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Letterman : Banging the Bore

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Will David Letterman's very public revelation of a new, very human flaw bring him closer to viewers, or will it cloud him in cliche showbiz debauchery?

That was the question many were debating Friday, the day after the CBS "Late Show" host revealed to his audience that he had sexual relationships with female employees and had been the victim of an extortion attempt to keep that information private.

Letterman unraveled the sordid story with humor, honesty and self-effacement. He may have endeared himself to some fans, but his likeability has been thrown into jeopardy. Reaction poured in Friday, including from other late-night hosts.

During a taping of NBC's "Late Night," Jimmy Fallon worked it into his monologue: "A new book called `Why Women Have Sex' says there are 237 reasons why women have sex and Letterman knows the top 10."

Friday night's "Late Show" was taped Thursday, as was Craig Ferguson's "Late Show." (Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are dark on Fridays.)

That left Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel.

On the Web, videos of Letterman's confession were hard to find. CBS, which has an agreement with YouTube, hadn't posted any clips of the segment as of late Friday. It also didn't have the episode available on http://www.cbs.com.

The demand was clearly there. Throughout Friday, videos of his revelation were posted on YouTube without CBS' permission. Whenever they gained thousands of views, CBS had them removed.

In the comments sections of YouTube videos, the dialogue was two-sided as some came to Letterman's defense, while others were critical. Similar lines were drawn on Twitter, where Letterman was one of the most tweeted-about subjects. He evoked both sympathy and disgust, as he did in comments posted in blogs and on social networks.

Referring to Thursday's studio audience, which laughed through parts of Letterman's somewhat comical telling of the story, New York Times columnist David Carr tweeted: "Aw, now Letterman is his own punchline. Yuck."

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So, did any of you guys saw that?

I've watched Letterman for years, ever since I was a kid. This is sorta like realizing that grandfather had to have sex with you grandmother to make your parent. Really I would be shocked I suppose but I fully expect this out of people these days.

And this is less than a week after the whole John Travolta blackmail. Did multiple guys just decide to go for the gold or did we luck out and end up stumbling across a celebrity blackmail ring?

It's his personal life and has very little to do with what he is supposed to do for work - It IS unprofessional and maybe he should have to deal with the consequences of it which is certainly a little bit of public scrutiny. But whatever we think about such behavior I think all of us who digest media need to take it upon ourselves to make less of a big deal about what any given celebrity does, for our own sake as well as the induvidual.

I don't actually watch his show, but I like him for coming out with it like that. Very nice "fuck you" to a would-be extortionist.

so, was this taking place before or after he got married?

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Originally Posted by stefan (Post 975722)

so, was this taking place before or after he got married?

Do you really want to think too much about David Letterman banging anyone?

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Originally Posted by Stefan

so, was this taking place before or after he got married?

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Originally Posted by Me

all of us who digest media need to take it upon ourselves to make less of a big deal about what any given celebrity does

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Originally Posted by Me

...need to take it upon ourselves to make less of a big deal about what any given celebrity does

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make less of a big deal

Not that everyone should be putting all their stock in my advice but I mean, come on. Does it even matter?

Because if it was before- who the hell cares? Free to shag whoever you want is just one of those wonderful freedoms we have, so long as they're not being forced into it.

If he was married, then I guess more people might have some moral qualms with it.

Oh god, a celebrity, someone who chooses to go into the spotlight with their life, confesses to something personal on his television show, and we are talking about it! OH CHRIST THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER. SAVE US, NIQUE. SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.

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SAVE US, NIQUE. SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.

SARCASM?!?!?!?!?!

I feel like this is less funny becuase I basically awknowledged that this would happen. But I mean, I just found it odd and kind of amusing that I just brought up the 'Oh god are there ever more important and less invasive things for us as a people (not nessecerily as a forum) to be focusing on' point, and we suddenly revert to 'oh man, how much more judgmental could we be? I bet it's a lot' in virtually the next post.

By the way, I mean just becuase he is preemptively hitting us with it instead of allowing himself to become tabloid fodder, does that mean we should call open season? That's like saying if a dude looses his wallet we should go ahead and take the money in it becuase, hey, he's the one who lost it.