First Jay, Now Dave
CBS' "The Late Show" has announced that President Obama will be David Letterman's guest next Monday. Obama will be in New York for the UN General Assembly.
From CBS:
President Obama's appearance will mark the first by a sitting U.S. President on the LATE SHOW and his first visit back to the show since his election. In total, this will be President Obama's sixth visit to the broadcast -- he last appeared on the LATE SHOW September 10, 2008 during the height of his 2008 Presidential election campaign.
It's a comedic turn that comes the day after Obama's Sunday show blitz. And Letterman has been a friendly liberal-leaning voice in late night television, drawing attention in the campaign for his remarks critical of John McCain when he canceled a scheduled appearance last fall, and of course his more recent controversy over a joke about Sarah Palin's daughter.
Obama became the first sitting president to appear on late night television earlier this year, when he appeared on "The Tonight Show" with then-host Jay Leno. He got into some trouble then, when he made what was later described as an "offhand remark" about the Special Olympics, which the White House had to clarify.