 So and David Letterman told the New York Times why he grew his own enormous beard after leaving the late show The beard is a good reminder to me that this was a different life. It can be a badge of failure or one of renunciation So it's interesting, but I don't know why that just cracked me up. I'm not Abraham Lincoln of course had a beard, but he had no mustache. He had sort of that Amish kind of look going on but um