Happy 79th birthday to David Letterman, who on February 1st, 1982, took the reins of NBC's Late Night and kept them for 33 years before stepping down in 2015. In total he went on the air for 6,080 episodes, surpassing his friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late-night talk show host in American television history. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he went on to host what is essentially a late-night talk show on Netflix, called My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. The first season of which contained a cross-interview with Jerry Seinfeld entitled "You're David Letterman, you idiot." READ some more about the famous host... (1947)
