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When I got there, David was buried. He was lost in the ensemble cast. He was just another player. My job was to prune the staff, prune the on-camera people so that David would shine. He was the star, and when I got there, he wasn’t. He was feeding and servicing a cast of characters. It was more like SCTV than it was The David Letterman Show.
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Brian Abrams (And Now...An Oral History of "Late Night with David Letterman," 1982-1993)