The recent bad weather in America

[inulro]

I see that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report cancelled their tapings, but that Letterman went ahead.

Glossing over the fact that Letterman stopped being funny about the time I went to university in the 80s, is his going ahead with his show:

a) a show of can-do spirit and overcoming the odds; or

b) disrespectful, and endangering the well-being of his crew.

I tend towards b), but was wondering what everybody else thinks

(and indeed whether anyone is reading this, but I have no access to Facebook at the moment).

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Possible that it was pretaped days earlier? Craig Ferguson (who films in LA) did a special intro to his Monday show explaining that it had been pretaped last Thursday, but in light of things, he thought it would be weird if he didn't at least mention Sandy, so he'd taped a new initial intro just to explain all that, but the rest of the show went as originally taped.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Not pre-taped. The only concession to the weather was that last night's was taped without a studio audience.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I lean towards b) mainly for the safety of the workers and audience.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

There was no audience, thankfully, but there's still the crew (I would imagine a fair number) to consider.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

I'd say a). I can't imagine they wouldn't have been sympathetic if crew wanted to go home, and could probably manage with a skeleton team if there was no audience.

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know what to think. I'm just chiming in to let you know that I'm still reading!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Letterman was still OK up to the early-mid 90s, but lost it pretty soon afterwards.

I think he was being a bit of a Cnut. The king, I mean.