Word: daves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dave Durenberger (R.-Minnesota...
...that the dust has settled, it all seems so obvious. Of course David Letterman was the logical person to take over the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson retired. Of course NBC made a mistake in betting on Jay Leno and letting Dave slip away to CBS. Of course Letterman's hip, edgy 12:30 a.m. sensibility could be adapted for a more mainstream audience...
...filling in for Carson for four years. Letterman, who preferred private sulking to office politics, never let top NBC executives know how crucial the Tonight Show was to his own conception of career growth. So NBC wrongly assumed it could give the job to Leno and still somehow keep Dave happy...
...evening with his Top 10 lists and Gillooly gags, Letterman's Late Show was the Official Comedy Wrap-Up of the '94 Games. Ratings for his second Olympic week soared to 8.9 (compared with an average 5.8), the show's highest ever. What clinched it for Middle America was Dave's mom, who was sent to Lillehammer to report on the Games and banter on the air with her son. What a guy: he not only has higher ratings, makes more money and provides more laughs than anybody else in late-night TV -- he's nice to his mother...
...Dave Letterman, because even though he'sstupid and predictable, we still think he's prettyfunny...