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Letterman won't say how much he’s making now, but it’s a safe bet it’s something like 600 times as much, 3 “I am lucky to have a job,” Letterman muses. “Real lucky to have a job.” Letterman, who turns 40 in April, has had this particular job for five years, and there has been no waning of a interest in the only show on television that’s been photographed by a camera atop an atiimal’s head. Thanks to the off-the-wall young writing staff and Letterman's own I'll-get-to-the-bottom-of-this style, the show has remained fresh and funny while turning Stupid Pet Tricks into a TV institution, RATINGS IMPROVE NBC notes that the ratings for Late Night are higher than ever. But the show still comes on after most Americans have gone to bed, and on a gpod night it draws about two-thirds as many viewers as the worst-rated prime-time program. This seems just fine with Letterman, sitting in his office at NBC exuding normalcy despite a couple dozen ballpoint ns sticking into the ceiling above his desk. “What you find after working five years in this little outpost of television, the fringes, it's OK as long as you and Cat, pet laughs, Carson moments. The most serious thing Letterman has ever said is to not try this at home. Celebrity guests are something of an irritation to Letterman, who can't necessarily count on the interlopers to fit into the show. “I just don't understand why someone would come on television, given an opportunity of eight or 10 minutes on a network, and not be as pyepapred and as energetic and as ‘enthusiastic and as funny as he or she could humanly be,” he says, “We're trying to do a show here. It's not a job interview, it’s not a paychological profile, we're not trying to hire a research assistant, we're looking for somebody to make somebody’ laugh. “People always accuse me of being mean to people. But the truth of the matter is, I'm just trying to get a laugh where there may be a laugh to be gotten. Sometimes people think that it’s at the expense of the guest. And I guess, actually, sometimes it is. But that’s not the way it’s planned. We're not shootin’ ducks in a barrel here.” Letterman says he is basically happy with the show as it embarks on its sixth year, but would like to take it on the DAVID LETTERMAN . .. paid 600 times more your friends and people you trust can control everything,” he says. “It's like a mom and pop store. But you get into prime time, boy. I think the budget for the Emmys show (of which he was host last year) was $3 million. You gotta have lasers and smoke and bit turntables and golden set pieces. road more often, maybe to Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis or San Francisco. He took Late Night to Los Angeles for a week once, but says he doesn't want to move it there even though that's where he would prefer to live. 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