Dave's Elevator Races

Dave's Elevator Races | Letterman

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2 жыл бұрын

Contestants race up and down throughout Rockefeller Center to see who will be crowned Elevator Champion. (Air date: 4/15/1982)
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Welcome to the Letterman KZfaq Channel, home to all your favorite clips from Late Night and Late Show - as well as conversations with the writers, producers and performers who helped make it all happen. These highlights have been artisanly-produced, carefully-curated, and chosen completely at random by an old computer that used to pick numbers for the New York Lotto back in the 90’s.

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@fitfogey 2 жыл бұрын

His sarcasm made this so funny. Add Bob Costas to the mix and it’s legendary.

@marconibologna 2 жыл бұрын

This is all I've ever wanted!! What a great day to be alive!! FINALLY DADDY'S OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET!!

@scottyb2939 2 жыл бұрын

So great to see these classic bits. Glad NBC and Letterman got along well enough to offer them in original video quality! Thanks to that guy who posted clips from his VHS tapes for years.

@mcdarwin 2 жыл бұрын

"The Golden Shaft Award". 😄

@Lisakaylindsay256 2 жыл бұрын

I’m going to end up binging all of these Letterman videos. This show got me through my swing shift job in the 80’s. I looked forward to every night after work watching Dave! Thanks for sharing all these!

@violetpotato7072 2 жыл бұрын

May your Letterman Binging game be STRONG!!!

@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын

Don't Bing! Never EVER Bing!

@goreegirl 2 жыл бұрын

David Letterman my first hero. Flunked out of Theatre watching his morning show and was permanently hooked. Loved "I'm not wearing pants" and the man on the street (or in the store or drive thru) stuff. There's nothing that even comes close to being as funny as these shows. Look forward to seeing Dave tonight on Seth for 40 yr anniversary.

@VictoriaKempPhotos 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the Morning Show too! I think I was 16. I have always enjoyed Dave's sense of humor.

@eamonndoyle3308 2 жыл бұрын

These elevator bits really had their ups and downs

@nmonster 2 жыл бұрын

They worked on so many levels

@BassByTheBay 2 жыл бұрын

So glad they're sharing these early clips. Letterman's show was so subversive in its first few years that high-school/college kids like me just ate it up.

@schekyn6104 2 жыл бұрын

Dave Letterman is the ONLY famous person with whom I’d like to have dinner. He’s the best.

@DR-mq1vn 4 ай бұрын

I was 14 when this aired. I don't remember this one particularly, but I do remember watching David Letterman a lot back in the early 80s! Hilarious!

@tvviewer4500 Жыл бұрын

I would love an official late show with david letterman sponge

@andysorensen1737 Жыл бұрын

Such a great bit: Dave selling the absurdity, Bob Costas going whole hog, all over elevators.

@laureencriss8220 3 ай бұрын

This is straight from Woody Allen's 'Bananas' from 1971. Howard Cossell narrated the honeymoon of Fielding Mellish and Louise Lasser's character. It was hilarious--as is this!

@GoBirds808 2 жыл бұрын

that’s just god given talent right there. she’s a natural.

@domonicp9136 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping the OG aspect ratio. Much appreciated :)

@annep4830 2 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this the night that the channel has launched, and this particular video has way more views than all the others (the only one in the thousands of views). I hope they will continue to upload more of the funny bits from the NBC days. It's great to see this available on KZfaq.

@toucansam3 2 жыл бұрын

Probably because a clip of this was shown when Dave was a guest on Late Night a few days ago.

@richardyoon4209 5 ай бұрын

This is all time classic episode. You had elevator races and Jay Leno's first appearance on Late Night.

@tailwaggindragon Жыл бұрын

Now THAT'S entertainment 😂🤣😂😅

@dmblum1 2 жыл бұрын

I heard Bob Costas on some podcast a while back recounting this part of his career and his relationship with Letterman - it was really amusing. Dig it up if you can.

@jamestroost2784 2 жыл бұрын

Nice !!! I've been waiting for this for almost 15 years

@atmostbeautiful 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to KZfaq David!

@klangluna 2 жыл бұрын

It's so stupid, it's so hilarious

@JohnNiemsMusic 2 жыл бұрын

And it is funny how their numbers represented how they finished or would that be considered a conspiracy? hahaha

@tvviewer4500 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@blehkelekwet9642 2 жыл бұрын

Can't belive it hasn't been made an olympic event.

@attinsona 2 жыл бұрын

Costas doesn't age.

@firegildingmusic 2 жыл бұрын

'Bill Banker' my foot...John Hodgman is time traveling, folks

@ultimatemaitai 2 жыл бұрын

Costas kills it

@ChristopherHemsworthCreative 2 жыл бұрын

Is it weird that I was utterly riveted as Dave was reading the rules?

@jyhertz 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@JCO2002 2 жыл бұрын

I subscribed, and I'm enjoying these very much. But Mr Letterman, please don't use copyright claims to remove Don Giller.

@FomorViceroy 2 жыл бұрын

There was nothing else like this on TV at the time.

@toucansam3 2 жыл бұрын

Bits like this are common place today, but at the time, this sort of thing had never been seen on national TV. Dave's show was like a public access cable show that somehow made it onto a major network.

@LazarusStirs 2 жыл бұрын

@@toucansam3 That'e exactly how I always describe it.

@harperlea9288 2 жыл бұрын

Big fun!!!!

@rjonzun5828 2 жыл бұрын

Classic!

@mattkramer4132 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Costas started working at NBC when he was 12 years old. lol

@CthulhuInc 3 ай бұрын

why isn't this in the olympics?

@Moody_Jazz Ай бұрын

This what Mr T got cut for

@jeanetteschock4744 2 жыл бұрын

Love Bob Costas

@AlmostReady504 2 жыл бұрын

EUREKA!! Thanks Dave

@waytospergtherebro 2 жыл бұрын

The pitch-shifted Jane Pauley interview needs to be resurrected.

@dianewinters8628 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@SniffyPoo 2 жыл бұрын

never seen most of the 80s bits

@MSHin80 2 жыл бұрын

Livingston Taylor!

@sherry5136 2 жыл бұрын

Go Clara 🏅

@preesi1403 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if in the future, women of a certain age will ever wear that tomato red 2 piece outfit, hosiery and orthopedic shoes again?

@mangafq8 2 жыл бұрын

So was this another Merrill original where Dave made the lion's share of the money?

@eurofritz4617 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if her family still has the trophy?

@jontheroadagain 2 жыл бұрын

6:41 Who is the guest?

@BrettBorovic 2 жыл бұрын

Singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor

@jontheroadagain 2 жыл бұрын

@@BrettBorovic thanks!

@jrpipik Жыл бұрын

@@jontheroadagain James' brother.

@tbx59 2 жыл бұрын

We found a sport Bob Costas might have possibly competed in.

@FinalCountDown2.037 2 жыл бұрын

Elevator races are so rigged.

@martijndejong1293 2 жыл бұрын

Please shave of the beard mr Letterman !

@francisgeorge8270 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone think this is funny? I grew up watching this, and still don't understand the humor. Johny Carson, on the other hand, had me on the floor night after night. Some might call this silly, which can be hilarious when the right people do it (Like Top Gear, for instance)

@timharrod 2 жыл бұрын

One of the things this show mastered was spectacles that may not be start-to-finish hilarious, but are compelling and dotted with skillful humor. Once you see the steamroller heading for the saxophone, you may not laugh out loud but you can't look away.

@DanJackson1977 2 жыл бұрын

Either ya get it or ya dont man. It's like trying to explain Jazz. The whole point was to do the opposite of Carson... no establishment comics... all young comedy writers... it was drier, weirder, and you got the feeling anything could happen. Carson's show was a celebration of showbiz.. Lettermans show was a deconstruction of it.