Letterman’s admission of affairs with staffers deserves a round of applause.
In the battle for late night talk show supremacy, David Letterman stuck it to the competition last Thursday. There really is no way to beat Dave’s on-air admission that he’d had sex with several of his female staffers and that fellow CBS employee and 48 Hours Mystery producer Robert Joel Halderman had threatened to expose his affairs unless he forked over $2 million in hush money. Like a true player, the 62-year-old host straight up told the world that yes, he had been hosting the Late Show of Genitals with David Letterman. Not only did he get it in, he also got some self-deprecating jokes into his admission: “Would it be embarrassing if [the affairs] were made public? Yes, it would—especially for the women.”
Obviously a sex scandal is embarrassing for any public figure, whether they’re a TV host, an athlete, or a politician, but when shit hits the fan, you gotta say something. Here are our favorite admissions of guilty pleasure…
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It’s never easy to say sorry, especially when everyone’s watching…just ask David Letterman. The Late Show host sputtered an apology yesterday to hockey mom and moose stew connoisseur Sarah Palin, after Letterman accidentally joked about Palin’s 14-year-old daughter fornicating, sans condom, with A-Rod (he thought that the joke was referring to Palin’s actual single-mom daughter, Bristol, who at 18 is fully legal yet still unable to figure out how to use a condom). Oops. Palin reportedly accepted Dave’s apology, even though she hopes that “men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.” First of all, we’re surprised that Palin believes in evolution. Second of all, evolution takes millions of years; while we’re waiting, might as well keep the crude sexploitation jokes coming.
In today’s age of political correctness, making a joke in public is like farting on the subway–it might feel good, but it’s going to offend at least a few people. Read on to watch the clips of television and radio show hosts whose inappropriate commentary led to begrudging public apologies…
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