David Letterman Quotes
When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!
Letterman, David. "Monologue." Late Show with David Letterman, Worldwide Pants, CBS, 2001.
As Secretary of Commerce, he came up with his “Buy a Pig” campaign. The idea was to have millions of American suburban and small town families raise a pig and thereby relieve the food shortage during WWI. With so much manpower needed for fighting, and an agriculture much more dependent on human labor, there were food shortages. The campaign was a flop. Suburbanites did not accept the idea of raising pigs.
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He hosted late night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. In total, Letterman hosted 6,080 episodes of Late Night and Late Show, surpassing his friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late night talk show host in American television history. In 1996, Letterman was ranked 45th on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. In 2002, The Late Show with David Letterman was ranked seventh on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
