Jimmi Simpson is brilliant, but this is also maybe the best acting I've seen from Dave. He beautifully maintains and modulates the blend of confusion, amusement, annoyance, and fascination.
He is brilliantly hilarious as Liam McPoyle in It's Always Sunny. Since the first time I seen him play that character I couldn't wait to see where his talent and career would take him
@fAppIicationof SeIf His last segment was in November 2009 after the extortion attempt in October 2009, but yeah it looks like they dropped him at that point because of the awkwardness to some. The rehearsals are from a year later (December 2010) but were unaired.
@@laartwork That's exactly what I was thinking. The character and the actor are both very good, but not extremely original. Besides, Dave was often the butt of the joke on his show. Remember the Library Lady--she would TRASH him, right to his face. Brilliant.
It's beautiful....there's a whole arc. First Lyle thinks of Dave as a friend. Then, Lyle thinks of Dave as a dingus. Soon, Lyle thinks of Dave as an enemy. But finally, at long last, Lyle knows what Dave is to him... *his hero.*
Lyle--arguably the last, great original Late Night/Late Show character...next to Chris Elliott, the best running character in Dave-dom. Great upload...thanks, 'broheim!'...
This is the first time I've seen this character, and I can't stop watching him. I've never seen any guy do such a slinky femme character on Letterman.Flirting with him, then threatening him. What a piece of work!
Lyle is laugh out loud hilarious. A rare find of genuinely funny. And as I watch, Dave's interjections of "yeah", "ok", "right" perfectly accentuate the skit. As simple as his responses are they play off the oddity perfectly.
The brilliance of this character is that while weird and exaggerated, there's an element of him that we all can relate to. Just like "Stephon" and "The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party," we all have known a "Lyle the Intern."
Lyle was one of my favorite all time characters. I laugh every time I hear him say "I gotta get the truth out like they did in Iran." 49:42 Bahahahahah
Really enjoyed Jimmi Simpson playing Lyle. Thanks for pulling together his bits on the show. Don, do you do any work for the current Letterman youtube channel?
The channel hired me as a “consultant” when it launched in February 2022. I’m mostly given data assignments but have no role in the selection and editing of uploads. And thanks!
When I was watching these when it first aired as a kid, I believed Lyle was Letterman's actual intern and thought "how can an intern get away with stuff like this?"
When I first saw this I said 'over an hour? I'll watch a couple but I'm not going to waste over an hour watching this'. But then an hour and 6 minutes later I was screaming 'Noooo.... just give me 5 more minutes'. Thank you for this.
This is actually a feat of acting. To put on this sort of act as an unknown next to the greatest talk show host of all time... and never miss a beat? Crazy.
I always find myself coming back to this compilation just to watch Dave's reaction to most of this wildness. I swear it's the happiest I've ever seen Letterman. He's just having the time of his life
One of the best things about these is just watching Dave. You can tell he's genuinely tickled at everything Jimmi is doing. This is letterman's type of humor and he's having a freaking ball with all of this.
@@stephenstrang590 It kinda changes from the 80s to the 90s to the 00s. But in general, his appeal is zany, wacky bits and humor... early on he was pretty hostile with some of his guests, which won him some fans but cost him others. He also did more stunts (blowing shit up, jumping in huge bowls of cereal, dropping stuff off the NBC building, etc.)... he got more relaxed and chill as he got older, but always loved doing bits like these. The Lyle stuff is the direct descendant of the Chris Elliott stuff from the 80s.
Just searched it, and low and behold, Ben Schwartz was page on the Letterman show... and apparently wrote some jokes. So maybe... he had a part in the intern bit???
@@bilboswaggins4783 hate to break it to you bud, but they have been there since season 1, if you don't believe me look up Season 1 Episode 7 "Charlie Got Molested" air date september 13, 2005. What made u think his character didn't come in until season 6?
