Thankfully, Letterman is as entertaining as ever since handing “The Late Show” down to Stephen Colbert — a show he doesn’t watch, the bearded ex-host says.
Getting attention is Letterman’s take on President Trump.
The 69-year-old comedian and the 70-year-old president go way back.
“I always regarded him as, if you’re going to have New York City, you gotta have a Donald Trump,” Letterman says.
“He was a joke of a wealthy guy. We didn’t take him seriously. He’d sit down, and I would just start making fun of him. He never had any retort. He was big and doughy, and you could beat him up.”
The audience loved it, he says.
“Beyond that, I remember a friend in the PR business told me that he knew for a fact — this was three or four presidential campaigns ago — that Donald Trump would never run for president; he was just monkeying around for the publicity. So I assumed that was the story and now it turns out he’s the president. Now, who owns New York?”
Marchese asked how “satire [can] protect us from Donald Trump.”
Letterman responded: “In a 2007 playoff game, a swarm of midges from Lake Erie caused Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain to blow the game with a few wild pitches. … Well, that’s Alec Baldwin and ‘Saturday Night Live.’ It’s distracting the batter. Eventually Trump’s going to take a fastball off the sternum and have to leave the game.”
Reactions to the interview:
David Letterman has some further thoughts about Trump and his inner circle in an NY Mag interview. https://t.co/Y4jp7zAgUM pic.twitter.com/bKbqodzugx
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 6, 2017
So many great bits in the Vulture interview with Letterman, but these 2 show why I’ve always loved him. https://t.co/vSE5yNEOZj pic.twitter.com/wNEwumIsXN
— shauna (@goldengateblond) March 6, 2017
David Letterman says he “would have gone to work on Trump” rather than tousle his hair as Jimmy Fallon did. https://t.co/8MRaBXekNl‘
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 6, 2017