The Late Show's final Top Ten list. Delivered by well known celebrities and entitled "The Final 10 Things They Had Always Wanted to Tell Him."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

10.Alec Baldwin: “Of all the talk shows, yours is most geographically convenient to my home.” 

9. Barbara Walters: “Did you know that you wear the same cologne as Muammar Gaddafi?” 

8. Steve Martin: “Your extensive plastic surgery was a necessity, and a mistake.” 

7. Jerry Seinfeld: “Dave, I have no idea what I’ll do when you go off the air. You know I just thought of something, I’ll be fine.” 

6. Jim Carrey: “Honestly, Dave, I’ve always found you to be a bit of an over-actor.” 

5. Chris Rock: “I’m just glad your show is being given to another white guy.” 

Letterman briefly cut in, telling Rock, “I had nothing to do with that.” 

4. Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “Thanks for letting me take part in another hugely disappointing series finale.” 

Letterman interjected here, too, saying he “had nothing to do with that, either.” 

3. Peyton Manning: “Dave, you are to comedy what I am to comedy.” 

2. Tina Fey: “Thanks for finally proving men can be funny.” 

1. Bill Murray: “Dave, I’ll never have the money I owe you.”

I stayed up well past my bedtime to watch this final episode even though I stopped being a devoted viewer probably about ten years ago or so. 

In my opinion the loss of sleep was well worth it to see the final episode of a show that has broken so many barriers, and impacted so many of the late night programs that we have enjoyed since Letterman first debuted on NBC back in 1982.

I also watched the last episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson back in 1992, and remember all too well how devastated Letterman was by the choosing of Jay Leno as Carson's successor and how that inspired him to move his show to CBS in August of 1993.

And now almost twenty two years later, we see another late night giant say his goodbyes.

Of course any sadness I might feel, is immediately assuaged by the knowledge that the great Stephen Colbert will take the "Late Show" reins on September 8 of this year.