Letterman was the first talk show I started watching frequently around 1998-1999. It was also the first and only talk show that used to be aired in Sweden (they air one week after they're shown in the US). I really loved this show. It was great to always go to sleep with a smile! It became kind of a personal show too, because when David was having a bad day, you really noticed it on the show. And when he had a good day, you noticed it that too! He really talks about what happen to him in his real life. I guess that he spent almost six months of his show talking about how crappy his computer was... And let's forget to not mention the Les Moonves comments with the "Do you have a problem with me?".
But competition is fierce. When a competing Swedish channel wanted in on the Late Night TV slice, they bought the rights to Jay Leno (and now recently Conan O'brien). So I started watching that for a while until I realized that David Letterman wasn't as good as I previously had thought. There was much more comedy, altough a bit more brainless comedy, on Jay Leno's show. This is sad, because honestly, it feels like David is more of a down to earth guy. Leno is good, but he's more insultive and snobby.
But then there is this thing... The thing with the show. It feels cold, pale and stale in its current state. It's awkward to watch the interviews because David doesn't even seem remotely interested in anything. The audience blindly laugh at anything that's not even remotely funny, and worse is that David even know that (you can tell that he's quite mad at it too sometimes).
This is just too sad.
What I think is that CBS should do is a total overhaul of everything, from writers to set to computer generated graphics to skits. Redesign the show completely! Lately there have been too much Public Service announcement and commercial-jokes that it seems like the shows turned in to an Most Funny Commercial-show instead! This is really sad because Letterman has done this for years and it'd be ashamed if he exited his twenty years of doing this with a crappy show.
Meanwhile I'll be watching Conan O'brien. Sorry David...
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