Agree, then he sold out and not funny anymore

Every era was awesome. His tired old dad years were legendary.

So dry and hip!!! Loved their zingers! ❤️‍🔥

Dave was influenced by Steve Allen who WAS the king of remotes. He perfected the street cam and man on the street among a lot of other shtick he'd pull from his bag of tricks. He was truly a comedy genius.

Yeah, he used to do a ton of them. Usually the best part of the show. Then he suddenly stopped, and would send out Rupert Gee or someone instead. It may have coincided with that foiled plot to kidnap him by those guys in Montana. He, or the network, or the insurance company, may have put a stop to it.

@@clark9992 And then he had Rupert Jee stop it because he was afraid Rupert would get beaten up.

Correction: Episode #48, Mar.2006

same here.... miss him and Paul.

Too bad he doesn't look human any more.

@@adamcarrey9115 bad face lift?

@@mikemcf33 what a great duo they were on Letterman!! Every talk show host has a schtick requiring the support team :)

@@annettematisz46 Bad beard.

Nice catch! I would not have recognized him as someone notable.

LOL

Came here to point that out 🙂I sure hope it was Peter's actual home, it looked nice.

I don't believe that

I think Jay Leno could have pulled it off with no problem!

Conan would nail it.

This was a great promotional segment for Florence Henderson though. 😆

todays late night hosts are PUPPETS for the agenda, my gods, wake up.

I missed most of the early Dave stuff and most of my life was the CBS era Dave. While most people were apparently watching Jay Leno, I personally thought Dave got funnier and funnier. His rants about the boneheads at NBC and long meandering discussions about playing one bar of an Eagles song were classic. I can still watch that stuff and laugh, a lot of other comedy, not so much.

@@rocketreindeer I became a huge fan of his in the late '80s as a kid. I remember the incredible fanfare and publicity when he left NBC and started the CBS show. He was king of the ratings for a while at least. I was so angry about Leno, and really thought his show sucked, even though he had been a decent guest host on Carson before.

@@jedijones Yeah totally. My best friend's dad would only ever watch Jay Leno, and every night it was this big ritual where everything stopped so he could watch it and eat ice cream or some sh**. So I saw many miles of Jay added up over the years. Somehow I can barely remember anything from Jay's show, even though he's naturally funny, but everything from Dave. My other buddy told me Dave is natural, and most of the other shows like Jay were more canned and artificial. Seth Meyers can still fall flat, but he's the only one today I sort of look forward to because he constantly breaks and roasts his writers for writing bad jokes and stuff. Ha ha. I didn't like him then found him funnier since Covid.

@@rocketreindeer I don’t really watch the shows now. Some of the clips from Colbert I’ve seen on KZfaq were okay. I just can’t believe no one is carrying on Dave’s tradition of making stars out of normal people in the crew and out in the city. Because everything is so focused on celebrities, there is no sense of spontaneity.

@@jedijones Yeah bro, I totally agree. They all have their moments, but it's not enough to look forward to. Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel can be hilarious, but their shows are mostly canned. Colbert has a great band. The only one I've grown to like is Seth, who I always thought sucked before. His skits can fall flat, but the "news of the week" monologues can be actually hilarious. Especially when he screws up or blames his writers for doing terrible jokes. Basically when it's him talking it can be super funny, and Amber Ruffin and a couple others can also be ridiculous and funny. When it's all overly directed down to every second, like you said, the spontaneity is tied down and it's just not funny. All the "ordinary" guys with Dave were hilarious, even if they were like Rupert and didn't think they were remotely funny. The whole organism of the show was funny. I just realized I said "funny" like 9 times describing how things are unfunny. Colbert has these slick cartoons and stuff and they're creative but not hilarious. "EHH!" But you may find an occasional dose of Seth funny, but not their skits, which still are also mostly kinda "EHH."

OH ! you were there ? With faux Kenny ??

@@otisdriftwood1697 Just joking. I was with the real one!

@Garth Shaw oh wow ! You his friend, relative ?....or a concert ?

@@otisdriftwood1697 I was his Road Manager in the 70s and 80s.

@@RoadieGarth oh nice ! That's really cool