David Letterman, late-night TV host and funny man, is calling it quits after 33 years. He will retire from his namesake show on May 20.
Letterman talked about his career—the highs and lows, the stupid and the weird—in an interview with the New York Times.
In recalling his early years as a young late-night host, Letterman reflected on all of the restrictions placed on the late-night landscape. “I never knew if the stupider things we did or the more traditional things we did would work,” he quipped in the article. In the end, he realized what worked best were the weird things.
Here are five weird moments on Letterman’s show: