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David Letterman<\/a> is returning to perform in Canada for the first time in nearly a half century.<\/p>\n

The former Late Night and Late Show With David Letterman host is set to make his Just For Laughs festival premiere in Vancouver on Feb. 18 with an interview of guest star Zach Galifianakis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome David Letterman to Just For Laughs Vancouver. He is one of the defining voices in comedy history, and to be able to pair him with Zach Galifianakis for a show like this is incredibly special for us and for comedy fans in Vancouver,\u201d Nick Brazao<\/a>, vp of programming & talent at Just For Laughs, said in a statement about the in-conversation event.<\/p>\n

Letterman last did a stand up routine before an interview on the variety show 90 Minutes Live in Feb. 1978 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the country\u2019s public broadcaster. \u201cI was advised…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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David Letterman is returning to perform in Canada for the first time in nearly a half century. The former Late Night and Late Show With David Letterman host is set to make his Just For Laughs festival premiere in Vancouver on Feb. 18 with an interview of guest star Zach Galifianakis. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2241676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/David-Letterman-to-Return-to-Canada-After-48-Year-Break-Exclusive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241678,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241676\/revisions\/2241678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}