By Johnny Oleksinski. Growing a retirement beard is a common practice among late-night-talk-show hosts who have abandoned their desks for greener pastures. He adds that talk-show hosts in particular — being so visible, recognizable and obsessed over — are forced to fit into a very stuffy mold, often for decades. But in the meantime, the former late-night host could learn a thing or two about proper grooming.
23 Things David Letterman Invented for Our Amusement
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The lame show: why has David Letterman become so bad at interviews?
This week, nearly three years after bidding farewell to Late Night , David Letterman is making his triumphant return to the small screen via Netflix with My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman where he'll interview two people who need no introduction: Barack Obama and George Clooney. If the series is anything like Letterman's career thus far, you can expect plenty of innovation. Here are 23 recurring bits, features, and moments that the former Indiana weatherman and his writers invented for our amusement. On February 3, —his third-ever broadcast —Late Night conducted two interviews with baseball hall-of-famer Hank Aaron: One was a standard talk show back-and-forth between host and guest. The other occurred after that conversation ended, where NBC Sports reporter Al Albert son of Marv Albert asked Aaron how he felt his last few minutes with Letterman went, with the idea that it was the equivalent of a post-game interview.
W hen discussing David Letterman , one incident always tends to crop up. The skit ended, and Letterman sat the doll in a chair. But, as he walked away, he circled back and punched it in the head.