TV critic and TVWeek blogger Aaron Barnhart found the delivery of Letterman’s revelations last week that he had sex with some of his employees, and was allegedly being blackmailed to keep it secret–and the audience’s reacton to the story, rather strange.

In his latest blog entry, Barnhart writes, "Letterman (whether by accident or design) wound up playing the story for laughs, and even drew applause with his admission that he’d had affairs with employees."

–Chuck Ross