I miss that long-ago time, staying up to watch this show. You never knew what you were going to see, but it was always something unexpected, odd, and hilarious. It felt like Dave and his crew had their own little world and we’d get glimpses every night.
Yes I was only like 7 years old when this aired. I love watching old Videos like this with David Letterman as you can tell he was much happier..a shame he had to turn into a serious grump because of Jay Leno...but hey it's his life with his problems. Grudges are just stupid. ...but the best part of watching these old videos is just feeling how much slower and groovier things were back then (not everywhere but as a kid it sure did feel like it) and everyone just seemed do damn happy. :)
I was born 8 years after this episode aired and still enjoy watching the remotes of Letterman. I came here from the Ice Cube Kevin Hart Conan remote segment. Got to know a lot about late night.
@Pennsylvania History Buff: I'm pretty sure that was Pete Fatovich, longtime assistant director on Letterman's NBC and CBS programs, who (like many other crewmembers) often made little appearances on the show like that.
Some of the classic stuff is just so great, his show today is, well, boring. I still watch, but he's even given up on Charts & Graphs. I liked that bit.
Well not long before he is gone. I wonder how long it will take for people to miss him. They have got a long time until September before Colbert takes over. Is it just re-runs of Letterman they will air until then?
John King I didn't tune into dave until early to mid 90's on CBS but he was a kick then, throwing water balloons off the Ed Sullivan building, constructing a swimming pool just to fill it with Alka-Seltzer, Him and mel Gibson grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting their $200 slacks into hot pants and anything, anything to do at all with the 'Hello' deli.
maybe he did slow down a bit with age. BUT the writers who wrote all the comedy earlier on in his career moved on. and his new writers were just not as good.
0:28 If anyone doesn't get the joke, this episode aired four days after Rudolf Hess (bad guy) was found dead in his cell at Spandau Prison (good place for bad guys to die).
Dave in the old days were the best. He was the picture of passive-aggressive.
I've been watching a lot of these clips lately. Good memories of a time long gone.
now don't go all David BingCrosby on me now
Me too.
I miss this show. Thanks for posting!
In college we all used to sit through Carson to see Letterman...I remember seeing this one at the time. How times change.
I bought my first $420 (I think) VCR just so I could vidtape©®™ King Dave and the gang...and I would pop vivarin (coffee cubed) in order to stay up on friedegg night! but the damn stuff cancelled out my Thai space food stick buzzler...fuck a caffeine
Paul Shaffer, the greatest co-host to never actually be a co-host.
I miss that long-ago time, staying up to watch this show. You never knew what you were going to see, but it was always something unexpected, odd, and hilarious. It felt like Dave and his crew had their own little world and we’d get glimpses every night.
the genius of dave
This is an entirely different and way edgier Dave than I'd ever seen on his later programs. I love it, thanks for sharing!
your screen name is offensive on a veritable plethora of myriads of a whole 'nother levels!
The Late Night NBC years were glorious
Yeah then he started to try inject his politics into every episodes.
Oh how I miss this show. Thank you Jerkylfish for posting such a treasure
"What if that weasel is still out there, that Crispin Glover?" hah!
I wonder if this was the episode where Crispin was caught rifling through Meryl Streeps handbag backstage
@@sutherlandA1 That was Harmony Korine!
love dave miss him
80s Letterman was the best!!!
I was 13 that summer and I remember watching this show when it first broadcast. I watched Letterman every night back when he was on at 12:30 Eastern.
thanks! never would have seen this otherwise, i was only 1 year old when this would have aired
Yes I was only like 7 years old when this aired. I love watching old Videos like this with David Letterman as you can tell he was much happier..a shame he had to turn into a serious grump because of Jay Leno...but hey it's his life with his problems. Grudges are just stupid.
...but the best part of watching these old videos is just feeling how much slower and groovier things were back then (not everywhere but as a kid it sure did feel like it) and everyone just seemed do damn happy. :)
I was born 8 years after this episode aired and still enjoy watching the remotes of Letterman. I came here from the Ice Cube Kevin Hart Conan remote segment. Got to know a lot about late night.
+ShadowX011 because we were
+Adarsh AR everything old is black again or whatever the damn kids were saying like last decade or something or tetherball
Thanks for uploading.
@Pennsylvania History Buff: I'm pretty sure that was Pete Fatovich, longtime assistant director on Letterman's NBC and CBS programs, who (like many other crewmembers) often made little appearances on the show like that.
LOL XD!!! Hilarious, this bit could cure Cancer.
Better than an actual sidekick.
Jay Leno will be here.
Thats the same tune from the jail execution scene from Breaking Bad
"oh forget it... the show was bad before, it's bad now..." Nice vid
This was when Letterman was at his prime. Fantastic. Shame he became a little but lazy in his older years on CBS.
John King I agree. I think history will show that he stayed too long.
Some of the classic stuff is just so great, his show today is, well, boring. I still watch, but he's even given up on Charts & Graphs. I liked that bit.
Well not long before he is gone. I wonder how long it will take for people to miss him. They have got a long time until September before Colbert takes over. Is it just re-runs of Letterman they will air until then?
John King I didn't tune into dave until early to mid 90's on CBS but he was a kick then, throwing water balloons off the Ed Sullivan building, constructing a swimming pool just to fill it with Alka-Seltzer, Him and mel Gibson grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting their $200 slacks into hot pants and anything, anything to do at all with the 'Hello' deli.
maybe he did slow down a bit with age. BUT the writers who wrote all the comedy earlier on in his career moved on. and his new writers were just not as good.
wow I see so much of him in Conan
BC Conan patterned himself after Letterman.
"Dave's Record Collection" became "Jimmy's Record Collection" on Fallon's "Tonight Show."
greatest ever..bar none Letterman
Well, they can't all be winners.
Is that Fred Decordova Dave meets in the NBC commissary?
@AntiFaithNY This is the segment right after Crispin Glover's second appearance (not the appearance where he tried to kick Dave).
'Pick Yourself Up' by Billy May
(thanks to Shazam)
Bill Wendell, who worked with Ernie Kovacs compares David to Kovacs.
Nice to see an intelligent comments section for a change without everyone bitching and whining about how old the video is.
0:28 If anyone doesn't get the joke, this episode aired four days after Rudolf Hess (bad guy) was found dead in his cell at Spandau Prison (good place for bad guys to die).
Technicians "filling in" during the strike? They were scabbing.
Where did these obscure lp's come from? The writers?
Why don't late night talk show hosts star in movie's?
Jay Leno will be here😂😂
*"IT'S A TRAP!"*
What a goofball.
Was that really hand soap that he eats in the bathroom?does
On air diarrhea occur when filming?
yes, it was really hand soap. tastes great. try it.
+47 and2 and tide pods make a great post-mortem appetizer
Anybody recognize the music while Dave's roaming the halls?
Sporadic Multiple Orgasmed Xylophones by Throbbing Gristle and the Meat Wagons of way off course
just skidding...it was Southbound Suarez by the legendarily bad Led Zepppfffhhh!
That is one of my favorites by them
what song is this?
"Pick Yourself Up" by Billy May.
@@superelectra thank you
3:37. Eeeek! What a Me Too moment. Hilarious sketch tho.
That's a photo of Live at Five Sue Simmons that Dave is kissing
Who ever told Paul Schafer he could sing??? 😩😫
silent night holy night the lights so brightly shioanin'!
Definitely not his strong point
I wonder what made Dave change in his later years to be so caustic & unfunny? At one time he was the best!
Heart attack, blackmail scandal, aging
@@bubbazep01 Yep. That would pretty much do it.
Dave on NBC was great. I never watched him on CBS. The magic was gone. He took himself too seriously and then became a Leftist bore.