Book

Letterman : the last giant of late night

Call Number

  • 921 L6513Z (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]

Physical Description

xvi, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Part I: Education of a talk-show host, 1947-1979
  • Shock jock
  • When David met Merrill
  • Part II: The anti-talk show, 1980-1984
  • The art of stupid
  • Not tonight
  • The Harvard takeover
  • Part III: The archangel of irony, 1984-1987
  • The founding fathers of late night
  • The writer under the stairs
  • The Letterman generation
  • The two Daves
  • Part IV: Writer's block, 1988-1993
  • Comedy is not pretty!
  • Meg and Mom
  • Part V: The very big show, 1993-2015
  • The agony of victory
  • The Oscar myth
  • Hinky
  • More fun than humans should be allowed to have.

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