If you thought it was unsettling to watch people laugh and applaud while David Letterman revealed that he was being blackmailed over affairs with his own employees, it’s starting to look like we’ve only scratched the surface. Here are some more of the delightful details about Dave’s devious dalliances:
- The NYT reports that CBS was very busy this weekend hunting down Youtube copies of Letterman’s confession and flagging them for removal, citing copyright infringement. How weird that out of all the Letterman clips on Youtube, this is the one they want to claim for themselves:
CBS’s decision to withhold the clips online was prompted by a request from producers at Mr. Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
- In other words, Letterman’s trying to cover his tracks. After talking about it on the air in the first place. Does he really think this is going to make people less curious?
- Let’s say you’re an incredibly wealthy and famous TV star, and you want to fool around with your own staff. You can’t take them home with you, obviously, because it’d be a bit awkward to explain to your
girlfriendwife and young child. You can’t take them to a hotel, because everybody knows who you are. What to do?
- CBS to the rescue! NYDN:
An ex-”Late Show” intern unmasked herself Saturday as one of David Letterman’s former flings – and sources revealed the randy funnyman keeps a bachelor pad atop the Ed Sullivan Theater.
“I was madly in love with him at the time,” said Holly Hester. “I would have married him. He was hilarious.”
The NYU alum, who it appears went on to become a top Hollywood producer, told TMZ.com that the relationship started in the early ’90s when Letterman called and asked her on a date to the movies…
The Hester quoted by TMZ made the stunning admission as a Letterman show source dished that he kept a secret bedroom above his set in the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway. “He doesn’t have to come out,” a staffer said. “He has a suite upstairs.”
An ex-”Late Show” staffer said Letterman kept a room insiders dubbed “the bunker” that was open only to his favorite young female underlings.
- One of the hallmarks of David Letterman’s career is that you hardly ever see him out in public. Now we know why!
- A few months ago, Letterman got into big trouble for making a mean joke about one of Sarah Palin’s teenaged daughters. And he tried to excuse it by saying hey, big deal, so he went after the wrong daughter. After a week of trying to wish it away, he finally make an adequate apology. But it was hardly the first time he went after Palin’s daughters. Here he is in Sept. ‘08, flapping his yap with Dr. Phil:
- “I got no problem with 18!” Yeah, we’re getting that, Dave.
So there’s the guy with a child born out of wedlock and a sex pad above his TV studio, sitting in judgment of a 17-year-old girl who made a big mistake and is living with it. Because for whatever reason, he doesn’t like her mom. And he’s getting called out on it by Dr. Phil!
The Palins are just one of the targets of Letterman’s moralizing over the years, going back at least to Clinton/Lewinsky. Sounds like classic psychological projection to me. He knew that what he was doing was wrong, but he couldn’t take a good look at himself, so he lashed out at others who did something similar. He’s a rotten person who doesn’t want to think of himself as rotten, so he’s always on the lookout for rottenness in others.
What a jerk.
Update: Newsweek looks at some other creepy Letterman moments that make more sense in retrospect.
Update: Letterman Apologizes to His Wife While Taping Show, Making Everyone Realize He Didn’t Do So in the First Place
Update: Psychologist Stanton Peele says, “Here are five questions I’d like to ask Mr. Letterman.”
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And the s*** keeps getting deeper around good old Dave. Wonder when the next shoe will drop and what type of shoe will it be, a stiletto or a school girl tennis shoe?
Shame, I used to like him. At least he’s funnier than Leno.
This is why I’m a Conan fan.
I repeat – just an angry, bitter old man who has never been and never will be funny. He mocks those who he does not like, just to be caught doing the same thing himself. I like the fact that my local radio station is no longer airing his Top 10. Finally!
aleric, wow, i straight-up don’t get comments like that.
let’s say he went to far by going after her the daughter (bristol- in the clip above and bristol in the a-rod joke; honestly let’s face it that’s who THAT joke was about, but even then it was in bad taste and shouldn’t have been made), and that that’s the issue; he went to far for comedic effect, but surely you wondering, although you sound more like your salivating at the prospect of ‘a school girl tennis shoe?’ being involved, just makes this whole thing pathetic and makes you sound a bit s*** (that’s sick, btw).
LOL that Dan is pretending Letterman was joking about an adult and not 14 year old Willow Palin who actually attended the Yankees game where Dave joked she had been impregnated by A-rod.
So far, sex with consensual single coworkers does not necessarily condone the “terrible things” Letterman and Halderman alluded to, so its pretty obvious that there are more details forthcoming.
Over the weekend alone, the youngest age of Letterman’s recent sexual conquests dropped from 33 to 18, while Letterman himself is 62 this year.
So yes, is it pathetic? Sure.
But is it sick? Only if the age of Letterman’s sexual partners gets a year younger.
dan
What the hell are you talking about? Obviously you are reading a lot into my comment that I didn’t state. The reason you don’t get comments like that is because you like or even idolize Letterman. I long ago (20 years ago) saw thru the facade that Letterman was simply a pissed off college guy who liked insulting and ridiculing people he didn’t like or even hated. As the years went by he became more and more angry and his comedic value became less and less.
Like most people of his stature he held others to a standard and savaged them for small indescretions or even made up facts. When he disliked someone he grabbed on like a pit bull and never let go long after it was politically correct.
So now the light is shone on his perfect little world and he is found to be less than those he characterized and insulted all these years. In some opinons he is worse than the politicians, stars and even every day folk he ridiculed.
Remember the old adage about people in glass houses??
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‘Thank you for representing the side of the Letterman defenders.’
if by ‘defenders’ you mean, someone who really couldn’t care less about the sexual encounters of a grown men with other grown peoples than yeah, that’s me. (and unless someone proves otherwise with evidence then wishing it to be more than that is pretty pathetic)
i’m actually not that big a letterman fan but i’ll happily stand by my assertion that this whole story is no big deal, a great joke/pun/tale it makes, but a call for a sacking, hardly.
fortunate son- honestly, when you first heard that joke, before you let the bandwagon sway you, and you were told which daughter was at the game, did you really think it was about the 14 yr old and not the one who had actually previously been ‘knocked up’. because the thing is it didn’t need to be about the 14 yr old to be wrong or in bad taste.
sorry, aleric but there’s only one thing you could have meant by the ’school girl’s tennis shoe’ quote, if you didn’t and i read something into it that wasn’t there then i apoligise, but as ‘fortunate son’ demonstrated perfectly, i thought we were all now supposed to adopt a knee-jerk reaction to jokes about under-age girls + letterman + sexual connotations- or is that only when a tv comic tells them.
Just because this word seems missing here and apparently has to be mentioned at each thread: Liberal!
Clearly.
Don’t tell us, tell Willow Palin. I’m sure you wouldn’t have had a problem with it if Letterman had said it about your 14-year-old daughter.
‘Don’t tell us, tell Willow Palin. I’m sure you wouldn’t have had a problem with it if Letterman had said it about your 14-year-old daughter.’
if you’d have finished reading the whole quote you’d have read where i said it was in bad taste for him to have said it. 18yr old or not. period. so no i wouldn’t have much liked hearing itabout my own child. but nice try personalising the issue anyway.
Yeah.
It’s hard to get worked up about this, coming on the heels of the Polanski fiasco. Maintaining a harem of starstruck famewhores in their 20s and 30s is sleazy, for sure, but it’s nowhere near the outrage that a gaggle of clueless taint-licking celebrities defending a pedophile rapist is. It would be a shame if that case gets swept under the rug because everyone got distracted by Letterman’s dirty laundry.
The bandwagon typically comes a week after me, so I rarely even notice it.
Sure it would’ve just been about poor taste when it was about an adult, but yes, I believe Letterman knew he was joking about the statuatory rape of a child.
You ask someone to “prove otherwise with evidence” the age of David Letterman’s employee(s) sexual affairs, yet you choose to support the version of Letterman’s joke that is completely unsupported by evidence.
Not very consistent, are you?
I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive.
You ask someone to “prove otherwise with evidence” the age of David Letterman’s employee(s) sexual affairs, yet you choose to support the version of Letterman’s joke that is completely unsupported by evidence.
Not very consistent, are you?
fortunate ,son. um, here’s the thing- one is a joke, right. so it never actually took place, whoever it was about, but it’s potential to insult is formed by opinion- nobody but the writer of the ‘joke’ knows who it was about for a fact.
But, the other thing actually happened, and however ‘liberal’ you believe CBS to be, you really think they’re gonna sit back and let him of the hook if one of the ‘women’ turns out to be a whole lot less than a ‘women’? please it’s sick, especially with the reality of the polanski situation, to even insinuate that, is my point.
It’s a shame to see such irrefutable evidence of the failure of the British educational system.
Urgh….I can’t get past the fact that anyone…including his present wife…..thinks he is sexy. Must be something I don’t see because what I do see ain’t all that tasty looking *to me*.
I agree with Aleric, if Letterman didn’t like someone he used his show to figuratively rip them to shreds.
No, i believe the Letterman incident has probably been completely investigated internally and does not involve underage females.
I think Letterman is probably smarter than that, though it seems he did walk the line legally, again, fine with CBS as long as he did not stray across it.
Prior to his recent confessions of sex with suboordinate females in his company, I considered him to be a comedian, no more or less tasteful than Pauly Shore, who made a not dissimilar joke about Jon Benet Ramsey years earlier.
Now I see him as a pathetic old man, scared to death that his careless actions may ultimately allow babymomma to end up with primary custody of his son Harry.
I’m not touching on this one. I’m Swiss you see.
Are you sure you’re not French?
….why is it so much more distasteful if she was 17 than if she was 18? Because then the magic switch was flipped? Legally, sure. That doesn’t mean it would have been slimy the day before her birthday and perfectly okay the day of.
(Morally. Morality and legality are two separate issues.)
I’m going to have to agree with Fortunate Son. Letterman is a comedian, but not a very good one. He has become more snarky as he has aged, IMHO.
And did anyone else think of this Youtube video when Simon’s previous article came out? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUSyP3gqAw
My personal favorite quote: “Dave, why are you still doing Will it Float? And I’ll tell you, well, we’re old and tired, and we can’t think of anything else.” So very true then. So very true now.
I’ll admit I wished I could have at least tried to chat up some of those cute women that always seemed to be on that show. Now I wonder if Grinder Girl had her grinder in bed with her and Dave. *shudder*
As I said during the Palin fiasco, let’s hope this incident puts us a step closer to having Craig Ferguson on at 11:35/10:35 Central.
Letterman panders to his audience, and they laugh & applaud in agreement. He vindicates them, which is why you see this ‘unsettling’ reaction to his excesses. He’s done this for years. He’s never actually been terribly funny. In the very early days, when he played the gawky Midwesterner, he had some moments, but every year there were fewer and fewer of them. I guess he knew that, and filled the void by developing the sickly, smarmy, oily schtick that’s the only thing propping him up today.
EVE: Are you sure you’re not French?
If thy be French, thy can never be neutral.
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Oh! So I’m not Swiss or French. So I’ll chime in w/ this.
If one had to fork over cash to sit in the Bleachers.
Would this good ol boy have an audience?
So it has been revealed that Letterman had sex with this chick as late as last fall (after having his kid and marrying his girlfriend of 20 plus years) and after she moved in with her boyfriend.
My opinion of him still has not changed. Still a creep and a hypocrite for making fun of people who cheat on their significant others and then does it himself, all the while making jokes. Asshat.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/letterman_gal_in_double_play_WA19v2rcZbudEEnXJ27V8K
Late comment to dan, the tennis shoe reference was to the fact that Letterman thinks he is still in a college fraternity. People simply don’t have the balls to tell him that he isn’t and to stop dressing like he still is.
Koka – the cynic in me says these women find Dave’s money sexy, not the man himself.
Math Major-
Yes, PLEASE. I love Craig Ferguson. Such a big ball of class, and hilarious to boot.
I hope his jabs at Palin finaly stop.