Just saw the Kimmel tribute. Wow. Made me tear up. He really meant a lot to the up-and-comers who he gave a shot.
" I’d say the same thing about Colbert, but I don’t really consider him part of Dave’s generation."
Funny you should say that! One of my girlfriends and I roomed together junior year in college and always watched Letterman together on my little black and white TV (remember black and white TVs?). We were commenting about this on Facebook amd I made a comment to the effect of - who would have known as we were watching Letterman, the hot new late night host, that his successor (Colbert) was living right around the corner from us!