It is a measure of social media’s ubiquitous impact that at one point in the conversation between Verne Gay and Tom Brokaw, the Newsday TV critic asks, simply: ‘How’s Dave’s beard?’
Ahead of this Sunday’s On Assignment interview of Letterman by Brokaw featuring said facial hair (it is the former Late Night host’s first such conversation since retiring), here’s how Brokaw answered:
“The beard was trimmed. He cut it back so that he didn’t look like Walt Whitman… He said the reason he grew it is that from an early age, he had to shave twice a day, in the morning and then before air, and said, ‘I got so damn tired of doing it.’
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