{"id":1005,"date":"2010-01-14T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/david_letterman_almost_meets_the_new_owners.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","slug":"david_letterman_almost_meets_the_new_owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/david_letterman_almost_meets_the_new_owners.shtml","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman (Almost) Meets the New Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_8xk360Kzcc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>With Leno and Conan and NBC fighting a rather public battle over the Tonight Show, NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/waitwait\/\">Wait Wait blog<\/a> posted this clip from David Letterman back when he worked for NBC and GE was just about to take over.  Very funny stuff.<br \/>\nThis is from 1986, back when Letterman was just funny. This is about the time I stared watching him and I watched him rather religiously up until his politics got in the way of the funny, early in 2008 or so.<br \/>\nHey Dave, can you go back to this kinda stuff?<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/waitwait\/2010\/01\/late_night_vs_the_man.html?ft=1&#038;f=112176971\">Wait Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Leno and Conan and NBC fighting a rather public battle over the Tonight Show, NPR&#8217;s Wait Wait blog posted this clip from David Letterman back when he worked for<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/david_letterman_almost_meets_the_new_owners.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Letterman (Almost) Meets the New Owners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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