David Letterman is signing off Wednesday night, and his fellow late-night TV hosts are showing their respects in various ways. Jimmy Kimmel is taking tomorrow night off, Jimmy Fallon did an on-air homage. Seth Meyers opened his show with a shot-by-shot (approximate) recreation of Late Night's opening credits in 1982, when Letterman launched the post-Tonight Show program. The announcer introduced Meyers as "a man who knows it's Letterman's show and he's just borrowing it." Which is a pretty good tribute.
But of course you can't turn back the clock to 1982, especially in midtown Manhattan. "The biggest difference between 1982 New York City and now, today's New York City: So, so many fewer pornography theaters," Meyers explained. "It's so sad, because people still bring families here for vacation, and I don't know where they go anymore." 1982 Letterman probably couldn't have said it better himself. —Peter Weber
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