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David Letterman, 1987
By the late 1980s, David Letterman had turned Late Night with David Letterman into one of television’s most distinctive comedy shows, mixing celebrity interviews with deliberately oddball segments and absurd humor.
One of the show’s best-known recurring bits was Stupid Pet Tricks, which featured ordinary pets performing unusual or ridiculous tricks on camera. This 1987 magazine portrait plays directly into that part of Letterman’s on-screen persona, surrounding him with dogs and even referencing the segment in the accompanying text.
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