David Letterman
š¤ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
It's supposed to be something for others.
Right.
And in these two cases, it had been, and I thought that was very sweet.
Yeah, and the worst year of my life, being out of work.
It was just horrifying.
How long were you out of work?
I think it was a full year before I went back at 1230.
And what were you doing?
Just stand up and pitch and stuff?
Not even, I was doing, you know, looking, sniffing around at what would be failed projects, but mostly I was drinking.
And drinking to excess, and it was a dark year.
Are you in L.A.
or New York during this?
I was in L.A., yeah.
And I describe it as a dark year.
I know of people who actually have had dark years, so forgive me.
I'm not pretending that being an out-of-work comic really rates as a dark year.
But for me, you know, my own little self-centered world, yeah, things weren't going the way I wanted them to go.
I never know what to say when people say, can you give me some advice?