David Letterman says he should've retired from late-night 10 years ago: "Nobody had the guts to fire me"
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“Here’s the mistake I made — I stayed on television way too long," Letterman said in his first appearance on Ellen. “That’s not true,” Ellen DeGeneres responded. “Yes, it is true,” Letterman insisted. “And I’ll tell you what happened: It turns out, nobody had the guts to fire me. I should have left like, 10 years ago. You want to make sure you have some energy to direct towards other things. Now you, nothing but energy, are doing other things while you’re on television, so that’s great. I did not...All I cared about was myself and then the show was gone so I had to realize, oh, I’ve been looking through the wrong end of the telescope. There is more to life than, ‘So tell me about your pet beaver.'" ALSO: Letterman has one question he'd ask President Trump: "Don, why are you such a putz?"
TOPICS: David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, Daytime TV, Late Night
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