Tom Hanks Says He Won't Appear On Dave's CBS Show

Tom Hanks Says He Won't Appear On Dave's CBS Show | Letterman

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10 ай бұрын

Tom explains why this is his final appearance with Dave.
(From the final "Late Night," air date: 6/25/93)
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@kluangh1tam 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks being presented to a talk show with Smell Like Teen Spirit intro is something I would've never guess seeing in my life time. Scratch that one off the list.

@zackwetzel2158 8 ай бұрын

Nod to Sleepless in Seattle

@JayRiemenschneider 3 ай бұрын

@@zackwetzel2158dammit I wanted to be the one😡

@ThymeKeeper 10 ай бұрын

"Stop bending the shaft!" has been an often repeated catch phrase in my life since this originally aired 😃

@eblackadder3 10 ай бұрын

My wife and I met just about a week before this aired. We watched it together that night and have been saying "Stop bending the shaft!!" for 30 years now.

@MarkAndreasen 10 ай бұрын

I’ve told many a GF “… Stop Bending the Shaft!!!”

@riffhammeron 10 ай бұрын

Mine too!

@graziemille2454 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching this when originally broadcast…laughed to tears…and “bending the shafts” lives rent free in my head. Hanks did so well on Letterman. Always worth staying up late to watch..

@Lupton2000 3 ай бұрын

Best part of the whole show!

@DanStrayer 10 ай бұрын

Took me a long time to accept “Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.” It’ll always be the “World’s Most Dangerous Band” to me.

@brentbarnhart7050 10 ай бұрын

The cool thing is they reverted to that name after they left CBS.

@jk3521 10 ай бұрын

One of the best talk show guests of all time, Tom Hanks.

@ripapa6355 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks, my man! First time I've ever seen Paul not know a song.

@DaRealCheeseboy 10 ай бұрын

I love that the Top Ten is included at the beginning to help give the whole video some better clarity and context.

@justingrabowski8142 2 ай бұрын

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. If yes, I dont get it. If no, can you explain your statement?

@sammydavis991 10 ай бұрын

This is and will always be the best interview.

@memo1269 10 ай бұрын

Hearing Paul and the boys playing Nirvana out of the break and realizing it's been 30 years(!) since that song and this interview is breaking my brain.

@JKerr-iy2jr 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks was ALWAYS one of the most entertaining guests on any show.

@stefaniekincaid8271 10 ай бұрын

I was born in ‘84 and will never forget my mom regularly having Dave on her bedroom tv in the 90s. Those were the days. Tom was unequivocally one of the best guests there was. I miss this.

@Andrew-Antioch-Kim 10 ай бұрын

These uploads of Dave are making my morale so much better!

@dianewinters8628 10 ай бұрын

This was the opening of "Sleepless in Seattle", their lives would change forever🧚‍♀️

@elizabethlarson9655 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks is one of the few people who could totally keep up with Dave, and sometimes get him completely off balance, in these interviews. He is always energetic and hilarious.

@untexan 10 ай бұрын

No matter what late night show he goes on, he always brings the goods. Not many guests understand that they're performing too.

@Frankincensedjb123 10 ай бұрын

He obviously prepared material

@tastyjay 10 ай бұрын

Tom could certainly hold his own. A really great interview.

@gbars02 10 ай бұрын

There's something about life that seems very unfair; when the greatest living actor we now have, can also be this funny!?

@imtheman4805 6 ай бұрын

I can’t get the 2 phrases “Roustabout” and “Stop bendin’ da shafts” outta my head😁

@ringbling420 10 ай бұрын

Man Tom was on fire he was the right guest to have. Thanks for all the years of great laughs Dave ❤

@TK0_23_ 10 ай бұрын

I think Tom Hanks understood and participated in this format. Bring celebs to sell their movie and entertain the folks. A comsumate entertainment.

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

I love when Tom Hanks talks about his love of Elvis films! I thought that I saw him sing “Roustabout” as Elvis at some point during his press junket last year, but could never find the clip again - because I was thinking of this interview instead!

@mhmrules 10 ай бұрын

Don't worry, it won't be last time Dave says "BUTTAFUCO"

@jhboob 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks brought his 'A' game.

@tedium37 10 ай бұрын

Dave was 100% correct about Paul and the band.

@bauerma4 10 ай бұрын

Imaging starring in Big, A League of Their Own, and Sleepless in Seattle and none of them being in your top 10 grossing films 😮.

@buenjames 10 ай бұрын

@paulpm1974that's not what he's saying

@maliant16 Ай бұрын

Illuminati

@Mollikar 10 ай бұрын

Well Dave pointed something out about when people started to notice Tom wasnt just an entertaining actor but a great one but I was in the theater and remember the exact moment it happened, Radio Flyer, everyone left the theater saying you know I always liked Tom Hanks he was soo good.

@ValerieCH1 8 ай бұрын

A national treasure.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 10 ай бұрын

Holy heck this interview was off the charts!

@legibby 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks is freakin hilarious

@colwilliamnoydb4134 10 ай бұрын

I got to be in the audience of David Letterman back in 1986. He is my all time Late Night Talk host with Conan coming in next. His stupid pet and human tricks were gold. The crazy stuff he was allowed to do was magical. Loved the Top Ten and it was such a big deal, that many news and radio stations would air them the day after his show. His salute to the Military and having almost every current Medal of Honor winner was nice as well. Besides the 2 Chief Warrant Officers who had been shot down During Desert Storm. Those guys were funny.

@allendracabal0819 6 ай бұрын

I was in the audience once, as well, and it was 1986, as well.

@bossfan49 5 ай бұрын

Dave was definitely different. Along with 3 landmark gags you mentioned he had, the alka-seltzer suit, the velcro suit, random phone calls, the "dancing waters" fountain in front of his desk...not to mention all the people that would show up just to jam with the band... Warren Zevon, David Sanborn, EVH etc... Similarly to the radio stations...me and my best friend would take turns recording the show (audio) on our boomboxes and listening to them after school the next day.

@jk3521 10 ай бұрын

I watch clips from this show every day. Thank you for posting them.

@slammajamma5435 10 ай бұрын

Adrienne Barbeau… fully understood.

@SweetBerryWine3000 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks at the height of his powers! So funny, quick witted, and great! Love this interview! Also Dave at a peak as well. I never really did adjust to the CBS years, good as he still was. Anyway, thanks for sharing this. ❤

@Skier10 10 ай бұрын

100% agree. While still ok, Dave and his show never regained its quirky magic of the late 80s/early 90s.

@Ishai1 10 ай бұрын

One of those unwritten showbiz rules, if you're starting or ending a talk show, you must book Tom Hanks...

@jameshudson169 10 ай бұрын

It's a shame Dave went to CBS. He had a strong run at NBC. Makes you wonder what MIGHT have been.

@dianewinters8628 10 ай бұрын

I would tune in now to watch Paul & "The World's Most Dangerous Band", play for a hour.

@nancyd1823 10 ай бұрын

Wow - Great clip!! Who doesn’t LOVE Tom Hanks? 💕

@dersnot 10 ай бұрын

I don't like him he's a loud mouth liberal yuck.

@douglasjohnson4382 10 ай бұрын

Republicans

@suprchickn7745 10 ай бұрын

People that see how awful Hollywood is and has become!

@busean3288 10 ай бұрын

That tossed off "Roustabout" bit from Hanks could have been written today by Mulaney. It's fantastic.

@razorbladethorax 10 ай бұрын

Truth be told, Meg Ryan does fit the profile of an Amway distributor! Also, would be great to see Tom's first appearance on the Late Show.

@ThymeKeeper 10 ай бұрын

It's available on KZfaq.

@Infinite_P 10 ай бұрын

These interviews are classics in their own right.

@tuberhubris4154 10 ай бұрын

Waiting for this since 1899!!! Great interview by Tom. I posted many years ago on a less than stellar copy of the "Stop bending the shafts" joke; had me laughing on the floor when I saw it on TV originally. Thanks for the upload.

@tuberhubris4154 10 ай бұрын

@@robertgoerss 😀Irony? Sardony? Exaggeration to make a point? That escapes you? Unless you are in with the joke.

@S1L3NTG4M3R 10 ай бұрын

wait... 30 years ago???!!!! whaaaaaa .....

@shawnuel 10 ай бұрын

I love how Tom clandestinely forecasts both his appearance as Colonel Tom Parker in Elvis and 2 separate bits in his directorial debut, That Thing You Do by mentioning the plate spinning act on Ed Sullivan and Suzanne Pleshette at Chasen's.

@jobiazgarza9571 10 ай бұрын

Dave said bye with class but notice there were no tears.

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

It was a change, but it not an end for Dave - and he wasn’t moving on alone.

@SLiMCHiCKeN5150 10 ай бұрын

This channel is great! Where the hell did 30 years go!? Thank you 🤟

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

A lot of people have worked on Cher. Hi-yo! 🥁

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

@@robertgoerssI interpreted this as a reference to Cher having plastic surgery, not multiple boyfriends.

@Savingdea 10 күн бұрын

40 men eee I never knew thanks

@1jackvalley580 9 ай бұрын

It's so easy to love Tom❤

@harlhequim 10 ай бұрын

The Slappy White story I heard when it was told live....that day....since then i"ve got in engraved in my brain......his timing and interpretation of Slappy running with his arms all over the place is priceless

@autobahntom3578 10 ай бұрын

This is what TV used to be.

@jimmyjames2022 10 ай бұрын

Dave's 1993 signoff makes me sad. I was single parenting and so I missed a ton of Late Night shows, no time for watching tape either, and then 11 years went by zing.

@bluebear1985 10 ай бұрын

"The next time we see you folks, it will be Monday night, August 30th... at 11:30". Kind of like a final "up yours" to NBC for not giving him the Tonight Show.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms 10 ай бұрын

Iconic moments in television....

@7wolfman78 10 ай бұрын

Definitely the good old days 🙂

@a_plus 10 ай бұрын

Stop bending the shafts! Classic on the last 12:30 show.

@pauld.172 10 ай бұрын

It was a great last show that will be 30 years ago on Sunday. You can find all of it elsewhere here on KZfaq. I have always thought Dave’s closing remarks were more eloquent here than on CBS, particularly the comment how they began on a cold day in February in 1982, and now here there were on a lovely summer evening in June eleven years later (a few minutes later he mentions that incoming Conan O’Brien once killed a guy.)

@saintrocketIX 10 ай бұрын

In all fairness, Dave's last words on CBS were introducing Foo Fighters.

@user-sq2fb8bq9r 10 ай бұрын

This appearance proves no guest ever better.

@Lupton2000 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting this one:)

@Ruggedystim 10 ай бұрын

Tom hanks wasn't America's father back then, he was only our cool uncle, Sam's brother

@zachm2331 10 ай бұрын

You can tell Tom probably just got done filming ‘Philadelphia’ here.

@buenjames 10 ай бұрын

Tom hanks was really succesful before becoming really really succesful

@StevenTorrey 10 ай бұрын

And here it is 2023, who would have expected Tom Hanks to become Mr. America....the embodiment of Mr. America?

@maryrosekent8223 10 ай бұрын

I’m with Tom on the cleavage thing!

@andrewcreech8158 10 ай бұрын

Great intro music. Tie in to Sleepless in Seattle. Seattle home of grunge.

@robinr.berardini4792 10 ай бұрын

Best TV Band in Bidness😂Yessssss!

@ericvitelli7113 10 ай бұрын

Great Stuff! Wasn't the Boss the last musical guest also?

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

Did anyone else go and watch the trailer for “Roustabout” after this and decide that they’ve got to see it?

@judydoyle1124 10 ай бұрын

Just for Barbara Stanwyck

@fayedapiran5737 10 ай бұрын

No, definitely no. I had already seen it. I’m afraid Elvis didn’t make any decent movies, but it was in his contract.

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

@@fayedapiran5737 I didn’t say anything about it being good. I want to see it because it looks hilariously terrible.

@dpall38 10 ай бұрын

I wonder which Academy award Slappy was nominated for?

@mockturtlesuppe 10 ай бұрын

It doesn’t look like he was ever nominated for any. But I’m pretty confident you can get invited to the Oscars for any number of reasons besides personally being nominated for one.

@tommidakota37 10 ай бұрын

love this

@rocknrollpat 10 ай бұрын

This is BEFORE Forrest Gump. Put that in perspective!

@udaswoop 10 ай бұрын

Smells Like Teen Spirit? Nice one Paul :)

@FerdinandCesarano 10 ай бұрын

YOU'RE BENDING THE SHAFTS!

@TubenIt83 10 ай бұрын

Dave was on Conan's show only four times because, reportedly Conan kept bending the shaft.

@jccalhoun4972 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks introduced, and the band played Smells Like Teen Spirit. Wow.

@bossfan49 5 ай бұрын

I guess it was the Seattle "connection"..

@mrbransformer4184 10 ай бұрын

What a gem!

@artanisknarf 10 ай бұрын

Great appearance! Haven’t seen this one before.👍

@S1L3NTG4M3R 10 ай бұрын

Hey Dave!!!!

@DoctorJ42 10 ай бұрын

Dragnet is great! I don't care what you say Tom!

@kuziokundera 10 ай бұрын

If you do the math, this HAD to be taped right before Hanks won the Oscar for Philadelphia later that year and right before his filming of Forrest Gump.

@robroy6374 10 ай бұрын

Well, obviously. This was taped in June 1993. Filming for "Forrest Gump" began on August 27, 1993. Tom Hanks won an Oscar for "Philadelphia" at the 66th Oscars in March 1994.

@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr 10 ай бұрын

Also probably before he vacationed at a certain island....

@johndunstan3875 10 ай бұрын

Ironically in the future, Tom was to feature in a movie about Elvis.

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

You don’t say!

@thecandyman9308 16 сағат бұрын

What was late-night tv like years ago?

@FJCastillo194 10 ай бұрын

Idk where to put in this request but can we get some Tracy Morgan interviews with Dave?

@justingurley836 10 ай бұрын

Tom was on !

@UberNeuman 10 ай бұрын

I stand with Tom. I too will not appear on the CBS's Letterman show! Take that, Mr. Shobiz. lol.

@vlady8me 10 ай бұрын

Ahh Bob Saget!

@AutisticPersona 10 ай бұрын

YOU'RE BENDING THE SHAFTS!!!

@mhmrules 10 ай бұрын

😮

@SLiMCHiCKeN5150 10 ай бұрын

8 o'clock on Sunday 🤣😭🤣🤣🤣👍

@maximusthe1st 10 ай бұрын

One should take care to never bend the shaft

@FroggyMan 10 ай бұрын

lol tom hanks turned in to forest gump on his shair story for a sec ptre gump gump lmfao

@James-3000 6 күн бұрын

If he wanted, Tom could’ve been a great standup comic on the same level of Robin Williams.

@joshuamann5228 10 ай бұрын

YA BENDIN THE SHAFTS!!! STOP BENDING THE SHAFTS!!

@mdj1967 10 ай бұрын

Nice of Tom to participate in a “Stump The Band” segment

@Truckdirec 10 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks thank you for this beautiful movie I enjoyed it a lot surrounded by my family we really loved it thanks a lot I cried a lot at the End! WHAT A MOVIE!!!!

@felixthelmocevallosmorales41 7 ай бұрын

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (Concord, California; 9 de julio de 1956) es un actor y director de cine estadounidense. Es de los intérpretes más reconocidos de Hollywood. Varias de sus películas, sean dramas o comedias, han recibido el reconocimiento internacional.

@tomace4898 10 ай бұрын

Everybody loves him.

@raymondm.9954 10 ай бұрын

We didn't get to read the credits. Or even ignore them.

@TheMusicLover-lo2em 4 ай бұрын

Wow looking at Tom Hanks.. Him and Neil Peart look like twins 😂😮❤

@TheMusicLover-lo2em 4 ай бұрын

Especially later in life.. They really start looking alike 😂

@pena.3302 4 ай бұрын

Oh ive got it.! "Tim Mix'! Peter Griffin.😅.

@andrewcarey6116 10 ай бұрын

Cool he paused before sitting and then senses Letterman wanting him to sit first, and then sits down

@basicdose.9872 10 ай бұрын

My man Tom hanks. That's what I am talking about

@kstepko 10 ай бұрын

My favourite Elvis movie is “Change of Habit”.

@checkmatekingtwothisiswhit7685 10 ай бұрын

Tom has material!

@checkmatekingtwothisiswhit7685 10 ай бұрын

@me I can't believe it's 30 years ago.

@mactheknife7049 10 ай бұрын

STOP BENDIN' THE SHAFTS!!!

@jmag579 10 ай бұрын

Exactly 30 years ago 🤯

@nubenegra809 10 ай бұрын

Dave is such a rascal 🤣

@peaceshepherding529 10 ай бұрын

Re gems, anyone recall a Dave live-cam (desk-to-street) interview w/a guy who opened his coat to show hanging watches he was hawking? Who has that on tape? What was the segment called? (Nbc? Cbs?early 90’s)