For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

Even though they are not directly addressed, characterisations of Dr. Ruth, David Letterman, and Ronald Reagan ( who was President of the United States at the time ) appear.

Among those who remained were William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore.

What's more, Letterman was told he couldn't book any of the old-school showbiz guests such as Don Rickles, Bob Newhart and the like who were fixtures on Johnny's show.

Starting in September 1991, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was pushed back from 11: 30 p. m. to 11: 35 p. m., with Letterman starting at 12: 35 a. m., at the request of NBC affiliates who wanted more advertising time for their profitable late newscasts.

This was done against the wishes of Carson, who had always seen Letterman as his rightful successor, according to CBS senior vice president Peter Lassally, a onetime producer for both men.

On June 1, 2009, Conan O ' Brien ( who had succeeded Letterman as host of Late Night in 1993 ) took over as host of The Tonight Show — an event Letterman referenced in his own show's Top Ten List on that night — and Letterman's " feud " with Leno temporarily ceased.

Lawler and an injured Kaufman appear on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, theoretically to call a truce, but Lawler insults Kaufman, who throws a drink at the wrestler and spews a vicious tirade of epithets.

* Spike Feresten, talk show host on Fox, writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, writer for Seinfeld, who wrote the infamous Soup Nazi episode.

* Rob Burnett ( born 1962 ), producer, director and writer, who is the executive producer of the Late Show with David Letterman and president and CEO of Worldwide Pants.

He engaged in long, seemingly boring conversations with his " supervising producer " Manuel Andrack ( known as " chief dramatic adviser "), who sat at a desk next to Schmidt's until 2005, and, like Letterman, also included his staff in the show, for instance, his cue card girl Suzana Novinscak and his band leader Helmut Zerlett.

Around this time, the mainstream national audience was exposed to Blues Traveler by television host David Letterman, who has introduced them as " favorite band ".

" Kimmel could also be doing this as an homage to David Letterman, who, in the mid-1990s, had a similar recurring joke, briefly apologizing at the end of each show to Norm Macdonald.

Michael Andretti, who had left his long-time ride at Newman-Haas Racing because he wanted to run the Indianapolis 500 again ( something they weren't willing to do ), bought a majority interest in CART's Team Green, who returned to Indianapolis in 2002 with Dario Franchitti, Paul Tracy and Michael Andretti, and moved it to the IRL that same year as Andretti Green Racing, and in 2004 former CART champion Bobby Rahal's operation moved to the IRL as Rahal Letterman Racing.

Along with Paul Shaffer of the David Letterman Show he organized a benefit for Mike Smith ( the Dave Clark Five's lead singer ), who had suffered a paralyzing fall at his home in Spain.

Carson himself had always favored Letterman ; notably Carson, who had previously been interviewed by Letterman, made two appearances on Letterman's rival CBS show, made no mention of Leno during his final shows and regularly sent Letterman monologue jokes in his final years.

By mid-2010, The Tonight Show was receiving its lowest ratings since 1992, an average of 4 million total viewers, though he remained ahead of Letterman, who experienced a coinciding decline in ratings.

On the subject of influences, Onstad remarked in an interview that " You can't help but be affected by Mark Twain books, Lay's Potato Chip ads, a fat lady who is yelling outside, David Letterman, etc.

Ovitz is a private investor who continues to advise informally the careers of luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, David Letterman and Tom Clancy.

On 10 November 2010, Crowe told David Letterman that he had been smoking more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years of his life, and that he had fallen off the wagon the previous night and smoked heavily.

Although Letterman later expressed regret at the way Hicks had been handled, Hicks did not appear on the show again.

On the third night, after baseball great Hank Aaron finished his interview segment with Letterman, a camera followed him backstage, where TV sporstcaster Al Albert conducted a post-interview chat with Aaron about how it had gone.

At one point she called Letterman an " asshole ", which had to be bleeped.

In 2005, after the death of Johnny Carson, it was revealed that Carson had made a habit of sometimes sending jokes to Letterman which Letterman would then incorporate into his monologues.

In 2000, after Letterman had quintuple bypass surgery, the Late Show Backstage was aired.

In the summer of 2003, Letterman had guest hosts for a month.

' It was the greatest thing that had happened in my life ,' he once said of his first Letterman appearance.

A big Letterman fan, Carvey rejected the offer, causing embarrassment for the network, which had publicly floated his name.

While other cast members portraying themselves are made to resemble their then-look, Shaffer and David Letterman are completely unaltered, though both had longer hair and Letterman had contacts when the original incident occurred in 1982.

In 1987 Late Night with David Letterman conducted an on-air campaign to get Bangor to watch Dave, after discovering he had unusually low ratings there.

The town had lobbied Letterman for the status for months.

It had the Nebraska legislature proclaim him an admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, as well as inundate Letterman with letters, postcards, and bribes of flowers, clothing, animals, alcoholic beverages, shredded money, and free checkups at the Wahoo Medical Center.

In a 1994 appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, Harris said he had his driver's licence permanently suspended for knocking over a double-decker bus in Dublin, Ireland.

In a 2008 interview on the Late Show with David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks that summer living in France.

" He also took time to thank Letterman for his years of support, calling him " the best friend my music's ever had ".

NBC executives hoped to get Carvey to take over the 12: 30 a. m. ( ET ) weeknight spot in the network's lineup in 1993 when David Letterman left his show, Late Night with David Letterman, for an 11: 30 p. m. ( ET ) show on CBS.

Letterman joked that " he hoped they ( Rage Against the Machine ) weren't neglecting their school work ".

David Letterman cut to a commercial when it appeared Reed might get violent after being asked too many questions about his drinking.

During his shows prior to her appearance, Letterman gushed at how beautiful he thought she was, and would say how he will get his people to bring her to the show.

Appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman shortly after Jackson died in 2009, McCartney spoke about Jackson's acquisition of the Beatles songs and the impact of it on their relationship: And which was, you know, that was cool, somebody had to get it, I suppose.