Comparison Test Collection on Letterman, 1983-96

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There were seven "Comparison Tests" on Late Night and one on "Late Show." The first on Late Night featured Head Stagehand Tommy Casabona; the remaining segments featured Chris Elliott, with Gerard Mulligan assisting for two of them.
1. October 10, 1983: Tommy Casabona: margarine vs. butter
2. March 20, 1984: Chris Elliott: peanut vs. corn oil
3. April 26, 1984: Chris Elliott: packet vs. bottle ketchup
4. July 26, 1984: Chris Elliott: decaf brand #1 vs. #2
5. October 11, 1984: Chris Elliott: broiling vs. frying
6. July 14, 1989: Chris Elliott and Gerard Mulligan: satin finish vs. gloss
7. September 8, 1989: Chris Elliott: regular vs. improved dog food
8. January 31, 1996: Chris Elliott and Gerard Mulligan: beef fat vs. Olestra

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@TheEleatic 4 года назад

I was young, life was good, and Late Night made me laugh. S. Bernhardt, Bill Murray, Terri Garr, Harvey Pekar....priceless moments of pleasure.

@johnconnor4136 4 года назад

how is life now?

@mattmattix2598 3 года назад

Harvey Cleveland’s own

@cortchiewelch9492 2 года назад

richard lewis.

@NormAppleton 2 года назад

Those were the days

@flatonia 5 лет назад

I love this kind of absurdist, droll, slapstick comedy. I believe we're seeing two very original gifted comedians. Thanks for the upload.

@freto_cognito9001 4 года назад

Agreed! I love how he goes back for a second glug sesh. Genius.

@chefjeff1366 3 года назад

Even in succession, in a collection like this, the bit is still funny every single time

@LaGuerre19 4 года назад

Chris Elliott is a friggin legend.

@hollygarnish1151 4 года назад

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.

@karlhungus5554 5 лет назад

Chris Elliott was SO great on Letterman! I watched the show as much to see him as I did to see Dave.

@luke125 3 года назад

He really was.

@SailorCallie 7 лет назад

Chris Elliott: "I can't tell any difference." Classic.

@00bikeboy 4 года назад

I fell on the floor laughing when I saw this live back in the day.

@quantumfluctuation5667 4 года назад

wow i feel bad for u guys

@lockandloadlikehell 5 лет назад

"No, they're props" I saw that night it aired originally. Best thing in the world to come home to.

@davidconnellan6875 5 лет назад

I remember watching it the first time it aired i laughed my arse off

@mayormc 5 лет назад

"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.

@heshwuan 4 года назад

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.

@ztog 4 года назад

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.

@luke125 3 года назад

Isn’t old age fun lol?

@ztog 3 года назад

@@luke125 As they say, getting old is for the birds.

@stevetseitz Год назад

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.

@pridgeondesigngroup1479 Год назад

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 Год назад

Amen. All due respect to Carson, but Letterman is the King of Late Night TV...

@thatcanadian6698 Год назад

When late night talk shows were truly great and worth staying up late for.

@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 4 года назад

I never heard Dave laugh so hard as to the ”is it your dogs?” ”No they are props”

@dannyboyy8465 Год назад

Dave really loves Chris Elliott's humor!

@josephmilitello647 9 месяцев назад

I remember that decades later.

@ashocck8065 5 месяцев назад

@@josephmilitello647 Funny thing, so do I.

@benjaminperth337 5 лет назад

Excellent compilation!

@vincentmurphy9252 Месяц назад

I went to Dave’s live Daytime show before he got this gig when I was in high school it was awesome

@dongiller Месяц назад

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.

@GeoffNelson 6 лет назад

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!

@dongiller 6 лет назад

Thanks, Geoff. Appreciated!

@zabagar 4 года назад

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.

@robkowalczyk3376 4 года назад

Thank you!

@vegasjay2326 4 года назад

I remember watching that Chris Elliott cooking oil skit. Thank You for posting this.

@jurgostuff 4 года назад

I love all the audiences' reactions.

@v8vrooooom 7 лет назад

aww man another cool compilation!!! Love these, some I've never seen

@chrisf8855 5 лет назад

Chris Elliot was comedy gold on Letterman.

@dii6266 3 года назад

We had it good. I feel sad for what Late Night "entertainment" has become.

@DstrtdMnd 5 лет назад

I always love hearing Dave and Paul laughing in the background

@JoeCnNd 3 года назад

Look up Chris Elliot as Paul, he does the laugh perfect.

@DstrtdMnd 3 года назад

@@JoeCnNd I'm aware

@JoeCnNd 3 года назад

@@DstrtdMnd totally sorry

@charmerci 4 года назад

Hilarious ! Thanks!

@bellestarre8589 5 лет назад

"Michigan Impossible" Chris' expressions of frustration on par...

@derekgreene3636 2 года назад

I love this 😊

@alimuhareb8170 4 года назад

this is great

@Best_Wrestling_Promos 5 лет назад

Great upload! Thanks!!

@heatvisuals 4 года назад

His face never changes

@PanzerBuyer 5 лет назад

Back when I used to watch TV.

@frankpitochelli6786 4 года назад

4:35 that laugh... It was a classic.!🤣 But Dave's laugh was always the best.

@logicalnotes5007 7 лет назад

loved it

@davemustaki134 4 года назад

Chris Elliott was like the will Ferrel of the 80's even 90's he was just so funny!

@MyWeedgrower 3 года назад

check out Eagleheart chris's show

@davemustaki134 3 года назад

@@MyWeedgrower never heard of it I will have to check it out

@luke125 3 года назад

Funnier

@SlapChop1000 3 года назад

*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.*

@JoeCnNd 3 года назад

I remember olestra. My toilets still pissed at me.

@PanzerBuyer 5 лет назад

Back when comedy used to be on TV. Good memories.

@lindabarrow 5 лет назад

Chris Elliott is the funniest most laid back comic with immense talent...he must have been born that way😀

@seanwelch71 7 лет назад

The letter at 8:14 was sent in by the mother of some friends of mine.

@desijrichert 6 лет назад

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.

@TANTRUMGASM 5 лет назад

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/ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w1YP6mX9d2E.html

@p4t21ck 5 лет назад

You should see Desi's facebook. He is the definition of a pathetic loser.

@dannuttle9005 4 года назад

@@desijrichert That would be almost as bad as sniping at people in youtube comments.

@ObamaFromKenya 2 года назад

@@dannuttle9005 wait Dan what happened

@howardlewis7804 Год назад

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.

@mmatcham 8 месяцев назад

I swear Dave did one of these himself with ‘motor oil’, but can’t find it anywhere. So damn funny.

@WrvrUgoThrUR 4 года назад

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.

@Obiter3 2 года назад

Thank you don

@shinchiwarrior 4 года назад

Ketchup in a glass bottle?

@jakejerald 3 года назад

Yup things changed over in the late 80s but I was just reminded of that big old family size glass bottle. Huge!!!

@llaurita2 3 года назад

Deadpan master! Bravo Mr Elliot!

@jim5461 2 года назад

This is one of the funniest bits ever.

@tonydir5673 5 лет назад

Very funny clips, Chris Elliot is a riot

@jrpipik 7 лет назад

After Letterman went off the air Chris did a test between two different brands of window washer fluid on Kimmel. Daughter Bridey also appeared.

@dongiller 7 лет назад

Someone yesterday (ricola2727) posted the link here but for some reason it never showed up. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MYqgmM_ZElk.html

@deputay 7 лет назад

Wow, not that Kimmel simply re-uses old Letterman bits, but...you could add that to the ever-growing list

@siemenstraffic 6 лет назад

My Man Adam!

@shyba2011 3 года назад

Just classic..!!

@burningunkle 2 года назад

His father was a big influence for sure.

@jamesjohnston3860 3 года назад

I went to school with the daughters of the woman who wrote the letter asking about varnish.

@TS-qq7vr 4 года назад

20 years later and people are buying coffee beans to chow down.

@lindabarrow 5 лет назад

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😁

@jtlovescodelyoko Год назад

After eating Olestra, he kinda had a cleansing detox

@darincox6202 5 лет назад

I was at the show on January 31st

@roberts.3098 7 лет назад

Was that Marlon Brando imitating Chris Elliott?

@yuppiehi 4 года назад

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.

@davemanningreviews 3 года назад

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.

@bertall1ca 4 года назад

Chris Elliot was doing comparison videos way before all the YT'ers

@pierrevoulaizeunlezotre2264 6 лет назад

dave sportin the oompa loompa here

@magnoliamike 3 года назад

That’s the guy from scary movie 2. “ ill use my strong hand”

@dantyler6907 5 лет назад

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 Год назад

This is because both bottles had been heated to approximately 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

@tateyambrose7290 3 года назад

I used to look forward to Letterman all day long, just for the chance that Chris Elliot or Flunky the Clown might be featured.

@robwebnoid5763 3 года назад

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.

@JAMAEL89 5 лет назад

Ten seconds off camera, Tommy dies of a massive heart attack.

@jaytrace1006 4 года назад

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.

@dongiller 4 года назад

March 20, 1992. Shaffer. Paul Shaffer. :)

@jaytrace1006 4 года назад

Don Giller is that on RU-vid anywhere? I never seem to be able to plug in the correct combination of Schaffer, Letterman and pink stuff.

@dongiller 4 года назад

Jay Trace I haven’t uploaded it yet. Again, it’s Shaffer. Paul Shaffer.

@gasser5001 4 года назад

Never really was a fan of Letterman... But Chris Elliott is fantastic so here I am.

@OfficiallySanctionedKATG 4 года назад

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.

@dongiller 4 года назад

They were props.

@porieux Год назад

Like the dogs

@heatvisuals 4 года назад

Chris never flinched during two full mouths of coffee grain

@dongiller 4 года назад

Of course, they weren’t actually coffee grains.

@frankielemonjello 4 года назад

I would guess ground up chocolate cake or cookies.

@FoxRivers778 4 года назад

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?

@WrvrUgoThrUR 4 года назад

0:30 SNL’s Pete Davidson’s Mom.

@bellestarre8589 5 лет назад

I remember the doggie food sketch & I really believe he ate real dog food. So funny when he said " those are props."

@gelerickson 4 года назад

if i remember correctly the oil and the dogfood ones actually were real, chris is nuts

@steveg5591 11 месяцев назад

@@gelericksonprobably was apple juice

@owlnswan4016 5 месяцев назад

@@steveg5591 ...and I hope the polyurethane was syrup.

@craigjamroz7585 4 года назад

OMFG CABIN BOYYY!!! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT AWESOME MOVE , THESE PIPES ARE ...." CLEAN "!!!!!! HAAAAAAA

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES 5 лет назад

Chris must have a house in Maine he's been spotted up here

@canadianroot 5 лет назад

His arteries deserve an Emmy Award.

@camtron 4 года назад

2:20 The Terminator was an early Letterman fan I see.

@bradleyhayman2682 5 лет назад

This is a swingin’ show

@rellgreen6558 6 лет назад

Is it just me, or is there a theme of R.E.M. tunes being played during Chris' parts?

@fetuscassidy5479 5 лет назад

Yup! The theme song of "Get a Life", Chris's sitcom was "Stand" by R.E.M.!

@andyrose5616 5 лет назад

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.

@ObamaFromKenya 2 года назад

@@andyrose5616 well “One I Love” has the lyric “a simple prop to occupy my time”

@renebrown7394 4 года назад

Chris is a great comedian..

@junkboxxxxxx 6 лет назад

beef fat (tallow) is solid at room temperature, like a ball of wax. he would have to bite into it

@bigsky1970 4 года назад

Right, but it was soft ice cream.

@64dethray 3 года назад

Love the lab coat.

@ringlord555 4 года назад

uses same spoon for both butters ... tastes pretty close

@bobot1981 5 лет назад

Ooooh, was that Watchtower on the way out?

@colinwilliams553 3 года назад

Chris Elliot..... Extremely funny in these segments.

@7beers 5 лет назад

Anyone know what he's actually consuming in each segment?

@blehkelekwet9642 6 лет назад

Hilarious.

@theundergroundlairofthesqu9261 2 года назад

Don Giller, wasn't there one where the viewer asked about motor oil?

@dongiller 2 года назад

Don’t believe there was.

@Kedeas 6 лет назад

Gerard Mulligan is the Best

@robertdougherty349 5 лет назад

The Scientific Method.

@screenplayhouse4932 5 лет назад

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.

@Teeveepicksures 5 лет назад

probably the chocolate crumbly stuff from a Carvel ice cream cake.

@marktatum2592 2 года назад

Ground up Oreo's

@pika23 5 лет назад

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!

@this-is-slammin-549 6 лет назад

Who were the two stage hands that would do play scene readings? I think one was named Kenny.

@dongiller 6 лет назад

Pat Farmer, Kenny Sheehan. They'd recite transcripts from Oprah's talk show.

@this-is-slammin-549 6 лет назад

Don Giller YES! That’s what it was! Thank you! Love your collection of videos, I’ve been watching them for several days now.

@dongiller 6 лет назад

Thanks!

@KrazeeClark 7 лет назад

I wonder what the "dog food" was made out of. It looked pretty bad.

@lockandloadlikehell 5 лет назад

ConcordClark Manwich

@bijibadness 4 года назад

the key to all this nonsense is Chris Elliot's absolutely committed, kind of bummed-out performance.

@stephenstrang590 4 года назад

That is true. Common theme of all of the late shows recurring characters.

@bellestarre8589 5 лет назад

"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...

@urwholefamilydied 3 года назад

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.