― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― cramedog, Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― earlnash, Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
I remember enjoying his oscar hosting gig along with my family. He did video taped skits if I can recall. It wasn't disimilar to the comedy bits on his show. All of the aftermath about it being "bad" was kind of weird. If I could speculate, it could be because people take the awards somewhat seriously. His wiseass approach may have turned off soccer moms and celebrity journalism types. The following year was hosted by the pompous, unfunny Whoopie Goldberg who America inexplicably preferred.
― theodore fogelsanger, Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
uhhhh.. got any gum?
i'm dying
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
His David Letterman wasn't very dissimilar from his Larry King, now that I think about it.
― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
the most absurd thing about the skit is it hardly has anything to do with letterman. mostly just macdonald and mark mckinney acting fucking insane.
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
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― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Allyzay, Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
Hee hee hooooo haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago) link
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
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 28 October 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
what's your angle, that Dave went on air and confessed all his sins but it was under the old rules and under the new rules he's a sexist fossil?
― mh, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Also wasn't Dave's thing a consensual affair (with an employee admittedly, but still)
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 6 January 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
yeah i guess I never heard that anything was necessarily bad about the affair unless you think any affair is misconduct
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
Dave is so fucking boring
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
Personally, the weirdest bit for me was that I was back a home for a summer, working an intern job and crashing with my parents, and would watch Letterman with my mom. And Monty was a fixture during that time, so my reaction was very much “god damn it, Dave, wtf”
― mh, Saturday, 6 January 2018 05:37 (six years ago) link
there's a letterman interview with trump from like 1984 where dave goads him into running for office
― flopson, Saturday, 6 January 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
eh, Stone was pushing that on him earlier than that
― mh, Saturday, 6 January 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
a vanity fair article from 2009 by former writer nell scovell described the working environment as sexually charged and hostile.
― mizzell, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
what the hell whiney
― k3vin k., Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Chris Weingarten, Edge Lord
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Stern has talked about this on his show in the past couple of months. My take away was that it was a quid pro quo, Dave would finally do Howard’s show in exchange for H participating in D’s Netflix shit. Maybe an opening for H and Netflix, which he’s spoken of in a kind way before. And Netflix seems to have a bottomless wallet and their stock is flying, so yeah why not H as the fulcrum in a new audio division, where podacasters who want to make some $ could also go.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
anyone watching this?
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
Watched it last night. Liked it very much and was sad it was only an hour.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
I got tired of them congratulating/jerking each other off after 10 minutes or so. I'll watch the Malala Yousafzai episode but the others don't sound appealing.
― LLAMAS ARE FOR CLOSERS (WilliamC), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Dave's side trip to Selma with John Lewis, cut into bits of the Obama conversation, upset the pacing a little bit but were very resonant (with me, at least...I'm not as jaded as some of yous).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
yeah I liked it, it was nice
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
right there with you Johnny
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Jay z interview was good but letterman addressing his own sexual misconduct felt weird and stilted
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
this show sucks
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
yeah it's not great. just found letterman getting a pass and then talking about it to be profoundly jarring
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
it was undeniably cringey to see dave declare "they hate me" as he walked around oxford with malala yousafzai and a bunch of other college girls who, as far as I could tell, actually and truly did hate him
most other moments of the show also cringey. no part of me thinks he really wants to be doing any of this
― del griffith, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
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
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
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
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
Dammithttps://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
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
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
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
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