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

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

people watch Saturday Night Live???

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

remember the crispen glover debacle?

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

Debacle?

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

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

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

Yeah, really.

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

that is what i mean actually

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

classic, for awkward relations with Harvey Pekar

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

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

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

i like him, therefore he is funny

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

minna otm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:16 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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

Ahahahahaha.

Horses wearing diapers!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Does the clip show when he stirred O'Reilly's water with his pencil right before introducing him? That really set the tone for what was to come.

Classic, by the way.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"Yeah, well, send Cindy Sheehan a hat."

Classic.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Has he lightened up on the nightly Brokeback jokes? The man has always been transparently twitchy about all things gay.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope: he cracked one last night.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

"young or old, if you don't like Neil Young, there's something wrong with you"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 5 October 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"and now, lapsed agnostic David Letterman"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

whos the dude on letterman right now?

― chaki, Friday, 16 May 2008 06:56 (fifteen years ago) link

it was bad tonight, huh?!?!

― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 May 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link

i duno i changed it to kimmel but the actor in the bit in the beginning was lol

― chaki, Friday, 16 May 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I LOVE how he's still doing "Great Moments in Presidental Speeches" or whatever it's called EVERY FUCKING NIGHT!

― King Boy Pato, Friday, 16 May 2008 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

haven't bothered watching him for years (the decline since '82-88 is too sad), but tis pity he's now devolved into a self-regarding would-be pundit a la Jon Stewart. RIP.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

(the decline since '82-88 is too sad)

nah, too easy

― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

after 20 years of pitiful Letterman, NOW you say something?

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

He was always pretty damn self-regarding, and I don't think you could call any of his comments on McCain "punditry". Maybe sour grapes. I thought it was diverting enough. As Letterman usually is, if I'm in that mood.

― so glitchy (kenan), Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

and what otm

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

morbs = madonna + cher

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link

wingers this morning are in hilarious "I was a huge fan until THIS" mode

― J0hn D., Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

NOW you say something?

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.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 28, 2005

Mackro, Shirley MacLaine says you and 'twat really are assholes.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

"'twat"?

― i am the small cat (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

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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 (three months ago) link

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