When I was growing up, late-night TV viewers were either Jay Leno fans or David Letterman fans, with little overlap. In the early '90s, during the Late Night Wars, the heir apparent to Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, Letterman, was passed over for Leno, leading to a rivalry between the two. Now, over 30 years later, Dave is discussing a possible reunion with his former rival, doing so in true Letterman style.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, the man who helped build The Late Show as direct competition for Leno’s Tonight Show talked about the franchise’s cancellation, the current state of late-night TV and whether he would ever have his former competitor on his Netflix interview series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. When asked about the possibility of a reunion, he said:
