Stephanie Birkitt, the “other woman” in the David Letterman sex scandal, has been banned from the Late Night with David Letterman set at CBS.
Since the scandal has broke Birkitt has been in hiding, and why CBS is choosing to “ban” her is beyond me. Not surprising it is David Letterman who comes out looking like a hero, and Birkitt, a total zero. It’s so typical in the celebrity world, or in society as a whole. The man deserves a high five – and the woman is a dirty whore.
Unless Birkitt has been stalking Dave or causing a scene, I just don’t think this is necessary. Doesn’t CBS know that by doing this they are creating even more sensationalism around this scandal?
David Letterman once again used his show as a platform to discuss his current controversial sex scandals. HIs opening line, you have to admit was funny. In fact his entire monologue was.
“Did your weekend just fly by?” he asked awkwardly, and the audience ate it up, roaring with intense laughter.
You’ve got to give the guy credit. He’s hysterically funny and can laugh at himself. He goes on, “I get into the car this morning and the navigation lady wasn’t speaking to me.”
That’s right Dave, make people laugh and they forgive. Dave is no dummy. I still think it is a great thing that he is confronting the issue head-on. People are crucifying him for this scandal, but really, who cares? That’s between he and his wife. Why does everyone care so much? The only person who needs to be concerned about this is his wife, Regina Lasko.
I am not condoning what he did, but hell, he’s not my husband.
Dave apologized to his wife on his show last night, all funnies aside. He said:
“She has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it’s your responsibility, you try to fix it. At that point, there’s only two things that can happen: Either you’re going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you’re going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed, so let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me.”
He also apologized for the strain the scandal has put on his staff at Late Night with David Letterman.
“I’m terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position. Inadvertently, I just wasn’t thinking ahead. And, moreover, the staff here has been wonderfully supportive to me, not just through this furor, but through all the years that we’ve been on television and especially all the years here at CBS, so, again, my thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I’ve gotten myself involved in.”
What is your opinion on this? Do you agree that we should just leave it alone and move on and let his wife do the lashing – or do you think he needs to “pay” publicly for what he has done?
Stephanie Birkitt, former assistant of David Letterman’s, is reportedly one of the women whom the talk show host had an affair with.
Birkitt lived with the man who attempted to extort Letterman for $2 million, Robert Halderman, a producer for CBS. Halderman had possession of Birkitt’s diary, as well as photos and letters that were proof of the affair. According to sources close to Letterman, the affair ended before his son was born in 2003.
“Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to play catch with. I really couldn’t ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have.”
Ah hell, the affair happened ages ago. What a jerk this Robert Halderman is. Slimy, creepy, a**hole who just ruined his own future with this stupid attempt at extortion. This guy had a dream job and he crapped it all down the toilet because he got greedy. Some people’s logic completely baffles me!
David Letterman explains the extortion scandal to his audience VIDEO
David Letterman shocked his audience Thursday, admitting to sexual affairs with female employees and explaining that someone had threatened extortion.
A producer for the CBS show, “48 Hours,” Robert Halderman, attempted to extort $2 million from the talk show host, threatening to go public with Dave’s affairs. So Dave decided to beat them to the punch.
On Thursday’s show, Dave shared with his audience that yes, he had sexual affairs with female employees. He explained that the man attempting to extort money from him left a package in his car with a note saying, “I know that you do some terrible, terrible things,” and provided proof of those things in the package.
Dave said that Halderman threatened to write a screenplay and a book about him, and they would include all the details of his sexual affairs.
So Dave said he contacted his attorney who suggested they meet with the extortionist. They did, and sure enough Halderman wanted money in order to keep quiet. So a second meeting was planned and the man stuck to his guns, despite being warned that what he was doing may be illegal.
A third meeting was planned, and it was at this meeting that Halderman was to be paid the $2 million. He was paid – with a phony check – and was arrested around noon Thursday.
David sure has charisma! How many people do you know could admit to scandalous sexual affairs and have people in stitches at the same time? Although controversial, that was THE best thing Dave could have done for his public image. Coming clean, admitting that he screwed up, and not leaving it to his publicist to do the dirty work of trying to cover up his actions.
Hardly anyone in Hollywood admits when they have done something scandalous. It’s always someone else’s fault, or it’s a lie, or there’s an explanation. How refreshing to actually hear a celebrity admit to wrongdoing. Although I want to give Dave kudos, I don’t exactly want to pat him on the back for doing the right thing, either.
The person I really feel for in all this is his wife, Regina Lasko [photos here]. How embarrassing. I couldn’t even begin to imagine!
Madonna on Late Night with David Letterman, 9/30/2009
Madonna had a great interview with David Letterman last night.
I loved it. She looked pretty fabulous too. Better than most of the still shots we see of her. Madonna was her usual, catty self, and love her or hate her, she is always entertaining to listen to!
Madonna talks with Letterman about marriage, a past appearance on the show where she smoked a joint beforehand, and A-Rod! Love it!
I found this great old clip of her on the David Letterman Show from 1989. She would die later that year. She was a brilliant little thing, barely standing over 5′ tall, with a wonderful sense of humor.
Davis was nominated for ten Academy Awards throughout her career. A record back in 1962. Since then, only 4 other people have broken her record. Meryl Streep (with fifteen nominations and two wins), Katharine Hepburn (twelve nominations and four wins), Jack Nicholson (twelve nominations and three wins) and Laurence Olivier (ten nominations and one win).
David Letterman has apologized to Sarah Palin’s family after making a joke about their 18-year-old daughter Bristol last week.
The joke was intended to poke fun at Bristol, who had a baby late last year, however, it was taken as a reference to their 14-year-old daughter, Willow.
Last week Sarah Palin , Willow and Rudy Giuliani attended a Yankees game together. Dave thought it was Bristol who was at the game with her mother, and he joked: “They had a wonderful time . . The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
Dave says he didn’t know that 14-year-old Willow was in attendance with her mother and Rudy.
Todd Palin responded with: “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”
Sarah Palin also shot back at Dave saying, “Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands – that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”
Dave responded to the Palin’s Monday night on his show, apologizing and saying that his joke was misunderstood.
“I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the Governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani…And I really should have made the joke about Rudy… But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself.
“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ – this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly…” (audience applause) “Thank you. Well, my responsibility – I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds) “Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.”
So what do you think? Was it a big deal? Should the Palin’s let it roll off their backs, or was Dave totally in the wrong?
David Letterman rarely does interviews, but in the latest issue of Rolling Stone he opens up, giving his views on the future of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno and his own future with CBS.
Dave says he can’t believe Johnny Carson’s successor is leaving the show after sixteen years.
“Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that. I guess they thought it was a less messy way to handle what happened to me at NBC. I don’t know.”
“I’m not quite sure why they would do that, so much so that one wonders if that’s actually what’s going to happen…[It] just seemed so preposterous to me.”
Letterman, 61, was originally thought to have been the one that would replace Mr. Carson after he retired in 1992, but Leno, 58, won out, and Letterman moved his show from NBC to CBS. He understands what Jay is going through and when asked if he felt empathy for Leno he replied, “I guess empathy is the right word. It’s hard to know what he felt about it. I have to believe he was not happy about it.”
Dave, always thinking ahead, added that he would love to have Jay on his show after he retires. “I think he’d be a great guest on the show. The first night that he is out of a job, I think that would be a great situation.”
As for Dave’s future, he says he is contemplating it, and he isn’t exactly thinking about retiring anytime soon.
“The way I feel now, I would like to go beyond 2010, not much beyond, but you know, enough to go beyond. You always like to be able to excuse yourself on your own terms.”
Stumble it!
