Stop wringing your hands over poor David Letterman!
by
Trebuchet
06/18/2009, 7:30 PM #
For the record, Dave has been telling jokes about squirrel genitals for some thirty years now and nobody seems to get enough of that. Or smelly foreign cab drivers. Or the ubiquity of the rat population of New York City.
But more than anything, Dave and Jay and Conan make jokes about celebrities. That is why people tune in every night - they want to hear celebrities made fun of.
The Palins are celebrities. Just like Madonna or Paris Hilton or any of the silly American Idol people. They have embarrassed themselves in public and people pay to hear jokes about those kinds of people. This is not a political stunt, at least not on the part of Dave. Sarah, sure, Dave no.
And one last point - Letterman is definitely the self effacing type. He has made jokes about his son being illegitimate, his lack of a marriage license and all that. He has had guests (Juliet Roberts comes to mind, but there has been many more) that come on and relentlessly humiliate him over his somewhat tawdry (only recently amended) lifestyle.
You see, Dave is a celebrity too. And he jokes about celebrities.