Dave's First Monologue & Top Ten At CBS | Letterman 

As someone who is too young to have ever had the chance to attend a Letterman taping, I am legally obligated to like this comment.

Wow! That had to be something to bare witness to. It was an EPIC Event. Thanks for sharing.

Fun fact!

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Longer now. The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan 29 years prior, and 30 years for the CBS premiere.

probably why they posted this on youtube this week.

Thank you for making me feel older than i ever thought I would be!

The tonight show beat him in ratings every year.

@@davidsandall From 1995 on.

most consitently handsome man ever.

Conan's first skit for the opening of "Late Night" was more like a casual stroll, as people keep stopping him to put pressure on him to be good at the job. That running segment you're talking about was sort of an expansion of that, which was used at the beginning of his first Tonight Show years later.

That’s what confused me all along. Paul wrote the Late Night Theme. It’s on his Coast to Coast album. Why couldn’t they use it on the CBS show? Would that have drove the NBC lawyers batty?

Just wanted to say thanks for everything you do on this channel, Don! These clips are always a highlight of my RU-vid feed.

@@purplefuku Thanks, but my involvement with this channel is minimal. Walter Kim is the gentleman you should thank.

@@dongiller: Well, that’s a bit disappointing! But Walter Kim is doing an excellent job & at least the channel is in good hands. (I have to admit that I quite miss your longer montages & curated compilations, though!)

@@purplefuku I miss making them. :)

I remember the reshoot and also that Billy Joel used cue cards during his musical performance.

Imagine a late night show and not one mention of politics or Trump

@@bravo1701 Well, Weeknight Update is the kind of late night talk show that you can watch without feeling mad. I'm focusing on the fun. It's a show that I'm hosting on RU-vid.

@@bravo1701 Yup. I can’t stand Trump either. However at least not on every episode back then did Arsenio, Jay or Dave did every other damn joke/monologue on Bill Clinton and American politics as a whole either.

Yup. Changed the TV Industry in America, especially Late Night Entertainment Talk Shows right after Johnny's retirement forever.

I know on the HBO bio movie made on the Leno/Letterman rivalry, this was mentioned. In that scene when Jay's first Executive Producer and also Agent, right after he took over from Carson, had the live show in Summer 1992 suddenly cancelled, a few minutes before airing. It was cancelled because of the 1992 Republican Convention that ran late as Ronald Reagan gave his last extended public speech. NBC Execs was about to fire Leno the next day as Letterman was notified to fly to LA asap on standby. So to save his job Jay basically allowed that same EP/Agent and long time friend to be canned. And then soon after, NBC Execs made the decision to give permanently Leno, the "Tonight Show" gig. With Jay now long term in that old Carson seat for the next 20 years or so into the current century, CBS and ABC then made huge offers for Dave as they both wanted Carson type late evening shows. CBS won the bidding war as Dave stayed in his Midtown Manhattan home at the Sullivan Theater. Then from September 1993, onwards both Jay and Dave did very well. Both would end making Tens of Millions Dollars in profits in their separate 1130pm shows until their retirements in the Mid 2010s. Hope Jersey Guy that answers your question.

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If you are referring to Merv, he was in the Cort Theater, now the James Earl Jones. Cavett? The Elysee, now the St. Thomas Choir School. Johnny? 6B at 30 Rock.

He didn't introduce Dave; he introduced Paul Newman.

WWP doesn't own the intellectual property rights to that footage.

@@mactheknife7049 - I realize they don't own it, but then they were given permission to use it to begin with, plus on any rebroadcasts of the show. Why wouldn't that extend to a situation like this? Unless the permission was only temporary? It doesn't seem to be an issue with the Carson Tonight Show - where the parts are left in when a guest uses a clip from a promoted TV series or movie. They just place a credit on the screen indicating where it came from, "Paramount", "Warner Brothers", etc.

@@ThamiumOne Such things are negotiable on a case basis, and Carson Productions may have had an "in perpetuity" clause. The original WWP rights agreement may have only been for the original airing date plus a certain period of time after that by contrast. Background music used may also trigger edits; if you don't have the rights to publicly air a certain song through ASCAP/BMI/SESAC, that could be an issue. Hard to say in their case, but it appears they no longer have the rebroadcast rights.

He introduced Dave and later Paul. The Dave intro was a montage of Ed’s intros of a guest named Dave and the singing group the Lettermen. For Newman, Dave pretended to channel the ghost of Ed Sullivan introducing Newman in the audience.

This is Bill Scheft. I did the audience warm-up. The nightly standing ovations would have continued, but Dave became embarrassed by it. So instead, I began to instruct the audience not to stand "Because it screws up the audio in the theater."

@@TheTRUANTSlive Thanks for this info!

mayby waw, but this paul! janks

That's what we need! Seriously, there's so many episodes of the Late Show that they could run it 24/7 and you wouldn't see a repeat for a long time.