Letterman : the last giant of late night / Jason Zinoman.
Zinoman, Jason, author.
2017
PN1992.4.L39 Z56 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Letterman : the last giant of late night / Jason Zinoman.
Author
Zinoman, Jason, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062377210
0062377213
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
xvi, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PN1992.4.L39 Z56 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4502/8092
Summary
In a career spanning more than thirty years, Letterman redefined the modern talk show with an ironic comic style that transcended traditional television. Yet he is a remote, even reclusive, figure whose career is widely misunderstood. Zinoman goes behind the scenes of Letterman's television career to illuminate the origins of his revolutionary comedy, its overlooked influences, and how his work intersects with and reveals his famously eccentric personality.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
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Part I: Education of a talk-show host, 1947-1979. Shock jock ; When David met Merrill
Part II: The anti-talk show, 1980-1984. The art of stupid ; Not tonight ; The Harvard takeover
Part III: The archangel of irony, 1984-1987. The founding fathers of late night ; The writer under the stairs ; The Letterman generation ; The two Daves
Part IV: Writer's block, 1988-1993. Comedy is not pretty! ; Meg and Mom
Part V: The very big show, 1993-2015. The agony of victory ; The Oscar myth ; Hinky ; More fun than humans should be allowed to have.

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