The Letterman era came to an end with all the fanfare you would expect, but none of the emotion. “Save a little for my funeral, OK?” Thus David Letterman, during his final Late Show on CBS (which ran 20 minutes longer than usual, nearly an hour into Thursday morning), acknowledged that the various national expressions of grief and sanctification concerning his retirement from network talk-show television have been slightly “crazy,” as he put it, and “over the top.” After all, the dude isn’t dead. Far from it. For a quintuple bypass survivor of 68, he’s a fine physical specimen, trim and energetic even if his hairline is gray and receding—still game to run his ritual 20-yard dash across the stage at the beginning of his Late Show swan song Wednesday night.

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