CBS - LETTERMAN APOLOGIZES; FERGUSON IS PERPLEXED

LETTERMAN APOLOGIZES; FERGUSON IS PERPLEXED

David Letterman returned to his late-night show Monday with apologies to his staff -- and especially to his wife -- over the scandal that developed last week when he revealed that he was being blackmailed by a CBS News producer who had discovered that he had been having affairs with female staff members. On Friday and Saturday, he had been zinged by other late-night hosts and by the cast of Saturday Night Live ,. That apparently left Craig Ferguson in a quandary, given the fact that his show is produced by Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants. During his monologue on Monday Ferguson said, "The person you work for, the person you admire and respect, is caught in an embarrassing situation," said Ferguson. "And your job is to be funny about that, whilst trying to keep your own job. ... So this is my last show." He continued later, "If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out, I'm gone."

06/10/2009