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He played hard. He played smart. And, by many accounts, he was funnier than the other guy.

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But when David Letterman leaves late-night TV after his final show on Thursday night, he will leave as an also-ran. No matter how much moral outrage his defenders can muster — no matter how many column inches were filled by writers who said America should like him more — Letterman is the man who couldn't beat Jay Leno, and sometimes couldn't beat Leno's replacement.

"He was a former weatherman and a failed morning-show host who perfected a sort of snide, irreverent attitude towards showbiz types," Rolling Stone wrote after Letterman announced his retirement last year. "After getting noticed by Johnny Carson and making a fan out of NBC bigwig Fred Silverman, however, David Letterman found himself taking his goofy antics to a 12.30am time slot — and thus, a late-night TV legend was born."

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