The Late Show with David Letterman

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    • Host: David Letterman
    • Musical director: Paul Shaffer
    • Executive producer: Rob Burnett
    • New episodes: Monday-Friday 11:35pm ET
    • First aired: August 30, 1993
    • 1982: Letterman's first national talk show, Late Night with David Letterman, first aired on NBC.
    • Letterman lobbied to take over for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show and moved to CBS when the job went to Jay Leno
    • Regular feature: Top Ten List
    • Regular Feature: Stupid Pet Tricks, Stupid Human Tricks

  • The Late Show with David Letterman is CBS's late night variety program hosted by David Letterman.

    On October 1, 2009, David Letterman revealed that he had affairs with female staffers and said that he was the victim of an extortion plot.

  • David Letterman Mini Bio

    Letterman's career in broadcasting had an inauspicious beginning; as a college student at Ball State University he was fired from the college radio station for being too irreverent on the air. He helped to start another radio station at the college, however, which became successful. After college, he became a weatherman at Indianapolis' WLWI, where he was frequently in hot water for his irreverent antics. In 1975, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he became a writer and stand-up comic. His act made an impression on Johnny Carson, who welcomed him to The Tonight Show repeatedly, first as a stand-up act, then as a guest host.

    In 1969, Letterman married Michelle Cook. They divorced in 1977. He also had a long-term relationship with Late Night writer/producer Merrill Markoe. He and his current long-term girlfriend, Regina Lasko, have had one child, Harry Joseph Letterman. Letterman's father, Harry, died at the age of 57 from a heart attack. When Letterman was 52, a routine check-up revealed a constricted artery, and he was given a quadruple bypass. Since then, aside from a bad case of shingles, he has been in good health.

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