the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.s motorcycle into a news conference hosted by nbc entertainment president warren littlefield, still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its support for him. >> when we found out that leno was going to get "the tonight show," we were all obviously depressed. we felt like we were being punished for making fun of them and not cooperating and not being as collaborative as we could've been. and we also felt like we were being disrespected, because we did 11 years of great shows. >> just how pissed off are you? >> by all rights, david letterman should've taken over for johnny carson, but his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. "we're gonna really control all of late night, it's going to cost you a fortune." and they really put our backs against the wall. >> i can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you. and i hope when i find something that i want to do and i think you will like and come back,

leaving the late-night host like david letterman with plenty of time to grow a beard.'brien airtime to fill. dozens of scripted series like grey's anatomy and gossip girl shortened the postseasons wall reality tv got its recut moment with big brother and celebrity apprentice. district ended up costing the california economy estimated $2 billion and affected more than 30,000 jobs. amomonth the concessions writers ultimately want, streaming shows would have to hire good writers with budgets big enough. [crowd chanting] for stewart was on the picket lines. she has been part of the wga since 2014. >> we have minimum. have health insurance thanks to union, all of that is thanks to union workers who struck in the past and earn those for us and now -- >> matt: she started as an intern on "the colbert report." >> i was so excited and then as the years went on, i started to seek longer and longer gaps in employment. it was harder to get jobs and it was harder to have jobs that would last for long enough in order to qualify for health insurance. i have seen my life as a writer g

. >> lot's of great people hoda kotb -- >> david letterman >> jimmy: david letterman. >> oh, so many, it's interesting. [ light laughter ] but you know -- there's always time for another book. you know - the list is amazing people and you turned it into a podcast >> yeah. >> jimmy: and this is great. it's a great thing you have to listen to it it's such great conversation >> "the light podcast. so for those who missed the book tour, we recorded every conversation edited it down to the best of the best you know, it touches on the book but we also each share our own story of finding light and developing friendships and relationships. it's really a fun set of conversations that are now on audible. >> jimmy: and then you have one of the interviews -- or the conversations -- were with oprah winfrey. >> the one and only. >> jimmy: yeah [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: oprah winfrey. and it airs. >> that oprah. >> jimmy: that oprah and it's airing on april 25th on netflix it's a special >> yeah. that will be televised because when you're with oprah, you just televise it [

and i got to play for her a number of times, most notably that time she did david letterman show in theat manager, roger davies, was with her right down in there in the trenches with us. i got to be in her band for a second. i am telling you, when i remembered seeing her on american bandstand with democratic clark doing "a fool in love" in 1960, i don't know, '69, i didn't understand it then. now i realize it was so complex and avant-garde, her sound. and then getting to work with her, unbelievable. i can only imagine john fogarty, what he feels like when he hears how she takes it slow first, nice and easy and then takes the song and does it nice and rough. my goodness. we all fell over when we heard that. >> what about you, john? >> absolutely. the first time i heard it on the radio i was just full of joy and pride, i guess you'd say, she had chosen my song. and the fact that it was so different than the way i did it, she turned it into a little movement, a little mini opera, i suppose. and i liked both ways, you know, the slow and the fast. what a concept. incredible record. >> it is

. >> did david letterman give you any advice when you took over? >> he did. ten times in then about a week and half before he left a site can come see you he said sure. when you went to dave's office, no one could get into his dave' office from that part of the floor he was last off with a glass door that had no key, you had to have your thumbprint recognized by biometric reader on the wall to let you in. okay. they give you some idea how private of a man he is. i went in and i just asked him no, we walked right into that office. we were in show business. we were completely untrustworthy . i just asked him i said do you mind if i ask you a few things about doing the show. is said, there is a balcony that's kinda different than mos of the theaters javier ehrlich to the wager desk over here and how far away is paul schaffer. and said wait a second, am i asking you to many questions he said no, i'm happy to answer this. know it's over asked me this. 30 to years of hosting the show and he said he would know to as and who would care what the answer was. and that w

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show. it. >> today is our last show on the air. monday, las vegas. have these people been frisked before they -- >> it was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings. but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. >> david, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> and in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it. don't give up. and stay with us here in new york. we like having you. >> i like being here. thank you very much. >> dave is back in new york. you're going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are -- what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that -- pills and whiskey. you're on. >> oh, i'm on. i'm sorry, i was enjoying listening to you snort. >> they gave him the "late night" show after "the tonight show," and at the time, people thought, who's gonna watch television at 12:30 at night? who's up? i'l

here's brown seen performing one of his classics, "get up" on david letterman back in 1982.hen he was 73 and questions have remained ever since about what caused his demise. several people who knew brown claimed he was murdered. now cnn has learned potential evidence in the music icon's death is missing. senior writer thomas lake has reported extensively on the questions surrounding james brown's final moments. thomas, tell us what you have learned here the very latest development. >> that's right. in 2020, a woman named jackie hollander went into the fulton county d.a.'s office and she had a meeting with then district attorney paul howard. she brought in a large green plastic bin full of evidence that she believed would tend to prove that james brown was murdered at an atlanta hospital in 2006. well, the d.a.'s office took that evidence into custody. i've obtained video showing an assistant d.a. going through these items, placing them into evidence bags. after that, from the documents i've found, it looks as if neither that d.a., paul howard, nor the next one, fani willis,

much like david letterman before you now that you're leaving. but also.m also unemp friday, and if you're in the uk around christmas time you're going to see this guy in a mall . you know? that'll be me. no i'm very this is good. this is good. you still taking summers off? yeah, yeah. yeah so if i grow this beard, go can i come back and host this show in the summer? coordinate. everybody is finally. show with james corden carpool carry of the night we'll be back with richard matt. mess isn't the only thing i have going on. that's why my doctor and i chose key symptom symptoms different. it's the only diesel treatment for rms. i can take it home once a month symptom has proven superior, reducing the rate of relapses, active lesions and slowing disability progression versus epa, geo for me a once monthly treatment just works for my schedule. don't take his symptoms. you have hepatitis b and tell your doctor if you have had it as it could come back to can cause serious side effects, including infections, while no cases of pml were reported. it and rms clinic

david letterman will be joining us and dominic fishback too. successful actor, writer, director, and ceramic cysts with a very funny memoir which is now in paperback for those of you who are too cheap to buy a hard one. it's called yearbook, please say hello to seth rogen! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ seth, let me -- i don't know what's going on but you've become very handsome and very stylish over the last ten years. >> i don't know what happened either. i'm like i really pulled something off here. i don't know what that is. >> jimmy: you're really putting it all together. i was talking to a couple in the audience, they are here from australia. >> oh, yeah, them. >> jimmy: they are going to las vegas. they are going to see cirque du soleil. >> are you going to do shrooms? if you need them, i can sell you some. >> jimmy: that's what i was of getting up. did you have fun at the oscars? >> i did buried you were great, you are hilarious. >> jimmy: thank you, thank you for being so good-humored and you were sitting right there with steven spielberg, w

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everyone can remember my line so memorable that on his very last show, some you may remember when david letterman called it a call in a career on cbs, he opened with a clip of gerald ford saying, our long national nightmare is over. that's the line with which bob hartman will forever be. associate hated. but it turns out in an interview that i found another speechwriter by the name of milton friedman, not the economist, another milton friedman said bob hoffman didn't write that line. i did know. who knows? well, there's so much we could talk because we've taken president ford right up to the presidency. but want to leave time for questions. so i just wanted to ask you, this book is dedicated to someone a lot of us may have forgotten about if we'd known the name in the first place. but you did escape to oliver sipple. yeah, it's the of the surprises. i've already been had people come up to me and say, who's oliver sipple? and. and then some people, you know, it's thought of the the jeopardy daily double. they they know on september 22nd, 1975, gerald ford was san francisco. there are a lot of peop