# Letterman a huge prick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830 "2006-04-08T04:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/21 "2006-04-10T14:02:10Z")
> [@bup](#): > > And although the “Headlines” segment is really “Leno reads typos,” it also makes me laugh. Which is really “Jay does Letterman’s old “Small Town News” routine.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/22 "2006-04-10T15:14:28Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Which is really “Jay does Letterman’s old “Small Town News” routine.” Which was really "Letterman does Steve Allen’s old “Letters to the Editor” routine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/23 "2006-04-10T15:26:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Which was really "Letterman does Steve Allen’s old “Letters to the Editor” routine 🙂 Well, now you’re just showing your age. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/24 "2006-04-10T17:10:24Z")
[Krusty] If this is anyone but Steve Allen, you’re stealing my bit! [/Krusty] ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/25 "2006-04-10T18:00:09Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The floor is now open for nominations for “The Top 10 Reasons David Letterman Is a Huge Prick.” Start your engines! 🙂 Oh, I know where I’d start. 1. He sniggers with self-satisfaction at his own jokes. I’m not saying everyone has to be as deadpan as Stephen Wright, but Letterman is a contender for the most self-amused of “comedians,” topped only (albeit easily) by the Gigantic Moron Dennis Miller (who adds to his sins by thinking he is some sort of intellectualoid). ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/26 "2006-04-11T14:52:39Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > And that’s not new. Back on the old NBC show, he had a staff member who was getting married, but couldn’t afford a nice honeymoon, so Dave had her on each night for a week. Each night she would do something extra (sing, ventriliquism, etc) so that NBC had to pay her more money each time. IIRC, she ended up with 2-3 grand. I remember that! I forget the staff member’s name (it wasn’t Laurie Diamond), but her fiancé’s name was Hunter Huckabee. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/27 "2006-04-11T14:53:47Z")
And IIRC the nest-egg gag went on for quite a bit longer than a week. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830/28 "2006-04-11T15:42:00Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Actually, that’s sort of true of me. I don’t hate the man, but I don’t find his standup funny. I find his monologue very pedestrian, and my hackles rise as the audience actually erupts into _applause_ after every joke. The last time I attempted to watch the Tonight Show, I was astonished as joke after joke from the monologue fell to the stage with a thud. Doesn’t Jay pride himself on doing the longest monologue on late night? Doesn’t he say that it’s kind of his baby? I was baffled: the jokes sucked, and the audience knew it. I had to wonder, _what keeps these people tuning in every night?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-a-huge-prick/351830.md?page=1)