David Letterman’s First NBC Show Got Cancelled 

When he was on, his ratings were really up and down. They would go way down in the fall and winter, and up in the summer, Come to find out it, was because of his popularity with college students. When they were at school, they would congregate and watch his show in hubs and communal TVs. During summer, they would disperse, and watch from their own tv. The ratings went up because of more TVs playing his show.

exactly what i thought

Respect

I immediately picked up on it. Very classy move

Didn’t catch that, thanks for pointing out!

Had he not- David would have had something to say- am I right?

I was so confused for a minute. I thought it was an old clip! Love it

@@TheGeniuschrist "Something happen with the dry-cleaners?"

I was born in 1980, good year.

- Me too. Dave saved me from a steady diet of Sesame Street, Electric company and crappy game shows.

I caught a few of them too (snow days or sick days - don't remember). I thought they were mind blowing - definitely better than the game shows he replaced. Would love to see them again.

THERE'S a new, fascinating take, on "what Dave meant to me." Thank-you, for sharing it.

Seth is a legend?

He used to wear them all the time before covid

@@ChrisSmith-5655 we know ... *swoosh*

That's exactly what I thought too 😹

And wit.

"And I wouldn't give your troubles...to a monkey on a rock." Goddam treat is right.

And SOOOOO relaxed. I imagine the only tension he had up there was being in the wrong chair. Muscle memory and all that.

Key word is effortlessly

He's seriously my favorite ever. I miss watching him nightly. I look forward to when he has new interviews on his Netflix show

Started watching his morning show Oct 1980, hoooooked! Lost so much sleep over the years.....never boring.

I almost wish Seth would have let Dave sit at the desk like Colbert does sometimes.

I agree,100 %

David Letterman uses his wealth and fame to get away with stalking.

🙏🏽😅😂🙏🏽 “Many a truth has been told in jest!” RIP 🪦 Elders, who have “fallen asleep” into Eternal Life,. as Nonagenarians !! Fond memories of Mrs. Letterman’s Pie 🥧 Recipes & Olympics Correspondent’s Reports on David Letterman’s shows ! Thank you !🙏🏽😂😅🙏🏽

We should all be so lucky. 😁👍 And in our nineties too!

How many people die when they're awake? That's weird - you're eating lunch and just check out falling head first into the minestrone special.

Perfect comment. They are both brilliant at it, IMO. Intelligent, and quick witted to such a high level. It's nice to see Seth with someone who gets his contribution to the form, and gives him that sense of worthiness back.

The only thing that misfired was that Dave's anecdote about his son seemed to have been cut short for a commercial break. Otherwise, I agree!

Watch Letterman's show on Netflix where he Interviews Howard Stern. They seem to volley between who's interviewing who and it's really good.

No fat on any comments. Just warm, informative, generous and above all entertaining. Two pros shooting the s**t. 👍

oh!!! u r so weird

I miss Letterman. They always had the best musical guests.

@@tiki_trash Not to mention the best house band! Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra were incredible.

Letterman has a great show on Netflix.

He looks great! 😯👍😁

The Late Show always had the best up & coming bands/singers; the biggest musicians and absolute legends playing or sitting in with Paul & the band-just like SNL.

Didn't you hear Seth... It's his show lol

I saw Paar do the same thing to Carson on The Tonight Show. Ironically Hal Gurnee (sp) Produced Paars Tonight Show and Letterman’s Late Night on NBC.

David Letterman uses his wealth and fame to get away with stalking.

Seth is a brilliant. He does not have games. Pure content. Gives credit to his writers. Love when his parents and brother are on.

Letterman absolutely reinvented the sterile, milquetoast, late night wheel. I will even say he is better than Johnny Carson, but that may be apple vs oranges.

You guys should watch The Story of Late Night on HBO.

@@Wayzor_ Yes then they’d see that Allen created the genre and Paar the monologue and being the great interviewer he was as was one of his writers Dick Cavett who had some phenomenal interviews on his shows in the late 60s to mid 70s. Just not as funny.

They were both perverts, but Dave more. Regardless, Carson's yes, was polished, but many people prefer it that way and find it more interesting and, that is why Carson was funnier and this is not an opinion. Polished equals preparation, smart, intellect, wisdom, things you indirectly removed from Dave and that is why Johnny was funnier.

Funny because I've heard it said they were targeting college boys and young men generally, feeling like they were being ignored in the market.

This made me tear up. This was my childhood too. I was a depressed kid, but somehow, letterman made me laugh every night.

@@dragonfly4484 absolutely!! He was always there at the end of the night to “tuck me in.” I was so lucky to have seen him at a taping of Late Night his last year and I was able to tell him what a profound effect he had on me.

Scammer^

Seeing those older shows now, I would have liked to grow up with Jay Leno and Ferguson, they are much funnier, except Ferguson seemed too much a pervert, kind of harassing the women that appeared on his show. I currently Love Seth and Stephen.

Craig Ferguson's show was incredible. Could you imagine what it would have been like if they gave him Corden's budget?

@@markuse3472 What a tremendously awful take.

My impression of these is there's usually very little cut. Both segments are uploaded or you can listen to the podcast for them together. The edits are usually superfluous stuff like dead air, gaffs, and etc. But there's a timer in-front of them so they know when to wrap.

Me too!

Me toooo!!

It was hilarious, my mom & I never missed it. The one that stands out, & I believe it was the nail in the coffin for the show, was an older couple’s anniversary celebration - the confetti, that rained down upon the couple, was catching on fire. I just wish his late night gig would have been live.

@@sunshine3914 Haha, i love those live TV debacles. A while ago i watched a failed 70s or 80s super low budget live show from i think the UK on RU-vid, i forget the name of the show, annoyingly, i was trying to search for it right now, but maybe it'll come back to me later. But there was one episode that was especially disastrous, it was probably done in the morning, as there was also supposed to be an audience of school children in the studio. The kids didn't show up, because they got stuck in a storm. The lead guy was playing some kind of clown, but he was like the typical middle aged chainsmoking hustler trying to pay off his massive debt. No budget whatsoever, just a dark room with a couple of decor/stage cutouts, and after the first 5 minutes, it already felt like he was winging it. They were aware of the storm, so he was kinda trying to address the show to the other kids at that school, watching it. It wasn't going well, but they kept going because of "the kids at school watching." But then the lead guy got the information that the kids at school were sent home during the storm, so, nobody was watching it. But you could just see how broken he was, i'm not sure if he actually said it, or gestured it, but you knew he was thinking: "what the hell are we doing it for?!", and would give up right there, but they kept going. I can't remember how it ended, but i just loved that moment of complete defeat, poor people haha EDIT: I found it, it was Flippo the Clown, from probably early 90s, Columbus Ohio. And i couldn't find the moment that i thought i remembered where there were no viewers at all. There was defeat though, but i might have misremembered or mixed up shows, but it is worth checking out for some 'schadenfreude'.

I was thinking 5.

Blew off morning classes to watch morning show. It was live and the best TV I had ever seen.

Got my mom to drive me to school so I could watch the first part of Letterman's show. Then she would race home to watch the rest of it.

I worked the evening shift, & he was the only reason I got up early.

Wow I'm just shock someone mentioned expert Mrs Clarissa thought I'm the only one trading with her

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Expert Mrs Clarissa she's really amazing with an amazing skills she changed my 0.3btc to 2.1btc

I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Mrs Clarissa I think she is the best broker I ever seen

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Dr. Ruth for the WIN!

I considered writing to the show and suggesting they send Larry "Bud" to Albertville to cover the Winter Olympics -- only he ends up in Albertville MN instead of Albertville France. I still think it would have been hilarious, having him wander around town interviewing the locals and watching the Olympics in the bars.

@@allenswanson2423 My daughter was 20 eleven years ago, and we were fixing to go visit NYC. We won tickets to Letterman, a huge thrill.

I reached this comment just as he was talking about it. And I was thinking the same thing