The Late Show with David Letterman is dark this week (as it is more and more wont to be), but it’s hard to imagine a world in which Letterman is not a staple of our Late Night lives. Or, even weirder, imagining David Letterman as a sitcom actor. Before Letterman got his first show — an early morning talk show called The David Letterman Show — he made his mark, outside of his writing and stand-up, with an occasional foray into the world of prime-time television acting (notably with an alien named Mork). It’s truly a brief history, but here’s a look at David Letterman’s now strange flirtation with acting.
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A Brief History of David Letterman Trying to Act in Sitcoms and Movies
