{"id":65648,"date":"2015-11-25T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65648"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:13:18","slug":"paul-shaffer-muses-on-possible-reunion-with-late-show-pal-david-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/25\/paul-shaffer-muses-on-possible-reunion-with-late-show-pal-david-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Shaffer muses on possible reunion with \u2018Late Show\u2019 pal David Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO \u2013 Late night band leader Paul Shaffer says life after the \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d includes a lot of family time, plans for a new record, and wistful chats with his old boss about reteaming for another comedy project.<\/p>\n

Reached by phone in New York, the Thunder Bay, Ont.-bred musician says he sees Letterman regularly and admits they’ve mused on the possibility of working together again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken a little bit about it, that perhaps we might do (something),\u201d Shaffer says in a free-wheeling conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been kicking around the desire to just do something that enables him to get in front of an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s nothing to announce.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only been six months since Letterman ended his 33-year run on late night TV as host of CBS\u2019s \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d and NBC\u2019s \u201cLate Night with David Letterman\u201d before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Shaffer suggests Letterman\u2019s already itching to get back to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe absolutely misses it, for so many reasons. But he likes to perform,\u201d says Shaffer.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say to me, \u2018Maybe he\u2019ll produce something.\u201d What he likes to do is be in front of an audience. I have a feeling he\u2019s going to figure a way, not necessarily on TV, but just as long as I think he can get in front of an audience, we may see him doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaffer says he, too, misses the daily broadcasts and has found it a challenge to adjust to life after \u201cLate Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI did it for so long, on a daily basis… so now, to turn it off so suddenly, has led to quite a period of decompression. Which is still going on, sort of. It\u2019s quite a major change.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say Shaffer is settling into retirement.<\/p>\n

The pianist can be seen tickling the ivories for a crooning Bill Murray in the Netflix special \u201cA Very Murray Christmas.\u201d The star-studded variety show debuts Dec. 4, with comedy pals including Chris Rock, Amy Poehler and Jason Schwartzman spreading holiday cheer along with George Clooney and Miley Cyrus.<\/p>\n

Next for Shaffer are plans to record an album.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably with the same band that I ended up with by the end of the Letterman show,\u201d he says, expecting it would be a collection of cover songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at the point of engaging a producer now… Then we can really make it quite quickly and determine exactly what the repertoire is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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