I'm here viewing this after watching a small interview with Dave after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock ... In the interview, Dave pointed out that when he hosted the Awards back in 95 , ''no one got hit '' 🙂
Me, too. I remember watching the entire broadcast live. This was in the realm of: what is the wierdest dream I could have that can't possibly come true ... but it did. Letterman, Oscar, Oscar, Letterman.
Dave did an awesome job hosting the Oscar. He got bad reviews because did won't play the Hollywood game&suckup to studio executives. This is also why he didn't get The Tonight Show
I love David Letterman, so talented, witty and bloody funny. The media was ruthless because he didn't cater to them. Idiots, I say! Dave is a legend!!!
Say what you will, but this holds up. Completely and unfairly roasted at the time, Letterman had some fantastic jokes. That Arnold joke is a fuckin’ 10/10. 🤣😂🤣
This just popped up on my phone as recommended. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Dave did not change the way he was. He made his living with his style of humor and interviewing people who would normally be looked over. I miss him
I can remember, back in the day, I didn't like Letterman at all. Now I think he is a genius. He is most definitely an acquired taste, but once you 'get him', he is terrific. His offbeat, awkward yet very genuine style remains refreshing and I will miss him. Nice to see that he will be coming back in a limited capacity on Netflix.
Dear people, know that this was brilliant! Dave Letterman has had the "chops" since the I first watched him on a morning show in the early eighties. What a talent this man is!!!!
Sorely underrated Oscar host - he's only time doing it. If you wasn't a fan of his late night talk show, you wasn't going to like this. This is normal Letterman stuff, and it's great.
@@pacojaviersg I think it's Andie Mcdowell that starred in the movie groundhog day together with bill murray. To get from her such a heartwarming genuine smile is a great thing. Her smile here is more than gorgeous is more like to fall in love with her. Not many poeple can provoke in her such a smile quite sure. Thanks Dave. You're the all time best.
@@smnbgn Roger Ebert is fat and ate all the chocolates
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Wow, I watched this live more than 20 years ago and it doesn´t look that bad now. It´s actually very funny. The thing is that now we´re used to guys like Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes and being "mean" to people. Back then the hosts were supposed to be more elegant and polite. Dave was Dave, you know, awkward, strange and very, very funny.
except for the Roger Ebert joke...and the Arnold Schwarzenegger joke...and the....basically all comedians are "mean". Gervais is hilarious. Dave does better with a more intimate crowd. I find them both great and talented.
All the critics trashed him when he hosted, but look how bad it's been the last 20 years? This show is brilliant compared to what we've had since 2000.
What I'm getting from this comment section is that you either love David's humor or you hate it It's interesting that it ranges from "this unfunny guy bombed" to "this was fantastic" I personally find everything he said hilarious
I've just watched every available monologue from 1970 to this (don't ask), and this is the first one I've laughed all the way through. Don't know why he got hate for this. Guess his style of humor just didn't play everywhere.
This hosting gig was like a fine wine, drank by a kid. The kid won't like it, whatever amazing wine you're setting down in front of him. Just give it time, let it grow. It will be amazing. 😄😁
He was amazing! Wtf is up with all these LA writers calling him "the worst host ever". He didn't suck up to the Hollywood glam like the other hosts of the time. 22 years later, this is still one of the funniest monologues. Letterman being Letterman,
Wrong. Look at the other opening monologues. They make fun of the audience all the time. It's not a kiss ass fest. You're not looking close enough. This was ranked the worst because the delivery was stiff, material was okay but dry, like an overpriced steak. Felt like TV jokes spoken at a higher volume. Personally, the worst one was Neil Patrick Harris and the year with James Franco/Anne Hathaway (not Anne's fault - Franco showed up stoned and was dead weight)
The joke at 5:28 was hilarious and I know Dave meant no disrespect to the late Ebert because they were friends in real life. Seeing Hanks and Rita Wilson’s reaction to the joke made it funnier.
Gene Siskel routinely insulted Ebert's weight on Letterman's show. This was a running gag, but the crowd seemed to have no idea that Ebert was often in on the joke.
The monologue was great...uncharacteristically so for Dave. His performance was terrific. He brought a freshly anarchic attitude to the proceedings, which might be what made people pan his performance, but which is an essential ingredient in comedy. The taxi driver skit, however, wasn't so hot. Less cut-in gags and more verbal interplay would've helped.
0:01: “From New York, future home of the Academy Awards, it’s The Late Show with David Letterman! Tonight, David welcomes from the Dallas Cowboys, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg and musical guests Sawyer Brown! Plus Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra! And now, the man who gives new meaning to the term, ‘The envelope please…’ DAVID LETTERMAN!!!!!”-Alan Kalter.
I thought it was brilliant when he interviewed the Taxi Drivers and used them to remind the people in the audience not to take themselves too seriously and keep them grounded. I'm sure they hated it at the time, but fuck em'.
After hearing so many terrible things about this show, I had to come and find it, and it’s great. I don’t know what they were complaining about twenty years ago.
That Ebert joke was great actually. Dave did a fine job, certainly much better than most of the corporate suckups who host. The Taxi Driver bit wasn’t that hilarious but just that Dave would include some actual regular blue collar folks in the show says a lot about him, he wasn’t an out-of-touch showbiz elitist type.
This was before we were so hooked up with the internet.I saw this show and I had the time of my life.I didn't understand the next day he got attacked for his hosting gig.
Never saw this before---don't usually watch the Oscars---but have heard about it, and that Letterman bombed, etc... This is very funny, in my view, not sure why it has the bad rap.
@@soccerscoutsbdtm9164 The entire monologue was funny. Not just the jokes, but Dave's cadence and timing was perfect. A lesser host could have screwed these jokes up with poor comic timing and being off cadence. Plus, Dave throws in his own personality. It's basically an extended version one of his late night monologues.
I've read many stories saying Dave was a terrible Oscars host. I'm not sure i get why, this is a great clip. Perhaps the Uma Oprah thing went on a bit long, but other than that, this is classic Dave.
Wow it's been 24 years. We were all using Windows 3.1 and 14,400 baud modems waiting for boxes of Windows 95 diskettes and Ram Doubler to arrive at CompUSA.
Wish he had hosted a couple of times... I feel like he was ahead of his time here, nowadays I perceive that many hosts do it similarly but in their own way, joking about the celebrities. The funniest parts to me was the Arnold joke and the Jack Nicholson impression.
I hate when people criticize a comedian whose humor they don't quite understand yet. Only they can know how the joke should have been told. The only thing a comedian needs is confidence. You can't teach someone to be funny.
Dave's biggest targets were always people who took themselves too seriously or those who put on airs, which was and is pretty much everyone in Hollywood. They didn't take very well to Dave pretty much making fun of them all and the nature of an awards show. I remember watching it and finding it hilarious. Best moment was Dave pulling Tom Hanks from the audience and making him help with " Stupid Pet Tricks".
I see your point, but I wouldn't say that due to one cut away after a fat joke about Roger Ebert. Hanks looked like he was trying not to laugh and did look stiff, but I wouldn't read that much into that reaction. One thing that jumped out at me was how much people said that "Jack Nicholson impression" joke didn't go over well. It KILLED in the room.
I'd been searching awhile for just one part of this monolog--my personal favorite from memory--that being "Eat Drink Man Woman" was "coincidentally how Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Maria Shriver out on their first date". Still as funny today as when I first saw it nearly 30 yrs ago. Maria looked like she got a good laugh out of the joke; Arnold not so much. The NYC taxi routine has worn well over the yrs too.
every host in Oscars modern history has gotten bad reviews - I died laughing during the MacFarlane telecast and I think the critics were mental tearing that one apart. I actually giggled a few times during this one.
Funny now we've seen Host go this route i look at Dave as The Pioneer that showed its more than one way to host this awards everything cant be PC ..Dave Badass to me Loved him for years
The only reason why everyone has the opinion that it was terrible is because Dave said he did terribly so much he made people believe in it. If you all know Dave from his late night, he is humble to the point of downtrodden.... he did great... chris rock actually watched this monologue to prepare for his and he was like uhh, that was funny, whats the problem?
This is one that Jay Leno doesn't have. Anything Leno reasons why he didn't host it or he turned it down, it doesn't change that he didn't host the Oscars. Letterman > Leno for me.
Letterman was actually one of the best hosts of the 90's. Only Billy Crystal was better. He was unfairly panned. Some credit his "bad" hosting performance for his ultimate decline in the Late Night ratings.
