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SUCCESSFUL "tonight-show" hosts often behave like the manic sovereigns of some demented kingdom. Their shows resemble personality cults, with the audience in the role of worshipful subjects. Consider the slavering interplay between The Late Show’s Dave Letterman and his kowtowing band leader Paul Shaffer.
Letterman appears to fancy himself King Lear to Shaffer’s Fool. But it’s the audience members that look the biggest fools. When Letterman cracks one of his interminable jokes, the poor (...)