David Letterman doesn’t have plans of retiring anytime quickly.
Talking to GQ for the journal’s Video Cowl Story in an interview revealed Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 77-year-old former discuss present host denied he can be slowing down his profession.
“I’m stunned that I’m nonetheless doing it at my age,” he informed the outlet, whereas additionally sharing information of his newest endeavor — the Letterman TV FAST Channel on Samsung TV Plus.
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Letterman’s Late Night time with David Letterman aired on NBC in 1982, earlier than transferring to The Late Present with David Letterman on CBS in 1993.
In Might 2015, he stepped down from his job because the host of The Late Present after 33 years.
Nonetheless, throughout his interview with GQ, when requested if he thought of himself “semi-retired, not retired in any respect [or] retired,” Letterman didn’t hesitate to make clear.
“Retirement is a fable. Retirement is nonsense. You will not retire. The human mechanism is not going to permit you to retire,” he informed the outlet.
After agreeing that typically, individuals do retire sooner or later, Letterman additional detailed his viewpoint.
“However you recognize what I am saying. So long as you’re wholesome, you continue to wish to produce. And you can find methods to, as soon as I ended doing the present, it took me a few years to determine that, oh, it is a fully totally different rhythm,” he mentioned.
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“And with out the rhythm that you simply’re accustomed to, largely unsatisfying. So you bought to search out one thing that is vital to you.”
Although the funnyman could now not have his personal late night time tv present anymore, it hasn’t stopped him from making appearances previously.
In February 2022, Letterman dropped by Late Night time with Seth Meyers to assist have fun the present’s fortieth anniversary.
Whereas talking with Meyers, 50, about The David Letterman Present, he recalled how issues didn’t essentially go easily.
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“It was on for 90 minutes dwell, 9 to 10:30 [a.m.] on NBC. It changed two or three recreation exhibits. It turned out that America did not need them changed, definitely did not need them changed by me. However whenever you’re younger, one of many good complementary options of being younger is being dumb.”
“In present enterprise, when you screw one thing up — like, blowing up a community’s daytime schedule — you recognize, it might be some time earlier than they name your quantity once more,” he continued. “However ultimately, we got here again.”
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The next yr, Letterman returned to The Late Present eight years after he left because the host.
Throughout the November 2023 sitdown with Stephen Colbert, Letterman was requested what he “missed” about internet hosting “in any case these 4,000 exhibits.”
“I miss everything,” Letterman mentioned.
