VIDEO : David Letterman's Final Broadcast Was As Subversive, As Punk Rock, As Ever

David Letterman gave us comedy pathos, you know.
It's real easy to take it for granted after 33 years of more or less the same thing: Top 10 lists and stupid pet tricks and, above all else, the dark deprecation. Seems old fashioned now, doesn't it?
"One half of people were like, 'That show doesn't have a chance," Letterman said during his Wednesday night monologue, the last of thousands he would ever deliver. "And the other half were like, that show doesn't have a prayer.