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People line up to attend the "Late Show with David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan theater which resumes production in New York on January 2, 2008. David Letterman and his production company made an agreement with the writers' guild. who have been on strike for almost two months. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff) 
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Published: Jan. 4, 2008 at 11:00 AM

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. late-night talk-show host David Letterman is planning to shave his full, gray beard on an upcoming show, the New York Daily News reported.

"Monday, I think the beard is going away," Letterman said in a show taped Wednesday and set to air Friday night. "Can we get a guy in here Monday to shave me? Now, a good guy, because the last time we did this, I looked like -- when he was done, I looked like I'd been in a knife fight."

Letterman and his fellow talk-show host Conan O'Brien returned to work with beards Wednesday after their shows were off the air for two months due to the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.

Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants made an independent deal with the guild that allowed him to go back to work with his writers, while O'Brien returned without his scribes in an effort to protect the jobs of his non-writing staff.

Topics: Conan O'Brien, David Letterman
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