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Photos 14 Add photo. Top cast 44 Edit. John Michael Higgins David Letterman. Daniel Roebuck Jay Leno. Kathy Bates Helen Kushnick. Bob Balaban Warren Littlefield. Ed Begley Jr. Rod Perth. Peter Jurasik Howard Stringer. Reni Santoni John Agoglia. John Kapelos Robert Morton. Steven Gilborn Peter Lassally. John Getz Brandon Tartikoff. Lawrence Pressman Bob Wright.

Sandra Bernhard Sandra Bernhard. Treat Williams Michael Ovitz. David Brisbin Alan Levine. Michael Chieffo Rick Ludwin. Paul Elder Rupert Murdoch. Betty Thomas. More like this. Storyline Edit. Did you know Edit. Trivia A few days after the film's premiere, John Michael Higgins was booked on Late Show with David Letterman to talk about the movie and what it was like to portray Letterman.

Letterman's A-guest that night was Julia Roberts. During the commercial break, Letterman reportedly asked the star if she wouldn't mind staying longer as a favor to him. Higgins sat in the green room watching the show, hearing Letterman occasionally plug his "coming up" interview at commercials breaks. At the end of the show Letterman apologized to Higgins for "running out of time", pointedly saying he hoped the actor could "come back again soon.

Goofs The network lineup chart in Littlefield's office shows prime time between and p. Prime time is between and in the Eastern and Pacific time zones and an hour earlier in the middle of the country. Alternate versions Subsequent airings after the initial release have added an additional epilogue on how the Hugh Grant interview boosted Jay Leno's ratings past David Letterman's.

User reviews 37 Review. Featured review. Two men, one show, two networks. The Late Shift is a great book, I read the book several years ago, and I was transfixed at the cutthroat debauchery that went on when Johnny Carson retired and Jay Leno and Johnny Carson tried to grab his spot. When the movie came out, I snagged a VHS copy of the movie, and having reread the book recently, it's hard to say which I enjoy more, because they're quite equal in the amount of information conveyed.

The two lead actors, John Michael Higgins, and Daniel Roebuck, two actors I never heard of before, and haven't heard of since, play Leno and Letterman convincingly, despite Letterman's dismissal of his portrayal as being poor. They play the parts quite well, despite a lot of people looking for an imitation of the two. I wasn't as interested in that.

His big break came when he began appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson , whom he has since referred to as his mentor. In , he became Carson's regular guest host, and in , he was offered his own daytime show, the David Letterman Show. The show only lasted for three months, but was a critical success, and convinced NBC-TV to give the young comedian a late-night show following Carson's The Tonight Show.

The late-late show hour was well-suited to Letterman's brash and quirky humor. Late Night with David Letterman soon became popular with a young audience by mixing the usual talk-show ingredients of celebrity guests and music with his irreverent manner and zany comic stunts. Letterman's signature features included The Top Ten List, Stupid Pet Tricks along with its companion, Stupid Human Tricks , Viewer Mail and pencils tossed at the camera and at the set behind him, "breaking" the non-existent glass with a cued crash sound.

He also became known for his parody sketches that targeted the obviously weak acting abilities of his bandleader, Paul Shaffer and other members of The World's Most Dangerous Band , stagehand Biff Henderson and general oddball Larry "Bud" Melman. He also founded his own production company, Worldwide Pants, that same year, which bought a stake in his new show.

His displeasure with NBC executives was fodder for his monologues, and when they blocked him from transferring regular features of his show to CBS claiming it was NBC's "intellectual property" that, too, was mocked on air. The years that followed this head-to-head competition spawned a book and cable movie documenting the late-night talk show "wars.

On January 14, , Letterman had underwent emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery. In typical Letterman fashion, the recovering patient joked that "in addition to rerouting the arteries, they also installed an E-Z pass. In , he was ranked as No. In , Forbes also listed Letterman as No. The magazine cited Letterman's Peabody Award-winning company, Worldwide Pants, as one of the secrets behind his wealth and power; in addition to Letterman's show, the company produced successful comedies such as Everybody Loves Raymond and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

In April , David Letterman announced his plans to retire in , and Stephen Colbert was named as his replacement. In October , Letterman was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor which "recognizes people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain.

Two years after his retirement, the longtime host announced his return to television in a new talk show series on Netflix, titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. Thanks for watching, drive safely. With musical contributions from his old bandleader, Shaffer, and sporting a massive gray beard, Letterman debuted My Next Guest Needs No Introduction on January 12, , with former President Barack Obama as his first guest.

Following its six-episode first season, season 2 arrived in May Letterman is known for successfully keeping his romantic and private life under tight wraps from the media.