Staff Favorite Moments: Producer Mary Connelly | Letterman
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For reasons I won’t elaborate, I just want to declare to the universe that Mary Connelly is a saint.
Delightful Saint
So far my most favorite sequence of memorable staff moments
I’d never noticed just how much Richard’s son, Jared Harris, looks like his dad until seeing Richard here.
Was she Letterman's affair?
@@michaelkupfer3723 Doesn’t warrant a serious response for so many reasons.
The thing about the staff being onscreen in order to get health insurance is amazing.
Agree!
That's just one of the reasons why we love Dave.
This is the first time I’ve heard this. Makes me smile.
Thanks for the Kathy Lee story! I will have nightmares for a week!!🤢🤮🤑
"Way to go Dave"👏
“That could run you into some bucks” *Dave cackles in delight at his torture methods*
Sonny & Cher not knowing the lyrics was part of the charm and the thrill, like they really hadn't planned to sing together. Better they be looking at each other than at cue cards!
The Sonny and Cher moment is quite simply one of the most magical moments on TV. Even back then when you were watching it you knew you were seeing something amazingly special. I could watch a whole one of these on that show alone.
I was in the audience for the Sonny and Cher taping --- drove 10 hours from Canada and was at the front of the standby line at 3:30 a.m. on show day. So memorable!
OMG! You have to say more about this.
So good to see Mary Connelly again. I used to love the competition between her and Dave, throwing footballs. Great fun.
I remember Mary throwing those footballs. What a great trip down memory lane this is! Still the greatest late night show of all-time. Punk rock and weird and experimental and, as Eddie Murphy said, the coolest thing on TV.
I hear there’s a full compilation of Mary’s football clips.
@@dongiller oh that's so good as Phil Simms' competitive nature kicks in. Great job with that and all the videos.
The Sonny and Cher moment was a top ten moment in television history
I’m so glad they included the football game. Everytime I hear about Mary, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.
For me, it is of her and Dave throwing a baseball around the office and giving their throws a little “mustard” leading to a window breaking and glass potentially falling several floors to the street below.
@@shawnuel Not to mention how hot she is.
@@shawnuel Baseball for me too, particularly how unfazed she was by short hops. I'd have been diving out of the way.
I loved Letterman of this era! Nothing better.
I loved the Sonny and Cher segment. I watched it (recorded it) right after broadcast.
Sonny and Cher were so great! That should be on every Top Ten TV Moments list. Thanks for the laughs, Mary!
That moment is amazing, but also a perfect course in body language. How they start trying to keep some distance, and they slowly reconnect.
Agreed. I remember the night it aired. Amazing moment.
Saw a lot of these clips, including this one when it aired. (There were also a bunch I was surprised I missed, probably because I didn't have a TV in my college dorm room back then.) I recall the atmosphere for this one was electric.
@@DanielleCyr1 I love when David jokes that Sonny and Cher did it "for scale", and Cher says that it's better this way. It wasn't a fake reunion for money, it was truly special.
@@DanielleCyr1 One thing that was great was that you didn't know if Cher would do it. There was nothing phony about it -- she was trying not to! But Dave wouldn't let her get away.
While i love all of these, this one was especially wonderful. And I'm getting teary over that healthcare detail. So many terrific people on that staff!! Thank you, Mary!!
I wonder if Mary's had her baby yet?
I agree, I'm obsessed with these but this one is just amazing,
The Milford Plaza hotel show is one of my favorites.
I'll never forget the Sonny and Cher show. For me, that was the best Letterman show ever.
I had a huge crush on Mary back then and would giggle like a schoolboy when she was onscreen.
I remember watching the Sonny and Cher bit as a teenager. I laughed at how badly they did it and couldn't understand why it was a big deal.
Also remember Mary against the quarterback. Mary was awesome!
Almost 30 years later, I still can’t believe that Will missed the last NBC show.
Mary seems most excellent! I fondly recall the football toss. She made us all picture a sweaty Kathy Lee. Well played, Susan Kennedy.
R I P Sonny!🕯⛷️
I’ve watched all these “staff” retrospectives. This one is peerless!
This may have been the best one yet. She was always great when she was on, and by the way, slower is ALWAYS funnier. Think how much longer the show could have run if he would have realized that.
Like Johnny Carson, Dave could have run as long as he wanted to. And the fact that Mary was/is a doll figures into the equation. May God strike you dead if I am wrong ;o)
I love this series. I hope they never end.
Who asked for it is one of my all-time fav segments b/c Dave had so much fun messing with the staff
I always remember the Football segments, As soon as i saw Mary on here that was the first thing that came to mind. It is great to hear about Dave having the staff on the show so they could get health care.
The last 15 seconds😆😆😆
Absolutely love these compilations! I hope they never stop.
Those were the days Thanks Dave.✌✌
I'm fairly certain this lady is the Mary I met at the Club Med in Martinique way back in the 90s. Didn't ask her what she did for a living so I was quite surprised when I later seen her on Letterman doing a staff vacation segment with Dave. She showed a picture from her Martinique vacation as I recall it.
The last part!!!! Hahahaha
"Orange Crush is Helen Hayes' favorite beverage, if the empty cans under the bed are any indication."
Richard Harris, wow! He captivated me as Dumbledore and his passing after the first two films changed the film series forever. Lovely to see just how brilliant he was in the 1980s, I was too young to see this side of him and it's a revelation!
I wish I could give these staff favorites videos more than one thumbs up. They make my day every time.
I'm 35 and not an American and all of this is such a weird experience. Like I'm living someone else's life.
These were great times
I love these old Letterman highlight reels, I was a young man in the 80s when I first started watching Dave and continued on into the 2000s. Fun fact, I live in Indianapolis and have been in my home for over 20 years which happens to be one block over from where Dave grew up in Indy, and I have the same street address as the house they've grew up in!
"Why would she answer the phone" the look on her face after she says that tells all. The face of a woman traumatized.
Thank you Mary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was pretty special. So many great memories and now some new ones
Thank you Mary !!!!
These were amazing moments, Mary!!
Acting, Drinking & Women
The trifecta!
Love seeing clips from the old show
Never seen a woman so lovely! Thanks for the laughs Mary.
Loved it from beginning to end!
Love this!!
This was the one I was waiting for :).
I could watch that football game all night
This is great!!!
Mary! Terrific anecdotes.
I remember the football gag. One of my favorites!!!
Great moments Mary..
LOVE THESE VIDEOS!! THIS HAS BEEN SO FUNNY WE ARE ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING¡!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Mary ! Hi Dave & everyone. Really enjoy these segments. I was in the neighborhood on 10 17 2001 yet have never seen the show from that date.
Any chance at a clip or two from then ?
Thanks 🙂
Best storyteller ART DONOVAN!
I was in the audience for the Sonny and Cher episode and my thinking at the time was “Cher REALLY does not want to sing this.” It was awkward for everyone.
Anybody else have to start the video over about 10 seconds in, just to see that pic with her & Dave & Johnny?
I remember you!!
Mary said she was throwing footballs and then choked in an embarrassing way, but I didn't see any kind of choke. She beat Phil Sims. All her shots were either in the basket or close to it.
Sonny and Cher DID have cards, but apparently they weren't labeled who sings what (or Cher overlooked that if they were).
Imagine if they had the football throwing contest today with either Zack Wilson or Daniel Jones. Mary would have won a $100,000 in one night.
Sonny and Cher forgetting the lyrics to "I Got You Babe' reminds me of the awkward time Dave asked a band to perform a hit song they were famous for but they clearly hadn't prepared. I don't want to say Van Halen or Aerosmith. That doesn't sound right. This is going to drive me nuts. Dave was so looking forward to them performing and all they did was riff when given a chance to perform at the end of the show.
Cheap NBC. And it's not like Mary was being paid Canseco dollars then either.
Slower doesn't mean funnier!!
How soon 'zat kid comin', Mary?
Mary/Connie replies (8:19), "Any time now, Dave."
I could get you your own show now, Mary. A gorgeous hot babe always works. Don't whip me.
Hier dave
still a babe
Comedy gold.
4:05 As a kid, Harris made me want to be an alcoholic when I grew up.
They had sonny killed. When's the last time you heard of anyone skiing into a tree.
When I was in 9th grade the girl that sat in front of me in homeroom skied into a tree and died.
Near Banff, there is a ski run called Lone Pine as there is only the one obstacle...
Many have hit that one tree and several have died.
Was Mary actually pregnant? I remember her pregnancy lasting a year it seems like.
It was a bit, and it lasted for ages. It even survived a writer’s strike. The last time Connie was on the show Dave commented, “That woman has been pregnant for about a year and a half.”
Listen , you all gave the funniest thing in North America and you did it with stupid mixed with some what of care. Odd really .