The Kenny the Gardener Collection

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By request: Calvert DeForest as Larry "Bud" Melman as Kenny the Gardener ran for 15 shows over a period of 3 1/4 years, from December 3, 1984, until March 1, 1988. The rundown:
1. December 3, 1984: Introduction and first appearance
2. December 12, 1984: Paul expresses his reservations about the concept; then Appearance #2 with Marilu Henner
3. December 13, 1984: Dave says that Paul hates Kenny the Gardener, so he'll not return
4. December 20, 1984: Dave and Michael Keaton briefly discuss the fate of Kenny the Gardener
5. January 8, 1985: Appearance #3: "Wild Goose"
6. January 31, 1985: Appearance #4: "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day"
7. February 28, 1985: Appearance #5: "Games People Play"
8. May 23, 1985: Appearance #6 with Chris Elliott as Kenny's nephew Tad: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
9. July 24, 1985: Appearance #7: "Gentle on My Mind"
10. October 15, 1985: Appearance #8: "Smile"
11. October 29, 1985: Appearance #9: "Me and Mr. Jones"
12. July 9, 1986: Appearance #10: "Tune Hundred Years" with Laurie Diamond and Jasmine Lewis
13. October 13, 1986: Appearance #11: Calvert as Larry as Kenny as Donny the Pastry Chef: "Bali Ha'i"
14. July 15, 1987: Appearance #12: "Dream"
15. December 21, 1987: Appearance #13: "It's Wonderful"
16. January 13, 1988: Appearance #14: Calvert as Larry as Kenny as Roy Orbinson: "Sandman"
17. March 1, 1988: Appearance #15: Calvert as Larry as Kenny as Roy: "Blue Bayou"
Update: Clip #11 (October 29, 1985: Appearance #9) was taped April 3, 1985. So it should have been positioned between Clip #7 (February 28: Appearance #5) and Clip #8 (May 23: Appearance #6). Adjust your clocks accordingly.

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@craigfazekas3923 4 года назад

Don Giller- for assembling this one collection (amongst the many !) should earn you a Nobel Peace Prize, or a Congressional Medal of Honor.... 👊🤓

@dongiller 4 года назад

I’ll just take the cash. :) Thanks!!

@dreftymac9916 6 лет назад

"Suddenly the emptiness of my mundane life came crashing down on me like a sack of potting soil. [...] I was so overcome by a sense of hopelessness and despair, I was on the verge of taking my own life." -- HAA HAA!! COMEDY GOLD! >

@stephenclark6273 6 лет назад

The episode with Kenny dressed as Roy Orbison (starts about 1:10:00) is one of the funniest sight gags ever. Thanks for this wonderful stroll down memory lane.

@mellotronage7073 5 лет назад

Larry Bud Melman's ill-timed bursts of laughter just slay me. Every. Damn. Time.

@WKRPinCINN 2 года назад

For gods sake… never change. Don’t ever loose “that”

@MrRaretunes 5 лет назад

Kenny: "Goodnight everybody,drive home as fast as you can"

@chrishestand1 3 года назад

I wish I could have seen norm Macdonald revive Kenny the gardener just once. Dave, “I didn’t order any petunias.” Norm, “HAH?”

@jacktrppr1 7 лет назад

This is a hidden gem, so glad I stumbled across it. Booooiiiiinnnngggg

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

lol - i have to hangout with people who like kenny the gardener!

@ambientrelaxingandhealingm7552 4 года назад

WHAT?? :-)

@james9170 3 года назад

@@ambientrelaxingandhealingm7552 boioioonng!

@voicetube 3 года назад

@@james9170 okay, thank you James :-) (this is my other channel - Ambient Relaxing and Healing Music is my music channel).

@StumpyJoeTV 3 года назад

Don, thank you so much for these videos. I had many hours of classic Letterman on tape but they were destroyed in a fire. Your channel has brought me such joy! There will never be a late night host to rival Letterman. Thanks again!

@dongiller 3 года назад

Thanks, Marcus!!

@johndalton3180 4 года назад

I'd love to test Marilu Henner's freaky memory thing and ask her to describe this appearance.

@DHodges187 2 года назад

She was Delicious Back in the day.

@xanadu7lukas 5 лет назад

Calvert thanks for all the laughs good guy and funny as heck!!!!!!!!!

@Scalihoo 5 лет назад

Dave & the writers really pushed the envelope borderline exploitation of Calvert as a person, saw him hanging on a meat hook amongst sides of beef in a skit earlier today in which he looked very unhappy, also the road trip to South America in an RV he was not doing well & wanted to come home, he was an older gentleman. RIP Calvert

@xanadu7lukas 5 лет назад

@@Scalihoo It that skit on youtube??? thats over the line pushed the envelope to hard there an act or just mean??

@randyj420 2 года назад

Wonderful collection - I love how LBM can nail it with his singing - much harder than reading words off a card - singing melodies and songs he knows (or not) is among his actual talents. Connie Chung, in the house!

@jaytrace1006 4 года назад

Geez! I’d forgotten what a doll Marilu Henner was!

@percivalhowell7516 3 года назад

Very high i.q. too

@Football__Junkie 5 лет назад

Marilu Henner... what a babe

@pazuzuritter3987 3 года назад

I loved Calvert DeForest, he was awesome.

@TheRealLaughingGravy 6 лет назад

Paul: "I gotta hangout with people who like 'Kenny the Gardner?'"

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

lololol

@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods 4 года назад

Haha, Paul looked so baked. "You think I'm hanging with the wrong crowd?"

@johndalton3180 6 лет назад

This, to me, epitomizes what made the early years of the show so great. It's a pretty savage parody, in a way, of Johnny Carson's characters like Aunt Blabby, and also of Late Night's own character bits, including Larry Bud Melman! It takes on 1950s earnestness, with Kenny doing a PSA about dangers in the workplace, and Dave's disclaimer. And it incorporates elements of surrealism, with things like Kenny singing Me and Mrs Jones, and Tad, who takes it to a whole new level. Whoever conceived these sketches was brilliant. And got what the show was about more than Paul, Dave, and poor Marilu Henner, who seems to be shell shocked by the proceedings. I sort of wonder if anyone who wasn't alive in 1984/85 could possibly understand these sketches.

@CreamedCheesed 5 лет назад

John Dalton I could not have put it better myself. Please comment on more Late Night videos.

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

great stuff - don't over think it......bizarre, cheap to produce, with brilliant deadpan cast to play off of

@johndalton3180 4 года назад

@@zxccxz164 read Jason Zinoman's book on Letterman. This stuff was thought through.

@johndalton3180 4 года назад

@@CreamedCheesed wow that's a great compliment. Thank you.

@stephenstrang590 3 года назад

The writers for late night in the 80s were legendary.

@the8ctagon 2 года назад

30:35 Probably the most brilliant, painful mangling of Ricky, Don't Lose That Number ever.

@trust5977 6 лет назад

The one with Chris Elliot acting as Kenny’s nephew Ted from up North 27:55 is my favorite. One of my most vivid Late Night memories.

@75patrickfoley 2 года назад

Letterman walking off the set from shame and embarrassment when they were singing absolutely killed me.

@johndalton3180 4 года назад

"We introduced a new character on this show last week, and we received so little negative response that we're having him back." My God this show was utterly brilliant. We shan't see its like again.

@i.p.knightly149 4 года назад

So little negative response, that line killed me.

@finnsterling6514 2 года назад

You're 110% correct on all counts: it absolutely was and we certainly, unfortunately shan't. Humongous thanks to Don Giller for uploading all these videos to show everyone (who didn't already know) why David Letterman is an American icon.

@xanadu7lukas 5 лет назад

Larry Bud and Dave great together they really laughed the most ever

@michaeljudge5437 7 лет назад

Him singing "Gentle on my Mind" is simply immortal.

@mayormc 5 лет назад

Wow. I remember seeing alot of this when it first aired. Pure insanity and really good fun. Funny to see Paul just working his chops as sidekick. Sometimes I would set the timer on the VCR to catch the show.

@moxica93 4 года назад

Anytime I meet someone with a three-syllable last name, I say "Hiya! Hiya! Mr. Three-syllable-name!"

@JaredLewisMusic 7 лет назад

When Calvert sings "Gentle on my mind" it was truly beautiful ! That clip should have been played when he passed away. I was a bit disappointed by the clip selection when Mr. Deforest passed away. I suppose it was due to limited time and access to the NBC archives.

@peterw.5984 8 лет назад

comedy platinum

@donaldsmith7077 4 года назад

Calvert Larry Bud Melman Kenny the Gardener Donny the Pastry Chef DeForest. "What?" This has gotten even better with age. Funny stuff.

@toweypat 4 года назад

According to Wikipedia, Calvert DeForest really did have a day job that he was forced to give up because of working on "Late Night." And I'm really impressed with Paul Shaffer's singing in the last two clips!

@dongiller 4 года назад

Discussed in the Etiquette Collection here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LFvx7SPkVTM.html In the segment that begins at 2:09:00.

@AccurateCrabLegs 5 лет назад

Take a drink every time you hear the famous Kenny The Gardener "BOING!" sound.

@yosemitesaddam 7 лет назад

thank you so much for posting this

@KrazeeClark 7 лет назад

Mmmm....donuts.

@coreycaldwell322 5 лет назад

“13 cameras? MERCY!”

@DHodges187 2 года назад

Bravo by the way on your MOST excellent compilations.... My Wife never had a clue Dave used to be this good..... she's only heard me tell fables of lore.... of the glorious days of Late night TV.

@stephenstrang590 3 года назад

Be good to each other.

@cameramanzoomit 7 лет назад

Boy, that was great! Laughed a lot throughout.

@jrpipik 7 лет назад

Great stuff! They do that bit umpteen times and I don't think the sound mix once catches the first lines of Sid and Will singing their bit. And they seldom seem to get them on camera as they were singing. It's like it surprises the crew every time!

@fatandyboy6856 5 лет назад

Thanks again, your postings of these are really appreciated here! Today's comedy, some ok, but not like the last 2 segments as Roy Orbison as Kenny... I rarely laugh out loud anymore, this I couldn't hold back if it saved my life! Miss these days.

@dongiller 5 лет назад

Thanks! I always refer to those last two bits as "Calvert as Larry Bud as Kenny as Roy."

@fatandyboy6856 3 года назад

Masterpiece... that's all I can say.

@scottlarson8090 5 лет назад

A man the early Letterman. So rough and lo-fi and brilliant.

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

i lost interest when it became to 'big and broadway'

@stephenstrang590 3 года назад

@@zxccxz164 Thats the word ive been searching for. New York changed and with it all people in New York City.

@Jherman10001 5 лет назад

20:20 describes my usual weekend.

@lysippus 5 лет назад

I was going to ask if you had the 'gentle on my mind' bit, of course you never fail to disappoint. thanks, don

@Tobbetejj 5 лет назад

At 49:18 sweet Calvert DeForest is trying his drandest to do well. Thank you Don

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

i'd like to think dave walking off the stage during kenny the gardener ricky don't lose that number was spontaneous......as chris elliot joins in.......

@peterw.5984 7 месяцев назад

Love seeing them casually smoke cigars too. Dave seemed to be upset was it was comedy platinum

@80sEric 4 года назад

The stagehand receiving his tree at 1:08:36 looks like gruff, but lovable Gus- the forklift driver for the NBC Bookmobile sketches.

@gersonkphone 3 года назад

@19:23 "out on your own / making it work" - I'd bet that's a Jeff Martin lyric since it show's up again in one of his Simpsons eps, Lisa the Beauty Queen in the Litte Miss Springfield pageant as "Out on our own / making it work / gasping for air"

@blindriv3r 5 лет назад

LOL nobody has this complete lack of timing like Calvert, the best ever lol

@peterw.5984 7 месяцев назад

Good night everybody and be good to each other!!

@videonut28 6 лет назад

Excellent humor!

@JohnnyTyrone77 5 лет назад

Paul Schaefer's "Kenny the Gardner" opening song is cool!

@dongiller 5 лет назад

Shaffer; Paul Shaffer. :)

@mellotronage7073 5 лет назад

Workin' it out, havin' it all....

@JohnnyTyrone77 5 лет назад

@@mellotronage7073 "Lookout that gardner is back!"

@mellotronage7073 5 лет назад

@@JohnnyTyrone77 I've just completed watching that whole collection. Takes me right back to the mid-80s. We really didn't know how good we had it back then. We'd always assumed it would continue to be so good... Just great stuff with Calvert DeForest, Chris Elliott. Even watching now, I still remember the band members' names !!

@JohnnyTyrone77 5 лет назад

@@mellotronage7073 Classic days of late night with Dave! At one point i had seen almost 70-80 percent of his NBC shows. Chris Elliot was cool too!

@briandelaney9710 2 месяца назад

“You can fertilize plants but you can’t water your heart ! “

@charlesbush7822 3 дня назад

omg. this is the first time I ever saw anyone on Dave's left side.

@MayorMcCheeseStalker 3 года назад

51:18 --- The song selection for "Tune Hundred Years" is a brilliant parody of such medleys. It goes straight from 1848's "Oh! Susanna" to the rock era with nothing in between! (Also nothing prior to "Oh! Susanna.") And the song chosen to represent American rock from the '60s was written and recorded in England . . . by a British band. Inspired satire.

@charlesbush7822 3 дня назад

it will grow on you.

@wackyworldnews 7 лет назад

wow!!!!!!!!! love when he screws up the cue cards and letterman is almost dying not to laugh and how letterman reacts to how bad the sketch is with chris elliott and appears to leave stage upset after its done.

@toweypat 4 года назад

That's freaking hilarious! Dave walked out on the sketch.

@seththomas9105 4 года назад

Marilu Henner looked absolutely lost, my God I forgot just how insane and great this show was. PS Marilu was a FOX!

@james9170 3 года назад

Hiya hiya hiya!

@kma5699 7 лет назад

Also during the Kenny theme song after Paul sings "You can fertilize plants but you can't water your heart" ( which is dumb I prefered Bud Melman's version where he sings "When he wheels out his cart he'll steal your heart") then I'm assuming it is Sid McGinnis and Will Lee or Anton Fig singing stuff but it bleeds with what Paul is saying. All I can hear are the last two lines "working it out, and having a ball" What do they say before that?

@scott6443 7 лет назад

k ma Out on your own Making it work

@richardvilseck Год назад

21:35 Obviously in the times before the internet and ebay, when you “couldn’t make a dime” off of an image of Elvis in a grilled cheese sandwich.

@toweypat 4 года назад

Whoa--the chairs, they're on the other side!

@dongiller 4 года назад

An experiment that lasted for around 10 shows.

@VillemarMxO Год назад

日本のテレビでケニー・ザ・ガーデナーのエピソードを全部見たい！

@DHodges187 2 года назад

Looks like I found the inspiration for several Fez Marie Whatley Characters....

@Kubakaiser 5 лет назад

6:55 that's one of the pretties women I've seen.

@jimsullivan2813 29 дней назад

Kenny the Gardner looks like MN gov Timmy Walz at Farmfest!

@Stonehopper1067HMG 3 года назад

32:54 that's what Connie Chung did the Maury Povich that year.

@divingduck1970 7 лет назад

OMG, over an hour of LBM as LTG! LOL PDQ!

@james9170 3 года назад

What?

@tertommy 4 года назад

I don't think Marilu Henner even remotely gets it. 10:51

@toweypat 4 года назад

I'm not sure I get it, either :D

@swrennie 4 года назад

So long ago, the chairs were on Dave's left!

@dongiller 4 года назад

For just a few shows. As a failed experiment.

@nedwart 8 лет назад

Any particular reason that the desk and chairs were swapped in the first clip?

@dongiller 8 лет назад

For six shows, from November 28 to December 6, 1984, the guest chairs were positioned to Dave's left. Why, I have no idea.

@scrim67 6 лет назад

Barbara Streisand related? Did she appear around that time on his show?

@johndalton3180 6 лет назад

scrim67 no, she was never on the NBC show, and I think only did a cameo on the CBS show.

@hiimbrady 6 лет назад

Kenny the GAAAAAHDNAH!

@antlerking69 Год назад

Becker and Fagen better watch out 😂

@kma5699 7 лет назад

Why does Letterman seem genuinely pissed at having to do the segment? It isn't part of the act like the fake animosity between Letterman and Chris Elliot in the Guy under the seats sketches? The Kenny sketches were very popular but you see Dave rolling his eyes and genuinely displeased. Even after a few episodes it seems like he was the one to initiate the planned disclaimer that he would read before Bud Melman would do his bit. That ruined the continuity and to me it seemed Dave was hoping to sabotage the segment. Also why was Paul Shaffer against the Kenny the Gardener segment? I liked the first episode with Bud melman singing the intro NOT schaffer.

@khenpaulw311 5 лет назад

I get the impression that Dave was more displeased with Calvert's performance of the character than with the bit itself. I think Calvert took a few liberties here and there and departed from the script, or just outright flubbed it up. But why Dave would allow the bit to go on if he wasn't feeling it is beyond me. Was the show really that sensitive to the audience's reactions? You can really sense a nervous tension between the two of them though. Dave was always really hard on Calvert.

@DT14Real 5 лет назад

I read the book letterman, it says that that is a part of david’s persona on tv like he doesn’t want to be there or to do a bit. That’s why late night was well loved because its an anti talk show and the host doesn’t want to be there

@zxccxz164 5 лет назад

it is the rolling eyes that make it funny.....the jokes aren't funny.....it is the reaction that is funny....like wtf .....i can't believe we are getting away with this crap

@untexan 3 года назад

I think Dave at least expected the bits to go off professionally and Calvert/Larry was the least professional person on the whole show. But that also made him the funniest, which is why he kept coming back over and over again.

@chrishestand1 3 года назад

I think that’s what made this entire show so funny. He kept the bit about being a host that didn’t want to be there, but early on I’m pretty sure it was real. Dave’s body language and reactions give it away. He knows it’s not funny, and he hadn’t yet realized how funny something that isn’t funny could be. His reactions suggested that he was thinking, “any second now the viewers are going to catch onto how bad this show is, and then we’re in trouble.” I think this worked so well not because it was perfect comedy, but because it was almost a middle finger to the very concept of entertainment. A silly old man in overalls that sings and says “what?” Somehow it was one of the most subversive things this show ever did, and it contributed in no small part to the pioneer status of this show. In short, Kenny the gardener is punk rock.

@kma5699 7 лет назад

Who was the blonde dancer from the Tune Hundred Years sketch at around the 53:00 mark. For 1986 she was smoking hot.

@dongiller 7 лет назад

Answer in my notes below the video. Jasmine Lewis.

@qthelost 5 лет назад

@@dongiller Sorry for commenting one year later but I just discovered your brilliant channel. Thanks for putting the names of the dancers because I knew I recognized the other one on the left (on Kenny's right) Laurie Diamond. Wasn't she Dave's personal assistant he later called Rose?

@dongiller 5 лет назад

@@qthelost Thanks! Yes, that's Laurie, as ID'd in the description.

@qthelost 3 года назад

I guess Dave couldn't stand Kenny butchering Steely Dan so he just walked off. 31:10

@7beers 5 лет назад

8:45 LOL!

@royalsfan 4 года назад

I don't mind hearing "Song For My Father" at 31:30

@DHodges187 2 года назад

We need a Susan Mitchell right about now.

@petercipriani3307 7 лет назад

Who is singing for "Donny the Pastry Chef?"

@dongiller 7 лет назад

That's Will Lee, with Sid Mcginnis.

@petercipriani3307 7 лет назад

Thanks!

@evanshumeyko 5 лет назад

I had the same question this morning. Amazing!

@bluestate69 7 лет назад

but they missed a golden opportunity when introducing Kenny to Marilu Henner. it should have gone, "kenny the gardener, this is Mary Lou Henner", then had the "bowererereer" sound effect.

@dreftymac9916 6 лет назад

> < HAA HAA! This is funnier than the whole video! :-D

@williamkirby1940 5 лет назад

is the video tape reversed? Dave's desk is always on the stage right

@dongiller 5 лет назад

It’s not reversed. For a couple weeks in the Fall of 1984, the guest chairs were moved to the other side of Dave’s desk. Then they were returned to their original position.

@williamkirby1940 5 лет назад

@@dongiller okay, thanks for the info!

@JohnnyTyrone77 4 года назад

It was a Dave gag...He took time to point it out and mark the moment by reversing the picture 5min after the show began...He even had t-shirts made!

@fredmossberg2069 7 месяцев назад

LOL!!!!!!!!!

@docthemetalfreak 7 лет назад

i would bet about anything that Stone Cold Steve Austin took the "what" catchphrase from Kenny The Gardener lol

@brooke8567 2 месяца назад

Uhhh I don't think so. This was 40 years ago

@psadelachute363 2 года назад

Dave NEVER had guests sitting to his LEFT !!!!! Why did you flip the image ??? To avoid copyright infringement LAWSUIT perhaps ???

@dongiller 2 года назад

I flipped nothing. The guest-on-the-left was a week-long experiment on the show. Which Dave explicitly stated when it started.

@dongiller 2 года назад

Also, if I had flipped the video, then EVERYTHING would have been flipped, including the sign on the stage. Of course, anyone with half a brain would have realized that before jumping to baseless conclusions.

@brooke8567 2 месяца назад

Moron