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SUMMARY: In the fall, Stephen Colbert will take over the TV time slot that has belonged to David Letterman for 22 years. The host of CBS' Late Night with David Letterman influenced generations of comedians and brought a new voice to late night. He was silly with an edge, known for his engaged, and occasionally confrontational interviewing style. Jeffrey Brown looks back at Letterman’s career and legacy.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): David Letterman will sign off for the last time tomorrow, capping a late-night career that lasted more than three decades, even longer than the late-night titan Johnny Carson.
Letterman, and now a generation of younger comedians, drastically changed the landscape Carson left behind. And now it’s set to change again.
Jeffrey Brown looks at Letterman’s enduring influence.
TINA FEY, Actress: My gift to you is, I want to give you the dress. You can keep it.
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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): In the final days of his program, David Letterman has heard raves and roasts.
DAVID LETTERMAN: How long have we been friends? I guess you alluded to 30 — oh, you can go back to the morning show.
STEVE MARTIN, Comedian: The morning show, yes, I was on the show then, but that doesn’t make us friends.
(LAUGHTER)
JEFFREY BROWN: From a parade of stars, many of whom have joined him often in his 33-year network career.
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Finally tonight, there’s a finally tonight coming from late-night comic Stephen Colbert.
Jeffrey Brown looks at his run and what’s ahead.
STEPHEN COLBERT, “The Colbert Report”: Truthiness.
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JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): He gave the late night world something called truthiness.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Now, I’m sure some of the word police, the wordinistas over at Webster’s are going to say, hey, that’s not a word.
JEFFREY BROWN: An approximation of fact that somehow captured the moment in American journalism and culture. He presented “The Word,” a circular monologue that began in one place, meandered through puns and sight gags, and ended back where it started.
Night after night for nine years on “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert did it all in character, a character named Stephen Colbert, an excitable, hyperactive, brash, but also reasonable voice of conservative bluster, clearly modeled on the cable TV and radio styles of Bill O’Reilly and others, all played for laughs and lessons.
