Check out the David Letterman interview in the current “Golden Age of Comedy” issue of Rolling Stone, which looks interesting enough I almost bought the magazine for the first time in years.
Here’s some of what Dave had to say:
On The Hills – “When we were going to have them, I started watching the show — I don’t know how many of them you’ve seen, but pretty soon your jaw goes slack, and you realize that something very strange is happening. And when I realized that, I got all excited. I couldn’t have been happier to have them on, and I’d like for them to be on again. And talk about being able to take a punch! You can say almost anything you want and they’re smart enough not to care.”
On the first show after 9/11 – “No, I didn’t want to, and maybe this is human nature, but I wanted other people to do it. I wanted the president to do things, I wanted Mayor Giuliani to take care of everything… I was just filled with trepidation and, ‘Oh, jeez, this is when you need Johnny Carson to come back on the air.’”
On Bill O’Reilly – “Well, I think in the beginning I felt like I had some sort of responsibility to attack everything he said and try to counter it with my own intelligence, but that reservoir is pretty shallow. So now I think, ‘Well, here’s a guy who really is no different than Paris or Regis, so I’ll just sit there and make fun of them.’ It doesn’t make any difference what they’re saying, I just make fun of them.”
Plus remarks on Leno, Conan, Stewart, and Craig Ferguson. Oprah. Madonna. The Clintons. Bush. Obama. Favre. Family. Fatherhood. Surgery. Lot’s more. Shame there isn’t more on music, despite Dave being a big fan.
As an aside, why does the Rolling Stone website look like such a piece of junk — with stuff crammed everywhere, clashing banner ads, fonts that remind me of old jogging pants I used to have that said ‘RADICAL!‘ down the leg…
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