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5 Sep, 2010

Stage 4 cancer

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Douglas announces on Letterman that he has stage four cancer.  He was diagnosed three weeks prior and completed his first round of treatment.

It had been bothering me for a while. In the early summer, I had a really sore throat … and I actually went through a litany of doctors and tests and they didn’t find anything…The percentages are very good. I would hate to say, but right now, it looks like it should be 80 percent, and with certain hospitals and everything, it does improve.

David Letterman - Michael Douglas on Having Throat Cancer

20 Jun, 2013

Letterman interview

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Travolta speaks to Letterman on how his family travels with him through filming and moments at home. He loves being a father. Recently he found that his daughter, Ella, is a great singer and his two year old son is a barfly.

Get me a drink dad. Down the hatch. Cheers. One for the road.

12 Nov, 2013

Chiotel Ejiofor interview

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Letterman interviews Ejiofor on The Late Night Show with David Letterman. They talk about what he does to relax when he is not acting, his boating experience, and the responsibility of playing the main character in 12 Years a Slave.

It teaches us a lot of the bad things but also of the good things and I suppose the strength the spirit of nature and I think that is what’s so revealing Solomon’s story that it speaks to all of us, cause it’s the depths of his soul and his humility and the way that he tells the story.

18 Aug, 2014

Williams’ tribute

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Letterman devotes 10-minutes to a tribute to Williams on his show. The two were close friends for nearly 40 years. Letterman:

Two things would happen, because Robin was on the program. One, I didn’t have to do anything; all I had to do was sit here and watch the machine. And, two, people would watch; if they knew Robin was on the show, the viewership would go up, because they wanted to see Robin. And, believe me, that wasn’t just true of television. I believe that was true of the kind of guy he was. People were drawn to him because of this electricity.

David Letterman Remembers Robin Williams | Letterman

4 Sep, 2014

‘A real pioneer’

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Letterman reacts to the passing of Rivers:

Here’s a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts—she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable, just where you would have to swallow pretty hard… but it was hilarious… the force of her comedy was overpowering.