David Letterman

And I just thought, well, this is heaven.

Can this go on forever?

Yes.

Why not?

Oh, yeah, the comedy story.

It was great.

And I think many people identify a creative circumstance period in their life as, oh, it was like Paris before the war.

Well, maybe, maybe not, but it was pretty good.

It was a bunch of really funny, funny people.

And you would go to work at night.

And in return for your time on stage, you got to hang around these people.

And they would make you laugh because not only their material, but they were funny people.

And they would do funny things.

And they were unusual folks.

Quite a great stimulating peer group.

Yes, that's right.

And that was so good, too, because you would say you'd get hired to write a TV show and the pre-production would be like six weeks.

And in my case, I got to understand that I was only going to have that gig for six weeks and then I'd get fired.

And then they'd get another six week gig and then I'd get fired.

And it was delightful because I never had the headache of actually having to work on some show day after day after day, week, month after month.