David Letterman returned from his annual summer hiatus last night and took the opportunity to poke fun at the recent death threats that have been posted on a jhadist website.
The Late Night host started out praising the audience, “Tonight, you people are more to me, honestly, than an audience – you’re more like a human shield.”
Letterman went on cracking wise, “Backstage I was talking to the guy from CBS. We were going through the CBS life insurance policy to see if I was covered for jihad.”
Perhaps the funniest bit was this, “A guy, a radical extremist threatened to cut my tongue out. I wish I had a nickel for every time a guy has threatened that… And so now, State Department authorities are looking into this. Everybody knows it’s Leno.”
Check out Dave’s monologue video below: