I never saw this before, but I was very moved.
The Tonight Show, when I was a kid was really important to me. I watched it all the time even when I should have been sleeping. I was very touched just watching how Dave did this episode. Don't know how I missed it before.
You can learn a lot about Letterman from this!
When Conan took over from Jay, I was very happy, because Conan seemed like one of us, in a way and he really had to work to get people to get comfortable with him. We've all, most anyway, have been the guy people just seemed to hate when all you were trying to do
is make them laugh and be happy.
Johnny Carson really was a classy guy. I'm beginning to think there's no room for classy guys anymore out there. Somehow the structure of business and life is crushing the spaces where guys like that might thrive.