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...plot-twisting, cringe-inducing, shark-jumping moments in the hopes they'll tune in - please, just tune in - in order to give the networks a vital boost during the critical periods when Nielsen Media Research takes its regular survey of TV viewing habits. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
Context is everything, though, and Letterman has always maintained a public persona as - and I say this with affection - a jerk. Entertainers suffer when their scandals undercut their image (see Peewee Herman), but Letterman has usually kept as chilly about his personal life as he keeps the Ed Sullivan Theater. If you boycotted the work of every heel, liar and philanderer, you'd opt out of much of the creative output of human history...
...idea that Letterman is a hypocrite if he jokes about political sexcapades after his own? I'm not sure that flies. Comedians don't joke about sex scandals because they themselves are morally pure. They do it because sex scandals are funny. Letterman's is too, and - maybe as hypocrisy insurance - he's already been skewering himself over...
...Letterman may benefit from the fact that we're hypocrites - at least to the extent that we compartmentalize our entertainers' morals and values from our own, and from their performances. David Letterman may indeed be a creep, but lucky for him, he's a funny...
...DAVID LETTERMAN, on repairing his relationship with his wife after confessing to having sex with female employees. The Late Show host disclosed the affairs, as well as the alleged extortion attempt he faced as a result, on his show...