DAVID LETTERMAN | $400 MILLION

They say laughter is the best medicine, and if that’s the case, David Michael Letterman has the cure for everybody’s boring time under quarantine. Born in 1947, the show-stopping Hollywood “funny-man” has made people laugh for almost four decades now. If you didn’t know, Letterman’s rise to fame is one of many stories about following one’s passion since he initially started as a weatherman on some Indianapolis TV station.

However, it was clear that this wasn’t meant for him since he felt like his destiny was something more, and his family also knew it. That ultimately prompted Letterman’s family to encourage him to move into Los Angeles to start up his new career as a comedy writer. From then on, the rest became history. Today, the veteran talk-show host and comedian boasts a staggering net worth valued at around $400 million. That’s probably equivalent to the number of people he made laugh over the years.