I love this kind of absurdist, droll, slapstick comedy. I believe we're seeing two very original gifted comedians. Thanks for the upload.
@freto_cognito90014 жыл бұрын
Agreed! I love how he goes back for a second glug sesh. Genius.
@TheEleatic4 жыл бұрын
I was young, life was good, and Late Night made me laugh. S. Bernhardt, Bill Murray, Terri Garr, Harvey Pekar....priceless moments of pleasure.
@johnconnor41364 жыл бұрын
how is life now?
@mattmattix25983 жыл бұрын
Harvey Cleveland’s own
@cortchiewelch94922 жыл бұрын
richard lewis.
@NormAppleton2 жыл бұрын
Those were the days
@karlhungus55545 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott was SO great on Letterman! I watched the show as much to see him as I did to see Dave.
@luke1253 жыл бұрын
He really was.
@chefjeff13663 жыл бұрын
Even in succession, in a collection like this, the bit is still funny every single time
@hollygarnish11514 жыл бұрын
Silly is so terribly underrated.Can you hear the gutteral responce of the audience? If, even for one second. A perfect little release from every thing else. That's why the Jester is there in the first place.A pretty noble profession after all.
@LaGuerre194 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott is a friggin legend.
@lockandloadlikehell6 жыл бұрын
"No, they're props" I saw that night it aired originally. Best thing in the world to come home to.
@davidconnellan68755 жыл бұрын
I remember watching it the first time it aired i laughed my arse off
@mayormc5 жыл бұрын
"I think I like the glossy better." This crazy stuff is making me laugh out loud the same as it did when first aired. These wonderful compilations may just prove that this was a golden era of late night talk/comedy. When your day sucked royal, you had guaranteed wackiness and laughs waiting for you in the evening.
@SailorCallie7 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott: "I can't tell any difference." Classic.
@00bikeboy4 жыл бұрын
I fell on the floor laughing when I saw this live back in the day.
@quantumfluctuation56674 жыл бұрын
wow i feel bad for u guys
@ztog4 жыл бұрын
In the 80s I used to watch Letterman every night until 1:30 and get up at 6:30 to get ready to go to work. Now I can't keep my eyes open after 9:00 p.m.
@luke1253 жыл бұрын
Isn’t old age fun lol?
@ztog3 жыл бұрын
@@luke125 As they say, getting old is for the birds.
@heshwuan4 жыл бұрын
The things they used to do just to fill 5 minutes of TV time.. now they just fill it with commercials. Chris Elliot was a comedy warrior.
@GeoffNelson6 жыл бұрын
Hey Don Giller, I knew I loved your channel but only just recently read up on who you are. Thanks for all your hard work archiving this terrific collection!
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Geoff. Appreciated!
@thatcanadian6698 Жыл бұрын
When late night talk shows were truly great and worth staying up late for.
@stevetseitz Жыл бұрын
Norm said it best. Watching Late Night was great because we were all in on the joke. And behind the scenes Letterman kept things moving with his talent and humor.
@pronemanoldbutyoung55484 жыл бұрын
I never heard Dave laugh so hard as to the ”is it your dogs?” ”No they are props”
@dannyboyy8465 Жыл бұрын
Dave really loves Chris Elliott's humor!
@josephmilitello64710 ай бұрын
I remember that decades later.
@ashocck80656 ай бұрын
@@josephmilitello647 Funny thing, so do I.
@pridgeondesigngroup1479 Жыл бұрын
There has never been a late night show as funny as the first 10 years of the Letterman show. It was groundbreaking, fresh, intelligent, edgy, and silly beyond belief.
@stephenstone8480 Жыл бұрын
Amen. All due respect to Carson, but Letterman is the King of Late Night TV...
@vincentmurphy92523 ай бұрын
I went to Dave’s live Daytime show before he got this gig when I was in high school it was awesome
@dongiller3 ай бұрын
Actually his morning show. Broadcast live, first, for 90 minutes, from 10 to 11:30 am, than, after six weeks, reduced to an hour, from 10 to 11.
@zabagar5 жыл бұрын
Just finding all of this Letterman stuff Don put together....hilarious. Discovered Dave in the mid 80s when I was in high school and college.....seeing this again is great. And Chris Elliott makes me laugh no matter what he does.
@jurgostuff4 жыл бұрын
I love all the audiences' reactions.
@vegasjay23264 жыл бұрын
I remember watching that Chris Elliott cooking oil skit. Thank You for posting this.
@chrisf88555 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliot was comedy gold on Letterman.
@dii62663 жыл бұрын
We had it good. I feel sad for what Late Night "entertainment" has become.
@DstrtdMnd5 жыл бұрын
I always love hearing Dave and Paul laughing in the background
@JoeCnNd3 жыл бұрын
Look up Chris Elliot as Paul, he does the laugh perfect.
@DstrtdMnd3 жыл бұрын
@@JoeCnNd I'm aware
@JoeCnNd3 жыл бұрын
@@DstrtdMnd totally sorry
@PanzerBuyer6 жыл бұрын
Back when I used to watch TV.
@seanwelch717 жыл бұрын
The letter at 8:14 was sent in by the mother of some friends of mine.
@desijrichert6 жыл бұрын
Wow Sean how pathetic do you have to be to claim you know the person that wrote in to Letterman when everybody knows they're all fake, sad.
@TANTRUMGASM6 жыл бұрын
desi, how pathetic and sad of you to not know that viewer mail was indeed,real. as proven by many people who were eventually contacted by the show for bits. here are some examples...bub bye now theinterrobang.com/amazing-video-letterman-answers-mail-from-18-year-old-todd-barry/ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZeJg5mevZ_IYnk.html
@p4t21ck5 жыл бұрын
You should see Desi's facebook. He is the definition of a pathetic loser.
@dannuttle90054 жыл бұрын
@@desijrichert That would be almost as bad as sniping at people in youtube comments.
@ObamaFromKenya2 жыл бұрын
@@dannuttle9005 wait Dan what happened
@shinchiwarrior4 жыл бұрын
Ketchup in a glass bottle?
@jakejerald3 жыл бұрын
Yup things changed over in the late 80s but I was just reminded of that big old family size glass bottle. Huge!!!
@bellestarre85895 жыл бұрын
"Michigan Impossible" Chris' expressions of frustration on par...
@davemustaki1344 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott was like the will Ferrel of the 80's even 90's he was just so funny!
@MyWeedgrower4 жыл бұрын
check out Eagleheart chris's show
@davemustaki1344 жыл бұрын
@@MyWeedgrower never heard of it I will have to check it out
@luke1253 жыл бұрын
Funnier
@SlapChop10003 жыл бұрын
*6:00** I'm gonna be honest and say I did this...back in the late 80's I was a dumb teenager and decided to eat several spoonfuls of instant coffee..and by several I mean about 8 or 10. About a half hour later my stomach was making weird gurgling sounds and I started to feel lightheaded..to make this story short I ended up sitting on the toilet with some serious muddbutt,anxiety was going crazy and then ended up puking later...never eat instant coffee by the spoonfuls..I was only 14 or 15 but I will never forget that horrible experience..I even remember it was during a cold October night.*
@heatvisuals4 жыл бұрын
His face never changes
@benjaminperth3376 жыл бұрын
Excellent compilation!
@PanzerBuyer5 жыл бұрын
Back when comedy used to be on TV. Good memories.
@v8vrooooom7 жыл бұрын
aww man another cool compilation!!! Love these, some I've never seen
@frankpitochelli67864 жыл бұрын
4:35 that laugh... It was a classic.!🤣 But Dave's laugh was always the best.
@JoeCnNd3 жыл бұрын
I remember olestra. My toilets still pissed at me.
@lindabarrow5 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott is the funniest most laid back comic with immense talent...he must have been born that way😀
@robkowalczyk33764 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@tonydir56736 жыл бұрын
Very funny clips, Chris Elliot is a riot
@jrpipik7 жыл бұрын
After Letterman went off the air Chris did a test between two different brands of window washer fluid on Kimmel. Daughter Bridey also appeared.
@dongiller7 жыл бұрын
Someone yesterday (ricola2727) posted the link here but for some reason it never showed up. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7-hmtB-xMCpnJ8.html
@deputay7 жыл бұрын
Wow, not that Kimmel simply re-uses old Letterman bits, but...you could add that to the ever-growing list
@mmatcham10 ай бұрын
I swear Dave did one of these himself with ‘motor oil’, but can’t find it anywhere. So damn funny.
@WrvrUgoThrUR4 жыл бұрын
10:43 I know Chris would have worked for free for these moments when he legitimately cracked Dave up!! His dead pan sold it every time. Never broke character even when he came back as a guest on the show plugging one of his post Late-Nite gigs.
@howardlewis7804 Жыл бұрын
CElliott and the salad oil taste test, Jimmy Witherspoon's Mick Jagger and Wilt Chamberlain imitations, and Michael Richard's debut on Jay Leno demonstrating exercise equipment and his retrieving Jerry Seinfeld's statuette from the thieve's house have been the TOP tear jerking high test laughter I have ever seen on television. CElliott's salad oil taste test my be #1. A+++++++ Chris Elliott.
@jamesjohnston38603 жыл бұрын
I went to school with the daughters of the woman who wrote the letter asking about varnish.
@yuppiehi4 жыл бұрын
Regarding ketchup in a packet vs in a bottle. It probably has something to do with preservatives. A bottled product would use a different preservative than the same product in a packet.
@roberts.30987 жыл бұрын
Was that Marlon Brando imitating Chris Elliott?
@burningunkle2 жыл бұрын
His father was a big influence for sure.
@jim54613 жыл бұрын
This is one of the funniest bits ever.
@dantyler69075 жыл бұрын
For what it's worth, the first part of the bit has peanut oil and corn oil in bottles and as C. Elliot drinks each, bubbles flow up in each bottle as they are tilted, very quickly, suggesting a much lower viscocity than any oil. For what it's worth.
@TheInflicted Жыл бұрын
This is because both bottles had been heated to approximately 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
@OfficiallySanctionedKATG4 жыл бұрын
Those oils had a very thin viscosity. Almost something akin to the viscosity of apple juice. They wouldn't be much use for frying with.
@dongiller4 жыл бұрын
They were props.
@porieux2 жыл бұрын
Like the dogs
@jaytrace10064 жыл бұрын
The best part was hearing Paul Schaffer peculiar laugh in the background. I remember on one show, there was some question as to which was better...sugar or the “pink stuff”. (There were commercials out at the time touting the delicious pink stuff). Paul was the tester, and had two bowls of breakfast cereal with milk. He poured sugar on the bowl of cereal and took a bite, and remarked that it was pretty good. He had some sugar substitute packets next to the second bowl, and Dave asked him to move onto bowl two. Paul then pulled a bottle of Pepsi-Bismol from under the counter and poured a bunch on the cereal and took a big bite. I don’t remember if he preferred one over the other, though.
@dongiller4 жыл бұрын
March 20, 1992. Shaffer. Paul Shaffer. :)
@jaytrace10064 жыл бұрын
Don Giller is that on KZfaq anywhere? I never seem to be able to plug in the correct combination of Schaffer, Letterman and pink stuff.
@dongiller4 жыл бұрын
Jay Trace I haven’t uploaded it yet. Again, it’s Shaffer. Paul Shaffer.
@derekgreene36362 жыл бұрын
I love this 😊
@lindabarrow5 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliott ROCKs!! He may have to go on a cleansing detox after this Hilarios skit. He has no fear, just great entertainment with sounding sincere and keeping a straight face and comedy isn’t essy😁
@jtlovescodelyoko2 жыл бұрын
After eating Olestra, he kinda had a cleansing detox
@TS-qq7vr4 жыл бұрын
20 years later and people are buying coffee beans to chow down.
@llaurita23 жыл бұрын
Deadpan master! Bravo Mr Elliot!
@alimuhareb81704 жыл бұрын
this is great
@davemanningreviews3 жыл бұрын
The props were actually great and back in the 80s, a lot of people like me had crappy 17" tvs, so Im sure they looked more believable then.
@bertall1ca4 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliot was doing comparison videos way before all the YT'ers
@tateyambrose72903 жыл бұрын
I used to look forward to Letterman all day long, just for the chance that Chris Elliot or Flunky the Clown might be featured.
@JAMAEL895 жыл бұрын
Ten seconds off camera, Tommy dies of a massive heart attack.
@bijibadness4 жыл бұрын
the key to all this nonsense is Chris Elliot's absolutely committed, kind of bummed-out performance.
@stephenstrang5904 жыл бұрын
That is true. Common theme of all of the late shows recurring characters.
@gasser50014 жыл бұрын
Never really was a fan of Letterman... But Chris Elliott is fantastic so here I am.
@Best_Wrestling_Promos5 жыл бұрын
Great upload! Thanks!!
@charmerci4 жыл бұрын
Hilarious ! Thanks!
@magnoliamike4 жыл бұрын
That’s the guy from scary movie 2. “ ill use my strong hand”
@rellgreen65586 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or is there a theme of R.E.M. tunes being played during Chris' parts?
@fetuscassidy54795 жыл бұрын
Yup! The theme song of "Get a Life", Chris's sitcom was "Stand" by R.E.M.!
@andyrose56165 жыл бұрын
The song they play for the last segment is actually “The One I Love.” Also by R.E.M., but I don’t think it has any other connection to Chris Elliott.
@ObamaFromKenya2 жыл бұрын
@@andyrose5616 well “One I Love” has the lyric “a simple prop to occupy my time”
@robwebnoid57633 жыл бұрын
You have to wonder what Ken-L Ration company thought of that dog food comparison. And I remember the Olestra food oil substitute. I ate store-bought potato chips that used that, it was right there printed on the bag, advertising the new oil. Guess what I pooped out later? All the Olestra. My body never digested it, as designed. If you've ever seen a car leaking motor oil, that's what it looked like in the bathroom.
@heatvisuals4 жыл бұрын
Chris never flinched during two full mouths of coffee grain
@dongiller4 жыл бұрын
Of course, they weren’t actually coffee grains.
@frankielemonjello4 жыл бұрын
I would guess ground up chocolate cake or cookies.
@bellestarre85895 жыл бұрын
I remember the doggie food sketch & I really believe he ate real dog food. So funny when he said " those are props."
@gelerickson4 жыл бұрын
if i remember correctly the oil and the dogfood ones actually were real, chris is nuts
@steveg5591 Жыл бұрын
@@gelericksonprobably was apple juice
@owlnswan40166 ай бұрын
@@steveg5591 ...and I hope the polyurethane was syrup.
@Obiter32 жыл бұрын
Thank you don
@pierrevoulaizeunlezotre22646 жыл бұрын
dave sportin the oompa loompa here
@FoxRivers7784 жыл бұрын
Before I even watch this I know what's coming, the dog food taste taste with Chris Elliott. "Those sure are cute little doggies you have with you. No Dave, those are props". and the looks on the dogs' faces when he eats their food. I always remember that one. If you watch the tests with him closely though you can tell it's fake, otherwise he would have to get very sick. Especially the varnish, it's just honey and syrup, you would die eating varnish. Does anybody remember the side effects of eating food cooked with Olestra? Oh, and wouldn't you get so excited if Dave read your letter on the air?
@junkboxxxxxx6 жыл бұрын
beef fat (tallow) is solid at room temperature, like a ball of wax. he would have to bite into it
@bigsky19704 жыл бұрын
Right, but it was soft ice cream.
@pika235 жыл бұрын
Packet is better than bottle ketchup. Also it depends on brand and sugar content. I remember when I worked at mcdonalds, it was hard to tell which ketchup was the lobby dispenser and which was the grill dispenser ketchup. The grill kind tasted sweeter and I always made sure to try and get that kind out front for customers because it was amazing on fries!
@WrvrUgoThrUR4 жыл бұрын
0:30 SNL’s Pete Davidson’s Mom.
@camtron4 жыл бұрын
2:20 The Terminator was an early Letterman fan I see.
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES5 жыл бұрын
Chris must have a house in Maine he's been spotted up here
@darincox62025 жыл бұрын
I was at the show on January 31st
@canadianroot5 жыл бұрын
His arteries deserve an Emmy Award.
@shyba20113 жыл бұрын
Just classic..!!
@siemenstraffic7 жыл бұрын
My Man Adam!
@robertdougherty3495 жыл бұрын
The Scientific Method.
@osivot7 жыл бұрын
Dear Dave, I heard that motor oil tastes about the same as castor oil
@peterzebot17956 жыл бұрын
dead would be a safe guess.
@bradleyhayman26825 жыл бұрын
I can’t tell any difference
@colinwilliams5533 жыл бұрын
Chris Elliot..... Extremely funny in these segments.
@craigjamroz75854 жыл бұрын
OMFG CABIN BOYYY!!! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT AWESOME MOVE , THESE PIPES ARE ...." CLEAN "!!!!!! HAAAAAAA
@Nostradumlbass4 жыл бұрын
uses same spoon for both butters ... tastes pretty close
@logicalnotes50077 жыл бұрын
loved it
@this-is-slammin-5496 жыл бұрын
Who were the two stage hands that would do play scene readings? I think one was named Kenny.
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
Pat Farmer, Kenny Sheehan. They'd recite transcripts from Oprah's talk show.
@this-is-slammin-5496 жыл бұрын
Don Giller YES! That’s what it was! Thank you! Love your collection of videos, I’ve been watching them for several days now.
@dongiller6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@theundergroundlairofthesqu92613 жыл бұрын
Don Giller, wasn't there one where the viewer asked about motor oil?
@dongiller3 жыл бұрын
Don’t believe there was.
@urwholefamilydied3 жыл бұрын
11:35 just found the mid 80's clip to the 90's clip incredibly jarring as far as Letterman's spiffy suit with the yellow tie. Had never noticed it before... but you're hosting a comedy show... what's with the outfit like you're running for mayor? I guess they all still wear suits. idk, I suddenly found it really odd.
@bradleyhayman26825 жыл бұрын
This is a swingin’ show
@renebrown73944 жыл бұрын
Chris is a great comedian..
@KrazeeClark7 жыл бұрын
I wonder what the "dog food" was made out of. It looked pretty bad.
@lockandloadlikehell6 жыл бұрын
ConcordClark Manwich
@bellestarre85895 жыл бұрын
"Dave I can't tell any difference." "Okay, now I'm olestra free." Ha ha, the side effects kicked in rather fast.,That olestra didnt last long. Those potato chips were not tasty...
@64dethray3 жыл бұрын
Love the lab coat.
@screenplayhouse49326 жыл бұрын
What did they use to fake the decaf coffee? Stuff like coffee and cocoa mix are way too bitter. I was wondering if they had some brown bread chopped up into small bits.
@Teeveepicksures5 жыл бұрын
probably the chocolate crumbly stuff from a Carvel ice cream cake.
@marktatum25922 жыл бұрын
Ground up Oreo's
@bobot19816 жыл бұрын
Ooooh, was that Watchtower on the way out?
@aintgonnahappen4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh.. The days when TV was funny and not politically correct BS.
@mjb9984 Жыл бұрын
Dave I cant tell any difference.
@factenter67874 жыл бұрын
Seems like Gerry Mulligan lost height, gained weight, turned brunette, grew a beard, and lost his baritone sax🤣