David Letterman is back on ! The 74-year-old comedian appeared on Tuesday's episode of the show he originated 40 years ago to the day, and told its current host, Seth Meyers, about what he felt leading up to the 1982 premiere.«What was I consumed by?
Paralytic fear,» Letterman quipped, before explaining that his worry about the premiere was due to his failed NBC morning show, , which lasted for just weeks in 1980. «We had blown up the NBC daytime schedule a year previously.
We had a show, a lot of us had a show, that we thought was just great,» Letterman explained. «It was on for 90 minutes live, nine to 10:30 a.m.
on NBC. It replaced two or three game shows. It turned out that America didn't want them replaced, certainly didn't want them replaced by me.»Despite his fears, Letterman opted to return to the network, something he was able to do because «when you're young, one of the nice complementary features of being young is being dumb.»«We all thought, 'Television is the way television is because we're not there yet.
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