How I Got on Letterman

In May 2015, Ellen and I went to New York to visit our daughter Alicia and to ride in the 5 Boroughs Bike Ride.

The bike ride is a 40-mile tour of all five NYC boroughs with about 25,000 riders (fun but crazy!!)

As we left our free hotel to grab some breakfast (more on that in a minute), we turned the corner.

There was The Ed Sullivan Theater.

This was the home of The Late Show with David Letterman and now with Stephen Colbert.

It was a little after nine in the morning and there were a few people standing in line.

We jumped in line to see if we could be in the audience because it was the last week of Letterman’s show.

Little did we know, we had to interview to be in the audience.

The producers ask you a few questions to get to know you and see if you’d be a good audience member (whatever that is).

At the end of the interview, the producer asked if we could get here in 30 minutes or less if we made the cut.

We only had one commitment for the day…

A timeshare presentation.

This is why we received two free nights in midtown Manhattan.