David Letterman

Brian Gumbel was a thousand percent right to be upset.

Yeah.

Because they're doing a primetime live Today Show and I'm leaning out the window with a bullhorn.

I mean, he was on the payroll in the beginning.

He would do anything and he was great because he had the right sensibility and sure, I'll play along.

And it's not going to lean on my integrity as a sports broadcaster.

He was great.

Yeah, Kimmel and I have talked about that.

Wow, you're explaining power I didn't realize I had.

No, no, I know because in those days, I don't know how you feel about this, what you're doing right here.

I didn't realize, was not aware, I didn't have time to consider that what we were doing in that studio was anything beyond the 300 people in the audience.

Yeah, because you're doing it every day.

You're doing it every day.

And it's like running a restaurant.

If people are sending the soup back, you realize, oh, we got bad soup.

And I think for a while, we were the only TV show that served soup.

I only knew of the Rolling Stone importance because of the song on the cover of the Rolling Stone.

And I realized then, oh shit, maybe this is something I would like to be on.

And so I finally ended up on the cover of the Rolling Stone.

And that was cool.