sure, i ll drink. dave kept pouring whiskey into my cup. before i finished it, he kept pouring it. i wouldn t keep track of how many drinks i had. they ordered their uber and left. everyone left, dave didn t. okay, you drunk? i have a guest room. he followed me into my room and that s when he started propositioning me, suggest thag we sleep together. i was like, no, no. like, what are you doing? i have a boyfriend, remember? this is not okay. i told him, i think you have to leave. i was leading him out, showing him the door, close to the door, he pushed me and pushed himself on to me and started kissing me. i kept saying no and i remember him saying, just one night only,
but, i still felt like this needed to be told. there s a difference between making an off color joke or sexist comment to actually sexually assaulting someone without consent, touching or kissing someone without permission. the gory details are what matter and make a difference. i reached out to dave who she said this incident happened. he didn t comment. he wrote a blog post before her story came out titled, i m sorry, i m a creep, acknowledging the bad behavior. if you look at the larger context, it s inexcusable for this to happen behind the scenes. it s been happening a long time. it s a watershed moment in silicon valley. you are starting to see these stories pour out. i have spoken to seven women with similar stories. you are seeing rep recushions and people lose their jobs because of this behavior. think about how much the
bill carter wrote a best selling book and said they had doubts about letterman. they thought he s so experimental. can he do the tonight show format? they had a guy who would do anything. anything they asked times 10. they looked at that and said why can t we have both? public jostling went on for months. i guess it was this odd dynamic. and you had like an ongoing soap app ra and politics about the strategy and the big guy and the middle guy and the guy who didn t get the job. ultimately leno got the big. dave was crushed. r. he was devastated. jay was this wild comic who was a mainstream comic.
jay calculated what you need to do if you think about a late night show, jay wanted to win. dave didn t play the game. jay got the show. enjoy yourself. i ll be right back. dave s relationship with nbc was fractured, but all the other networks came courting. we went to los angeles and had the meetings with people and what made the difference is they would bring in plates of fresh fruit and it was first-rate produce. that are impressed you? not me, but every other bonehead that came in. ultimately he gets the most powerful agent in hollywood to represent him. that s why he came up with the idea that if it doesn t play at 11:30, there is a $50 million penally. that s how they got around that. cbs said we will make you the signature star of the network and you will be the guy for us. coming up, dave rolls the
need to do. if you think about a late night show at 11:30, dave wanted to win. it played out in an interesting job. dave didn t play the game. jay got the show. you re lovely. enjoy yourselves. i ll be right back. jay s relationship with nbc became fractured but all the other networks came a-courting. i think what made the difference is that they would bring in plates of fresh fruit t. was first rate produce. and that impressed you? not me, but i think it impressed every other bonehead that came in. ultimately, he gets the most powerful agent in hollywood to represent him. yeah. that s where he came up with the idea that if it doesn t play at 11:30, there s a $50 million penalty. that s how he got around that. cbs said, we re going to make you the signature star of the network. i mean, you re going to be the guy for us. coming up, dave rolls the