lizz winsted is the co-creator of "the daily show."et's talk about something really serious which we were just talking about in my tough interviews just before this. 9/11, and letterman's reaction to it. he really rose to that occasion, i thought, afterwards. >> i do, too, and i felt like what he did was if you'll recall everybody panicked about what kind of joy we were allowed to have after 9/11, and i think dave really took the time and he was real -- he was amazing with regis, and he was so heartfelt about saying i'm not sure that what i've been doing all these years has been -- is living up to this moment, but i hope it is, and i really -- and i really want people to be able to come back to me, and he wanted to sort of be this voice, and really after that time, his -- his monologues got a little more political and started poking more fun, and he really did take a look, i think, at world as a whole the way a lot of people did and a lot of comedians did after 9/11. >> well, here he is, david letterman, right after 9/11, a week later.

. >> lizz, how about him telling jane pauley this sunday morning that we'll never see him again liket going to write op-ed pieces and won't show up as a cameo in tv shows and won't be doing guest hosting and stuff, that he's made enough money, i guess, and he's just going home. that's unique. >> johnny did that, too. >> yeah, he did. he went home. >> and i think that that is a life fulfilled and that is somebody who said, in my mind anyway, did i something that's really great and whatever my next chapter is it's -- it's gonna be to embrace some privacy, you know. when you haven't had it for 30 years, i'm sure he's yearning to just grill in his yard spend time with his kid. >> i think you're right. >> i think the heart attack is another wake-up call in the series of things. i think it was like i really want to go out with some love in my heart. >> lizz can i see him in that varsity jacket and sneakers and going out and show up at corner store once in a while and that's his public and that's enough. >> that's right. >> thanks so much for that charming insight. i'm not always sarcastic,