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Letterman Makes Teleprompter Joke!
Update: Obama Without Teleprompter? Nope -- He Had a Huge TelePromTV Screen In the Back of the Room

...defending Obama, and making the joke at Bush's expense.

Nothing funny about Obama -- why, comedians even expressly repudiate any jokes tossed into their wheelhouse.

Letterman's point, to the extent he has one, is that Obama should be given slack on his teleprompter addiction -- after all, he just wants to "get the words right." Then he contrasts Obama with a teleprompter to Bush without one. Audience laughs. Ha, ha, ha.

Of course, if he wanted to do the with teleprompter/without teleprompter joke, he could have just used Uhh-bama's stumbles, eh? Like the embarrassing moments tucked into this video.

Nothing funny about this president. Nothing.

So, if you want to see it, here it is:

(Vid thanks to Sandy Berger, helping me avoid linking the HuffPo.)

If you do watch, enjoy Letterman lecturing us all that we can't knock Obama, not at all, because, for goodness sakes, the man's inherited a crisis and "at least he's trying."

A while ago I lost most of my funny and so I turned to pure politics. I see Letterman is following my lead.


Obama's Woobie: You can't take a baby's woobie.

Thanks to Craig C.

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM



Comments

1

Meanwhile...none other then our old friend Kathleen Parker is rah-rahing whats-her-face McCain's daughter.

I might have forgiven her for Palin Derangement Syndrome, but this is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Entropy at March 25, 2009 12:18 PM (m6c4H)

2 There is a reason Obama went on Leno's show.

Posted by: Pak at March 25, 2009 12:20 PM (rnk/Z)

3 Wasn't the joke with Bush that Cheney was the ventriloquist? How is Obama any less of a stuttering ignoramous?

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 25, 2009 12:23 PM (X5yKy)

4 Sounds like Dave is sucking up for his own oBama "special" appearance.

I'm sure oBama has a joke about kids with spina bifida he hasn't used yet.

Posted by: Michael at March 25, 2009 12:23 PM (00mcl)

5 Letterman is still alive?

Posted by: JWF at March 25, 2009 12:24 PM (1l37M)

6 Jon Stewart must be proud. Letterman has adopted his format. No more one liners.

Posted by: Robtron12 at March 25, 2009 12:24 PM (gue+Q)

7

Letterman has been mailing it in for about 15 years now.  I don't understand what his audience sees in him.  I was a big fan back when and I see how mediocre he is, why can't they?  Now I just hate the smug prick.

I may be imagining it but I could swear he loathes his audience. 

And btw, who in the world is still watching The Simpsons.

Posted by: Eleven at March 25, 2009 12:25 PM (7DB+a)

8

The correct comparison should be

Obama w/teleprompter vs. Obama w/o teleprompter

or

Obama w/o TP vs Bush w/o TP

Obama loses on all fronts mainly because he is a stupid stumblefuck and partly because he is an idiot.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 25, 2009 12:26 PM (5GNS+)

9

Man, I remember when Letterman was funny.

I suppose that officially makes me old.

Posted by: libertarianjim at March 25, 2009 12:26 PM (1Iiqg)

10

"Can we be funny?" -Lorne Michaels

"Why start now?" -Rudy Giuliani

Posted by: Pak at March 25, 2009 12:26 PM (rnk/Z)

11 The left will never admit that Bush is actually a better extemporaneous speaker than President See 'n Say. (aka: the Ebony Burgundy)

Posted by: right at March 25, 2009 12:30 PM (EquV1)

12 A while ago I lost most of my funny

Where the hell is Coldcuts?

Posted by: mesablue at March 25, 2009 12:33 PM (5yNaE)

13 I couldn't get the video to play at Huffpo, but I found the clip on youtube.

David Letterman has made a career out of being a jerk to people, and now he lectures us about civility?  Mean-spirited unfair mockery is all he does.

Posted by: sandy burger at March 25, 2009 12:33 PM (MT+0i)

14 Letterman is a typical lefty piece of shit. Fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2009 12:34 PM (1Jaio)

15 The Letterman show has always sucked, just like 99% of TV in general.

Posted by: Vic at March 25, 2009 12:36 PM (f6os6)

16 More video of Obama's new gizmo --- behold the MegaPrompt 3000.

Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at March 25, 2009 12:38 PM (uOvAE)

17 Why my plan won't work:

The big problem with Tim Geithner's plan to fix the banks is the same as it ever was: The gap between what banks say their assets are worth and what the market says they are worth.

When a bank says an asset is worth 60 cents and the market says it's worth 30 cents, someone has to cover that spread.  The genius of Geithner's plan is that it pawns most of the cost (and most of the risk) off on the taxpayer without the taxpayer noticing. 

But unless the taxpayer gets stuck with the entire spread, which is probably what Geithner is hoping, banks that sell assets will have to take massive writedowns.  This will start the whole cycle of violence again.

This risk to the banks is particularly acute when dealing with whole loans that the banks currently say they have no plans to sell.  These loans are often carried at 100 cents on the dollar, because loans classified as held to maturity don't have to be marked to market.  Even subsidized buyers won't likely be willing to pay anywhere near 100 cents on the dollar for these loans.  So, here, the writedowns could potentially be huge.

And then there's another problem:

If the banks go through the exercise of putting assets up for sale only to have the bids come in at, say, 40 cents instead of the 60 cents on the books, the banks' accountants and/or federal regulators might notice.  So even if the banks recoil in horror and refuse to sell at 40 cents, someone somewhere might insist that assets now carried at 60 cents be written down to 40 cents (after all, they won't have the "temporary illiquidity discount" excuse anymore, will they?).  This will blow another huge hole in the banks' balance sheets.

Given this, banks would probably be wise not to participate in Geithner's plan.  Which is why the government is already talking about forcing them to:

FT: "The unspoken fear here is that selling off loan portfolios would lead to more government capital injections into major banks,” said an executive at a large bank...

Richard Bove, an analyst at Rochdale Research, wrote in a note to clients: “[The plan] will not happen because it would destroy bank capital. It might cause a bank to fail the new stress tests under way. Banks will not take this risk.”

But while banks in theory have discretion over whether to sell loans, Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said this decision would be made “in consultation with regulators” – a sign that the authorities might put pressure on banks to sell toxic assets.

It's time to face the fact that we have already de facto nationalized the big banks--and that the way we've done it is worse than standard receivership and restructuring.  The longer we remain in denial about this, the worse off we'll be.  But that's another story...


Posted by: Timmy G at March 25, 2009 12:39 PM (5r0Tz)

18 To be fair, Letterman got married recently.  That can take the funny out of anybody.

Posted by: right at March 25, 2009 12:39 PM (EquV1)

19 Apparently Dave hasn't seen the recent offering from Iowahawk. Either that or he's assuming no one who watches his show has seen it.

Posted by: ADK46er at March 25, 2009 12:40 PM (eDl3h)

20 Obama without a teleprompter............. Bush without a teleprompter

Posted by: koopy at March 25, 2009 12:41 PM (zeE5d)

21 Regular people are starting to recognize certain patterns always mentioned when he speaks one of which is the "I inherited a crisis".  Honestly, even the most diehard followers are starting to say "yeah, we all know this but what are you doing to fix it?"  Someone last night said it looks as though they are giving him a few words at a time to use and he just keeps working those words in everytime he speaks.  I thuoght this was funny last night but am beginning to think maybe the commenter was correct and how sad is that?

Posted by: muffy at March 25, 2009 12:43 PM (zplc6)

22 Is Late Night still a comedy show? Cuz that bit wasn't funny. You would think a comedian would make jokes about the prez and not defend him.The TOTUS blog is funnier than Letterman.

Posted by: ricky at March 25, 2009 12:45 PM (muUqs)

23 "There is a reason Obama went on Leno's show."

He didn't want Letterman deepthroating him on live television?  He was already spent from the constant fellating of Chris Matthews?

Posted by: Kensington at March 25, 2009 12:45 PM (dbnbB)

24 I wonder if Iowa hawk will do a piece about the tele prompter being upset that it was replaced by the monitor?  Like the guy who parks his car at the airport and the car complains that he is going off to drive the car from some car rental company that is brand new and beautiful and has GPS.  Interesting, I know the commercial but can't remember what company, so the commercial is a failure.  At least with me it is.

Posted by: muffy at March 25, 2009 12:46 PM (zplc6)

25 Letterman used to be funny.

Posted by: UncleFacts at March 25, 2009 12:47 PM (M+Vfm)

26

Letterman is the sorriest excuse for a comedian/human being that has come along for a long time. But at some point, he did get his picket fence teeth fixed.

He should be hung by the balls for his insults about the Palin family members.

A major asshole........

 

 

Posted by: Snorkel at March 25, 2009 12:53 PM (E+7gr)

27

Fuck Dave, he is absolutely terrible.

He was funny and great and fresh, now he just flat out sucks.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at March 25, 2009 12:54 PM (FPYe+)

28 I was watching Letterman one time back in the late '80s and his cue card holder got the cards mixed up and the show absolutely imploded, just like Obamuh implodes when his TP goes on the fritz.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 25, 2009 12:54 PM (5GNS+)

29

The wide screen monitor at the back of the room should be exactly what TOTUS wants.

At some point, the press will just turn around and read off the monitor themselves, while Obama rambles on behind them.  And then everyone (as opposed to just almost everyone) will know that TOTUS, not POTUS, is running the country.

 

Posted by: Michael at March 25, 2009 12:54 PM (siOQ7)

30 C'mon, people, what's with all this teleprompter talk?  Present Obama has stopped using the teleprompter.  Now he has to wean himself off of that big tv in the back of the room with words on it that he used last night.


Good grief!!  They really think we're that stupid??!!!

Posted by: InCali at March 25, 2009 12:55 PM (gUKfo)

31

Yeah.. I use to think Leno was boring but Letterman was funny.

Leno is still boring, but looking a lot better now from the comparison.

Conan O'Brian was still probably the best of the 3. I haven't seen his show in ages though.

I do hope he's still doing the "In the year 2000...." scifi shtick.

Posted by: Entropy at March 25, 2009 12:56 PM (m6c4H)

32 Actually, I prefer Craig Ferguson over all the rest.

Posted by: InCali at March 25, 2009 12:57 PM (gUKfo)

33 Hey Dave...

"Uma, Oprah.  Oprah, Uma."

Now STFU, STFD, and GBTW.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 25, 2009 12:57 PM (Hy1bj)

34 The 'hawk just posted a classic. Go ye there and partake, for it is hilarious.

I wish to "Gradulate" Iowahawk.

Posted by: Monty at March 25, 2009 12:58 PM (/0a60)

35 If you're a comedian who decides you're gonna go to bat for a guy at the expense of teh funny, you really need to pick your battles carefully. If not, you end up looking like a douche who defends a bumblefuck of a president in an apples to oranges comparison with a guy who is sitting on his ass in Texas. But if that's how this fucker wants to spend comedic capital, it's his choice. Just don't expect the audience to stick around when the bumblefuck president starts stacking up the stupid like hotcakes.

Posted by: bunny boy at March 25, 2009 12:59 PM (YsSn7)

36 20 Obama without a teleprompter............. Bush without a teleprompter

Posted by: koopy at March 25, 2009 12:41 PM (zeE5d)

+1 gazillion x the amount of Obama's budget. 

Thanks for that koopy. Put's things right into perspective. Obumbles can't even address AIG bonuses, by his own admission, until someone tells him what to say.

For fuck sake, I am sick of this asshole and even more sick of the media wiping his ass for him.

Koopy's post should be emailed to every news outlet in the country on an hourly basis until they air it.

Posted by: Damiano at March 25, 2009 12:59 PM (cfKer)

37

Anyone notice how the teleprompter is becoming larger and larger?

And The Vapid One's™ eyes can't stay off of the TOTUS while he's speaking. This was especially noticeable at the beginning of last nights BSfest.

And one other thing last night, his body language seemed more relaxed, with his feet crossed behind him while he answered the dude from Ebony mag. It'd sure be interesting to see the whole presser with only the view from behind and to his right just to watch his body language in response to certain questions.

And, yes, I noticed all these things because he wasn't saying anything of substance.

And I was out of Valu-Rite.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 25, 2009 12:59 PM (ZGhSv)

38 Oh, my.  Another ersatz comedian has completely lost his sense of humor to political correctness and left-wing obsession.

George Carlin Syndrome has claimed another victim.

Posted by: DDJ at March 25, 2009 12:59 PM (mT2TF)

39 Dynamite Mr. President.  I was almost out of work on this teleprompter shit.

New life bitches!

Posted by: Legs McStoryAthon at March 25, 2009 01:00 PM (AHrTm)

40 5 Letterman is still alive? Everything but his brain.  

Posted by: SilentMoron at March 25, 2009 01:01 PM (Ki3Ag)

41 Without Larry "Bud" Melman Letterman never would have been funny at all.

Posted by: Mal at March 25, 2009 01:01 PM (UnR4H)

42 Fuck letterman, his ass sucks putty balls anyway.

Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2009 01:03 PM (gWHrG)

43

Actually, what Letterman really implied - by drawing the comparison - in his skit was that Obama has the same intellectual abilities as Bush.

Think about it. He shows O' with a teleprompter, and Bush without ...at first blush, you might think the contrast is between O' and Bush ...but you'd be wrong, and the more apt comparison is that unless Obama used a teleprompter, he'd sound like Bush.

...which - as anyone who's viewed O' in Youtube video, when his binky-box BSOD's knows - is pretty much exactly what happens. The man sounded pretty much

So I think the real laugh is on Letterman, and his doofus audience. For not drawing the correct inference here.

Actually, Bush was generally much better at extemporaneous conversation than O' is: he was more comfortable with his facts, his beliefs, and with just plain talking. He's O's intellectual superior.

*BSOD - blue screen of death; i.e., technical malfunction

Posted by: davis,br at March 25, 2009 01:04 PM (uCShA)

44 Monty, I'm from Florida and that was truely cringe worthy.

Posted by: rabidfox at March 25, 2009 01:04 PM (yyrjp)

45 I could use a stimulus.  I've been out of work since the inaugeration.

http://is.gd/oVG9

Posted by: Big Ass Unemployed Teleprompter at March 25, 2009 01:04 PM (AHrTm)

46 Gah. I need to edit before I post. My grammatical skillz is just terrible.

Posted by: davis,br at March 25, 2009 01:06 PM (uCShA)

47 Lord, Corrine Brown is the best we down here in FL can do?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 25, 2009 01:08 PM (ZGhSv)

48 I herad it from a good source that the Messiah teabagged Letterman recently.  David loves a good teabagging.....

Posted by: TODD at March 25, 2009 01:08 PM (RNwpX)

49 Monty, I'm from Florida and that was truely cringe worthy.

I'm resisting the urge to make fun of anyone else's Congresscritters, because Minnesota will most likely send Al Franken to the Senate later this year. I predict that he will be a rich vein of embarassment which will be mined for many years. (Although I guess there is a certain amount of one-upmanship that I can perform: "You think your Senator is bad? My senator is fucking Stuart Smalley!")

Posted by: Monty at March 25, 2009 01:10 PM (/0a60)

50

A while ago I lost most of my funny

Well, at least it wasn't just a string of pussy jokes.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 25, 2009 01:13 PM (Lhq4V)

51

I'll start off a top ten reasons why David Letterman sucks. 

Top ten reasons Letterman sucks

10.  Because its not 1982 anymore.

9.   Because you either suck or blow and John Stewart took the term blows.

8.   Because I and the other 20 million who change their channel when he   comes on say so.

 

Posted by: polynikes at March 25, 2009 01:14 PM (m2CN7)

52

Monty, I'm from Florida and that was truely cringe worthy.

OMFG  --  Idiocracy really is beginning to happen, isn't it?  This shit is going to end up putting me in St. God's hospital.

Posted by: Eleven at March 25, 2009 01:18 PM (7DB+a)

53 Letterman?

I thought he died...

Posted by: jcp at March 25, 2009 01:18 PM (DHNp4)

54 I know he's just a comedian, but for some weird reason this pure pro-liberal bias from these self-righteous shmucks really pisses me off. Asshole. Can't even watch him anymore. These media types just can't be neutral anymore, or take shots at everyone, no, they have to thrown in the PC crap. 

Posted by: RM at March 25, 2009 01:20 PM (1kwr2)

55 #34 - Holy Christ, that's an actual no-shit elected representative of the people?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2009 01:20 PM (uN+M3)

56

I used to love this guy.

Posted by: Nicole at March 25, 2009 01:22 PM (CH1cF)

57 And yeah, fuck you too, Dave. I don't recall you sarcastically saying "Wow, Bush mispronounces nuclear, maybe he should step down." when you and your "comedy" genius pals were ripping on him. Go fuck yourself sideways, you unfunny piece of shit. You haven't been relevant in fifteen years.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2009 01:23 PM (uN+M3)

58 OMFG  --  Idiocracy really is beginning to happen, isn't it?  This shit is going to end up putting me in St. God's hospital.

Well, we *do* have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the White House...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 25, 2009 01:23 PM (Hy1bj)

59 Oh yeah - what's this fucking shit: "At least he's trying".

You ever say that about Bush, cockholster?

Anyway, he's THE MOTHERFUCKING PRESIDENT, DUMBASS. He'd better be trying.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2009 01:25 PM (uN+M3)

60
Well, we *do* have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the White House...

President Camacho > Barry.  He was at least able to effectively delegate responsibility in order to deal with a crisis.  Barry? Not so much.

Posted by: kefka at March 25, 2009 01:34 PM (fKivs)

61 President Camacho > Barry.  He was at least able to effectively delegate responsibility in order to deal with a crisis.  Barry? Not so much.

I think their methods of picking cabinet secretaries are similar at the least...  I wouldn't be surprised to see that one of Obama's guys got the job by winning a contest.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 25, 2009 01:36 PM (Hy1bj)

62 Man...Shits fucked up now.  But we got this guy, Not Sure...

Posted by: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the White House at March 25, 2009 01:38 PM (AHrTm)

63 Letterman started coasting when he moved to CBS and into the 11:30 time slot.

Posted by: Farmer_Joe at March 25, 2009 01:43 PM (z4es9)

64

Ace, at your worst you're much funnier than Letterman (which sounds like a lot smaller compliment than intended). Letterman is a miserable elitist liberal cocksucker who hates everyone to the right of Barney Frank. Which would be tolerable if he were ever mildly entertaining, but he's a sodden hack, so it's not.

Monty, thanks for inserting the Esteemed Mrs Brown into a thread; between her and Percy Harvin's Wonderlic scores, UF haters have had a good week.

Posted by: UGAdawg at March 25, 2009 01:45 PM (IE6OO)

65

Conan O'Brian was still probably the best of the 3. I haven't seen his show in ages though.

I do hope he's still doing the "In the year 2000...." scifi shtick.

Conan isn't on right now.  They pulled him so he could start prepping fr repalcing Leno.  He's been replaced by Jimmy Fallon.

Posted by: Steve L. at March 25, 2009 01:47 PM (KybW+)

66 I love that freeze frame thats on youtube in this post- it perfectly sums up the fact that this douche has become Jack Cafferty with a band.
Oh yeah, for all those personal cheap shots at Palin and W- go to hell Dave.

Posted by: jjshaka at March 25, 2009 01:49 PM (AW0yD)

67 Wow!  He sounds just like a journalist.  An Ivy League journalist even.  The depth of thourght - the gravitas... Amazing!  Chris Mathews leg is tingling as we speak.

Posted by: Kae Gregory at March 25, 2009 01:52 PM (RkRxq)

68 Letterman is an angry, tired has-been who hasn't been funny since 1983.

Posted by: Jazz at March 25, 2009 01:53 PM (hnq5i)

69 Ditto #68. Letterman hasn't been funny in years

Posted by: Nico at March 25, 2009 01:55 PM (F6Jj4)

70 Letterman is such a douche!   He could have made the same with one of the many blunders of Obama.

Posted by: J-rock at March 25, 2009 01:59 PM (TTPwd)

71 Is Barry Obama really the president?  Or does he just play one on TV.

Posted by: Roadking at March 25, 2009 02:00 PM (kYm/U)

72 Letterman has been pouncing on my dorsal ganglion for years. We should pitch in and buy him a chimp.

Posted by: Valiant at March 25, 2009 02:00 PM (KByvo)

73 Obama talks like a fag, and his shit's all retarded...

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 25, 2009 02:01 PM (FO+YO)

74 Letterman is a fool's fool.

Posted by: GarandFan at March 25, 2009 02:09 PM (237hA)

75 Hey, but at least he's trying.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 25, 2009 02:12 PM (Lhq4V)

76 TOTUS needs his woobie because he's a poopy head diaper baby.

Posted by: MikeO at March 25, 2009 02:14 PM (4sSHg)

77 I have a feeling that Johnny Carson would have found plenty of material to use on Obama

Posted by: jubal anderson early at March 25, 2009 02:20 PM (krKUp)

78 All Dave does is stutter his way through all his monologues. I can see why he sympathizes with Obama's dependency on the teleprompter (no offense to TOTUS). I'm in my early-20's so he has been irrelevant throughout my life. Still don't know why they once consider him great or funny.

Posted by: TiNa48 at March 25, 2009 02:21 PM (WT6xs)

79 That is not a teleprompter joke.  It's a leftover Bush joke.

Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2009 02:31 PM (knHvu)

80 Leno was pretty harsh on Bush also, with no jokes against Obama ... maybe that was part of the kiss up deal ... now Leno can open up on the little o.

Posted by: bill at March 25, 2009 02:35 PM (zIEEc)

81

Letterman hasn't been funny since he went from athletic shoes and khakis to a suit.

Thanks for posting that so that I can be reminded why I don't watch him without staying up until 11:30.

Posted by: Max Entropy at March 25, 2009 02:36 PM (7FgWm)

82 Funniest Shit about Obama evah!

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?page_id=383

Posted by: Assman at March 25, 2009 02:46 PM (t5YAE)

83 @82  Dude you gotta tell Ace about that.  That's awesome.

Posted by: Eleven at March 25, 2009 03:01 PM (7DB+a)

84 What a nasty piece of work Letterman has become! Yeah right - Uma, Oprah.

Posted by: Scipio at March 25, 2009 03:02 PM (01fwJ)

85 Also  compare how nasty and insulting Letterman was to Bill O'Reilly (even though I am not a fan of his).

Posted by: Scipio at March 25, 2009 03:03 PM (01fwJ)

86 Is there any way for Letterman to shove himself up his own ass? Probably not, what with Paul Shafer up there already.
Fuck Letterman.

Posted by: the real joe at March 25, 2009 03:22 PM (TMoF9)

Posted by: sohbet at March 25, 2009 03:30 PM (2qYTJ)

88 Mr. Letterman, well played sir!  Good job sticking up for Obama with the devastating one-two punch of 'he inherited this mess' and 'Booosh is an idiot!'.  We've had to put up with 8 years of Bush jokes - and we're in it for at least another 4.

I doubt liberals will ever tire of bringing up Bush - it will still be 'relevant' when my 8 month son is in high school.

I get pissy when 'entertainers' can't see past their ideologies and refuse to make jokes because, now, making fun of the leader of the free world is not funny because he's dealing with some very serious problems blah blah blah.  Odd that Bush, who was our President during a war, didn't derserve the same respect.  Letterman and his ilk are more interested in propaganda than entertaining.

Posted by: Bald Ninja at March 25, 2009 03:37 PM (4pdbX)

89

Yuck it up, guys. The comparisons to Bush (!) will work for another year, year-and-a-half.

Then?

*wide, toothy, evil grin*

Posted by: Mr. Wednesday Night at March 25, 2009 04:21 PM (7dXKM)

90

Conan O'Brian was still probably the best of the 3. I haven't seen his show in ages though.

I do hope he's still doing the "In the year 2000...." scifi shtick.

Conan stopped the Year 2000 bit after the Millenium. He seemed to lose a lot when Andy Richter left, his best shows were the mid and late 90's. He's going to bring back Andy for the Tonight Show. A few of the dirtier routines like the Masturbating Bear won't be joining him, but he MUST bring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog with him

Letterman has always been a sarcastic prick. He just decided to stop hiding it from the public.

Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2009 04:23 PM (miw86)

91

Ahh, yes, masturbating bear...

And Conan's show was my introduction to Triumph.

Interview TV Saddam Hussein...

And then they'd drive the desk around.

Posted by: Entropy at March 25, 2009 04:33 PM (cok/k)

92 To be fair, Letterman got married recently.  That can take the funny out of anybody.

Not really; it gives you more material. 

Letterman's such a cocksucking loser; I used to love when Howard Stern and Sandra Bernardt would come on and get him nervous by talking about sex because he's such a fucking prude underneath his "Look at me; I actually get paid for this" exterior.  He's the world's worst interviewer when Paul "Cum Dumpster" Schaeffer gets a decent musician to come on the show; he's never familiar with their work even though listening to a somewhat mainstream cd doesn't seem like a lot to ask when you're hauling down the jack he is.  But he'll ask a bunch of dumbass questions about what restaurants the guy likes when he's on tour while the musician is thinking "WTF Schaeffer".  The guy that Stern used to have on his show (maybe he still does but I don't have satellite radio) who imitated Letterman was a thousand times more enjoyable, in part because you didn't have to look at a gap-toothed dweeb.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2009 04:34 PM (QizFO)

93

Letterman said of Obama: "The task ahead of him is impossible and he's at least out there trying, so what really can you say wrong?"

(Where to begin?)

The task ahead of him is impossible

In other words, he will fail. Support him all you want, hope for him to succeed, have rallies, blame Bush if you makes you feel better -- but Obama will fail, because no one ever succeeds at trying to do the impossible.

Imagine the disappointment from his base of support if he doesn't fail.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 25, 2009 04:53 PM (5KNeJ)

94 >>>Conan stopped the Year 2000 bit after the Millenium.

True, but misleading; he did stop after the millenium, but not immediately after.

He continued doing the joke, IIRC, where part of the laughs were coming from the premise that they were now actually looking back at 2000.

For a while, at least.


Posted by: ace at March 25, 2009 05:15 PM (gEsIJ)

95 Conan never gave up "In the Year 2000"! He was doing them regularly right up till his last week.

Was he as good as in the 90s? Maybe not, but he was still pretty good. And I never ever turned off the TV after watching Conan thinking, "What a cocksucking douchebag." Which I do regularly with Letterman.

I'm really hoping Letterman's still got a total stick up his ass about losing the Tonight Show - the only real dream he ever had in his life - to Leno ... and that now it burns him even more that the "kid" who he sorta mentored way back when is getting it instead of him - and will almost certainly get better ratings, just as Jay did.

Also, the iPhone dictionary apparently doesn't contain the word "douchebag".

Posted by: Rajiv Vindaloo at March 25, 2009 05:18 PM (HaGdt)

96 BTW, even when Letterman was funny many years ago, he's always had a dickwad component to him. If you ever come across any articles about him or books about late night TV from the 80s to early 90s, you really should give them a shot. Dave's always been quick to turn on friends and coworkers in ways that can only be called mean.

But at least back then he was doing good tv. Look at some of his 80s stuff on YouTube; it's not even the same guy. About a year or two into his CBS gig, he just stopped caring, and has been phoning it in ever since.

Posted by: Rajiv Vindaloo at March 25, 2009 05:26 PM (HaGdt)

97

O has already sent Rahm to get a set of those projection glasses to kill off this particular bit of embarassment.  God help him if he mistakenly puts on the X-Ray glasses with Hot Helen in the front row.  The first live on television Presidential projectile vomiting.  I think that would drive the HD hold outs to upgrade.

Posted by: EBJ at March 25, 2009 06:05 PM (ocHBO)

98

I doubt liberals will ever tire of bringing up Bush

It's because they're pathetic. So they lie and foam about people like Bush and Sarah Palin, decent, likeable people who sometimes make the hard choice, and they worship jokes like Obama and Ted Kennedy, people who have done very little except yak and exploit connections.

Posted by: UGAdawg at March 25, 2009 06:29 PM (MDHAs)

Posted by: ceaecw at March 25, 2009 09:03 PM (F5ea/)

100

Didn't Dave just tie the knot with his beloved?  Why can't we afford Barney

Frank the same privilege???  You troglodytes think only about what comes

OUT of Barney's mouth.......and not enough about what goes INTO it.

You have tunnel vision. That's why you're in the minority.

Posted by: grizzly bare at March 25, 2009 10:41 PM (8+zL9)

101 Dave has lost his ever fucking mind.
I have lost my sense of humor now since I've stated to only watching Leno for "Headlines".

I'm old now "officially".

Posted by: Oxrock at March 26, 2009 12:30 AM (CgVe3)

102 Letterman is so full of crap. He's one of those phony satirists that mouthed off a lot about "courage" in mocking a president (in this case, Bush). Funny, how that "courage" evaporated once Obama took over. Actually telling people to lay off Obama because he's trying? And resorting to Bush jokes when the man is no longer in power or even the spotlight? Man, Letterman is such a chump. I can't believe for one second that that loser was ever considered to takeover for Carson - y'know, an actually funny guy. If Letterman ever did have any talent, it vanished about some point in the 90s (if not earlier). Leno may not be the funniest guy ever, but he's infinitely preferable to CBS's resident hack (and I know that doesn't sound like much of a compliment, but I meant it to be one).

Posted by: SpideyTerry at March 26, 2009 06:33 AM (WgVO1)

103

This clip should once and for all settle the question of who was best suited to replace Johnny Carson.  Though he may have been more liberal than either Letterman or Leno in his personal life, Johnny never let his personal beliefs affect how he dished out humour about public officials, whether liberal or conservative.  In other words, he understood that to act like a political gadly would be an exploitation of his position and disrespectful to his audience.

Gap-toothed Dave simply doesn't care anymore.  He's gotten his ass kicked in the ratings for over ten years now, and that's not going to change.  He's gone from comedy to political advocacy because, well, his comedy sucks now anyway.  He's washed up, and only kept around for things he did twenty five years ago.  An emaciated, nasty, pathetic old doofus.  It took him five years to figure out that he should marry the mother of his son.

 

 

Posted by: Reggie1971 at March 26, 2009 09:59 AM (b68Df)

104 Letterman is almost as funny as castiung Barney Frank as Errol Flynn.

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106 Clearly the teleprompter conveys an unfair advantage upon Obama vis-a-vis.his predecessor, his opponent last November, and his GOP opposition in Congress today: it proves that unlike so many of them, Obama can actually read!!!

Posted by: Jordan at March 27, 2009 05:14 PM (hNxWK)

107 somebody should stick a fork in letterman ... he is done.

Posted by: froggie101 at April 11, 2009 09:28 PM (RhT2t)

108 Johnny Carson is rolling over...

Letterman was a coward in the 60's (service) and still is...

Posted by: zeeyaa at May 08, 2009 01:40 PM (afIOK)

109

I can't believe anyone would see the humor or be able to defend Letterman after the things he said about Sarah Palin and her 14 year old daughter. It doesn't matter if it was her 14 year old or 18 year old. What if a public figure or comedian said that while Letterman and son visited Washington Barney Frank nailed Lettermans son. And his son's mother wasn't there because she was a slut and at home taking care of business. That is not funny and niether is what he said about Palin.

Why don't don't you just come clean letterman and say what you are. You are a left wing, liberal that is all about promoting your liberal ideology and will stop at nothing to do so. Even trashing children. You are not funny you are disgusting.

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