Dave (Chappelle) and Dave (Letterman), Talking About Being Seven Years Late...
Last night, on television, Dave Chappelle was a guest on Late Show With David Letterman. They talked for almost 15 minutes. It was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTa4lpyz6Q The peg of this...
View ArticleHBO’s Making an Epic Sports Mockumentary With Andy Samberg, Kit Harington,...
7 Days in Hell is the name of the new original comedy film happening at HBO that you’re about to become very excited about. Written by Murray Miller, from Clone High and Girls, the story will follow...
View Article‘Serena’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper 4Ever
You loved Silver Linings Playbook, right? Especially the chemistry between J-Law and B-Coop, despite the mildly off-putting 15-and-a-half-year age gap? American Hustle, too — great stuff, although...
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Joke About Hatsune Miku’s Imminent Takeover While You Still Can, Dave Letterman
You’ve got to hand it to David Letterman’s bookers. Their taste tends to be both up-to-the-minute and pretty good; equal parts mainstream, Pitchfork and Random Shit on the Internet. More importantly,...
View ArticleEagle’s Flight: The Genius of Stephen Colbert (and “Stephen Colbert”)
It wasn’t all an act. That’s the first thing I learned when I sat down with Stephen Colbert in his office five years ago for a magazine cover story. Yes, the sweatshirted man I met that day was Stephen...
View ArticleSaying Good-bye to the Albert Achievement Awards (and the Sports Blooper Reel)
We’ve reached the point in the Dave Letterman farewell tour where stuff is beginning to disappear forever. Thanks to Deadspin’s Timothy Burke, I learned that Marv Albert went on The Late Show last...
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Necessarily the News
In February, a news alert popped up on my phone from the New York Times. Such alerts often bring word of natural disasters and notable deaths. This one announced that Jon Stewart was stepping down from...
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My Letterman Years
One fateful night in the summer of 1988, I took acid. Steve Jobs apparently said he’d never hire a CEO who hadn’t done it — but this wasn’t a career move for me. Looking back, I really had no idea what...
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Thank You and Good Night: The Final ‘Late Show With David Letterman’
“When I screw up now, and Lord knows I’ll be screwing up, I have to go on somebody else’s show to apologize.” David Letterman did not ignore the opportunity to be self-deprecating. On a night when the...
View ArticleColbert Report: The Debut of the New ‘Late Show’
In the weeks leading up to last night’s debut of CBS’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, there were two prevailing pieces of press spin. Forget that old Head & Shoulders ad slogan, “You never get...
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