NEWS: Letterman Funny for the First Time in Years

Not that impressive. Now that she's a universal punching bag, he piles on as well, but waited until now to do it. How many times has he had her on the show?

Funny for a lame, "used to be funny" sort of guy, but not really funny.

hahaha!

I thought Paris Hilton's "That's hot" line was one of the most stupid, over-played, repetitive things I've heard......until I saw David's stupid, over-played, repetitive attempt at a funny interview.

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I see SG still hasn't fixed the double post bug.

I was at a private party here in LA and Paris tried to have her bodyguard remove all the women from the bathroom so she could use it alone. This caused a tiny scene, so the manager of the place came over and told her she could not do that and please refrain from having the male bodyguard venture in to the women's facilities. She argued a bit and then succumbed and used the toilet like everyone else, though in my mind I imagined her unfolding a gold toilet seat cover from her purse first. As soon as she walked away, the manager glanced at me and my friend and said " I would have told her we have private bathrooms upstairs if she wasn't acting like such a bitch." That made my night extra special.

Might have something to do with the guests he gets.



For example, he is HILARIOUS here.

Personally, I don't find most of his skits very funny. Well, the ones that involve a second person, anyway. The stuff he does by himself can actually be pretty good.

I avoided watching this because I thought it would be a sad sad experience... but I actually couldn't stop laughing!

"This is where you and I are different because this is all I want to talk about."
Best line ever!

She's in another horror film... please say she gets brutally killed in this one! It makes me sad and dissapointed that Sarah Brightman and Anthony Stewart Head are willing to do a film with her though.

I agree. As funny as I thought the parakeet line was (and the "This is where you and I are different." line) - she did handle it well.

Unfortunately, I have also had my own albeit remote run-in with her (she abandoned some animals that my rescue took in - just off and left them in a box, under her bed, without telling anyone they where there!), so I think she is just a sadly, but fundamentally flawed individual.

man, I really like Letterman and thought this was a classically persistent interview by the DL, but you kind of ruined it for me w/ this whole backhanded compliment set up here. I really think you give a lot more a shit about Paris Hilton than even Paris does.

That was pretty cool. But even more amazing... Paul Schaffer(?) has hair in that video... just thought I'd point that out for those that didn't watch it that long or at all.



But this article and video of paris on letterman is just.. wow. Dave is great, I do like him but that right there just made him the King (second to Conan but still). If all that is wrong with this country became a collective group, its CEO and spokesbitchimeanpersonimeanwomanimeanbitch would be Paris. She represents all that is soulless and wrong and still is praised for what she does (wtf does she do?) and praised for waaaay to long now. This is how I know that the movie Idiocracy was more than a movie but a prophecy maybe.


Since I started typing this rant I have been drinking and kind of forgot where I was going so Im going to stop sitting in front of idiot box 2.0 and go drink more.


But I leave you with this another thing wrong with the world...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyBEU0afDiA

Uma, Oprah.

Oprah, Uma.

i don't see the difference between the "safe" jokes of recent you talk about and this. okok, i knew what you meant... i like his political jokes.

Amen. The people who claim Letterman isn't funny anymore are just not watching. Or, at least, they're watching seldom enough that they don't pick up on all the levels of meta that cumulatively build and dissipate over wide ranges of episodes. Or they've just lost the ability to tap into the funny at all.

At any rate, aging-curmudgeon Dave is more consistently funny than smarmy-wiseass Dave ever was.

And this is just... incorrect. In every particular.

Ahhh, Paris has friends at SG. How cuuuute!


ardour: Yeah, I agree, the skits aren't ALWAYS good on Furgeson's show. But one of the few things I REALLY miss about Dave in the old days is how involved in the bits he would get. He still does on occasion, but few and far between. Now it's mostly stage hands and Rupert. So I like that Furgeson does nonsensical silly skits, sometimes even when they miss.

I thought Letterman was dead!

Dave is still a weatherman, and not even a good one.

Paris rules, the rest of you are nobody's.

About as funny as kicking a cripple or flipping off a blind man.