I don't have a lot to say about the final Late Show with David Letterman. It was a fine, fitting broadcast that went an hour-twenty on my TiVo. I'd been told they were going to do a special "Stupid Pet Tricks" and I'm glad they dumped that idea and just let the show be about the show.
Comparison to Carson's last show is unavoidable, I guess. Maybe I'm reading too much into things but it struck me that Johnny's final words included this: "…I hope when I find something that I want to do, and I think you would like, and come back, that you'll be as gracious in inviting me into your home as you have been." He never did find that thing he wanted to do but when he left, he expected to reappear on television in some format.
Dave ended with: "The only thing I have left to do for the last time on a television program…thank you and good night." Was that Dave saying he doesn't expect to ever host anything ever again on TV? Is it to be taken literally? I'd like to think that even if he believes it now, it's not so.