Details

Release year: 1982

Storyline

Popular late-night comedy/talk-show with host David Letterman, interviewing famous guests.

Top credits

Cast

David Letterman — Self - Host, Self
Paul Shaffer — Self - Musical Director, Self, Self - Bandleader, Hismelf, Self - Band Leader, Self - Guest
Bill Wendell — Self - Announcer, Self, Announcer
Stephen Hibbert — Self - Guest, Various Characters

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Awards

5 wins & 31 nominations

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Did you know

• Letterman left "Late Night" in 1993 for Late Show with David Letterman (1992) on CBS when NBC give the "Tonight Show" to Jay Leno following the departure of Johnny Carson in 1992. However, NBC refused to allow Letterman to use elements that made the show famous such as "Larry 'Bud' Melman" or "The Top Ten List". NBC claimed those bits were their "intellectual property". "The Top Ten List" was renamed "Late Show Top Ten" and "Larry 'Bud' Melman" used his real name, Calvert DeForest.

• NBC ordered Letterman to do a short monologue and to not have brass instruments in his band in order to differentiate the show from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). Letterman later did a longer monologue and had brass instruments on Late Show with David Letterman (1992).

• At age six, Lindsay Lohan appeared as a trick-or-treater dressed as garbage for a Halloween skit ("Things You Find on the Bottom of the D Train").