David Letterman

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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
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Collection: Funny
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The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.
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Collection: Dog
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You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.
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Collection: Nudists
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Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.
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Collection: Feet
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The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
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Collection: 4th Of July
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I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.
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Collection: Two
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Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.
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Collection: Book
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Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.
- David Letterman
Collection: New York
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Everyday is a compromise.
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Collection: Everyday
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The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
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Collection: War
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The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
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Collection: Children
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Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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Collection: Type 2 Diabetes
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Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.
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Collection: New Year
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George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections.
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Collection: Mean
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Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
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Collection: Good Times
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Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping.
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Collection: Sleep
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He has been greatly missed since his retirement ... Thank God for videotapes and DVDs. In this regard, he will always be around.
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Collection: God
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Welcome to the program. My name is Dave Letterman, and tonight I'm giving my two-week notice.
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Collection: Names
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The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.
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Collection: Thinking
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Newt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex.
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Collection: Sex
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A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.
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Collection: New York
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New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.
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Collection: New York
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Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.
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Collection: Guy
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I got my lips chewed off by a dingo!
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Collection: Lips
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Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.
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Collection: Reading
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Today would have been the birthday of Osama bin Laden. It makes me remember when Seal Team 6 threw him a surprise party.
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Collection: Team
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I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.
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Collection: Guy
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Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.
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Collection: Moon
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President Obama's trying to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and the Republicans are steamed. They got together and sent Iran a letter about the nuclear deal. They said if this doesn't work, by God, they're going to send Seth Rogen and James Franco.
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Collection: Iran
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I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.
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Collection: Brother
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Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.
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Collection: Jobs
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Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.
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Collection: Evil
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St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.
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Collection: New Year
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Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.
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Collection: Baby
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Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before
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Collection: Drinking
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President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.
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Collection: Holiday
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You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.
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Collection: Holiday
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Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
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Collection: Art
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Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids.
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Collection: Kids
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I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.
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Collection: Football
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Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.
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Collection: Wine
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I know you're on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex?
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Collection: Sex
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To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!
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Collection: Thinking
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My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.
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Collection: Funny
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Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.
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Collection: Gambling
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Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.
- David Letterman
Collection: Baby
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A small handgun makes any TV remote control.
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Collection: Tvs
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Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'
- David Letterman
Collection: Home