The Degeneracy of Dirty Dave Letterman

The Degeneracy of Dirty Dave Letterman

Dave Letterman seemed the victor in the late-night comedy war when NBC forced Jay Leno into premature retirement after 17 years on “The Tonight Show,” a prime spot the aging Letterman had publicly and bitterly envied.

Dirty Dave may have won that war but he is still and always will be Good Ol’ Dirty Dave.

Scheduled to retire himself next May, last Wednesday Letterman was involved in a brouhaha with his long-time cue card guy Tony Mendez who was peremptorily fired and escorted from the Ed Sullivan Theater for assaulting a staff writer, Bill Sheft.

Though loyal in defending his boss as unresponsible in the mess, Mendez did react when Letterman complained, “Tony, your sour disposition isn’t helping,” a cutting rebuke to which Mendez ­responded, “You’re the one who has the sour disposition, mothf–ker’’ and later explained he was “pissed off” but “That’s how we talk.”

Degeneracy is a harsh term but how else do we define someone who:

–Seduces his 20-ish favorite intern Stephanie Birkitt before and after finally marrying his long-term mistress and mother of his son, Harry, Regina Lasko.

–Refers to a vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, as a “slutty flight attendant.” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=39553.)