DAVID LETTERMAN - LETTERMAN ZINGED BY FELLOW LATE-NIGHT HOSTS

LETTERMAN ZINGED BY FELLOW LATE-NIGHT HOSTS

David Letterman got a taste of his own schtick from fellow late-night hosts and Saturday Night Live following his admission that he had had sex with members of his staff and was being blackmailed. Jay Leno, whose TV show now airs in primetime, got off the first jab, telling his studio audience, "If you came here tonight for sex with a talk show host, you've got the wrong studio." Later he remarked that he himself had once become a victim of an extortion plot. "How do you think NBC got me to do a ten o'clock show?" NBC's Late Night host Jimmy Fallon later quipped "There's a new book out called 'Why Women Have Sex' that says there are 237 reasons why women have sex. And folks, Letterman knows the top 10." But when guest Drew Carey brought up the subject on the Tonight show with Conan O'Brien, O'Brien tersely remarked, "No comment." Meanwhile, Professor Robert Thompson, director of the Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, commented in a New York Times report about the Letterman matter that it was unlikely that Letterman would be harmed by the revelations. "His core viewers are not the kind that are going to say, 'He did what? I'm never going to watch again.' He was not the host of a Disney Channel talk show," he said.

05/10/2009