Fellow TiVite Ann Althouse did the same thing I did last night: she watched Letterman’s tribute to Carson from Monday night.
I agree with Ann’s assessment: it was a lovely program. And the revelation (that I first read about at Wizbang on Monday) that Carson had been sending Dave jokes for his monologue for years was a nifty one. Indeed, Dave’s entire monologue from Monday night consisted entirely of jokes from Johnny.
The funny thing is when I heard the monologue I commented to my wife that the jokes all seemed like they all old in relative terms—i.e., based on events from weeks or months gone by (and further, I was semi-surprised Dave was doing a seemingly straight monologue on a tribute show). Once all the pieces fell together, however, there couldn’t have been a better way to start the show.