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More than 40 years into his late-night hosting career, David Letterman isn’t planning to call it a night anytime soon. At age 77, the 8x Emmy winner recently shot down the potential of

retirement while admitting he’s “surprised” that he still finds himself hosting up to three shows a night for Netflix‘s _My Next Guest Needs No Introduction_. “Retirement is a myth.

Retirement is nonsense. You won’t retire. The human mechanism will not allow you to retire,” Letterman told _GQ_. WATCH ON DEADLINE “But you know what I’m saying. As long as you are healthy,

you still want to produce,” he added. “And you will find ways to, once I stopped doing the show, it took me a couple of years to figure out that, oh, this is a completely different rhythm.

And without the rhythm that you’re accustomed to, largely unsatisfying. So you got to find something that’s important to you.” The comedian, who first hosted _Late Night with David

Letterman_ on NBC in 1982, continued to evade the question of retirement as he was pressed once again. “I don’t know. Like I said, I’m surprised at the number that I’m still doing it at

now,” he explained. “I think if I start in the middle of talking to a world famous guest – I fall asleep. “I was doing some show for Netflix a couple of years ago, and the schedule was

ridiculous. We were doing three shows a night, twice and then three shows another night twice. And it was just insane. And the stage manager came up to me between one of these production

shows and she said, _You’re going to have to sit up straight. Look, I know you’re exhausted, but can you just sit up straight?_ And I just thought, well, maybe that’s a sign. Maybe that’s a

sign,” said Letterman. Letterman has hosted his Netflix talk show since 2018, debuting Season 5 this June.