Letterman Feeling Great After Surgery

Leave it to funnyman David Letterman to find humor in quintuple bypass heart surgery.

“I feel fantastic,” Letterman, 52, joked Saturday from his Manhattan hospital bed after a night of solid rest.

“In addition to rerouting the arteries, they also installed an E-ZPass,” joking about the commuter toll passes.

The host of “Late Show With David Letterman,” was said by his doctors to be recovering nicely.

“Dave’s doing great,” said Dr. Wayne Isom, who performed the Letterman’s surgery on Friday at the Weill Cornell Center of New YorkPresbyterian Hospital.

“He’s making jokes and feels terrific,” Isom added in a brief statement. “He’s on his way to a full recovery.”

The comedian, whose appreciation for E-ZPass is no doubt grounded in his well-documented love of fast cars, underwent the operation just hours after an angiogram revealed at least one seriously constricted artery.

The Big Man opted for immediate surgery, which rerouted the flow of blood to his heart muscles by using veins taken from elsewhere in his body to bypass blocked areas.

Letterman, who often commutes from his New Canaan, Conn., home in a Porsche, has a history of high cholesterol that has been a running joke on his show.

His most recent quip came Thursday when he told “Late Show” guest Regis Philbin that his cholesterol level was “borderline … 680,” and that doctors might soon have to “open daddy’s rib cage.”

Most doctors recommend that adults keep their cholesterol level below 200.

Letterman’s show will go into re runs, starting Monday and continuing for an undetermined period.