 Lists"
and "Stupid Pet Tricks".
Back in 1993 Drew Barrymore was so wanting to wish
Dave a Happy Birthday that she not only danced on
his desk but also bared her, ummm, soul to him.
And in the picture on the right, Demi Moore
helps with the Top Ten List.
Dave's mother, Dorothy, occasionally appears on the show.
She's pictured below with Paul Shaffer and Dave back in 1996.
On January 12, 2000, after weeks of endless badgering,
First Lady Hilary Clinton finally sat down with Dave.
The next day a worried Letterman talked with former heart
patient Regis Philbin about upcoming tests on his own heart.
After the tests Dave underwent immediate quintuple
bypass surgery. Dave returned to the Late Show in
late February to the delight of millions of fans.
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003 David announced the birth of his son,
Harry Joseph Letterman, who was born the previous day.
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At times Dave's show has been beaten into second place by the 'Tonight Show' with Jay Leno, and occasionally into third place by 'ABC News Nightline'. When NBC put up a billboard in New York City, cheekily proclaiming that Jay Leno is number one at night, CBS put up one of their own.
