David Letterman is not dead yet. "With years of vitality left, he has been trying, since his Late Show farewell in May 2015, to figure out what his next step should be," The New York Times reports. But while the 69-year-old is unsure what exactly his future holds, he knows for sure what won't be in it: "I don't miss late-night television,” he told the Times. "And I'm a little embarrassed that, for 33 years, it was the laser focus of my life."
What [Letterman] is clear he does not want, and does not miss, is the platform provided by a nightly talk show, where he and [Paul] Shaffer could riff on current events — "Something about it, it just left us," he said. Not even the final throes of a presidential election whose undulations grow wilder by the day made him nostalgic for this."It's too big a job," said Mr. Letterman, who was nonetheless pleased to see one of his old Late Show segments, in which he mocked Donald J. Trump for outsourcing his clothing line to Asia, used in an advertisement for the Hillary Clinton campaign. [The New York Times]
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