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Jimmy Kimmel is honoring his idol David Letterman by not competing with him. Kimmel will reportedly air a repeat of his own show on May 20, when Letterman wraps up his Late Show run.

“I have too much respect for Dave to do anything that would distract viewers from watching his final show,” Kimmel said. He added: “Plus, I’ll probably be crying all day, which makes it hard to work.”
 
And, perhaps, he figured everybody would be Dave's last show, so why bother?
 
I've been recording Letterman for the past month or so.
 
He took chances and did funny things early on, and I loved it.

Who had seen something as stupid as Super Dave Osbourne slam himself into a Velcro wall in a Velcro suit before Letterman? Or anyone immerse themselves in a pool of water in an Alka-Seltzer swimsuit?

But Dave got old, lazy, and stopped taking chances and stopped being funny a long long time ago.

The top ten list once was edgy, pushed the envelope, and funny as hell. It became a sad mockery of itself over time. Kinda like Dave.
 
I was forced to stop watching Dave when he made the short but fatal jump from poking fun at politics and politicians to using the platform of his show to promote his own political ideology, often by antagonistically mocking those (including those in his viewing audience) who did not agree with him. While Stewart and Colbert both do this, they do it with way more finesse, and it's an inherent part of their act. Letterman, like Carson and Leno, used to have class, but that seemed to be fleeting in his later years.

I always thought that the emergence of his sex scandal not long after his effort to demonize other women for their sexual behavior was fitting irony. He appeared to be sincere in his contrition after the scandal, and his wife stayed with him, so I have to give them both credit for that. In the time since, he's also made candid comments about some of the mistakes that he made and how they negatively impacted the show. I think that Dave is still a talented comedian and entertainer, but perhaps one of a different era.


JKG
 
Never watched Letterman. Huge fan of Colbert though so I can't wait for him to take over.
 
JGoodish said:
I was forced to stop watching Dave when he made the short but fatal jump from poking fun at politics and politicians to using the platform of his show to promote his own political ideology, often by antagonistically mocking those (including those in his viewing audience) who did not agree with him. While Stewart and Colbert both do this, they do it with way more finesse, and it's an inherent part of their act. Letterman, like Carson and Leno, used to have class, but that seemed to be fleeting in his later years.


JKG
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Well put.
 
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