David Letterman remembers Regis Philbin on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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“The many things to love about Regis, not the least of which was, I kind of believe he was the last connection to a show business I grew up watching back in Indiana," Letterman said during his virtual visit with Kimmel. Don Rickles, Regis Philbin, and a handful of others, Johnny Carson, of course, and others. And when Regis left us, to me it seemed like that chapter is closed, and that made me very sad. But I’m telling you, this guy, if somebody said, ‘Let’s pick somebody to drive across country with,’ if it couldn’t be Regis, then I’d hitchhike. He was always Regis.”