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Chris Elliott as Paul Shaffer on Letterman, March 25, 1987
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2017
- By request: Chris Elliott's impersonation of Paul.
Paul Shaffer interview in Vulture, February 2022:
Q: You’ve been impersonated on SNL over the years: Gary Kroeger, Mark McKinney, Chris Kattan. Anyone get you especially right or wrong?
Paul: All of them capture elements of my bizarre character that I try to do. But there’s nothing like when Chris Elliott tried to do it on Letterman. He nailed me.
I love that he used no makeup, no wig, and still mimicked Paul so well, as if he woke up and said "It feels like a Paul day today."
Chris Elliott, always underrated, unappreciated and yet brilliant.
The Dope Chronoscope ah 2019, the year of the overused word “underrated”
@@MrBiggysmalls87 nah hes right
pacifiedbeaumonte Nah. He was on snl for Christ sakes. He was in a ton of movies and tv shows. Everyone loved Chris Elliot. He’s just old now.
@@MrBiggysmalls87 nah, he never blew up to the level of his talent, so, nahhhh
pacifiedbeaumonte huh? I think you need to re-read my previous comment. SNL. MOVIES. TV SHOWS. What’s bigger than that? What “level” do you speak of?
Chris laughing as Shafer is hilarious.
Ahh.. Hahh!
It's easy to imitate a phony.
DewDee Paul didn’t like this.
Aa....AAa...
@@justafanintexas7913 Clearly, it all went over your head.
I love when Chris breaks character and talks in his own voice, Like "Dave, I don't know how to do this', that's what always made me laugh.
brugglesby My favorite part !
Dave had just called him Chris.
Same!
Chris Elliott's work in general was/is sheer genius.
Xander956 : Chris Elliot is the best comedian and Chris Burden is the best artist!
Tom Senft that is a kinda weird comparison but I will say yeah totally valid
I watch Chris’s video clips over and over.
They're both named Chris, that's something
how about his work in Schitt's Creek?? omg ahahahaha (on Netflix)
Smoking weed, eating pizza and drinking beer watching letterman in the 80s. Some of the best times with some of the best friends back then!!!
smokin pizza eatin beer drinkin weed, yup those were the daysss
one of the most underrated comedians of his time..
Does no one understand how rude it is to call someone underrated?
@@waterwind2266 the word is used all the time on CZcams and seeing it makes me crazy.
@@UnitedSoundVideo Not only is it used all the time, but people constantly misuse it. In addition to it being rude, they use it to describe things that are not underrated in the slightest. For instance, Chris Elliot is not underrated - everybody likes him. I think people just use it because they think it sounds cool.
@@UnitedSoundVideo totaly underrated.
I always wanted to ask, ‘where do you get your ideas from?’
Almost 35 years later this is still hilarious. I wish Chris Elliot was still as prominent as he was back then.
Youbwatch schitts creek?
@@crede9427 He was great in Schitts Creek. Problem is, rather than exploiting his prodigious comic gifts the show turned into a Rainbowfest after Season 1 and focused on Eugene Levy's obnoxious kid.
Whoever requested this, thank you. Elliot's mannerisms are the best.
I give this vid the Universal Sign for Appreciation
👍👌
Thumbs up,and an okay!
I think the Okay sign turned into white power sign some how. I think 4chan.
@@JoeCnNd I think you're a vapid idiot. Quit letting others 'turn things into things' and follow suit you friggin sheep.
@@JH-ji6cj Things turn into things. What are you, some kind of a vapid idiot?
Paul was thrilled and honored and showed it by giving New York City’s universal sign of appreciation.
Somehow missed this gem when I was 16. Thank CZcams I can see this at 46.
I never saw this either ...now 52 .... ps you look like a guy from GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
Just kiddin FZ FOREVER !
How the friggin years flew by faster then we could imagine huh! Seems like 6 years ago....
Zappa lives!
45 years of age here. Didnt get Letterman on cable until mid 90s, so YT is truly a flood of gems for a big DL fan as I am.
Maybe it's a Mandela Effect. I never saw this before either. It's just too damn funny to have never seen, though.
Chris Elliott is one of the rare examples of being a child of a famous entertainment industry parent and actually having talent equal to or greater. Many today don't know about his father Bob Elliott who was half of the comedy team "Bob and Ray" (with Ray Goulding). They were extremely hilarious and clever with all sorts of droll humor. I think some of the droll and deadpan humor was imparted to Chris Elliott.
And the next generation has talent, too. Chris' daughter Abby is a great comedienne. It is a shame she didn't last long on SNL; I felt she really had the potential to be a breakout star there.
@@allendracabal0819 meh
Chris and his Dad were actually costars in their TV show "Get A Life" which was on air for a handful of seasons back in the early 90's!
@@allendracabal0819I just found out last night about Abby and her time on SNL. Both she, her siblings and Her dad Chris eluded true fame and had a lesser form of it due to their industry connections
Everybody knew that
In the genius of Chris Elliott, this might be his masterpiece.
Possibly one of the most underrated bits in television history
There’s that word again ..... underrated ugh
Will you shut up with that
Now we gotta go through 10 years of boomers using it- all excited about their new discovery
I thought we were finally done
I met Paul in a book store a few years ago and had a 90 minute conversation with him. It was during the writers’ strike and he was browsing the magazine rack as a customer.
Just a pleasant, low-key, decent guy... no trace of that “cool hipster” vibe he conveys on the show. He wanted to know all about my amateur music career. We talked about Christmas (my holiday) and Hanukkah (his) and upon parting I jokingly wished him a very Merry Christmas, and he wished me a Happy Hanukkah. He is a real down to earth, polite and friendly guy.
He is such a sweet guy but may he was hitting on you too.
@@peaceandlove544 Now that I know he was done by Chris Elliott.
90 minutes? I don’t think so guy.
Uhhhhh, an hour and a half? Ahhhhh, no. Not likely.
Are you sure you didn't meet Chris Elliott?
Chris Elliott and Larry "Bud" Melman were my favorites.
Dang.....Larry Bud Melman......blast from past I totally forgot about him!
Bud is the reason I wear suits!
We've taken out ads in _Honcho, Cheese Fancier,_ and _Italian Cyclist._
Don't forget Rupert Jee.
@@Scottie404 --- how many years did Rupert appear on the show? I wanna say only a couple but not sure.
When late night didn’t suck.
Before Netflix and chill meant late night suck. 😂🤣😂
Ahhhh see ahhhh.... See what I did there?!
LOL
Your self awareness is non-existent, huh?
Now I watch old Letterman instead of current TV lol. His 80s stuff is all new to me anyways, great stuff.
@@ONE_OF_MANY-MANY_OF_ONE is a wanger
Exactly! Fucking garbage 🗑️ now.
In the 80s, I thought Chris Elliott was the funniest man alive. Then again, I didn't get out much. Great clip!
He's hilarious in the new Netflix comedy "Schitt's Creek." Just brilliant...
No, you were right, back then. I thought the same thing, and I got out a reasonable amount. My college years, you know...
God I had never seen that, how funny! Chris Elliott, what a genius!!
When Paul started talking, I thought it was still Chris!
Same here!
Every time Chris Elliot did something on Letterman I always laughed a ton. He is hilarious. I wish he would have been given more credit and better opportunities over the years to show this.
BRILLANT 🎉
I was in the Audience for the last Appearance of MAN UNDER THE SEATS...
They NAILED the Floor SHUT..LOL
I remember Letterman in the early to mid 80's, when it felt like you knew about a hysterical, hip show that most people didn't know of yet. Like you were in on a great secret.
That's how I felt when Conan became the host
That's how I feel about Jimmy Fallon.
@@basilfomeen9995 u think Fallon is hip and underground??? Really???
@@ImYourHuckleberry_29 Sorry, my mistake! I meant Jimmy Kimmel!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@basilfomeen9995 maybe comparatively he is but he's still too Mainstream for my preferences. I thought Ferguson was more offbeat and off the cuff. It's a Shame I didn't put more effort into watching him the way I did Conan when he was in NY.
The brilliance of Letterman's NBC years is beyond measurable.
I sort of stopped liking him when he went to CBS. I feel like he lost his "edge."
I hear this a lot. And maybe it's because I didn't start watching Letterman until 1995, but I loved his CBS era. From 1995 to his heart surgery, and then towards the last several years again, he could sit at his desk and tell a story for 10 minutes, and I'd be enraptured and in stitches. He never really did that on NBC did he?
I think more towards the end, Adam. He would do things like ask Paul what he was doing over the weekend and Paul would tell him and then Dave would say "I'm going to fry up some bacon and watch televised golf." That sort of off-the-wall/out of left field stuff would crack me (and my mother, who also loved Dave's NBC days) up. He was a big influence on me...and not always a good influence.
I just like dave period but maybe the early days seem more low budget and sillier
NBC years were pure genius and did bits that other shows copied! He went soft at CBS and when he started going political I was done! Thanks to You Tube I can relive the old Dave
He does Paul better than Paul
It's apauling how good he is.
Paul at the end should have gave the appreciation symbol
And Hulk Hogan
He does paul... better than paul... does paul
Dave slipped up and called him Paul :)
Forgot how late night TV was once clever and fun.
You mean 5 whole minutes without doing a single hack joke about a president/politician? Who knew it could be done.
@@Plisken65 Even Letterman was a shadow for his former self the last decade and a half or so. Letterman was brilliant from the '80s to his first couple of years at CBS.
@@youbetcha6880 I used to watch David Letterman all the time and though the was really funny. That was until the writers strike in the late 80s. He tried to wing it while the strike was on and it was anything but funny. The strike ended and coincidentally (not really) became funny again. It just showed me that he really wasn't that funny on his own, but was good at doing scripted material written by others.
I smell boomers
Rev68 the political landscape back then wasnt quite the JOKE that it is now
Just wanna go back in time and watch this in my dark bedroom.
I love how Chris always says his gag, then acts like he's got somewhere else to go and is bothered by David's questions 😂
The universal sign of appreciation. It's a thumbs up 👍 with the OK
👌.
It's a thumbs up 👍 with the OK
👌.
OMG! This is an awesome reminder on the greatness of The Letterman show and Chris Elliot!
Chris Elliott is a fearless entertainer!!
That bit with the character break, the switch and the piano was genius.
🎉❤absolutely
I saw this on tv when it aired and I never imagined I'd be watching it on a tablet 36 years later. The nostalgia is all over this. If I go in a room and turn off the the lights it's like I'm back in 1987. Cool 🎉🎉
I have that same feeling sometimes with this Letterman content.
Chris Elliot is a comic genius.
Andy Kaufman good right?
Chris Elliot needs to be recognized for the genius that he truly is! His dad was also a comic genius!
My favorite of all of Chris' impressions.
Don, you are making all my Chris Elliott dreams come true!
wow, a woman who gets lil' Chrissie Peterson's humor! that's gotta be a first! *or a second, my mammy digs him too.
Chris Elliott is one of the few comedy geniuses. Kills everytime. Top 5 comedic performers i think.
MAN! I miss this. worth getting a letter grade less in high school staying up for it. would do it all again in a minute
Chris Eliot is one of the most underrated actors. I always want to see more of him.
This is brilliant on multiple levels. If Letterman was the "edgy outsider" then Elliott was Letterman's Letterman. And while Letterman recognized this, it had to make him a bit uncomfortable too.
Roger Coley he wasn’t pulling 30M per when Chris did the show.
Describing him as letterman’s letterman is accurate! Good observation
Underrated Comment !!!!
No, Letterman loved Chris. He said when he retired that Chris was the funniest person he ever knew.
Letterman's Letterman, great concept. I'll agree!
Wow! This has to be one of the best impersonations I've ever seen.
That was a spot-on impression, wow.
Anybody who never found Chris funny, is hopeless. One of the most underrated comics in history!!!
Some times, it's hard to laugh when your chin is on the floor, in owe of his talent.
He and Martin Short are my two faves of all time
that's hilarious but Paul's such a good sport to take it like that! very classy bloke.
The T.V. Show "Get A Life" was freaking hilarious.
AGREEE!
Loved that show. We used to get torn up every week and roll around on the floor laughing at Chris's miserable life. The opening was one of the all-time greats. who gets R.E.M. to do their theme song? Maybe the most bizarre prime time show ever.
"Can't believe I'm actually modeling. And I'm good at it, too!"
Unfortunately he pretty much did nothing but play that same character in everything he did after that. I found his recurring appearances on everybody loves raymond stale and forced.
@@Rowgue51 , I thought he was great.
Ah, the good ol' days -- and the good ol' Dave. I love how Chris could always make Dave laugh, and do so in a way that you knew was genuine.
Great channel, Don. My oh my, we're having some fun now.
Jordan Taylor Yes, Weather the audience was laughing or not, all that mattered to Chris was that Dave was laughing!
@@vikings844 If I could make Dave laugh, I'd be happy, too.
I love the series "Get a Life" that Chris Elliott went on to do later and these are great to view since I missed seeing them when they aired! Thanks for posting them!😂
Check out Eagleheart if you haven't already!! Graphic content but super funny! Enjoy! 😆
This is as good as it gets. Pure talent.
FUNNY!!
I’m 65 and I really was never even familiar with this guy , he is hilarious!😂😂😂
I had the good fortune to have video recorded (later saved to DVD) of a half hour special in which Chris Elliott impersonated FDR. This was about 1986. Still has me in tears whenever when I play it. Zany.
It's at czcams.com/video/mg99W68_NzU/video.html
Chris is a god of comedy. So underrated.
I wasn't even aware of this guy! I mean I've seen him in some films but those weren't his memorable roles or anything. Now I'm stuck in an endless marathon watching his appearances on letterman and other shows. Brilliant stuff.
this is pure gold
i never thought i would be a Chris Elliott fan but here i am. Times changes everything.
I only wish this video was longer. Now I am off to binge watch Chris Elliott videos. Anyone else remember, "Get a Life"?
I do. Hilarious.
So, let me get this straight... it's a thumbs-up...with the ok??
It was sooo Paul
Just don't do it in Italy
That's a great Paul impression. I wonder what Paul really thought.
Watch his fingers at the end of the clip...
Who else saw Cabin Boy at the movies when it came out? ⛵
It stayed at our theater for one week. But I was there. Went and saw it with a friend on a Saturday night, we were the only ones in there. We laughed our asses off! Still hilarious 25 years later.
Now on bluray thank god
If only Tim Burton would have directed it they would have had a budget and a name attached and it probably would have went a different direction for the two involved, damn shame but i loved it.
These pipes.....ARE CLEAN!!!!
I had a Cabin Boy poster on my teenaged bedroom wall!
when paul shaffer came back he felt less like paul shaffer than chris elliott did
May be the most brilliant imitation I've seen in my life.
Thanks for finding this! So funny!
The great Chris Elliot proves his mettle once again.
His best impersonation ever. I suspect Paul wasn't very amused
but acted nonplussed about it.
Actually you can hear Schaeffer laugh loudly in the background.
part of the schtick is for paul to act unamused by chris' impersonation of him. paul will be fine.
" *but* acted nonplussed"
I don't think you know what non plussed means, with that qualifier in the context of that full sentence.
Watch Paul's hands (when he describes how much he enjoyed it or not to Dave at the end)
@@Ledgeview his right hand... didn't notice that before, you can't really see anything, probably why it was left in.
The funnest man of all time! Chris Elliott!!!
Rare never seen either, great job!
wandered over here from a link on Facebook---I've watched many many of your videos, Don Giller---somehow hadn't subscribed till now. I watch Dave randomly on this sight when I need to giggle suddenly, dumbly, for no reason that can be put into words---and Elliott as Paul Shaffer is just such an occasion! Chris really camps it up as Paul, exaggerating all his quirks and hipster vibe perfectly. There was never better mindless banter than this! Thank you, truly, for helping me enjoy things I see on a screen once again.
Thanks, Tamara! Welcome to the rabbit hole. :)
Chris Elliot is AWESOME
Thanks for all these back-to-back Chris Elliott-as-Brando, then as Paul Shaffer, etc...what great memories of back in the mid-80s, when Letterman & Late Night, in general, was at its peak! This was THE best time to stay up until, well, midnight, if you were in certain places, IDK when, if you lived on the coast... I remember, back in high school, friends talking about these Chris Elliott skits, when he'd pop out on to the set as "Marlon Brando", of course, the funny part of it is, the real Brando would never have been so wacky. But that's wherein the humor lies. Ha ha....now I want to go try & find a bunch of the older Letterman shows when Larry "Bud" Melman used to show up from time to time (that wasn't his real name, either, which, in itself, was funny)!
"It's time for small town news, do you have some music for this?" "AH HA- what?"
I lived in Denton in 1987. It was a small place and I never heard of "The Tack Room". Give it up Sandy!
Does anybody remember “Get a Life”? I thought it was hilarious.
Best show on tv, way to ahead of its time to last
I remember. Also the song "Stand" by R.E.M.
I downloaded the entire series last year and rewatched, still hilarious.
Yeah, great show! Stand in the place where you live...🎶
Watched every episode twice - when it was on TV and then recently on CZcams.
This is freaking hilarious !!!! Chris is great!
I'll bet that was the last day Paul agreed to take a day off 😆
Definitely a Chris Elliot fan. I rememverwhen he did those crazy walk on stunts on David's show earlier in the shows history. He is a fearless genius.
Hilarious then, hilarious now. Notable that this is two bits going on at the same time, Elliott's impression and Small Town News. And both are funny. Show was genius in the late '80s.
Thank you. Fabulous. Greatly appreciated.
I'm so glad this video is back up
Brilliant bit. Just perfect old time late night letterman genius as I remembered it in the old days.
Haven't thought about this guy in more than 30 years and it's like coming home to an old friend.
That was great!
I miss this. Dave on the tube four nights a week. Chris Elliott was magic.
“Agghh!” Lmao that sound is somehow so funny
As soon as Chris walked onto a scene, I started laughing. It didn't matter what he was doing.
guy under the seats wow miss them late night 80's shows johnny too so much fun !
The band must have died laughing during this bit ... This actually shows how good the band is; they manage to follow Eliot's random conducting motions 4:46 ...
Chris Elliott highly talented. I always loved him on this show.
Paul gave the FU hand gesture there in the last 3 seconds
and Chris gave the thumbs up 666
the algorithm brought me here...the humor and craft kept me here...brilliant stuff from Chris Elliot...
great stuff, never saw this one
Don Giller continues to chronicle the wonderful old days of late night TV - thanks for the clips Don :-)
Funniest man in my TV lifetime
Notice the upside down middle finger by Paul at the end.
brewer921 brilliant observation
"Üniversal sign of appreciation ... " ... hah ...
Nice, good catch.
Totally! Paul had to be a good sport about it, but he clearly signaled what he really felt.
@Brazilian Atlantis Good call B.A. Paul had a lot of little idiosyncrasies and this is just one of them. He's definitely not giving some secret sign of disapproval or something. That's ridiculous.
Don, that actually is 1 of the funniest things I've seen Elliott do (and he has always been 1 of my favorites - including the TV show he did called Get a Life)! One thing he missed is using the word "Nutty..." in that sort of jazzy, coo,l lounge-singer way that the inimitable (well I guess he is a little imitatable here:-) Paul Shaffer often uttered it. I even heard him say "nutty" again in a recent interview (2018 or 2019) and he still wears that word so well!
Shaffer; Paul Shaffer. :)
@@dongiller well, that darn speech to text! I certainly didn't mean to misspell it and will go in and correct it now. So, spelling aside, check out the kernel of what I'm communicating with my comment - I really appreciate you putting these together - you're amazing!
Just brilliant.
I always loved Elliott's work. His bit parts on the King of Queens were funny, too, especially the hospital episode where he has no friends or relatives so he puts the main character, Doug, as his emergency contact before his surgery.
Yes!...and as the exterminator for the Heffernan's bed bug infestation.
Imagine how many drunk and/or high viewers didn't realize this wasn't Paul for quite a while into the bit.
That was a golden nugget of television history.
Chris Elliot us an underappreciated genius!
Chris was supposed to be living under the steps in the audience.He was good in Snow Day and they mention Christopher Reeves as Superman, sad what happened to him.
First thing I thought...pre riding accident...rough