My favorite Letterman Top Ten List (or at least it’s in my top ten of top tens) is the Top Ten Numbers From One To Ten. I remember my exact reactions while watching it. Dave announced the title. I thought “geez, this is going to be so lame!!” It was their first week on CBS so I was getting skeptical that they were already losing the magic touch. Then he started reading them. “Ten”. OK, ha ha, it’s the same number. “Nine!” Oh great…this is just going to be a countdown. Lame lame lame! Then “Six!” Hmmm… OK. And as he read the rest of the numbers, in a perhaps well thought out, but probably random, order, I started laughing. It was a sort of meta-funny, Jim’s Journal kind of humor. Which is classic Dave, of course.