Worldwide Pants Incorporated is an American television and film production company owned by comedian and talk show host David Letterman. Its ongoing productions are Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson . It has produced the Late Show since 1993, and The Late Late Show since 1995. The company is headquartered at the Ed Sullivan Theater Building in New York City. The president and CEO is a former Late Show executive producer Rob Burnett. Peter Lassally is the senior vice-president; he is also the current Late Late Show executive producer. A predecessor... company, Space Age Meats, produced Letterman's first television talk show, The David Letterman Show. The first Worldwide Pants production was Late Night with David Letterman, produced in partnership with NBC and Carson Productions. The company, then known as Worldwide Pants Productions, shared a 1991 Peabody Award, saying the three production companies managed to "take one of TV's most conventional and least inventive forms — the talk show — and infuse it with freshness and imagination.
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