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― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

I really liked his Larry King sketches too, and they were made funnier by the fact that the audience never laughed at them.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

I'm totally bringing gum to John St. tonight.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

i never found him funny at all

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

oh jesus christ i cannot read that

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

Letterman or Norm MacDonald? Or both?

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

Dave's trip to London in '95 was fookin' killer.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

William Hurt: Andie MacDowell's performance in this movie really drove the story..

David Letterman: Oh-ho, Andie MacDowell! Did Andie MacDowell ever give you one of these? [ starts mimicking boxer moves ] Ha haa!! Huh? Hee hee! Can you imagine such a thing? Just, boom! Boom! Ha ha ha haaa!!

Paul Shaffer: Ah ha, ha ha ha ha!

William Hurt: What is your trip?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'm practically pissing myself after reading that, holy shit. CAN YOU SELL ME A HOT DOG??? What is the SNL obsession with hot dogs, btw? I think Spencer and I can be completely conquered by someone asking either of us if we'd eat ourselves if we were a hot dog. And the Larry King skit I best remembered involved him suddenly yelling, "I like...HOT DOGS."

― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

"I would. I'd eat myself with some mustard and relish. I'd be DELICIOUS."

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

UHHH.. GOT ANY GUM?

Hee hee hooooo haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

Hey Paul...you got any gum?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

what the fuck is up with the popeye's chicken thing? have they really been shilling this for days?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago) link

D with a capital D.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know why but I always liked Norm's Burt Reynolds impersonation.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d525/d52531d0v57.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:57 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, the Popeye's thing has been going for a couple of weeks. They did the same thing a few months ago when Dave and Paul decided they liked the Schick Quattro.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

They reran an episode that was just on a month ago. They didn't even bother with a celebrity guest, Jack Hannah was batting lead-off. I loved Dave to death growing up, taping his shows and watching them after school the next day. However, the blatant sleepwalking is tarnishing his career.

Are his writers all in their late sixties? Why would anyone find him funny anymore?

Carson in '85 was funnier than this.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

he's still funny every time I watch, I watch him for weeks at a time then a bad show will break the habit for a while. Plus, he gives Tom Waits a TV home, he should get a medal for that. Classic. It's starting right now wow! I'm getting back on the horse, fuck it.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 28 October 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pissed I missed Jerry Lewis the other night.

Best 1982-86, esp when Sandra Bernhard or Pee-Wee were on. He's still gold compared to fucking Leno, but I watch maybe 3x a year.

The reason his Oscar hosting was called 'bad' is his sensibility jarred with that of the Academy. Since the ideal Oscar show would involve the host dynamiting the theater, he was fine. His joke that "Eat Drink Man Woman" was how Schwarzenegger first asked Maria Shriver on a date -- followed by a grinning thru gritted teeth shot of Ahnuld in the audience -- was justification for the assignment by itself.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

And "Uma.....Oprah, Oprah.....Uma" became part of the lexicon for a while.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

people watch Saturday Night Live???

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"Funny Headlines" are ten times funnier than "Does It Float?", and I can't stand Jay Leno. Dave needs an intervention. "Know Your Cuts of Meat"... Good grief.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

remember the crispen glover debacle?

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Debacle?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

By debacle, do you mean "greatest moment in television history"?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, really.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

that is what i mean actually

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah I watched the same show Pleasant Plains watched - Will it Float was boring, the week in review was funny, the top ten KILLED and, well, I wasn't gonna stay up watching Jack Hanna just to prove a point but it was a good show from what I saw.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

""Funny Headlines" are ten times funnier than "Does It Float?", and I can't stand Jay Leno. Dave needs an intervention. "Know Your Cuts of Meat"... Good grief."

does it float and know your cut of meat and 80% of the rest of his show isnt supposed to be funny the same way leno's show is funny. letterman is all about dry irony.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

classic, for awkward relations with Harvey Pekar

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe that I'm typing this but "Does It Float?" and "...Meat" not being funny in order to be funny is no longer funny.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

...Which doesn't make it funny again.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

what about when those two guys come out and read excerpts from the oprah show(or is it some other show?). surely that is funny?!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

"not being funny in order to be funny" doesn't quite nail it, it's more about gently acknowledging how those well-worn stock variety show bits(man in the audience, man in the street, random game) are rarely about what the are. Will it float as a concept is so inane that it cuts to the chase of what that kind of segment(on any show) has always been about: having the host and sidekick/bandleader/whatever putz around for a couple minutes. DL increasingly relishes the quaintness of his role and would rather play up the dorkiness of his late night host lineage for comic effect than "subvert" or confound like he used to and I'm all for it, it becomes him at this age and it's still pretty funny.
I know it's obvious, just felt like talking myself through it.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i like him, therefore he is funny

― minna (minna), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I like him, too, but I don't think he's that funny anymore!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

did anyone notice how much less miserable he became after he had his son? i remember it being painful to watch him sometimes because it genuinly felt like he didnt like what he was doing. dunno how to describe it any better, he just changed for the better. he GLOWS now! if only he could have as good guests as leno.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

minna otm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't watched him in forever, I just kind of lost interest. But he's got enough great stuff in the archives to qualify as Classic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I like him, but don't watch that often. The "George W. Bush Joke that's not really a joke" thing was funny.

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Dave vs. O'Reilly

good fer Dave

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"60 percent" - haha dave's so polite.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

well sure. but he doesn't seem intimidated by O'Reilly (which even jon stewart does). i also like paul chiming in, "60 percent, yeah."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link

watching that clip has reminded me that letterman is a much better interviewer than any other late-night host. stewart would make nervous kneejerk cracks through the whole thing and basically stay on o'reilly's good side, but DL's one funny line ("i'm not smart enough to debate you on this") really stings.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Will Dave make O'Reilly's fabled enemies list now?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

In Quicktime, if you don't have RealPLayer installed:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

His stint as Oscar host was fantastic. He skewered those pompous Hollywood liberals but good.

Best Line: "And here to introduce Best Foreign Film are Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins...and hang on, they're probably pissed off about somethin'."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

O'Reilly on Letterman last night. Scroll down for the transcript:

http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/10/bill_oreilly_on_letterman_last_night.php

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

direct link (may not work):
http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/pdl010305oreilly.mov

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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lol del what made you think they hated him?

― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link

basically just things like their faces and words and postures and lack of words

― del griffith, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

The author, Tina Fey, and Merrill Markoe all properly call BS on Dave here.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/david-letterman-netflix-tina-fey-interview.html

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link

yeah that's a good piece

― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link

i know a couple of the original Late Night writers, and they're funny guys, but plenty of women could've been their equal

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link

the relationship between Dave and Merrill Markoe is very weird, that was a recurring theme from Jason Zinoman's Letterman bio of last year

― Josefa, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link

seven months pass...

1) Years ago when I wrote for David Letterman we would make these fake broadway shows and put them on at the end of the show and never tell the audience they were fake. No one ever knew. https://t.co/uPQtupwycz
— rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) January 4, 2019

― na (NA), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link

the two fake musical numbers are fantastic

― na (NA), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link

omg dying

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link

wow. totally worth perusing that whole thread. fresh step!

― rip van wanko, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link

lmao

― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFG6YdayX4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O34is5LORIGtHIExDJnkaCxFu-8ZDDWq1pyYfjT5ApOE5OCfDVWbQO18

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link

Dammit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFG6YdayX4

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link

I've been waiting for these!

Also, Don Giller recently (well, eight months ago) posted what is probably my favorite talk show appearance by anyone, ever (now with backstory!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGt2mBHDEEo

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

I'm easy to please, but I loved this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Oqk78YpQY

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link

Amazing combination of hosts and guest.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

Good interview

https://www.vulture.com/article/david-letterman-2020-election-trump-interview.html

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 November 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link

great read!
he was a guest on Busy Phillips’ podcast a month or so ago, and he talked about his gameshow past in more detail, ie working as a stand-in host for a show that was still casting the actual host, it was fun to think of that as his “whatif” career lol
I could read/listen to him talk about literally anything these days

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link

Yeah its always really interesting to hear him talk about his days as a wandering showbiz jobber. Would love a doc or a real good bio that covered that era of his life up to the late show.

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link

He is such a great storyteller. When he was on WTF last year, he told a long story about getting stuck in a gig opening for a Lola Falana musical revue in Denver where he bombed 2 shows a night for 10 days straight. Worth checking out

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 2 November 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54fd3T15JFg

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link

those "favorite moments" videos have been a real highlight of my 2022 viewing

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link

eleven months pass...

Someone actually won Letterman's marquee for The Late Show in a charity raffle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM3j_s3Obk

Love how Letterman points out that the raffle was open "worldwide...and our winner is from New Jersey."

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 17:06 (nine months ago) link

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