David Letterman Says ‘Retirement Is Nonsense’ and Just a ‘Myth’: ‘What Do People Do? Sit There and Wait for Judge Judy to Come On?’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director David Letterman said an interview with GQ magazine that “retirement is nonsense.” The 77-year-old television icon spent 33 years hosting late night television shows, starting with the 1982 debut of “Late Night” on NBC and continuing with CBS’ “The Late Show” from 1993 to 2015.
He now hosts his own Netflix talk series, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” which most recently dropped new episodes over the summer.
Letterman has no plans to give up his television gig. “Retirement is a myth. Retirement is nonsense,” he told the publication when asked about the status of his career. “You won’t retire.
The human mechanism will not allow you to retire. What do [people] do? Sit there and wait for ‘Judge Judy’ to come on?” “As long as you are healthy, you still want to produce,” Letterman continued. “And you will find ways to.
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