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"  That&amp;#039;ll do it for the best that there is at late night shows. David Letterman announced today he&amp;#039;ll retire some time in 2015. Here he is going out in all of his typical fake officialness. He looks like he&amp;#039;s about to cry, and then he says this:       It&amp;#039;s a fitting, part-sincere, part-out there ending for the last of his kind. So goes with him the embrace of abandon, of absorbing a jab and responding with a full-on haymaker, just to see what happens. He will go down, first, as the weirdest. He had, remember, a sketch called &amp;quot;Is This Anything?&amp;quot; wherein, most of the time, he would pull back the curtain behind him to reveal a woman wearing a metal corset sawing herself with an angle grinder. He would do this several nights in a row. Then, some nights, it would be something else entirely. He also had a recurring bit where he&amp;#039;d try and fail to kill his announcer, Alan Kalter. This went on for years.  It was the weirdest thing, because he was the weirdest thing. But second? He will go down second for fighting back. This is not about the heart scare that he had, or all of the relationship stuff he had to go through, or that time he was passed over for Jay Leno and never really let go of it. This is about those times a celebrity would come on, fresh out of prison or still tripping on something that would make a talk show impossible, and Dave was not having it. And then he would decide to mess with them, casually, for the sake of the rest of us. Those moments would make for the best TV. No one stood up to the unreality and fakeness of a celebrity or politician that was trying to make the world worse quite like David Letterman did. He did it masterfully with Paris Hilton.      And Joaquin Phoenix, when he was bearded and terrible.      And Justin Bieber, by mistake.      When it would happen, you would grab onto the arms of your couch like it was about to go somewhere. At midnight, you&amp;#039;d wake up again. David Letterman was the last guy who could see a celebrity starting to beat up America in an alley somewhere \u2014 he could see the country starting to feel real bad about itself \u2014 and he&amp;#039;d step in when nobody else had the stomach to do it. He&amp;#039;d say, &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t really want to do this, do you?&amp;quot; And he was right every time. It&amp;#039;s not weirdness. Dave loves weird. He always has. He&amp;#039;ll probably love the late night hosts we have left \u2014 dancers and singers and goofballs and dinner party hosts, and two guys on cable trying to change the world. But we won&amp;#039;t have the guy with the haymaker, and we may not be able to replace him. Via Esquire "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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