{"id":802255,"date":"2026-07-14T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:47:08","slug":"paul-shaffer-to-join-david-letterman-at-just-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802255\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Shaffer to join David Letterman at Just for Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Letterman will feel a little more comfortable at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts on Tuesday, July 21, when he visits Montreal as part of the Just for Laughs festival.<\/p>\n<p>The fest has announced that the venerable <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/columnists\/david-letterman-just-for-laughs-next-guest-needs-no-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">late-night TV host and his special guest Will Arnett<\/a> will be joined by Letterman\u2019s longtime Late Show musical director and sidekick, Ontario-born Paul Shaffer. <\/p>\n<p>The show marks Letterman\u2019s first official performance in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hahaha.com\/en\/public\/detail\/sessions\/an-evening-with-david-letterman-and-special-guest-will-arnett-2910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hahaha.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Letterman will feel a little more comfortable at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts on Tuesday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,219168,129638,2338],"class_list":["post-802255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-festivals-and-parades","tag-just-for-laughs","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}