Oliver Reed on Letterman, August 5, 1987 (full, stereo)
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- Oliver Reed's infamous appearance on Late Night. Included here are his two segments; his participation in a short intro-to-repeat clip that was taped during the break following his interview that then aired the following Monday; and Dave's post-interview musings.
It's also Robert Morton's first day as the show's producer (replacing Barry Sand), so Dave and Paul give Morty a hard time on how well his first show is going. Dave appears to be both amused and flustered with his encounter with Reed.
Oliver Reed's death stare, a thing of cold beauty.
"I love trees and boats"
always go full Oliver Reed. always.
I replay this quote constantly lol
Dude comes out talking like Macho Man and tells stories of tree climbing and eating plates. Good shit
I met Mr Reed many years ago when I was working at a recording studio in London, he was a really nice guy and real good laugh.
He seems like it's so much more beyond his tough guy appearance...
I think if you had the guts to go beyond the persona that he put up to, he would buy you a drink in the pub... Or something
@@alakhazom - I think you'll find Oliver Reed was a nasty, cruel bully who enjoyed making others suffer.
He wasn't a nice guy at all.
Sad guy really.
@@young321bookie unless you actually spent some time with him you can only be talking bullshit he may have gone off the wall a few times but he certainly wasn't a nasty or a bully so stop talking bullshit.
Dmax well said mate
Reed was absolutely brilliant here- A Stallone/Macho Man hybrid never even considered for mass production
With elements of Micky Rouke
@@adnaanu He could also be a wild man and a loose cannon on talk shows
I know it's 2 years ago but particularly apt hunter s Thompson reference,
Oliver Reeds performance as Bill Sykes was incredible 💯🔥💪❤🎯
Can you imagine Oliver Reed as James Bond? It very nearly happened.
Crate of Martini, shaken not stirred.
Too brutish looking and just under 6 ft really!?
He was a hilarious guest RIP cheers Oliver 🍻
Omg, what a character! One of a kind, super talented actor!
Dave looked genuinely terrified when the glasses came off!
I think the folks in the balcony were shitting bricks, too! 😃
I was too.
I wear glasses and yes, when the glasses come off it gets real.
And Reed looked genuinely terrifying
He was being goaded to act aggressively so played into it which was clearly a consequence of a lack of foresight from David who couldn’t handle him
I watched this when it first aired, and vividly remember it to this day as, by FAR, Letterman's scariest moment with a guest.
milfordmkt I saw it when it first aired, as well. Couldn’t believe what I was watching.
Bet Letterman was sweating !!
@@sethcashman1011 Yea, I remember it too - I though he was going to get up and punch the shit out of Dave.
@Nenethegreat W it wasn't scary for me - I was watching it. Dave on the other hand...
@Nenethegreat W - Awwww, come on. Why not let people enjoy things, eh?
;-)
One of my favourite actors! He never took sh*t from anyone.
"You gonna be bright now?"
God bless ya, Ollie.
By God who do you mean exactly?
He enjoys being totally ridiculous- he does it to a fine art - whatever he does he’s in control - only this time not totally plastered- he’s comical and I enjoy him
He’s also so human-
Well said Anna, I'm just looking at it now. I loved him in the movies particularly the musical Oliver a magical part for him.. stay safe
Oliver Reed was an amazing talent , combined with booze he was vicious and brilliant
He loved playing cruel comedic games. Even if they were purely entertaining him
ya think?
I like what Oliver Reed said..."the finest people I've ever known I met in a pub". That might not have been verbatim on my part, but that sentiment is still in my heart. My brother's were fishermen and drinkers..... excellent fellows.
I just read his biography and I can't remember who said that he was very insecure about his lack of education and that's why he liked being around blue-collar types. That's also why he liked to get people drunk when they talked to him; he felt that it brought them down to his level.
@@willshaw3493 my favorite thing to read is autobiographies and biographies.... I've gotta get Oliver's.
It’s a shame mainstream media only had the capacity to zoom in on his alcoholism. His experience and art were more profound than most actors past and present. Sadly, producers and hosts sought what would now be ‘clicks’ and ‘likes’ rather than fulfil their role of deepening our understanding of celebrities/artists. We need another Oliver.
Well said.
He was unique
Plus the fact that asking those question in such a rude way was immensely impolite.
We need another Dick Cavett.
Thanks for putting up the rest of the clip, the "go to bed" line killed me
You can always tell, when Letterman gets annoyed at guests “performing” on his show and being cute. Reed always backed off a little bit, when he saw the tell - only to jump right back into trolling him.
Letterman in his younger years had a very sharp wit. I can't really imagine anybody besting him. I find these non scripted interviews to be the perfect antidote to todays scripted and woke shite
@@harryf1ashman Harvey Pekar tore Letterman up...Letterman was disrespectful to many, some like Mr. Reed and Cher gave back to Dave what he tried to dish out.
"I love trees and boats"
Oliver Reed
No wonder he drank with Keith Moon - they were both totally insane.
@@keithjohnston6861 Perhaps. I just know I'd have given anything to have had a few pints with them.
Thanks Don, Really HQ upload of this! Thanks!!
Accent was good. It was half New York, half Glaswegian.
'I love trees and boats'. Brilliant line.
Oliver Reed was great in Burnt Offerings!
I would give a million bucks to have heard what was said during commercial breaks.
I think Ollie actually likes Dave
He was just fucking with him
7:15 he actually laughs with him
Thanks for all the videos Don!
He was very big in the UK, a 'bad boy' ,unpredictable, highly intelligent, an original.
Dave said on Later with Bob Costas (in 1989), that this, and the Crispin Glover interview were the two moments in his career when he thought "something is going to happen here which will require a lot of therapy afterwards"
The Costas interview is here, uncut. -- czcams.com/video/8ySVaPY6vBQ/video.html
@@royrowland5763 "Looks at your avatar" ...ohhh ok. You don't have the intelligence to even change it from an "R". Maybe it stands for something...
@@ChrisMisc1 Perhaps you can clear up some confusion:
Did you create your avatar before or after you came out?
I met Oliver Reed about 30 years ago, he said to me: Call me Oli.
The voice that pops out of Reed's mouth when Letterman moves to the jacknife is priceless.
Sounded like Yosemite Sam
I wish he'd punch Dave
Macho Man Randy Savage
Olly Reed was a f***** legend!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Oliver's Reed Talent was being Oliver Reed lol
Ollie was the man.
Ollie was the drink.
Hell yeah. A total rancantour. He, Marvin, Burton etc, are greatly missed. A bit nuts, but never boring.
Clever. Beyond his time.
He went from a cowboy accent, to a black accent, to a bronx accent in 10 seconds.
I thought he might be having the dt's.
absolutely fantastic
And older Letterman who wasn't as sarcastic or goofy/awkward, would have known how to handle Oliver better. Oliver smelled fear in Letterman and pounced all over it.
yeah... that must be it...
Daniel : No... he was just pissed drunk..
@@marlon1171 I guess.. he's not intimidating at all.... he's just a drunk... so, there's that.
@@marlon1171 he was 5' 11" and alcohol makes you a worse fighter, not a better one... maybe it's becuase I coach mma and bjj... but no man.. that's not intimidation.... sorry.
@@marlon1171 lol... I dont know about all that... but I get your point. just seemed to me like a lot of folks were acting unnaturally scared of him... he just seemed kind of like a bully or a lout to me.. I dont know... opinions vary I guess... have a great night.
Absolute legend
Live Lion taming on a TV chat show ...with nothing but a chair between Letterman and the Lion
Brave if not stupid for the host ...
What a magnificent beast Ollie was!!!
He looks like a dude who could mess you up,.. bad. If he wanted.
@C. Buck Hyres for a tough guy he has a remarkably cultured voice.
He could have a fight that's for sure but what a great guy, he is missed by many :(
He's on some English chat show with these hipster types and he just wipes the floor with them. Wit, come backs. They all look like fools. And Ollie was hammered.
He was only famous for appearing on chat shows by this time.
roquefortfiles A gymnastically strong man.
I love this man, there is just something about him that I feel connected to him.
Let go of his pint then!
@@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse I have no idea what you mean by your statement.
You probably both like to be in pubs…drinking all the time!
@@patbogost3832 Actually I neither drink nor use drugs.
@@maggiepepper60 So you're just stupid!
Burnt Offerings scared the daylights out of me as a kid. Still stands the test of time. My buddy drank several different yearly visits at the pub Oliver spent his last years drinking in Ireland.
I was in Malta when he died of a heart attack while arm wrestling sailors in a Valletta bar. I heard about it before the media did because concierge at our hotel was the brother of the driver of the ambulance that took him to hospital.
Facts
Me too. Especially that scary skinny limo driver.
Love Oliver Reed, one of the greats of all time.
What a man he was!
Outstanding Actor Oliver Reed.
Thanks Don for the excellent quality upload..wow, they both got in some good zingers best at 9:17..I think later in the show, Chris Elliott said "you were very good with Foster Brooks"..
YES, one of Elliott's all time funniest lines; Reed basically was Foster Brooks! :)
Absolute best line of the night...I was in tears!
Don, can you please upload this Chris Elliot segment?
I did, nine months ago. czcams.com/video/6IjL-lxDXSk/video.html
He was taking the piss. He liked a drink but he knew exactly what he was doing. Legend.
I guess, but to my American eyes it seemed like he was a prick (knob, as you might say).
@@GUITARTIME2024 the thing was, that letterman didn't stop talking about the drinking thing. in my european eyes, i would have flipped out if letterman went on my nerves that much. so for me, reed really rocked this conversation.
@@bartelR yes Ollie was fed up talking about alcohol.. he was more than that so decided to destroy letterman. Who to be fair was being a twat.
@@GUITARTIME2024 alcoholism is an illness. No one thought like this back then.
He wasn't taking a piss when he died during a drinking contest
Legend.
Wish I knew him when we were young.
Letterman is shitting bricks by the end. Can't really blame him either.
It was an intense stare he gave him.
"You just want to turn my lights out, don't you". LMAO!
Maybe he shouldn't have brought up the subject Reed asked him not to.
This guy is nuts
9:56 Paul S.'s look of genuine concern coming after his half-serious clowning makes my hair stand up here. He literally gulps.
He’s only 49 when this interview was done, makes you appreciate the hard life he’d lived, he looks about 80
Oh wow
I saw an older Johnny Carson show with him and he already looked 50yrs old...hummm ok
He was a big drinker I believe. That’s not healthy for the liver. Just saying.
He looks older than when he passed away in 2000 lol.
80 is an exaggeration. More like 60-65
This is probably from a few years before I used to record Letterman shows and watch them the next day if I got a chance. One of my favorite memories from back then. Not sure how long I did it. Interesting to see these clips...
Wow much respect for Letterman for keeping the conversation flowing in his own stumbling funny manner.. I would've frozen at several spots if this was an actual Convo
Oliver Reed.......... GREAT ACTOR, GREAT MAN... he stood by what he said...... !!! RIP
This man was an awesome actor with humour and intelligence 👍
Agreed
Ollie was a true man with natural charisma and intelligence. That type of man unfortunatelly is not exist anymore.
"Is not exist"..?
Speaking of intellegence..
@@morbidmanmusic What are you saying kiddo?
@@morbidmanmusic And you misspelled the attribute you were implying the other man lacked. An act of sardonic negligence.
Paul looked genuinely concerned when Reed took off his glasses, poor Oliver Reed couldn't handle the situation with intelligent commentary and wit I guess, just implied threats.
Did you watch a completely different video to the rest of us?
Oliver Reed was a sexist, misogynistic, alcoholic fool. He was a great actor though I'll grant you that atleast.
Ollie was a drunk and a troll as well as a very fine actor, so Letterman should not have been surprised. It's a pity so many shows exploited Ollie but he knew what he as doing and it became his bread and butter.
Was all a show for reed he was a class act
He was 49 here. Wow, what a stud! Burly, muscular, menacing and charming.
Looks older.
He looked like a haggard bloated drunk.
@@PK-re3luit was partially the beard, and the grey hair - but even without the beard he did look older but typically masculine people do anyway
What a legend
He sounds like the Macho Man. Ooooh yeahhh.
Great actor!
Fantastic actor.
It also just sunk in that this wasn't too long after the infamous Crispin Glover interview. Dave was having a rough go of it in that timeframe.
its amazing to see how he can take the p-ss so calmly and creatively
Oliver was a product of the Army. Hilarious & deadly. God bless him. 💐
I watched that back then: Reed got genuinely menacing there. No boring interviews with him.
When he put his glasses in his breast pocket, his eyes said “one more time, go on” and Letterman read that message loud and clear.
@@MightyCanOfSPAM he would have made network television history had he punched Letterman 😂
what a legend
an amazing actor.
God bless you always my friend. :)
Oliver Reed 👍👍👍👍👍👍
You know things are bad when you have to plug in the giant multi tool penknife 🤣🤣
This neatly encapsulated uk and USA culture - very profound - very apt - very beautiful - very poignant - very deep
LOL Letterman was genuinely frightened😂
Up the bracket
Don't think Ollie had the slightest intention of being violent with Dave, he was clearly just fucking with him from the beginning.
The opening handshake gave all the intention of being violent. When one's in the moment, one doesn't consider whether Reed is toying or not.
No its Ollie being Ollie totally. He likes to do that
Apollogamer He has an amazing sense of humour.
@@dongiller I agree in part, Letterman wouldn't have known how to take him. In that case though, he shouldn't have pushed his buttons and yet he continued to antagonise a "problem" guest.
The Randy Savage impression though and the answering questions in German were obvious attempts to troll Dave, though admittedly, only in retrospect. I don't really agree with the Letterman-trashing though, he was still relatively young and green at this stage and his mind will have been firing in 50 different directions. He was far more capable and likeable in his middle age.
At 05:55 though notice Ollie touching Dave's hand to reassure him that it was ok.
Some great stories about him and Moon....
Oliver was as nutty as a fruit cake....... but such a funny guy. Miss him . I think his cemetery is opposite the pub he used daily .... I read that somewhere . So I guess he is in his happy place . RIP oliver 🌹
When I saw the glasses come off I feared for David.
"Are you pissed off now "
"no im off"
Brilliant
I've had a few stories of Oliver Reed down the Gut in Malta with matelots. he was great!!
Do tell!
Oliver Reed was pretty tame and controlled that night.
Imagine Oliver Reed and Joe Pesci in a talk Show together
Ollie could destroy him in every way.
Could be blacked out drunk, but is still wittier than anyone.
Some people might not know his last movie was Gladiator
He died on the actual filming location of Gladiator : Malta. Reed visited a Maltese bar called The Pub, arm wrestled with several Marines, and suffered a heart attack. He was 61.
@@Orion3741 The fact that Ollie's last place, while living on planet earth, was called, The Pub, is pure brilliance.
@@waynej2608 : not really any originality in the name ( of that specific pub ). But never mind. It has now become even more popular since Reed's death.
That's right. Now i recognize him.
@@Orion3741 - You forgot that he out drunk all of them too....
Oliver Reed was the most brilliant drunk that ever lived. Orson Welles once said of Reed's acting ability (while in Reed's presence); "he displaces air; he displaces a lot of air. And, only those actors can work in every medium."
Reed had royal blood; his great uncle was Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who was among the finest theatrical actors of the 19th Century. Reed was also the direct descendent of "Peter the Great," Tsar and first Emperor of Russia (1682-1725).
He looked really old for only being 49. All that tree climbing really takes its toll. LOL!
Alcoholic
Almost my age, I can hardly believe it..
No he didn't, he just has white hair. Take away all the hair dye people use nowadays.
@@KrisVic91 pffft I’m 50 & look nowhere near as old as Oliver & I’ve never used hair dye & I don’t need too
@@cronulla70 good for you man! 😂. I'm 29 and have white hair in my eyebrows and a receeding hairline...
I'd say you're in the minority like 😂.
What an amazing talent, we need more of these people
That Reed stare genuinely terrifies me. This reminds me of the time Christoph Waltz was on Letterman. They both couldn't wait to leave.
now me, I love the Reed stare, I love him.
Aquarius stare
When Letterman says he has a "recent history of bailing out of this plane" he's referring to the episode with Crispin Glover which he had recently walked out of. This episode was also included in Letterman's Mad As Hell Week in which they replayed this, the Cher episode, Crispin Glover, and Shirley MacLaine.
The repeat was the source I used for this.
THANK YOU!! Great quality, I am glad this clip is forever saved for posterity!!
Wanted to check that. Cher wasn't part of it The roster:
12/4/89: repeat of 12-29-82 -- Nastassia Kinski
12/5/89: repeat of 1/6/87 -- Harvey Pekar
12/6/89: repeat of 8/5/87 -- Oliver Reed
12/7/89: repeat of 10-4-88 -- Shirley MacLaine
12/8/89: repeat of 2/12/87 -- Jane Seymour
Are you sure about this? I have it on video but I don't have a player right now, I have no memory of Kinski or Seymour but I could easily be wrong!
Yes, very sure.
the CROWD barely knew he was going between accents, let alone the other subtleties.
Lordy, i miss this genius funny man
Playing with the Hell Raiser .
He described Reed as a tough guy so Reed was just acting up to that.
I love the Randy Macho Man savage impression!
Reed was brilliant usually in his movies. Heard about this interview for years. Gladiator and The 3 Musketeers, bloody great.
Check out his 1975 johnny carson interview.
@@Wizardofgosz That made me go to this one. Reed as Richard Harris has said post WW2 kids wanted 2 live life every second. Enjoy it. Reaching their potential not as important.
@ Richard Wielgosz
Check out his 1975 johnny carson interview.
Shelley Winters enjoyed that
He was famous for drinking for 3 days 24/7 on a set.BUT WOULD NEVER HAVE TO RETAKE A SHOT > Pure genius
Now... That's something to look after . he was a genius, actually
he always drank the bottle dry
“Tell us about life on this island? What? Manhattan?”
Best black Stallone impression ever
The best Bill Sykes ever
That dude was very talented. He also rode himself hard and put himself away wet.