David Letterman v. Phone Collection, 1984-2010

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6 жыл бұрын

No guarantee this is a definitive collection:
1. March 28, 1984. New Dial-It-Services. Including the voices of Marie O'Donnell and Pete Fatovich.
2. January 12, 1988. Calling the parking garage. Including Joe Furey, Barbara Sheehan, and Dave Rygalski.
3. February 22, 1990. New York City Quiz. With Al Maher.
4. March 28, 1990. Calling Teri Garr in California. With Al Maher again.
5. October 29, 1991. British woman in audience, and calling the Vidal Sassoon Hotline. With Waddy Wachtel sitting in with the band.
6. April 30, 2010. Calling Dave Johnson. 6. April 30, 2010. Calling Dave Johnson. With Joe Grossman who, in a rare moment, breaks character.

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@jime6688 10 ай бұрын

Always been fascinated with Dave’s inability to use the phone.

@TANTRUMGASM 4 жыл бұрын

24:07 " A little dialing music Paul"......Paul plays "Telephone Line" from ELO

@Eggmanontheair 5 жыл бұрын

Specifically remember watching the night he called the parking garage. I thought I was going to have a stroke when he axed the phone.

@RobLives4Love 2 жыл бұрын

I've come to realize the 7:39 bit maybe one of his greatest works. everything comes together so well and still goes wrong.

@urabusxrw04 Жыл бұрын

14:10 was even better.

@adilahsan4448 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for upload all of these... These are awesome... :)

@v8vrooooom 6 жыл бұрын

Great collection!!! Damn it would have been great to get one of those souvenir phones from Dave.

@chargermopar 5 ай бұрын

I remember these and wondered if anyone was allowed to keep any of those phones? That's what I use at my home.

@winonafrog 4 ай бұрын

Yes, looks nice

@robertdavis4192 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!!

@andyrose5616 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder how that first joke got out of rehearsal.

@mubd1234 5 жыл бұрын

With the last call to the most gullible telephone operator in the first segment, you can hear that the audio technician skips over the first line of the planned conversation and substitutes in the second line ('yes?') which results in the aborted call after the third line is announced too early. You can actually hear this missing first line earlier in the segment at 3:05 (saying 'may I help you?' instead of the really mean guy).

@ELMS 5 жыл бұрын

That was great!

@Obiter3 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Don

@_PrimetimePranks 6 жыл бұрын

Lol “here at CBS”

@sillygoose635 3 жыл бұрын

just you wait 5 years, dave

@1AstralKing Жыл бұрын

Foreshadowing.

@striatic 6 жыл бұрын

The last clip makes me want to watch a compilation of Joe Grossman bits.

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

In the mix.

@striatic 6 жыл бұрын

Don Giller hooray!

@timothythompson6343 5 жыл бұрын

All of these are just so damn entertaining! Mr. Giller! I have a selfish question. Do you have anything with Dave and his relationship to AOL? I remember as a kid laughing hysterically whenever Dave would go off on AOL. (I recall that was a thing?)

@dongiller 5 жыл бұрын

There were several periods on Late Show where Dave was feuding with AOL -- late March-early April 2001, and mid-October and early December 2004. No idea when I'll get to them.

@timothythompson6343 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! These are terrific!

@FoxRivers778 3 жыл бұрын

I totally remember listening to a ball game on the radio when I was a kid before falling asleep. Wow, nice at 26:07 "Hang up and don't bother the operator". Oh, the days before cell phones. When Dave destroyed the last phone and threw it threw it behind him, that reminded me I always wondered how they synced the breaking glass noise whenever Dave threw something. Maybe Don knows this one?

@dongiller 3 жыл бұрын

There’s an audio booth with carts of sound effects at the ready.

@FoxRivers778 3 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller Oh, crap I forgot the show is taped. Of course, they can dub them in later.

@dongiller 3 жыл бұрын

Fox Rivers They don’t. Every second aired is live to tape. I’ll be putting up a collection of snippets I tweeted last month that’ll illustrate this. When mistakes occur, they stay in.

@FoxRivers778 3 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller OK, then it's tape delay so they can at least bleep something out if needed. That's broadcast standard for live air. So the sound effects person must always be watching to see when Dave throws something. I do remember times when it wasn't always in sync. At one point I remember they were experimenting with some strange sound effects but the glass crashing was trademark.

@dongiller 3 жыл бұрын

Fox Rivers Live to tape doesn’t mean that it’s broadcast live. It means live to tape. After the taping, censors will then determine if anything needs to be muted. That includes cursing, telephone numbers, names that might result in lawsuits. One can’t “tape delay” a recorded program. Again, stay tuned for a forthcoming upload.

@mrose77 2 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for a clip where Dave gets an answering machine and leaves a message in his dumb guy voice. Says something to the effect of ""Uh yeah, we'll be over to start diggin in the mornin"". Only seen it one time, when I was 11 or 12, and I still quote it.

@dongiller 2 жыл бұрын

What years were you 11 or 12?

@CinemaDemocratica Жыл бұрын

Aren't you perhaps thinking of the message he left for Terri Garr? "This is David Letterman just wanting to let you know that Tri State Sprinkler is coming tomorrow to dig up your yard. They'll be starting around six, hope that's okay." Starts at 25:06.

@winonafrog 4 ай бұрын

He’s done that call a few times, all in the 80’s I believe, but also does a few similar on his call-ins to Tom Snyder (which are posted on yt-courtesy of Don Giller, of course ~ 5 years ago).

@cefcat5733 2 жыл бұрын

Dave, are you watching these 2nd home, home movies with us too? P. S. The backup voices are quite clear and nice.

@finnibertlunchiken7792 6 жыл бұрын

Don, what was your favorite period for Letterman himself on tv? For me, now, its '81 - 91. I'm glad im getting to see all the really early stuff that at times resembled weird cable access. There's nothing like it before or since. 8:15 I see Dave giving a wry smile about musician/actor Branford Marsalis but chose to bite his tongue. Model/actor/musician/comedian etc. You dont see that as much anymore. I found that pretty funny but what I found even funnier was the Indian burial ground comment @ 15:14 comparing the phone problems to the old haunting story trope. The audience barely giggles.

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

Impossible to answer without writing a book explaining why, a focus I lack.

@finnibertlunchiken7792 6 жыл бұрын

Don Giller Well my explanation, ( if it means anything to anyone ) is that going into the nineties, while still plenty good, he shot up too high, went into a driven, manic mode, it affected his health in the early 2000's and then he came down slowly for 12 years afterwards. This Dave on the slow rise is, to me, the best Dave there was. I also preferred the chemical makeup of the Late Night show.

@CinemaDemocratica 6 жыл бұрын

What I would very much like to know is, what is Don Giller's all-time favorite sketch or segment in the entire Letterman pantheon? And is it one of the Don Giller uploads?

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

Impossible to choose. It was the show's very existence.

@CinemaDemocratica 6 жыл бұрын

You are a minor hero of mine for doing this, I hope that's okay. And not that you'd care, but my three personal favorite Letterman moments are, The Pinata Filled With Baked Beans, "Don't Over-handle the Meat!," and the Cybill Shepherd interview.

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

Make sure that's very, very minor hero. :)

@CinemaDemocratica Жыл бұрын

@@dongiller The moment when the call goes bad despite everyone helping, and Dave borrows the ax, is *way* up there. (Just watched it again.)

@siemenstraffic 6 жыл бұрын

Didn't Johnny Carson do something similar back in the day at the Tonight Show? I think it was around mid June ,1983 during STS-7, when Johnny try to call the Space Shuttle Challenger from a land line phone and wanted to talk to the first American female astronaut Sally Ride. Johnny call the Bell Operator-assisted call and specifically asked to be connected to the Space Shuttle. The operator kept connecting Johnny to the wrong numbers like " Taxi shuttle service" or "The space shuttle massage parlour" After several attempts, Johnny got hold of her in the end and he asked, "What are you doing at the moment, Sally replayed, "I'm shaving my legs" That cracked me up. It was a faked but darn funny. Would love to see that clip again.

@FoxRivers778 3 жыл бұрын

"This won't bother you if it's not hooked up, will it." I wonder why he unplugged the receiver and threw it on the floor but I guess he explained it. I looked more authentic that way though. The first calls were just not that funny. That's hilarious it takes 7 people to make a phone call and he just ends up smashing the phone. Didn't we used to have to lease phones from AT&T since Dave destroyed so many? I still have our old rotary dial phone from 1970. I guess we didn't have to give it back.

@muckrak3r 2 жыл бұрын

Who has real, genuine Letterman Show artifacts/memorabilia? My family would love anything that's actually from the show.

@cefcat5733 2 жыл бұрын

Theater of the absurd again.