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Halderman wants to go to trial (TVSquad) - 3 weeks ago It looks like we've got the makings of a fight on our hands. Robert Halderman, the man accused of extorting David Letterman and turning the always funny Late Show into a storm of innuendo and gossip, wants his case to go to trial and most likely won't accept a plea deal or make some sort of arrangement with prosecutors. So far, he's got two things going for him: a whirlwind of press surrounding his case and the fallout of his arrest and money. The New York Observer reports he's raised almost $100,000 in legal funds for his case. I hope this doesn't happen, but is it just me or is it starting to look like Halderman's trial could actually hurt Letterman and company more than it helps him?
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| Weezer Snuggie is no joke (TVSquad) - 4 weeks ago If a fan of the band Weezer and the laziness empowerment blanket the Snuggie and have been hoping for a way to combine the two, you're in luck. Weezer fans might have been curious to know why the band was wearing the popular blanket during last Friday's Late Show with David Letterman performance. The band has not only released a new line of the sleeved blanket, but they also have their own legitimate infomercial that tells you how you can buy the band's new CD Raditude and your own "Weezer Snuggie." WARNING: After watching this video, the phrase "Weezer Snuggie" will not leave your brain for at least the next three hours. Viewer discretion is advised.
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The TV Squad Podcast: Bill Scheft of The Late Show, Cake Boss, Mad Men and more (TVSquad) - 4 weeks ago Today I made an executive decision and gave the podcast an oh-so-creative name: "The TV Squad Podcast." This was after we recorded it on Tuesday, so I still refer to it by its old APB name. If you have any suggestions, let me know at tvsquad [at] gmail [dot] com.In this episode, Late Show writer Bill Scheft joins me, Danny Gallagher and Kona Gallagher to talk about his new book Everything Hurts. Of course, there's lots of good behind-the-scenes info about what it was like to work at The Late Show as the whole Letterman blackmail scandal broke. He also talks about writing monologue jokes for his boss the Monday after Dave talked about the scandal on the air. He also tells some funny stories about being canned from Sports Illustrated (and spawns a new catchphrase), feeding lines to the guy who played Mike Singletary and more. It's 45 minutes of fun. After the interview, Kona, Danny and I give our picks of the week. Run time is 1:03:02. You can listen to the podcast below; or download from here or by subscribing to our RSS podcast feed. It is also available via iTunes. Feel free to leave us feedback in the comments. By the way, the music at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Life" by Justin Trawick.
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| Female Writer Recalls Hostile Workplace at Late Night; Calls for More Diversity (TVGuide) - 5 weeks ago
One of the few women to write for Late Night with David Letterman recalls a hostile, sexually charged workplace when she worked for the show in the late '80s. In a first-person piece for Vanity Fair Other Links From TVGuide.com |
You've been warned... David Letterman may have his own sex tape (TVSquad) - 5 weeks ago It turns out the David Letterman sex scandal hasn't reached its climax. It was just napping. The National Enquirer reports that the Late Show host may have been caught on camera getting it on with a member of his staff. The footage in question came from a surveillance camera in the show's offices that Letterman and his "much younger female co-worker" did not know had been installed in the building. The tape may be released when Robert Halderman, Letterman's extorter, goes to trial or when some sick son of a bitch with nothing but time on his hands and bandwidth to waste decides to post the thing on the Internet. For the sake of humanity, its vision and waning sex drives, don't. Just don't. [via Fark]
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Send us your questions for Late Show writer Bill Scheft for the next APB Podcast (TVSquad) - 5 weeks ago Word of our podcast revival must be spreading like an Alaskan oil fire because we've just booked our first celebrity guest...and it's a biggie in my book.Late Show writer and author Bill Scheft will join me and TV Squad bossman Joel Keller on next week's APB Podcast. We'll talk about his work on David Letterman's late night show and the changing landscape of late night TV as well as his newest novel, Everything Hurts. If you've got questions for our guest (and I'm sure you do), leave them in the comments section below and we'll ask them to our gracious guest when we record the podcast at 10 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, Oct. 27. I'm sure you're all dying to know the answer to one big question, so don't waste your time by posting it below: what the hell does Bill have against 49ers coach Mike Singletary?!?
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Letterman tragedy fouls grand memories of Late Nights past (TVSquad) - 5 weeks ago What happened to David Letterman?I don't mean the endlessly publicized sex scandal or the Sarah Palin controversy. I don't mean the ham-fisted and unfunny political commentary -- or even the strange tales of stalkers around every corner. I mean what happened to the guy from the mid-late 1980s who seemed so above and beyond any such tired showbiz cliches? When Letterman followed Carson during the Golden Age of NBC late night TV, his show was admittedly quirky. But it was one of the best examples of post-modern comedy in the medium's history. Late Night with David Letterman not only mocked TV entertainment while being a part of it, but the show made fun of the very idea that people get paid to gab or act silly in front of millions of people. Continue reading Letterman tragedy fouls grand memories of Late Nights past
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| Don vs. Don: Rickles roasts Adams (TVSquad) - 6 weeks ago There are very few recurring television moments that instantly grab my undivided attention: seeing an undead Billy Mays still pitching Oxy-Clean, Twilight Zone episodes that pwn Nazis, late night Skinemax. Now you can add Don Rickles to that list. He's become a staple of late night during the early Tonight Show because he's engaging, colorful and damn funny. Every time he stops in at Letterman's Late Show, I have to stop what I'm doing and watch and that includes running a pregnant friend to the hospital, although it does ruin some of the comedy for me. All that screaming. He's also great at roasts, not because he's a great insult comic but because he can be just as down to Earth and genuine with the people he's skewering. His best roast is one that never made it to television: a roast of Get Smart's Don Adams at the Playboy Mansion.
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| Tina Fey, 24-Year-Old Virgin, "Couldn't Give It Away" (TVGuide) - 6 weeks ago
Awkward alert: Sex was again the hot topic on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman as Tina Fey shared that she didn't lose her virginity until the age of 24 because she "couldn't give it away." Other Links From TVGuide.com |
Subtle Subtitles: Let's Make A Deal (TVSquad) - 7 weeks ago If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption! Last week's winner is D with this: "Dave has sex, sends flowers and pays for college for his interns and all I got was a lousy pizza!" This week's picture is from Let's Make A Deal: 
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Anyone could write a better headline than EW, so prove it (TVSquad) - 7 weeks ago That bastion of journalistic excellence, Entertainment Weekly, unveiled their new cover and (surprise!) Letterman made the cover. It features the Late Show host without pants, which in any other context would be the lowest selling issue of EW since Ernest Borgnine forgot to put on underpants. My problem isn't with the picture, although it seems it probably should be. It's the headline. Is "Oh, Dave" the best they could do? Hell, "Where the Wild Things Are" would be ten times better and save a fifth of the print space. Write a better headline in the comments section below and we'll feature the best ones in a future post.
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| CBS Colleagues Post Bail for Letterman Suspect, Still in Shock over Arrest (TVGuide) - 7 weeks ago
One week after he was arrested on charges of extortion against Late Show host David Letterman, colleagues of Robert Joel Halderman are still in shock over the 48 Hours Mystery producer's alleged criminal activities, reports The New York Times. Marcy McGinnis was Halderman's boss in the 1990s, when she served as the London bureau chief for CBS News. "I said to my mother... Other Links From TVGuide.com |
Paul Shaffer on David Letterman's extortion scandal: "(silence)" (TVSquad) - 7 weeks ago One notably close figurehead in David Letterman-gate seems to have gone overlooked, a shiny bald one. Letterman's longtime sidekick and band leader Paul Shaffer has just released a new memoir called We'll Be Here the Rest of Our Lives about his rise to late night music infamy. He talked more than a few ears off about his own life in music, but he's kept very hush-hush on the whole Letterman brewhaha. "You know, I just can't talk about it," Shaffer told a Time reporter in a recent interview. "There is a legal proceeding going on. I've been advised that I can't comment on that stuff." He couldn't even tell Harry Smith on CBS' Early Show on his own network just what the mood is like around Late Show central. However, the rest of both interviews offer a very interesting peak into a life in music that has spanned just about every end of the TV dial and a very funny diversion from Smith's persistent reporter powers to get something out of him about the whole scandal. Something tells me Shaffer would have made one hell of a good press secretary.
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Is Stephanie Birkitt still working for Letterman? (TVSquad) - 2 months ago It's become the new scandal of the week of the century that just won't go away. Now TVTattle.com has discovered that Stephanie Birkitt, the "former" Late Show employee who had a fling with host David Letterman, is still getting credit in the show's closing credits. The image above lists Birkitt, the girl who also worked in front of the camera as Vicki the prize girl during the show's "Know Your Current Events" bit, as Letterman's assistant. Talk about a scandal that literally just won't go away. Of course, there are a number of explanations for this (it's just an inside joke, it was a mistake, etc.) Keep watching the closing credits and see if her name still pops up under the "assistants" slot and be sure to let us know below if you see it.
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| Letterman's Mea Culpa Brings in High Ratings (TVGuide) - 2 months ago
David Letterman may be in the doghouse with wife, but he's still a big hit with audiences. Monday's episode of Late Show with David Letterman played to... Other Links From TVGuide.com |
| Letterman needs to stop talking about blackmail scandal... immediately (TVSquad) - 2 months ago You knew that after a weekend of blackmail scandal news and tabloid stories, David Letterman wasn't going to open his show on Monday just telling jokes about Chicago losing the Olympics. In fact, he started off the proceedings with a bang, asking the audience, "did your weekend just fly by?" Then he proceeded telling some pretty funny jokes about the scandal; he spent the weekend "raking my hate mail," that it was "chilly outside the house and chilly inside the house," and that the next phase is to go on Oprah and sob. He even acknowledged his odd comedic predicament by trailing off on jokes about Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford and Eliot Spitzer, realizing that he's not in the position to poke fun at those folks. But then, after the break, he sincerely apologized to his staff for putting them through this mess, and said he had a lot of work to do to repair things with his wife, Regina Lasko. It was at that moment (video below) that I realized that Dave needs to stop talking about this mess... immediately: Continue reading Letterman needs to stop talking about blackmail scandal... immediately
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