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David LettermanDavid Letterman grew up in a small town in eastern Indiana. Hewas born to Joseph and Dorothy Letterman. After rendition the novel, DavidLetterman On Stage and Off by Rosemarie Lennon, I have learned about all hisstruggles and joys. Because of this book, I feel sorry towards one of thefunniest people on Earth, David Letterman. I also admire him for his good actsand abilities.To realize why I feel what I feel toward Letterman, you have to look atsome of the chief(prenominal) points in his life. First of all, Dave was exactly an Astudent. He struggled all of his life through grade school to college. He alsowasnt very popular. He stated, I remember standing around. . . with theother losers, watching all the athletes play sports. All we could do is makefun and ridicule them. He was neer good at anything until high school. AllI ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the classclown, making fun of everything and everyone. This pers onality trait was whatgave him his thousands of faithful fans, watching his show every night to seeDave rip to shreds anyone who dare challenge him. Another thing that wasimportant to him was his mother and father. His father, Joseph Letterman, andDave went seek quite often when he was young. Dave looked up to his fathertremendously. When Joseph had his first heart attack when he was thirty-six,Dave and his father started to drift away. Later, Daves Dad died when he wasfifty-three. One of Davids flush regrets was never spending a lot of time withhis dad. As for his mother, she is the classical conservative mother of thefifties. She was always very hard on Dave when he got into mischief in school--which was quite often. She is still a part of Daves life, and can be seenquite often on his show, doing a comedy sketch, or congress audience members whatthe temperature was in Lillihammer during the Winter Olympics.The Reason I feel sorry for Letterman is because of his tragedi es of hispast. His Dads passing was hard enough, but he had other trials to deal with.Like his mother. She was never really proud of David, constantly reminding himhe was going to fail, and not encouraging him to take his natural ability to