David Letterman in Hot Water

By Acheron on 2001-03-01 06:57:16

(Fox) David Letterman has been cracking jokes at his boss, CBS cheif Les Moonves for quite a while.  Now Moonves is becoming more than a little irritated and wants it stopped.

Monday, Letterman had a skit where Moonves was fraternizing with Fidel Castro, played by cue card man Tony Mendez.  Recently, Moonves and other media big wigs went to Cuba to meet with Castro.

"Les, throughout the decades, to insure a strong dictatorship, I have starved my countrymen and tortured and murdered my political opponents," the Castro character said.

"The Bette Midler show was my idea," the faux Moonves' shot back.

Moonves commented that he's becoming tired of the fun being poked at him, but realizes that "Dave is Dave."

Letterman has been at odds with network brass more than usual in recent weeks. Earlier this month, audience members said Letterman seemed irked when the show cut out a Top 10 list about one of the original Survivor cast members suing CBS.

But Late Show officials said they cut the list because they thought "it wasn't funny enough," and denied that the edit had come at the suggestion of higher-ups.

Dave also has some of the new Survivor rejects on his show each week, and is unsuccessfully trying to hide his disgust for the show.  Now, instead of sitting with him, they just stand up against a brick wall while they talk to him.

"David is irreverent," Moonves said yesterday.

"You don't know when he's being serious or when he isn't. He pokes fun at Survivor, he pokes at me, he pokes fun at CBS, he pokes fun at President Clinton and President Bush and he pokes fun at himself," Moonves said.

It seems that Dave has nothing to worry about, but he might want to lay off the boss jokes, just until the "storm calms."

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