important foolishness was. merrill marco was the soul of our show. excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, i m sorry. we re experiencing technical difficulties. looks like minnows. she came up with stupid pet tricks and viewer mail. going to introduce, now, our first pet and his owner in stupid pet tricks. ladies and gentlemen, history is being made here today. all the remotes. you just can t beat eating near a cab, a truck, or a bus. the whole show is, all, from her mind. if anybody had watched the show, from the first day, i think, they would have seen a really strange kind of experimental evolution. hi there. good morning and welcome to the david letterman show. my name, of course, is david letterman. i remember, very clearly, my
democratic politicians. and, pete, we see it across the board, right? not just netflix but we see hbo the john olivers of the world, right? talking about how israel basically is a terrorist state. and all the programming on hbo is just so far left. and then you watch late night comedy which was supposed to be escapism. i remember that i m old enough remember watching letterman stupid pet tricks or carson when he was nearing his end. but now you see colbert meyers and kimmel every night arguing about how we have to blow up the filibuster. how we have to expand the supreme court and ted cruz is a horrible person. wait a minute, this is not comedy anymore. this is an extension of the democratic national committee. so, yeah, that s what entertainment has become. the good news is people are turning off more and more when you watch the oscars, for instance, 5 million people watched in 1998, less than 10 million last year. i know there weren t a lot of movies out but when you lose 47 millio
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Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Amber moved to New York City where, in 2014, she became the first ever black female writer on a network late-night show when she joined the staff of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” She still works there, writing and appearing on camera - often singing - always hilarious - and in September of 2020, NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock premiered “The Amber Ruffin Show” - a no-guest and, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, audience-less half-hour where Ruffin and the show’s announcer, her friend, Tarik Davis, wear zazzy suits and talk about current events.
i want them to keep showing america how hate filled and how vial and how filthy so much of their thinking about public discourse in america really is. they really should be thanking donald trump they are now all absorbing what s being called in the tv industry a so-called trump bump prior to stephen colbert sinking as low as he has gotten. his ratings were actually dwindling and i think that they are grasping committees prattly at these attacks because it s the only way i think that they can stay relevant. there was a time when late night comedy could appeal to a broad demographic of people in america. and whether it was stupid pet tricks or talking about doing pranks on your kids at halloween or the bread and butter of so much late night tv. having on fellow celebrities
i want them to keep showing america how hate filled and how vial and how filthy so much of their thinking about public discourse in america really is. they really should be thanking donald trump they are now all absorbing what s being called in the tv industry a so-called trump bump prior to stephen colbert sinking as low as he has gotten. his ratings were actually dwindling and i think that they are grasping committees prattly at these attacks because it s the only way i think that they can stay relevant. there was a time when late night comedy could appeal to a broad demographic of people in america. and whether it was stupid pet tricks or talking about doing pranks on your kids at halloween or the bread and butter of so much late night tv. having on fellow celebrities