Christmas cheer

Christmas cheer

: David Letterman takes his show to the troops in Baghdad again:

When hands flew in the air in response to requests for a volunteer to help deliver the opening monologue, he asked: “Isn’t that how you got here?”

With the help of cue cards held by an Army soldier, Letterman ran off a series of crowd-pleasers:

“Iraqi elections are in January. Hurry up and pick somebody so we can get the hell out of here,” he said.