Lindsay Lohan To Appear On Letterman

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 1, 2013 @ 11:20am PDT

In her first interview since November, Lindsay Lohan will make her fifth appearance on CBS’  Late Show With David Letterman on April 9. The move comes about three weeks before she heads to court-mandated rehab — enough time to promote her upcoming appearance on Charlie Sheen’s FX series Anger Management and her role in Scary Movie 5, which is due out April 12.

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Jimmy Kimmel Tops Leno & Letterman In Demo In New Time-Slot High

On the third night in his new 11:35 PM time slot, Jimmy Kimmel garnered his highest viewership so far and beat both The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Show With David Letterman in the key adults 18-49 demo. Although Kimmel’s total Thursday audience of 3.167 million was up over Wednesday’s 2.859 million and his Tuesday debut’s 3.097 million, Leno topped last night with 3.4 million and Letterman was second with 3.289 million. However, in the 18-49 demo, Kimmel’s 1.241 million was up solidly –  32% over Tonight Show’s 938,000 and 34% over Late Show’s 929,000. On Kimmel’s first night in his new slot, Tonight Show drew 1.084 million adults 18-49 versus Kimmel’s 887,000 and Letterman’s 683,000. Read More »

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David Letterman & Brian Williams Rip Karl Rove: Video

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 4:15pm PST

NBC News anchor Brian Williams went on CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman tonight to talk about last night’s election coverage — the polls, the results and Karl Rove’s reaction to Fox News Channel calling the race for Barack Obama. Here’s a preview:

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Letterman Visit Gives ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ Most-Watched Wednesday Ever

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 10:17am PDT

David Letterman’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night delivered the ABC late-night show its biggest Wednesday audience since its 2003 debut. A total of 2.35 million viewers watched Letterman’s first visit to Kimmel. The second-best … Read More »

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron To Appear On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’

David Cameron will become the first sitting UK Prime Minister to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman when he stops by for Wednesday’s show. In New York to give a keynote speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Cameron … Read More »

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Mitt Romney “Suffering” On Leno Says David Letterman, Extends Another Invite To ‘Late Show’: Video

Despite what Mitt Romney thinks, the late-night host really doesn’t hate him. In fact, David Letterman thinks the GOP presidential candidate is “delusional” to believe that and he wants … Read More »

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Obama Visit Nets David Letterman Best Rating Since 2010

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 11:01am PDT

The election is weeks away, but Late Show With David Letterman can declare a victory of a sort already. President Obama’s appearance last night garnered the show its best overnight rating in more than … Read More »

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UPDATE: Beyonce On Obama At NYC Fundraiser: “We Believe In His Vision”

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday September 18, 2012 @ 7:34pm PDT

2nd UPDATE, 7:34 PM: President Obama raised millions tonight in New York at two fundraisers, and he also got in his second visit with David Letterman since taking office. His Late Show With David Letterman appearance went from the fun (the President’s weight and Clint Eastwood’s chair interview of an invisible Obama at the RNC) to the serious (the violence resulting from the anti-Islamic film Innocence Of Muslims). Obama’s visit with Letterman, his seventh overall, will be broadcast tonight (see the promo below). Afterward, the President spoke to a $12,500-per-family crowd of about 200 at a campaign event at the Waldorf Astoria. He kicked off his speech with a dig at Eastwood:  “Hello, everybody! Hello! (Applause.) Hello, New York! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much. If you have a chair, go ahead and use it. If you don’t then — don’t.”, he said according to a transcript of his remarks released by the White House. The visit to the Big Apple was crowned by a $40,000-a-ticket dinner tonight hosted by Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z. Two attendees didn’t have to pay the going rate: Kindergarten teacher Ericka Dungee was the winner of NYC With Barack contest. Dungee brought her husband Bill with her. The dinner was at the 40/40 Club, which Jay-Z owns. The campaign pulled in $4 million from the dinner.

Here’s my condensed and edited version of the White House Pool reports of Obama’s remarks at the Beyoncé and Jay-Z event. Pool reports of the Letterman appearance follow: Read More »

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President Obama Returning To Letterman; Mitt Romney To Hit ‘Live!’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday September 13, 2012 @ 11:41am PDT

President Obama is aiming to pack in a lot of celebrity action on Tuesday. It was formally announced today that he is heading to The Late Show With David Letterman that night. It will mark Obama’s second appearance on the late-night show … Read More »

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Michelle Obama On David Letterman: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 6:10pm PDT

It’s the Republicans’ week in the spotlight but First Lady Michelle Obama is hitting Rachael Ray, Dr. Oz and Late Show With David Letterman, as previously announced. In this preview clip from CBS recorded earlier today, Letterman asks Mrs. Obama whether she’s been watching the Republican National Convention and what … Read More »

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Michelle Obama Returning To ‘Late Show With David Letterman’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 2:00pm PDT

The First Lady will make her third appearance on Letterman’s show next Wednesday, August 29, as part of her back-to-school media tour. She’s expected to discuss how to help parents get their kids ready to return to the … Read More »

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VIDEO: Conan & Dave Talk About Jay

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 6:16pm PDT

Conan O’Brien talks about his departure from The Tonight Show in his first appearance in 13 years on Late Show With David Letterman, tonight:

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Michelle Obama To Appear On ‘Letterman’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 9:42am PDT

Michelle Obama David LettermanThe First Lady is becoming a regular on the late-night circuit. She will visit Late Show With David Letterman for the first time on March 19 to further push her Joining Forces initiative to support military families; … Read More »

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CBS ‘Late Show’ Replaces Comic Booker

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 18, 2012 @ 12:23am PST

Longtime Late Show With David Letterman standup comedy booker Eddie Brill will no longer handle those duties following an uproar over a New York Times interview in which he said the reason he booked … Read More »

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NBC & CBS’ Late-Night Lineups Down In Premiere Week, ABC On The Rise

Nellie Andreeva

Nine years ago, ABC brass were ready to dump Nightline for David Letterman. Boy, aren’t today’s bigwigs at the company happy that didn’t happen. The veteran ABC newsmagazine beat both CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman and NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno among adults 18-49 during premiere week for the first time ever. Nightline, which airs from 11:35 PM-midnight, saw its audience grow 7% vs. last fall to 3.9 million. In adults 19-49, it averaged 1.3 million, even with last year. Its companion, Jimmy Kimmel Live was also strong out of the gate, drawing its second-largest premiere week audience ever (1.8 million) and 790,000 adults 18-49, up 5%.

In comparison, NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno and CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman were neck-and-neck in 18-49 (1.07 million vs. 1.05 million) but both down double-digits, 20% (Leno) and 16% (Letterman). In total viewers, Leno (3.6 million) was off by 4%, Letterman (3.2 million) by 15%. CBS’ ratings declines Read More »

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Letterman’s TCA Top 10 List Pokes Fun At CBS Shows, ‘Real Housewives’, Olbermann

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 12:15pm PDT
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During a panel break at TCA today, CBS aired a video with David Letterman, who introduced a special TCA edition of the Late Show Top 10 featuring a list of “little-known songs about television” (aka covers of popular songs with changed lyrics), performed by crooner Josh Groban. Unfortunately, because of music rights issues, a video will not be available, but here is the list (feel free to hum along). My favorite, soug to the tune of I’ll Be Seeing You: “Why do the terrorists hate us so? The answer’s plain to see/ Try to watch 30 seconds of Real Housewives of NYC.” Here is the full Top 10:

10.       Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There’s a place that has not been home to a “CSI”
(Sung to the tune of “Somewhere”)

9.         I see Keith Olbermann rant on Current TV, attacking Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity
And I think to myself…what an enormous head
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Who Really Broke Into Dave’s NYC Theater? Letterman And Leno Broadcast Their Videos

After David Letterman’s Late Show venue in NYC was vandalized over the weekend by an out-of-work actor, Letterman made some guesses then came clean about who really broke into the Ed Sullivan Theater (watch until the end). Leno on The Tonight Show also presented his own version of what happened:

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UPDATE: Letterman Show Gets Punked; So No Lindsay Lohan Appearance After All

WEDNESDAY AM UPDATE: Statement from Tom Keaney for David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Inc which produces the Late Show:

“Lindsay Lohan will not be delivering a Top Ten list on Thursday’s LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, as had been previously announced. We made a mistake. Someone purporting to be

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Behind-The-Scenes Video Of Letterman’s Top 10 List For 2011 Grammy Awards

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