David Letterman gave us comedy pathos, you know.
It’s real easy to take it for granted after 33 years of more or less the same thing: Top 10 lists and stupid pet tricks and, above all else, the dark deprecation. Seems old fashioned now, doesn’t it?
“One half of people were like, ‘That show doesn’t have a chance,” Letterman said during his Wednesday night monologue, the last of thousands he would ever deliver. “And the other half were like, that show doesn’t have a prayer.” But before Dave, Alka-Seltzer suits lowered into water tanks and Larry “Bud” Melman and picking on Oprah Winfrey were subversive. That stuff was dangerous.
