Darlene Love's Final Letterman

This was the only reason to watch Letterman in recent years.

 

Letterman is worth watching once in a while,
but Paul Shaffer jumped the shark a long time ago.

 

Reunion time!

 

Watched a Lettermen from 12-14-1989 on YouTube a couple of nights ago and the irreverence of it all is still amusing 30 years later, with Mike Aulby bowling in the hallway for no reason.

God I wish he would release whole episodes the way Carson's estate has. An entire generation now has no idea how good this guy was in his prime.

 

Really looking forward to watching this. One of my great regrets is living a train ride from NYC and never trekking in for a Darlene Love episode. I have little doubt watching that live would have reduced me to a puddle of tears. Her voice and the orchestration is just so perfect every time. They made that the song of Christmas.

 

Dave moving to 5 days a week was a big deal because I could stay up late on Friday to watch him.

Dave doesn't own his Late Night shows to sell. Carson produced the show.

 

Letterman’s shows were produced by Worldwide Pants, which he owns. Wouldn’t that make him the owner of his shows?

 

Carson was a producer, so I think his company would have to sign off. The CBS show was owned by WWP.

 

I don't think Carson's entity would be the issue - NBC still owns a portion of the show as well. WWP reached an agreement in February 2022 with NBC on Late Night's 40th anniversary to start allowing clips on YouTube. I think it's more likely that episodes end up on Peacock than any other service, since it is probably a non-starter for Letterman to get permission from NBC to show stuff on Netflix or Paramount (CBS), his two most recent broadcast partners.