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Post by Radius Claus on May 20, 2015 23:25:23 GMT -5
What are your favorite memories of Letterman? I wasn't a fan until I got in to my twenties but I grew to love the show. I think that his music bookers, along with Conan's folks when he had late night, were the best in television.
I'm sure Colbert's folks will do a great job with music too.
You weren't allowed TVs at my boarding school unless you were an RA, but I had one of those crappy little lantern/TV/radio combos that nobody noticed. It picked up exactly three stations from Bumblefuck NH - CBS, PBS, and Telemundo. I spent so many nights watching Dave on that dinky thing after lights out. Lots of love for the show.
It's a young man's game now, and he seems tired keeping up with it. Not so bad when you're up against Leno or Carson, but late-night is run by 40-somethings these days - Kimmel and Fallon and Meyers and those guys. Even Conan and Colbert are a good 15-20 years Dave's junior. I'll still miss him, though.
You weren't allowed TVs at my boarding school unless you were an RA, but I had one of those crappy little lantern/TV/radio combos that nobody noticed. It picked up exactly three stations from Bumblefuck NH - CBS, PBS, and Telemundo. I spent so many nights watching Dave on that dinky thing after lights out. Lots of love for the show.
It's a young man's game now, and he seems tired keeping up with it. Not so bad when you're up against Leno or Carson, but late-night is run by 40-somethings these days - Kimmel and Fallon and Meyers and those guys. Even Conan and Colbert are a good 15-20 years Dave's junior. I'll still miss him, though.
CBS?!?!? Why, when I was your age we used to watch him on NBC...
Late Night with Letterman was the first place I saw what I consider offbeat or weird comedy. Comedy that was funny not because there was some clever pun, but because it didn't make any sense at all. Seems like a small thing but this was a huge part of my development as a human being: weirdness.
The specific joke I remember very clearly. Anyone remember Frozen Pea Man? It was a bit where Dave would pause and smell the air, and say to Paul something along the lines of "Hey Paul, do you smell that? Smells like frozen peas." and then a guy dressed like a big frozen pea would run into the audience with a basket full of frozen peas and just pelt the crowd with frozen peas while everyone went crazy.
It didn't make any sense. Frozen peas don't have a smell. But up until that point in my life it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.
It was Conan that got me through my most formative years of comedy, but it definitely started with Letterman and later SNL in the 90s.
Let me tell you, nothing has ever made me feel quite as old as watching the finale of a talk show that lasted for 33 years and realizing that I was a fan of the host BEFORE that run started. I first became a fan of Dave when he guest hosted for Johnny Carson regularly in about 1979 when I was 13.
I was in college from 1984 to 1988 and that pretty much coincided with the height of his creativity on Late Night. We watched almost every night and you never knew what you were going to see. Even in the later years, when the show had settled into more of a routine, he was still the best.
The great bits from Late Night are endless but here are two of my favorites.
