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Dave's Elevator Races | Letterman

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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 RU-vid 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 года назад

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

@marconibologna 2 года назад

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

@eamonndoyle3308 2 года назад

These elevator bits really had their ups and downs

@nmonster 2 года назад

They worked on so many levels

@scottyb2939 2 года назад

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.

@Lisakaylindsay256 2 года назад

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 года назад

May your Letterman Binging game be STRONG!!!

@RideAcrossTheRiver Год назад

Don't Bing! Never EVER Bing!

@mcdarwin 2 года назад

"The Golden Shaft Award". 😄

@goreegirl 2 года назад

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 года назад

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

@schekyn6104 2 года назад

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

@BassByTheBay 2 года назад

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.

@andysorensen1737 Год назад

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

@laureencriss8220 4 месяца назад

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!

@tvviewer4500 Год назад

I would love an official late show with david letterman sponge

@DR-mq1vn 5 месяцев назад

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!

@annep4830 2 года назад

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 RU-vid.

@mrchopsticks3 2 года назад

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

@GoBirds808 2 года назад

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

@domonicp9136 2 года назад

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

@dmblum1 2 года назад

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.

@richardyoon4209 6 месяцев назад

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

@tailwaggindragon Год назад

Now THAT'S entertainment 😂🤣😂😅

@attinsona 2 года назад

Costas doesn't age.

@ultimatemaitai 2 года назад

Costas kills it

@klangluna 2 года назад

It's so stupid, it's so hilarious

@JohnNiemsMusic 2 года назад

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

@FomorViceroy 2 года назад

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

@mrchopsticks3 2 года назад

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 года назад

@@mrchopsticks3 That'e exactly how I always describe it.

@tvviewer4500 Год назад

This is amazing

@blehkelekwet9642 2 года назад

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

@jamestroost2784 2 года назад

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

@ChristopherHemsworthCreative 2 года назад

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

@firegildingmusic 2 года назад

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

@atmostbeautiful 2 года назад

Welcome to RU-vid David!

@mattkramer4132 2 года назад

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

@CthulhuInc 4 месяца назад

why isn't this in the olympics?

@JCO2002 2 года назад

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

@harperlea9288 2 года назад

Big fun!!!!

@Moody_Jazz 2 месяца назад

This what Mr T got cut for

@jyhertz 2 года назад

Awesome

@rjonzun5828 2 года назад

Classic!

@waytospergtherebro 2 года назад

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

@SniffyPoo 2 года назад

never seen most of the 80s bits

@jeanetteschock4744 2 года назад

Love Bob Costas

@AlmostReady504 2 года назад

EUREKA!! Thanks Dave

@mangafq8 2 года назад

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

@MSHin80 2 года назад

Livingston Taylor!

@preesi1403 2 года назад

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?

@dianewinters8628 2 года назад

😂

@sherry5136 2 года назад

Go Clara 🏅

@eurofritz4617 2 года назад

Wonder if her family still has the trophy?

@jontheroadagain 2 года назад

6:41 Who is the guest?

@BrettBorovic 2 года назад

Singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor

@jontheroadagain 2 года назад

@@BrettBorovic thanks!

@jrpipik Год назад

@@jontheroadagain James' brother.

@tbx59 2 года назад

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

@FinalCountDown2.037 2 года назад

Elevator races are so rigged.

@martijndejong1293 2 года назад

Please shave of the beard mr Letterman !

@francisgeorge8270 2 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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.