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Some of the more stunning selections include incredible feats of human contortion, private body parts in pastel-iced splendor, and animal acts like you never saw on David Letterman...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Titillating Sweets | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

...Besting Letterman in the ratings war. And no Top Ten list either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Nov. 22, 1993 | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Angeles -- CHEVY CHASE's new late-night talk show on Fox has received excoriating reviews and horrendous ratings, but apparently that isn't punishment enough for Fox executives. When David Letterman's show was on NBC, Chase's brilliantly successful rival famously ridiculed the executives there; now executives at Fox have actually been calling for Chase to make fun of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Oct. 18, 1993 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...gripping, especially for a viewer unexperienced in Two Mikes's unique brand of comedy. The angst-ridden "Appointments" combines the neurotic charm of a Woody Allen movie with the structured morbidity of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Even for those who have only seen him do stand-up on Letterman, the opening close-up shot of Steven Wright's head is a sight unmistakable...

Author: By Caralee E. Caplan, | Title: Short Films With Teeth | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...main disappointment of Late Night with Conan O'Brien is that it fits so comfortably into the Letterman-fashioned late-night mold. Another tall, Waspy male with a facetious, wise-guy attitude, drawing writers from the same pool of ex-Harvard Lampoon staff members to help deliver a nightly mix of topical jokes and goofy comedy bits. In its search for someone to take over the time period where Letterman reinvented the talk show, NBC might have tried something truly different: a show with real interviews, for instance (a Larry King for the twentysomething generation), or maybe even (radical thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. O'Brien's Neighborhood | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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