“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.”
- Kareem Abdul- Jabbar
For just shy of three decades, David Letterman gave us all a near-nightly dose of comedy silliness. Though his show was not the first to explore a list format as a form of easily-digested brain aperitif, Letterman and Co. turned the format into a perfect storm of silliness and thoughtfulness, something discussed and shared the next day, and eventually syndicated for morning radio the following day.