One
of the huge stories in April was David Letterman announcing
his retirement from The Late Show
With David Letterman. His last show is scheduled for some time in 2015.
David
Letterman has been a staple on late night television for over 30 years. Letterman
started with his own program called Late Night With David Letterman that first aired on NBC in
February 1982. When Johnny
Carson announced his retirement from The Tonight Show in the early 1990s, Carson
picked Letterman to succeed him. The brass at NBC went against Carson's
wishes and selected Jay Leno. Letterman departed NBC
for his own 11:35 PM (ET) in 1993 over on CBS where he has been there since.
Upon
the announcement of his retirement, there was a lot of speculation of who would
replace him. Jezebel
produced a list of ten women who could replace Letterman among them former SNL
alums Maya Rudolph, Amy Pohler, and Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, Ellen Degeneres,
and Wanda Sykes. Other names that circulated were Jon Stewart and Conan
O'Brien, and even bumping Craig Ferguson from The Late, Late Show into The
Late Show slot.
All
of them would have been very good candidates for The Late Show.
Instead
CBS agreed to let the Colbert Nation invade their staple program. The new host
of The Late Show starting in 2015
will be Stephen Colbert.
This
interview features the passing of the comedy torch from one generation to the
next.
Full
interview provided below.
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