Late night host David Letterman returned from two weeks of vacation on Monday to make his first TV appearance since a death threat against him was posted on a jihadist website last week.
Naturally, the Late Show host — who has been the subject of beefed-up security measures at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theatre — played up the threat against his life as fodder for his opening monologue.
A private intelligence organization that watches online activity says a threat has been made against David Letterman by a regular user on a jihadist website because of things the late-night host said on his show about two months ago.
CBS says the Late Show with David Letterman will tape tonight, despite a break-in at the Ed Sullivan Theater over the weekend. Cops in The Big Apple say the doors and part of the lobby were smashed at the famed theater, now home of Letterman, after a drunken, out-of-work actor went on a rampage on Sunday.
Justin Bieber dropped by Manhattan’s Ed Sullivan Theater Wednesday to help roll out the Late Show with David Letterman’s nightly Top Ten list. This time, the topic was all about little known facts about the crooner himself and Biebs clearly had a blast poking fun at his teen dream image.
In case you missed it, watch Mr. Popper’s Penguins actor Jim Carrey cover The Black Eyed Peas’ hit “I Gotta Feeling” on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman after his original entrance to the stage fell a little flat.