David Letterman
š¤ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I've just turned into the old man who has no idea what these people are doing.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
If your position is that in the old days, those people were talented, well, then it's the guy on the lawn telling the kids to go home.
Yeah, we used to subscribe to newspapers from all over the world, all over the country, in small towns.
And we would find stories about there was a woman who collected potato chips that looked like famous people.
There's a little local story about her.
You'd try to get her.
There was a guy who collected insects, praying mantis.
You try to get him.
But but now they just that is the the lifeblood of the Internet.
Right, but that was a bit of a constraint put on us by The Tonight Show.
We couldn't duplicate celebrities.
We couldn't have a lengthy monologue.
We couldn't have a big orchestra.
And so a lot of people just put people on TV.
And the thing that was always satisfying to me is just regular people who aren't on TV, you put them on TV, they're just fine.
By and large, they're just fine.
We grew up with you.
This is what I hear now.
It will be a fellow or a woman in a certain age group.