David Letterman extorted for $2 million for banging staff members - Page 2

Considering he wasn't married OR had a child at the time.. this is a non-issue. I don't even know how the guy who was extorting him thought he actually had something incriminating? And cashing a 2 million dollar check must be the stupidest move ever.. especially for a guy working on a show called 48 Hours Mysteries.

No shit. I just said "there's worse."

It's not good for the workplace at all. But people ARE human as well. You shouldn't (not saying that you were, I'm using the universal "you") demonize them because they want to slap their genitals together while grunting feverishly.

Think there will be a rash of sexual harrassment suits, now that this has come out in the open? Possibly some people trying to cash in on this...

Halderman hired John Gotti's lawyer.

I read in the local paper today that Letterman's office was turned into a "love den", complete with a pullout couch. You stay classy, Dave!

Well, how would you propose doing it?

Top 10 Reasons David Letterman's Sextortion Scandal Won't Matter

10. This will give Dave and Bill O'Reilly something to talk about during their next awkward interview.

9. It's not like he was married. Letterman only got hitched seven months ago to Regina Lasko, whom he's been dating for 23 years.

8. Viagra just called. They want to sponsor his show.

7. Circus-freak syndrome: the man who joked about a Palin daughter getting down with an older Yankee has a thing for younger women getting down with older men.

6. Torrid affairs will help distinguish him from his rivals. No chance goody-two-shoes Jay Leno has a hidden sex scandal. No way girls are lining up for Conan. Who's Craig Ferguson?

5. Yep, I did have sexual relations with those women. If Bill could survive Monica, Dave will survive this.

4. The reviews are in—and the critics loved Letterman (just like they always have). "This was an extraordinary piece of television," Entertainment Weekly raved.

3. CBS is now planning a spinoff based on what happened: The Bad Husband, which will air immediately after The Good Wife.

2. Paul Shaffer gets to add another line to his résumé: actor, musician, and wingman. Triple threat!

1. Even his mom is okay with it. She told the New York Daily News that she was "looking forward to seeing the show to see what he has to say," earlier yesterday. What can you say after that?


Top 10 reasons Letterman came clean now

1.) He didn't want the scandal to end up on Page Six.

2.) Why should Paul Shaffer get all the action?

3.) To steal the thunder from Sarah Palin's new book.

4.) Ratings, ratings, ratings.

5.) With Leno out of the way, figures his only competition is skin-emax.

6.) He's updating a popular show segment: Stupid Petting Tricks.

7.) He caught his wife watching Conan O'Brien.

8.) He's trying to pick a fight with Newark's mayor.

9.) Needed to fill the time because John McCain blew off the show.

10.) Is thinking of changing his production company name to 'Worldwide Drop-Your-Pants.'

I know you didn't write it, so I hope you don't mind me saying...

that is the dumbest attempt at making a top 10 list for "humor" that I think I've ever read.

Well, this, exactly. I'm a huge Dave fan, so I mean no disrespect when I say this, but he's just a talk-show host. I mean, if the President of the United States can survive a very public sex scandal, and still remain one of the most popular presidents we've ever had, then Dave will be just fine after the dust settles on this.

Is that bit about the couch from the Post, Diva?

Joey: I can think of some creative ways to have sex in an office.

Subotai: Nope, The Metro.

Glad to hear it, the Post has (unsurprisingly) tried to make Letterman the bad guy of the story. Letterman's been through the wringer - the stalker, the guy trying to kidnap the kid, and now this. It's pretty clear the lawyer's going to try to smear Letterman up and down in order to muddy the waters.

Steve Martin on Letterman tonight, should be funny.

*cues CBS Orchestra version of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me"*

Oh I can too (and have). Although, none of these sounds more comfortable than a pull out couch. After the thrill/kink wore off, I would've loved to transition to a fold out. Or hell, just a regular couch would be awesome. Or a nice chair with (removable?) arms. Or a very ergonomic (for fucking, duh) desk. Or... sorry, I'll stop.

Well, Stephanie was still listed as one of Dave's assistants in the end credits. I was surprised.

Is that the article where they demand that he resign from the show?

If every actor/host on television started resigning from their respective shows after some kind of "scandal", there would be nothing on television. All that would be left is news and reality shows (where both would continue sensationalize scandalous behavior).

Where've you been Joeypants? Everyone knows you can't have sex in an armchair!

There are even diagrams that prove it!

I found out once that a guy I knew got a BJ in a conference room late one evening at the office where I was working at the time. He and the girl went into the room, which had windows along the edge of the door frame and no lock on the door, moved into the corner where you couldn't see if you looked into the window, then turned the light off in the room. The funniest thing? He's a real ladies man, and married a beautiful girl a few years later. The girl that blew him? Looked like a heavier Tammy Faye Baker.

Now, see, one of our bosses at the firm I used to work for used to purchase HOOKERS on his corporate card whenever he went to Chicago - he had a favorite girl, apparently. So, y'know, "classy" AND thoughtful - take it out of town where the wife can't see it, do it in a hotel where you're at least comfortable, and then get your complany to try and expense it somehow! Perfect - none of this uncomfy sofa-bed, right-there-at-the-home-office shenanigans!

Another former co-worker of mine left our company and went to work at a place where he said it was like Sodom and Gomorrah with the co-workers fucking each other. He said that people were doing it in stairwells - he was going from one floor to another and saw it with his own eyes. So, not only skanky, but how the hell is that comfortable?

He's destroying Conan on the ratings.

Not a surprise. But hasn't Dave been killing Conan for awhile anyway?

Doing better than him, yeah. Not almost doubling his numbers.

He beat NBC's prime-time schedule on Monday. It won't be sustained, but it helps CBS keep him.

Never turn down a blowjob.

For us old-timey Late Night fans: remember Meg, the woman in the building across the street from 30 Rock that Dave flirted with on the phone all the time? Think she feels left out now?

From a spectating standpoint, that would be amusing for about a month. Then, I think, it'd get really old. Then again, maybe not. Depends on who works there, I suppose (and how important productivity is).

And how attractive my co-workers were. And how much I got to participate.

I used to work at one of the biggest callcenters of the country. That place was like the set of Caligula.
Almost 2000 young adults (18 to 30) stuck together 9 hours a day in the same building. Bored, Horny and with fresh batches of impressionable 19 year old girl minds coming in every other week... it was... fun.

How dare women make personal sexual decisions on their own!

Well, if they hadn't gone thinking that they belonged in the workplace instead of barefoot and pregnant in their kitchens, they wouldn't have been around him to have the sex to begin with. Silly vagina-brains!

Come now...we all know Dave forced them to have sex.

Last night, when David first walked out, he buttoned his jacket. A few seconds later, he unbuttoned it.

He keeps his "finishing move" sharp.

Unless Dave had already tapped that as well.

Bullshit or Not?

If only the pinheads at GE and Joey Buttafuco were behind this.

Bryant Gumbel may finally have his revenge.

This is the National Enquirer that we're talking about. I'll wait for verification from CNN before I buy into this story.

This. It's a top news story that's already 20 days old, and we're just hearing about this now - from the Enquirer? I'd wait for a more reliable news source as well.

The National Enquirer had the John Edwards story first.

CNN got distracted by a big shiny balloon.

CNN=National Enquirer