Paul Shaffer Possibly Leaving Letterman

No wonder Paul is leaving? Davey "Fidel" Letterman has been sounding like a Communist for the last 4 years since his "Anointed One" has been in office. Everyone I know has stopped watching the show.

Will he stay or will he go ?  I cannot think of anything else I should be thinking about right now, can you ?

When Letterman started using his "comedy" to relentlessly bash Republicans and, ostensibly, to campaign for OhBummer, millions of Americans tuned out. Funny is funny, but rude is rude. Enough said. Bye-bye, Dave and Paul!

It amazes me that people can always take an article and turn it into a political view. But I can see why. The right wingers are upset that Letterman, a top one percenter, refused to drink the GOP kool-aid.

It's not his unabashed liberalism that bother's me - Dave has just turned into a grumpy old man. Period. He's mean spirited about everything. I noticed that happening soon after his son was born - don't know if the kid is wearing him out or he's feeling his age, but he hasn't seemed to enjoy himself for years, and therefore I don't enjoy watching. I'm also among a growing number of viewers who find that the shows that are on later at night are much more entertaining - Ferguson, Kimmel, Fallon. At least ABC is letting Kimmel fianlly step into the spotlight while Fallon and Ferguson continue to wait in the wings for their respective Dorothy Brocks to finally retire.

I've always favored Letterman's delivery and quirky style of humor over Leno, but I agree with the comments above re: his politics.
I'm sick to death of Obama, and even more put out by Letterman's pandering to the liberal/leftist agenda, at the expense of the public-at-large.
When Romney finally appeared on Letterman the other night, there was no sit-down discussion about issues or policy, only a clownish appearance, which Romney, or at the very least, his handlers should have dismissed out-of-hand as unacceptable.
Letterman, unique amongst ALL the late-night roundup of hosts, continues to shove his liberal tendencies down the public's throat, secure in the fact that his ratings are at the top versus Leno, since the ill-managed Conan-Leno-NBC fiasco soured viewers, and finally gave him, Letterman, the top numbers he'd craved for decades. You never see Conan, Leno, Ferguson, Kimmel or Fallon being SO overtly disrespectful and blatantly hateful toward one candidate over another.
What's disingenuous about it to me is that Letterman and all the rest of his ilk, the major players reporting the news to us on all three networks, ALL the celebrities on these shows AND most, if not ALL of the liberal politicians, are rich beyond the dreams of the common guy in the street. And yet, they all feel so cozy and hip putting down Romney as the big, bad, rich guy whose going to despoil America, and make his cronies richer at our expense.
Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing, because that's been the democrook's MO for a hundred- fifty years; pretend to be on the side of everyman, and silently change the system to their advantage, lining their pockets in the process.....
Oh yeah, time for that a_s-kisser Schaffer, to go!

It sounds to me like the whole show is getting eased out anyway. Letterman, in all,  has been here as long as Carson. There's rumblings that Craig Ferguson will eventually be in the 11:30 spot. Therefore, when Paul goes, Dave will too. That simple.

 

No host should be around that long, whatever their virtues. Judging from these posts, one's easily reminded of the old saying, "familiarity breeds contempt."  Late night hosts are no exception. How long is it going to be before even Conan's hip quotient goes down? He hits the big 20 next year.

Most of the comments here lambasting Dave Letterman or Paul Schaffer are just pure baloney, mostly from disgruntled right wingers!

A man with a monkey would be more entertaining.  Find a hot babe!  A little eye candy would help.