Late Show #1, August 30, 1993, Full, Stereo

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As a followup to "Countdown to Late Show with David Letterman" ( • Countdown to Late Show... ), here's the debut show, complete and in stereo. With Bill Murray and Billy Joel.
Preceding the show is coverage of the event that aired that night in NYC on WCBS-TV's 11 PM News.

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@FIXTREME Жыл бұрын

Man, CBS did *EVERYTHING* to make that show the 2nd coming of Jesus and Elvis combined. It's undeniable just how much CBS cared about Dave, and how far they were willing to go for him.

@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын

CBS had nothing to lose. They had no history of any proper late night programming. Dave was their first real go at it, they had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

@robjackson5245 5 ай бұрын

Flip side, CBS was a lame fucking network that gave the roots to "Friends" and inspired The WB and Tribune, also low-rated. This was NBC coming to CBS, not CBS's own talentless shit. Irony at this time Littlefield was trying to turn NBC to CBS. And "Friends" was the result.

@feggyduss6463 Жыл бұрын

Dave's move to CBS was EPIC in nature. The emotions and excitement were palpable. Dave lived up to the very creative and persistent hype (LOL) via CBS promotions. Thanks for sharing.

@rha101 Жыл бұрын

Thanking the construction workers. Just the kind of touch that Letterman would make. Kudos.

@BrentFiore Жыл бұрын

Love the use of "Look for the Union Label" as the music

@sabian630 2 жыл бұрын

All of these shows that you have taken the time to put up here is highly appreciated man. It brings back so many great memories. Thank you.

@vjstv0101 2 жыл бұрын

♥️ I love whoever created this channel.

@dongiller 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MichaelLasotaWheresWaldo Жыл бұрын

NBC always makes bad choices. CBS does a great job. Loved the Letterman show. Still happy to see his current endeavors outside of regular TV.

@Rob_Kates 7 жыл бұрын

I like seeing the WCBS-TV coverage before the show. It's too bad that Dave did not follow Johnny as host of The Tonight Show. But, he carved out an impressive niche at CBS, with his show, and the Late Late Show. CBS is a strong player in late night, and that was not always the case.

@johnsjohnson448 2 жыл бұрын

Dave's move to CBS was EPIC and knocked it out of the ballpark....for nearly two years and less "live" clearances than Leno and NBC.

@JaredsGaming 6 жыл бұрын

These two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!

@LeahElisheva Жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this!!!!! Enjoying reliving this monumental experience

@hamburg1306 7 жыл бұрын

"Where the hell are the singing cats?"

@rubycon19 3 ай бұрын

You’re in the wrong theater.

@davidhorton276 7 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! You are getting closer to the show I attended on July 1, 1994.

@holotape 3 ай бұрын

Man, I remember being so excited watching this when it aired. Great memories.

@redmanr5522 11 ай бұрын

happy 30th anniversary! exactly 30 years ago tonight, it aired, tonight is Wed. Aug 30, 2023

@jackreacher. 2 ай бұрын

Yikes! It seems like just yesterday. Time flies with David Letterman.

@clownnookie 7 жыл бұрын

Everybody seemed jazzed and rejuvenated.

@WTFG78 2 жыл бұрын

1:49 Billy Joel coming through with a relatively obscure SNL reference. Respect. "I loved it. It was much better than 'Cats'. I want to see it again and again."

@johnsjohnson448 2 жыл бұрын

5:45 The best non-sequitur ever. Hilarious. 17:37 The Great Paul Newman and one of the most hysterically funny and memorable line. LOL. Thanks for sharing.

@MichaelLasotaWheresWaldo Жыл бұрын

Mad respect for Dave to also highlight the construction workers. Class act.

@richardyoon4209 6 ай бұрын

I've tried to see if I can spot Bill Murray in the back of the construction workers but can't see him.

@progmot 7 жыл бұрын

I was in the audience. Billy J used cue cards during his musical performance & they did a second take of the swami bit after the show was over. Around 33:58 you can see two people standing up;that is me on the left(friends thought I was sitting directly behind Paul N as without my glasses that man looks similar to me)

@progmot 7 жыл бұрын

COUNT He did,but it was very quick;it wasn't like what he did the majority of the time where in his opening monologue he made a reference that only the audience in the Ed would understand.

@scottr6394 7 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@floodgater 11 ай бұрын

Remember they had to do two re-takes at the end of the show, because in the first one you could see "Dave" spraypainted on the front of the desk (which would have been a continuity error). In the second re-take, they zoomed in so the front of the desk wasn't visible.

@ishmael2586 5 күн бұрын

Was this the first and only time you witnessed a letterman taping? I'd have liked to been there

@ir10031981 6 жыл бұрын

25 years ago this week, Dave Letterman came to CBS! I was 11, now I'm 36. ah, memories. Aug. 2018

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

I put this up late last year: Countdown to Late Show w/David Letterman, July, August 1993 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecVjltNeptrOgKc.html

@davidsthubbins176 10 ай бұрын

Can't believe it's been 30 years!

@thejwproject7593 2 жыл бұрын

28 years ago today Dave started his 22 year journey on CBS!!!

@jgarofalo8813 Жыл бұрын

Stop making me feel old!

@robertsprouse9282 Жыл бұрын

@@jgarofalo8813, that is not what is making you feel old.

@deborahhansen7516 2 ай бұрын

This is funny. I was just watching my VHS recording of this, and mine is also prefaced with the local (San Francisco) reaction and watch party at a bar. As well as an interview with Dave conducted by Bob Sarlatte. That interview was split up on the newscast for the whole week, and was hilarious. Dave and Bob were great together.

@brittney5903 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. It was terrific & very funny. Letterman was brilliant & I miss him on late night tv here in Australia 🇦🇺. We get Colbert & we’ll basically 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼. Kimmel & Falon have ridiculous laughs. Again, thank you for sharing this.

@aidenmalecky7928 2 жыл бұрын

This is making me so nostalgic for the 90's. Also, did they save the "Dave!" desk? I bet that would actually be worth something.

@jamesmarkscott6202 Жыл бұрын

as someone who used to work in tv here in central ohio way back when, cool to see dana tyler on the anchor desk for wcbs... ;). that was quite a night seeing dave on another network other than nbc, but didn't take long to get used to it.

@MichaelLasotaWheresWaldo Жыл бұрын

I see a lot of Farley came from Murray. It's almost a copy. I know Farley came after - but it's so so similar.

@adamcoe 10 ай бұрын

in all my years of watching the intro to this show it is only just now I realized like 4 seconds into this intro, there's the opening shot of the bridge, then a couple of seconds of the pointy top of a building, immediately followed by a long overhead shot of 30 Rock in its entirety. Nice one CBS

@sandy3482 Жыл бұрын

Dave's 1st Late Show and one of his best. The only show I like more than Late Show with Dave is Late Night with Dave.

@JSYBen 7 жыл бұрын

Great to hear this in stereo, thanks Don. Is it me, or does TV use less stereo mixing these days than it used to? Listening to this and other Letterman and Carson shows from the early stereo era, stereo is a big part of the sound mix. The music of course, but even the audience applause is very much stereo. Final note, the early Letterman set design is weird isn't it??

@dongiller 7 жыл бұрын

No idea re current tv stereo mixing. While digitizing the Late Nights, I'm finding evolving approaches to the stereo mixes, especially during the music open. Fascinating to probably no one else on the planet. :)

@kennydeas1581 Жыл бұрын

Don do you know if that is Tom “T-Bone” Wok playing the bass?

@nyx.i_ 5 жыл бұрын

Was there an actual thing for the music used during Letterman's entrance and Newman's exit? I have a feeling that it's Ed Sullivan related but can't tell for sure.

@MrGSfan 4 жыл бұрын

It's the opening and closing theme during the early days of The Ed Sullivan Show entitled "Toast of the Town." You can hear its parts and its lyrics on some archived episodes here on KZfaq.

@wecantfightgravity 11 ай бұрын

It's going to be the 30th anniversary of this program, on August 30th, 2023. I hope Dave will be coming back as either a special guest or even a guest host.

@dongiller 11 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t count on it.

@yuricamposklink1400 10 ай бұрын

Did he?

@dongiller 10 ай бұрын

@@yuricamposklink1400 No.

@wecantfightgravity 8 ай бұрын

@@dongiller Well, guess what, Don? He just made a return on his show, recently.

@dongiller 8 ай бұрын

@@wecantfightgravity Like last night. Thanks for the bulletin.

@LogoMan7777 3 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know what those last two jokes Tom Brokaw carried out were?

@BrandanTheBroker Жыл бұрын

Probably the Ringo joke and the one about him being able to call himself Dave

@randall-king Жыл бұрын

Don, it would be terrific if we could watch the episode of "Late Night" where he announced that he was moving to CBS. I think it's January 14, 1993. I haven't ever seen it, but I heard that he announced it on that show (Late Night) the same day that he did the CBS press conference.

@dongiller Жыл бұрын

That’s included in my Siskel and Ebert Collection, Part 3, starting at 32:29.

@randall-king Жыл бұрын

@@dongiller thanks!!

@mochafiend1 6 жыл бұрын

14:44, Paul Schaefer and the CBS Orchestra is playing my song.

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

Shaffer; Paul Shaffer.

@mochafiend1 6 жыл бұрын

Don Giller thanks.

@charlielopez4790 11 ай бұрын

1993-2023 happy anniversary.

@jameshanold6545 Жыл бұрын

Via watching the San Francisco CBS affiliate-KPIX channel 5-whike living in Pleasanton, California-I saw the original broadcast at 11:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time-fum/memorable!

@lewis4358 2 жыл бұрын

I was born this day wow

@richardyoon4209 6 ай бұрын

Dave came out and threw a perfect game with everything on the line. You compare this with Leno's first Tonight Show and it's no contest. Interesting moment, Dave wanted to say the NBC paint line a few minutes earlier but kept it so Bill Murray could do his thing.

@ThommyofThenn 5 жыл бұрын

great tans!

@MichaelGrylsk-sd5ow 10 күн бұрын

love 5he ed introduction this is second to the comeback special after his 5 by pass surgery.

@dongiller 10 күн бұрын

If you’re referring to Dave, his bypass surgery was in January 2000.

@uplatewithdave 8 ай бұрын

Literally the last big star of late night.

@BeWaterAndGodBless 4 жыл бұрын

I was 2 days old

@LeahElisheva Жыл бұрын

Awesome that they started playing the song physical - tribute to his funny bit on the first show of Late Night. But what I wanted to point out is - I really don’t like that song, but I like what Paul and the band did with it this time …. It’s ROCKIN’ 🤘 23:53

@moncorp1 2 жыл бұрын

Where the hell are the singing cats??

@pinedelgado4743 2 жыл бұрын

Poor old Dave didn't need an Ed Sullivan video montage to remind him of where he was or of his own place in life just as Arnold Jackson (Gary Coleman) didn't need the likes of Willis Jackson (Todd Bridges) to show or remind him of who HE was or where HIS place in life was on DIFF"RENT STROKES.

@FIXTREME Жыл бұрын

I think it was to retcon the Late Show as being the sequel to the Ed Sullivan Show. Not a bad idea.

@MarcZERO1980 Жыл бұрын

1:25 That's Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien's personnel assistant. Was she planted there?

@Meng4Now 11 ай бұрын

😂 I can see the resemblance, but Sona's a Cali girl and would've been a kid at the time.

@axeladame9376 11 ай бұрын

RIP Late Show With David Letterman (1993-2015)

@NoelComiX Жыл бұрын

I remember this 👍

@riproarin1042 4 жыл бұрын

Letterman was an oasis in a desert of mediocrity and he still is ....

@michaelpatrickhamilton3384 Жыл бұрын

It's good to watch real sitcom shows David Letterman is one of the best besides Johnny Carson 👍

@AUTOPSY666 Жыл бұрын

Not a situation comedy, though.

@cavalierfan1995 11 ай бұрын

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE SINGING CATS???!!!!

@DeAngeloStevens 12 күн бұрын

Chuckie Finster's First day in Preschool, Recess Gang's first day in Kindergarten, through Olga Pataki's 12th Grade Senior Year 1993-1994 School Year. Welcoming Class of 1997 to High School

@eiros59 10 ай бұрын

1993…man

@ronsandlin9618 11 ай бұрын

It sounds like Paul is playing Jeremy at the last commercial break

@dongiller 11 ай бұрын

You are correct!

@tvbarn 7 жыл бұрын

Sue! At 34:09!!

@dongiller 7 жыл бұрын

I'll bite: Sue?

@dongiller 7 жыл бұрын

Sue Trowbridge?

@tvbarn 7 жыл бұрын

Don Giller yes! White top, very sincere.

@dongiller 7 жыл бұрын

Sweet!

@cornerofthemoon 2 ай бұрын

I always preferred Letterman over Leno. Leno always seemed phony and contrived to me and I don't recall one audible LOL moment watching that show. Maybe a snicker or chuckle but that was mainly due to a guest he might have had.