The "Meet the Press" moment that will make Letterman's show

If you watch "Late Show with David Letterman" most nights, you probably think you could write some of the material ... but actually, in the opening desk bits of the show, the material more or less writes itself. Letterman's writers, like their NYC colleagues over at Comedy Central, specialize in found humor from the wide world of videotape (or whatever it is these days).

But whereas their boss, in his salad days, always added his personal snarky commentary to whatever bits of epehemera his staff picked up from the small-town news and whatnot, today Letterman often gets his biggest laughs from the "no comment" videos, carefully edited to make the subject look as idiotic as possible.

As soon as I saw this segment from John McCain's interview with Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press," I knew it would show up on Letterman's show. It is 5:24 p.m. ET as I write this, so the show has not begun taping yet. (Special guest, Bill O'Reilly!) So this really is a guess, but an educated one. Watch.

(or download it)

This interview wasn't kind to either side -- Brokaw had a humdinger of a question in there that went at least two minutes and ended with McCain giving like a one-minute reply. But he's not running for president ... he's not even running for moderator of "Meet the Press."