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Staff Favorite Moments: Writer James Downey, Part 2 | Letterman

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The "Late Night" head writer looks back at John Candy vs. wasps, Bob Rooney Day, the giant doorknob and much more.
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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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@dirgus 11 месяцев назад

Even if Jim's only credit was writing for Weekend Update with Norm Macdonald, he'd still be a comedy legend. The list of his credits and his overall contribution to comedy is staggering.

@dashfatbastard Год назад

Somebody ought to write a book about guys like Downey Mulligan and all the guys who fueled that era of comedy, but lived as unsung heroes.

@kstepko Год назад

That fake moustache on Dave as the Evil Imposter Dad. 😂

@cisium1184 Год назад

The funniest part of that is that, for some reason, the real parents are still tied up.

@skonenblades Год назад

I'm just realizing that he was the "I award you no points. And may God have mercy on your soul." guy from Billy Madison. Amazing delivery.

@BillyCobbOfficial 10 месяцев назад

The giant doorknob bit was brilliant

@rockturtleneck Год назад

"It's just plain big" was a catchphrase among my high school friends back in the Giant Doorknob era.

@long-shotlouie 10 месяцев назад

"I was the voice of the Martin van Buren animatron" is right up there with my favourite English sentences.

@rockturtleneck Год назад

It's hard to convey now the fear and uncertainty of life in the 1980s during the Giant Doorknob Cold War.

@plaws0 Год назад

Once Bush and Gorbachev signed the DNP treaty (Doorknob Non-Proliferation) things sort-of settled down.

@dondevice8182 11 месяцев назад

Yes, today we only have a Cold War run by giant knobs.

@paulhammons7077 11 месяцев назад

Life was hell. They just got bigger 😳 13:27

@user-yn4ww1yy2v 10 месяцев назад

😂Indeed. Oh, the humanity!😫. 😂‼️

@benmaurer8055 6 месяцев назад

@@dondevice8182hilarious but sadly true

@rjonzun5828 Год назад

My first memory of seeing Late Night was the Bob Rooney Day episode. I was immediately hooked and became a lifelong fan.

@FloydMaxwell 4 дня назад

Nobody revisits a joke like Dave. Best ever at it.

@dashfatbastard Год назад

Damn, I miss Downey's stuff. Letterman and Lorne Micheals owe him so much, and so do we.

@gersonkphone Год назад

The Giant Doorknob played a key role in Avengers no 239, but much to Disney's shame, hasn't showed up in the MCU yet.

@dashfatbastard Год назад

Incredible. It was a golden age.

@CamMacMastermusic Год назад

Some deep thoughts here. 😂James deserves way more accolades then he gets. And John Candy was so amazing!

@patrickthomas8890 Год назад

Deep Thoughts was Jack Handey

@squinkque 11 месяцев назад

Every time John Candy was on - he was on. Comedy gold.

@mmmtsp Год назад

my favorite James Downey moment, is the Billy Madison "may God have mercy on your soul" speech.

@gregorio87 10 месяцев назад

Oh man, that was brilliant and perfectly executed

@arobsz Год назад

Jim is a national comedy treasure

@plaws0 Год назад

Isn't he? And he never broke under intense interrogation by Dave.

@wyskass861 Год назад

I've learned to know and appreciate Downey from Norm's stories of their days working together.

@moscheto 10 месяцев назад

The insistence on the doorknob joke is beautiful!

@brucelee4996 Год назад

Watch this in the morning - it will start your day off...right. 😊

@wyskass861 Год назад

I could listen to Jim tell stories from his career all day.

@mrchopsticks3 11 месяцев назад

Late Night was like a public access show that somehow was being broadcast on national television.

@jonseals Год назад

I just love Jim's giggle. :D

@TheJuniorMints Год назад

It’s so awesome to see this again, thanks Jim!!

@janjohansenmusic Год назад

I loved Late Night with David Letterman! He had a big heart and was really funny! I saw the show live in New York 2005 with musical act Garbage. I even bought a sandwich from Rupert Jee!

@MTVCOPS Год назад

That was Late Show

@madnessbydesign1415 11 месяцев назад

Letterman AND Garbage?!? That's amazing. Top tier talent! :)

@markjones952 Год назад

The Martin Van Buren doll is creepy as hell.

@ertertwert1 Год назад

Don't be frightened.

@SeanAllocca Год назад

If they don't make this a monthly segment Jim, I see it as a wasted opportunity on their part.

@senselessbabble1996 Год назад

I remember the Giant Doorknob making an appearance in The Avengers comic book from Marvel. --- Maybe someday it will appear in an MCU film? Now THAT would make for an awesome Easter egg!

@LeeKav 16 часов назад

"Have you ever seen the world's largest humidor?" "No I haven't." "Any interest in that?" "None whatsoever." I died laughing at that when I saw that episode. As soon as he mentioned the world's largest humidor bit, that was the line I thought of. Nice to see Jim Downey enjoyed it as much as I did.

@ThymeKeeper Год назад

There's a giant doorknob collection available on Don GIller's channel. Just saying :).

@dongiller Год назад

One of my favorite comments to that collection: “I laughed before I even clicked on the video because I saw that it was over an hour long.”

@ruthecker399 Год назад

love dave long hair

@jimmy8x541 Год назад

THANK YOU so much for this I absolutely love Jim Downey

@mcsuibhne005 Год назад

Downey is held in awe by Norm . That's good enough for me.

@JeffReams 11 месяцев назад

John Candy made my childhood great. I sure do miss that funny guy.

@gnewman18 Год назад

The brilliance of this show…

@ErisRising 9 месяцев назад

Downey is a comedy writing legend whose work spans entire generations. He started off at SNL sharing an office with Bill Murray, went on to work with David Letterman, returned to SNL where he was eventually fired when Don Ohlmeyer took exception to his jokes about Ohlmeyer's friend OJ Simpson, worked for Conan O'Brien, and then returned to SNL where he was responsible for every political sketch you probably remember from 2000 onwards.

@cs5845 Год назад

Another Downey one, keep it up!

@sirgilmour Год назад

I want Jim Downey to have hundreds of compilations on this channel, love his introductions

@cameronwilliams6439 Год назад

Dave’s haircuts with the ongoing doorknob bit defy both space and time.

@dwaynesbadchemicals Год назад

Bob Rooney’s wishes are similar to mine.

@alexanderross2786 11 месяцев назад

I remember the giant doorknobs! Didn't it become a long running thing wit more & more elaborate doorknobs?

@usaturnuranus Год назад

I'll never forget the month I spent helping dad dig up mom's flower garden so we could build our giant doorknob civil defense shelter. Sure, some of the neighbors made fun of us, but I feel confident that if things had taken a turn for the worst, those folks would have been the first ones to grab our knobs and give them a firm pull.

@treborretsnom6186 11 месяцев назад

Downey is a legend 🔥

@mjgoodson Год назад

Great compilation!

@o.b.7217 Год назад

Ah, so that's where the acronym "MAD" stems from: "Mutual Assured Doorknobbing".

@jarrodf_ Год назад

Far out. That Van Buren bit's extremely tremendous

@andymassingham Год назад

I remember Bob Hope did a promo for Bob Rooney Day. Are we talking 1982? Feels like it was that long ago.

@dongiller Год назад

1983. I hear the complete show is on the RU-vids, including Hope’s promo.

@lylelaylin2912 Год назад

The best part was the captioning that made it Baboonie day

@protocoldroid7388 4 месяца назад

We need a giant doorknob these days.

@dannyburleigh1 Год назад

This is easily 2 times funnier NOW!!

@Drawson663 10 месяцев назад

These are golden with jim

@bernlin2000 Год назад

4:58 José, as it turns out, happens to be calling from the very place Sofia Vergara was born 😅 Barranquilla, Columbia

@Bill_Woo Год назад

I think I like this guy better than Jill! The opening here - yes! (A SMART show - I love this guy so phucking much!) And he was Head Writer at the start, when the show shined maybe the brightest and changed the world. And James Downey says he was LOVING it!! That's awesome to see and hear.

@austin5317 Год назад

It's just plain big!

@plaws0 Год назад

OK, so the post-credit scene with Mr Downey ... where is the Giant Doorknob now? Was it ever liberated from New Jersey? I do remember Bush and Gorbachev signing the DNP treaty ..

@zenseed75 Год назад

Love these clips.

@janetremsing6988 Год назад

🎉🎊🥳BOB's THE MAN!!!!!👍‼️

@mariyamwaniki Год назад

That was funny as hell

@GaryPhelpsII 11 месяцев назад

I didn’t know for a long time that James played the moderator at the end of Billy Madison (‘I award you no points, and May God have mercy on your soul’).

@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL 8 месяцев назад

"It's just plain big". I think Letterman used that again for something else besides the plainly big door knobs.

@Memo2Self Год назад

I actually think I was in that first audience with the Giant Doorknob! My only time there! (I think Barry Levinson was the guest, promoting "Diner.") Was that the same segment with the "Bag-O-Bees"?

@dongiller Год назад

The show you describe - Barry Levinson and the Bag O’Bees - occurred on May 11, 1982. The Giant Doorknob debuted a few weeks earlier, April 20, ‘82.

@Memo2Self Год назад

@@dongiller Well, then, I was CLOSE!

@YahWay. 10 месяцев назад

Who was the kid actor? Thanks so much on this show, especially the phone calls in. I've always saw a great show would be following up with these people. "Following Dave" a new podcast This kid is now 80. It would be great to hear about his life after this appearance. And how it changed his life, and Bob Rooney's

@YahWay. 10 месяцев назад

The rule of three Anything could be made funny. With the rule of three. Especially the running gag.

@djbloodshot 4 месяца назад

that guy calling for julio inglesias looks a lot like that chichi get the yayo guy from scarface

@MrBfg586 11 месяцев назад

The door knob joke was so random.

@mookiechillson 11 месяцев назад

This is all true. Tommy Tutone produced those cards in the 80’s.

@wyskass861 Год назад

There is too much lack of silliness in comedy these days. Everything is sensitive and important. It's come back around again.

@Felice_Enellen Год назад

I swear that kid is Matt Damon.

@pwk22 11 месяцев назад

I was born in 1955. I've said many times, "I'm old enough to remember when Letterman was funny."

@Kilmer5 10 месяцев назад

Still funny. Catch him on an episode of the Strike Force Five podcast and then listen to the five hosts - Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers & Jimmy Fallon - gush over his influence and continuing brilliance Dave remains the gold standard

@KaninTuzi 11 месяцев назад

16:29 Dave with the camel toe

@avlisk 11 месяцев назад

Who wrote these jokes?

@HubertofLiege 29 дней назад

Some giant doorknob

@kevinkingmaker7395 10 месяцев назад

This stuff might have been edgy back in the day but doesn't really land today.

@Trev0r98 10 месяцев назад

Giant doorknob bits: not funny.

@josephmartin8169 10 месяцев назад

Haha, actively untrue.

@tonyp.5985 Год назад

Dave always wore such awful, ill-fitting suits. Conan's wardrobe was a major improvement.

@Kilmer5 10 месяцев назад

And that's soooooooooooo important

@carlitaperezfeet 10 месяцев назад

Kind of ridiculous that this old man has to cuss during this look back. Very immature individual.

@asynchronicity 10 месяцев назад

You are a highly uncreative person, correct?

@darrellbarfz8666 Год назад

Unfortunately this guy only knows the least polished Letterman skits.

@kenhahn5544 10 месяцев назад

I just spent 17 minutes and didn't find even one second of it... Just dumb

@jimmymcgee6900 10 месяцев назад

None of this is funny. Must be nice to make inside jokes to your friends but doesn't work on anyone else. I think anyone who says it's funny or good is just lying