Mike86

This is the last shot Vedder has to be on Letterman's show though so I'm sure being asked is a pretty big deal. He can do Fallon any time. It'd be even better if the whole band showed up. I'll be surprised if Grohl or the Foo Fighters don't show up on one of the final shows.

bluetoast

Foo Fighters will have to be there on Wednesday.

mwbmis

Here's Kimmel's tribute in Time...

http://time.com/3858014/david-letter...immel-tribute/

It made me re-watch the Nastassja Kinski interview from 1982 on youtube. What a weird wonderful thing that was.

William Fuld

I thought it was touching.

whotony

This whole thing is a serious downer for me.

I've been watching since the first NBC show.
This is depressing to see.....

Count Dooku

I agree. The idea that whole thing was his conception just shows that being a musical virtuoso does not mean you are an entertainment genius. Painful to watch.

Josh-da-man

You must be in or near Orlando, Florida.

dolphinboy

"Say hello to my little friend."

mphtrilogy

catching up on this weeks ep, i liked the paul interview and thought his james brown stuff was great.. paul has always been a good sport so I had no issue with his shmaltzy video...

Here's the future island link to one of the great performances of the past few years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ee4bfu_t3c

and here is a lik to the top 10 from one place, including the james brown paul was referencing, its sensational

http://mentalfloss.com/article/49926...avid-letterman

mphtrilogy

the julia roberts interview was sweet, i skipped over stern to the don rickles part, that was pretty good.. the adam sandler tribute was great, and the ray romano was really nice.. very touching...

mwbmis

Yeah, the Ray Romano interview was pretty touching. I think we all know the story, but Ray really put it out there. His equating to John Mayer's American Pie performance brought it home.

For the record, I think Dave is both right and wrong on Everybody Loves Raymond. The success of the show is due to Ray, the cast, the writers, and the production team, but he gave Ray an opportunity, and the Letterman cache helped keep the show on the air in the first season when it struggled to find an audience.

madcougar

Houston is also replacing Letterman with the Mentalist.

james2025a

Glad to see Norm is on one of the final shows.

mwbmis

Yeah, he was just on in March and said goodbye then. He was really, really funny that night so I guess then decided to have him on again.

mwbmis

Dylan is the music guest on Tuesday.

windom

Isn't CBS still programming that hour? I hadn't heard anything about them giving it over to the affiliates.

madcougar

Perhaps. And they're showing the Mentalist.

Double_Oh_7

Colbert doesn't start for a few months, I think CBS is plugging in reruns until then since they can't run Late Show.

windom

Wouldn't it make some sense to bump The Late Late Show up to an hour earlier and run repeated shows after that until Colbert? They'd probably get more people watching TLLS at that hour who don't normally stay up that late. Or would they be too afraid to put it against Fallon, Kimmel & O'Brien?

madcougar

What if The Late Late Show does pretty well at 11:30? Then what do they do in September? I think they're just trying to avoid creating a situation.

whotony

Yeh local affiliates have some odd choices here. Not sure why they delay TLLS 30 minutes for inside edition.

mwbmis

Norm MacDonald breaking down and crying was unexpected.

shaun3000

Completely unexpected. I can’t say I’ve ever seen him serious. I read somewhere that Norm’s performance was the last stand-up performance on Letterman. With three shows left that doesn’t sound like a stretch.

dolphinboy

Wow, I'd already seen clips of it on youtube and twitter and I still lost it when Norm began to choke up.

The Germany against the world jokes had me cracking up, though. "What do you think you are, Mars or something?"

And "I is short for I and D is short for Dentification."

aktick

I haven't watched much Letterman for years, but with Jay retiring and now Dave, it's truly the end of an era. I just barely remember Carson, so I grew up watching these guys pretty much from the beginning (born in 83)...now I feel old.