GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (20 / JUL / 2015) .- After 33 years of being one of the icons in the genre now established as Talk Show, David Letterman will step down chair on “Late Show” on CBS to take a new direction in his personal life and leave open to other comedy personalities space.
It was in the late seventies that Letterman began to break through in the middle as a comedy writer for a couple of shows. Highlighting in his comic, satirical and ironic capacity, the figure Johnny Carson then asked to be taken to his show.
The first steps he had in his career gave in 1980 when he conducted the morning program “The David Letterman Show”, however, the pressure to Carson to take a night time ended with the issue after few months. Thus in 1982 he began to NBC “Late Night with David Letterman,” which in its first issue had a Bill Murray as chief guest.
In 1993, after the departure of Carson, Letterman hoped to be the successor of “The Tonight Show”, however, surprised chain choosing Jay Leno as the new driver, which caused problems between Letterman and NBC, causing the change to CBS competition, where from that date until tonight continued with “Late Show with David Letterman”.
The most notorious during his career
Personalities environmental claim that David Letterman is a scathing, intelligent and shrewd interviewer, which is why we had to both entertainment personalities and politics, including US President Barack Obama.
But it was not all success in his career. For a long time there was talk of a rivalry between him and Jay Leno, who took over from Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show”. However, Leno is expected to be one of the special guests at the final issuance of Letterman.
In addition, early in the century, it underwent surgery after detecting that had blockages in his heart, that kept him out of the camera for one month and then come back and continue with the show.
One of the issues that most affected his career came when he accepted publicly that he had had sex with one of his employed, who also tried to extort him to go public with the news.
Who will take his place?
The gap that will leave Letterman tonight in its last issue will be very large. However, CBS has already prepared a personality that will occupy the chair behind the desk of “Late Show”, this is Stephen Colbert, who left “The Colbert Report” to take his new challenge.
Colbert He is known for his acid and critical towards politics and the media American tone. His program was broadcast by Comedy Central, owned by Viacom also has to CBS, so the driver change within the same chain.
On December 18, Stephen Colbert made his last broadcast in “The Colbert Report”, after almost 10 years of being in front of the show.
The famous thanks Dave
On the day of his latest show, David Letterman became a trend in Twitter. With the hashtag #ThanksDave , users in the United States, Mexico and elsewhere thanked the presenter for the moments you shared in your program. In addition, entertainment personalities also left see their thanks to comedian
– The comedy writer Ken Tremendous posted on his official account. “Goodbye David Letterman. Thanks for making me and all comedy writers I know would like to be comedy writers “
-. For its part, the drummer of” Late Show, “ Anton Fig said “I still do not think here we can all wrap our heads on this,” along with a photograph where we can see his head wrapped in protective plastic.
– The comedian and writer Andy Kindler published: “I love people who worked with David Letterman. I will cry from now through the foreseeable future “
– also writer Jason Surrell said goodbye comedian publishing a photograph outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York with the message “At least now I’m in the same city.”
Celebrities who will say farewell to the genre icon
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