Here is the Letterman set being thrown into haul-away dumpsters soon after his show was over. I imagine the Colbert crew is moving in. I heard the staff had until Friday to clear out.
Someone should take the set and put it in their apartment and pretend to be a talk show host. Maybe invite Jack Hanna to bring some animals over. 
Stephen Colbert auctioned off the set from his Comedy Central show. I wonder why the Letterman people didn’t do something like that.
I really enjoyed Dave’s last show. I haven’t watched for the last few years, but started watching from his very first show, and especially liked the NBC years. (I didn’t notice if he mentioned Hal Gurnee, who was his director in the early years, and pretty brilliant at catching random wacky shots with great comedic timing. The show lost a lot when he left.)
I liked the quick snapshots they ran through at the end. I’d forgotten I’d actually seen all those shows and how fun they were. I guess the Brother Theodores of today are all somewhere on Youtube.
It’s show BUSINESS not Show FRIENDSHIP so out you go! 
I liked the last episode. the Top 10 list alone was worth it.
I remember he mentioned Hal at some point in the night (though I don’t remember the context).
I didn’t hear him mention Merrill Markoe, though. (She had a lot to do with the show at the beginning of the NBC years; I think she was head writer, in addition to being Dave’s significant other at the time.)
I bet if anyone did have that idea, Letterman nixed it. It would seem too self-aggrandizing to him.
Like this episode of Seinfeld?
I haven’t watched Letterman regularly for many years, but watched the last 4 episodes. I thought they were just right for Letterman, low-key and not too flashy. I couldn’t watch/listen to the Bob Dylan song but I never was a big fan. Foo Fighters rocked though, but like others I had to go find the clip since my DVR cut off too early.
Yep. I love it when Fowler has the hawk and George shows up with the squirrel and chaos ensues.
I wanted to like and support…and watch…Dave. He was a fellow Hoosier and he had what was, back then, a much less main-stream vibe than his competitors. But as Paul Shaffer became more and more prominent on the show, I quit watching it. I’ve never cared for Shaffer. His musicianship is ordinary, I don’t like his manner or delivery, and he isn’t remotely as cool as he’s always thought he was. I can remember when he was all over MTV back in the day and was annoying there, too.
I get that he was important to Letterman and that the two guys were real-life as well as work friends, but I couldn’t get past the need to wash my hands whenever Shaffer was around.
Sad to see Dave go, but he had a tremendous long run. Shaffer? Hopefully he doesn’t pop up int anything I watch ever again.
My TiVo happened to also record Conan that night as a suggestion. It was nice that he paid more than a little tribute to Dave, whose early appearance on Late Night w/ Conan basically saved his career.
My emphasis. What a strange thing to say about a guy who wanted to be on TV since he was old enough to shave, and who quit his very high-paying job at NBC when he didn’t get the promotion he wanted.
Did he mention Rupert at all? I saw a quick picture of Rupert in the montage, he played a big part in the show, but that’s all he got. And the two Pakistanis running the souvenier shop next door? And Mr. Assman?
Mujibur and Sirajul are from Bangladesh, not Pakistan.
Rupert Gee was a sitdown guest on the penultimate show.
This finale was the way Dave wanted to go out. His choice all the way down to the final band and song. Therefore it was incredibly dead-on perfect.
I remembered from the NBC finale which I failed to tape the end of (and only saw years later in re-runs) that these shows go long so I added an hour to the DVR.
Now I’m downloading it and saving it like most of the others of the final 3 weeks. (I already have a bit of an archive of shows taken from tape. Some nice ones like the Harmon Killebrew Hour and Dave on Johnny with the dog segment.)
During the montage I was thinking I was going to have to go thru it and note all the people I couldn’t ID on the first pass. But then it kept going and going and going. What an incredible sample of the amazing people that had been on the show.
The shot of him ad libbing fake dialogue over the Correspondents Dinner footage and coming up with stuff better than the writers had shows how he still has it.
Our long national nightmare is over.
Sniff.
As a long-time Letterman fan, as soon as that clip of President Ford appeared I knew exactly what speech it was (“…our long national nightmare…”), and why they were showing it*!* And is Jimmy Carter still alive? He was the only living president not to appear.
He has been ill recently.