Originally posted by Joeboo835
Didn't he piss off Cher really bad too? I remember her calling him a$$hole, but i'm not sure what for

Letterman asks Oprah to 'hour of healing'

Thursday, December 11, 2003 Posted: 11:36 AM EST (1636 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- David Letterman is inviting Oprah Winfrey to his "Super Bowl of Love." He shouldn't hold his breath.

Letterman's latest effort to end the feud between the talk show titans was an invitation, issued on the air Wednesday, to come on his show for an "hour of healing."

Winfrey has repeatedly spurned Letterman's entreaties. The daytime TV queen said she was uncomfortable during two previous appearances on Letterman's show.

"Both times I was sort of like the butt of his jokes," she said in a Time magazine interview. "I felt completely uncomfortable sitting in that chair, and I vowed I would not ever put myself in that position again."

She did, however, send Letterman a tub of children's books to celebrate the recent birth of his first baby.

Letterman said he wanted to work with Dr. Phil McGraw, Winfrey's protege, to bring her back to his show.

"It will be a celebration," he said. "It will be like the first of the year and it will be enormous. It would be like the Super Bowl."

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- It's not exactly the "Super Bowl of Love" envisioned by David Letterman, but it could mark an easing of recent tensions between the late-night comedian and daytime talk queen Oprah Winfrey.

A spokeswoman for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" confirmed on Friday that she had turned the tables on CBS's "Late Show" host by inviting Letterman to make his first-ever appearance on her program.

Letterman has been playfully haranguing Winfrey to join him on the air for an "hour of healing" since Time magazine quoted her as vowing never to go on his show again after two previous guest stints left her feeling "like the butt of his jokes."

"I felt completely uncomfortable sitting in that chair," Winfrey said in Time. "But I have a great deal of respect for his talent."

This week, Letterman suggested he and Winfrey could patch up their differences in a "Super Bowl of Love" officiated by self-help guru Dr. Phil McGraw, who himself took a lot ribbing from Letterman until becoming one of the most popular "Late Show" guests earlier this year.

His entreaties were ignored until Thursday, when Winfrey extended an olive branch of her own.

Announcing at the taping of Friday's "Late Show" that "Oprah no longer hates me," Letterman revealed she had invited him to appear on her top-rated syndicated talk program. But the sardonic comedian was noncommittal.

"It can't possibly happen because that would screw up the Super Bowl of Love," Letterman said. "Because here's what would happen: I would go on the Oprah show and I would break down and sob like a little girl."

Instead, Letterman said he wanted to go through with the rapprochement he had imagined.

"Dr. Phil will come out first and straighten me out, because the problem is me," he said. "I have an attitude problem. There is something wrong with me. And then, when he feels it's safe, Oprah will come out. ... And then the love will explode."

Reached by telephone on Friday afternoon, a spokesman for the "Late Show" left open the possibility that Letterman might accept Winfrey's offer, saying, "he has not decided."

In one sign that a thaw was already in the air, Letterman last month acknowledged on the air that Winfrey had sent him a generous baby gift just after the birth of his son, Harry -- a large tub filled with children's books.

Originally posted by B.A.hist
Julia Roberts said on his show the other night that if he hadn't been on Oprah by the next time she does her show, that she would take Dave w/ her. That would be kind of funny.

Dave says that Oprah HAS invited him to go on her show but Dave is afraid he'll end up crying like a little school girl.

Originally posted by Chew
He spent several weeks on the Oprah journal wanting to get on her show, but now that she's finally offered: he won't go?

Who gets to Letterman? Cher. When she appeared on the show for the first time in May, Letterman asked her why she's been reluctant to be a guest. Cher replied, with a straight face, that she thought he was an "*******." The audience roared, but Letterman was discombobulated and never recovered for the rest of the evening, even though Cher slipped him a note that read, "Dearest David, you're not an *******, love, Cher." "It did hurt my feelings," Letterman admits. "Cher was one of the few people I've really wanted to have on the show, and then she calls me an *******. I felt like a total fool, especially since I say all kinds of things to people. I was sitting there thinking, 'Okay, Mr. Big Shot, can you take it as well as you can dish it out?"

If you've read Bill Carter's book The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night, Carter noted that Letterman--probably because he was less constrained in the Late Night with David Letterman on NBC--had a bad habit of causing problems with celebrity guests, with Cher and Shirley McLaine being the best examples of those problems.