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From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Subject: Re: Letterman ... working????
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:34:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.073128.18648@u.washington.edu>,
tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:
> In article <Bx79rs.sp@DMI.USherb.CA> paien00@DMI.USherb.CA (Nick)
> writes:
> >
> >	I hould like to know how many days is Letterman working?
> >        Because 1 show out of 2 is a rerun... 
> 
> The basic pattern as I've noticed it is:
> 
> 1. All Mondays are reruns.
> 2. For two weeks Tuesday thru Friday are new shows.
> 3. For one week Tuesday thru Friday are reruns.
> 4. Repeat.

But has anybody noticed that friday shows are taped on thursdays (or
even earlier)????

The friday before yesterday he wasn't sure whether there will be
a show the day after. Had the show been taped on Friday he would
have known. Then yesterday (friday) he repeteadly said "IN THE
SHOW, today is friday" or something to that point. And then he
made a joke about Al Gore falling into the crowd "eralier today".
That was on wednesday or thursday...

I don't know whether this is true for all friday shows, but I can
bet that the last two ones were not taped on friday.


Alex

-- 
Alex Lopez-Ortiz                              alopez-o@maytag.UWaterloo.ca
Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
From: mark.stevens@spacebbs.com (Mark Stevens) 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Letterman-NBC pact extend
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:39:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: mark.stevens@spacebbs.com (Mark Stevens) 


To: mmb@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Michael Burger)

MB>Today, according to Associated Press, David Letterman and NBC have extended
MB>their pact for:
MB>A WHOLE THREE MORE MONTHS!   The new contract runs until June.  Talk about
MB>committment.

The three months extension wasn't the news of the contract.  The
contract permits Dave to openly negotiate with the other networks
and syndicators.  GE gets the right to match any offer Dave recieves.
So both sides get something out of the deal.  NBC would have to
match the money and time slot Dave would get.  Dave want's an 11:30
network time slot.  So for NBC to match the offer they would have
to chuck Jay Leno.
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 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #42 . 
                                                                               
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From: acid+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Colby)
Subject: Re: Connie Chung on last night's show
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:24:52 GMT

In article <1dtk5kINNhn5@lester.appstate.edu> MIXTERHP@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (H. Perry Mixter) writes:
>Actually, I thought Dave and Connie really didn't hit it off this time.  She, 
>like all the other guests of late, made a pitch for Dave to leave NBC.  He is 
>clearly tiring of this when EVERY guest thinks this is funny.
>
>Dave made light of "Maury", and the audience even grew restless to the point of 
>booing during parts of the interview.
>
>The whole thing got off to a wrong start when Connie went overboard on hugging 
>Dave when she came out, and he whined about his "neck injury."
>
>Wierd.

God, I'm tired of people blatantly misreading what's going on during the
show.  Look, (1) Connie doesn't think it's *funny* to talk about Dave
moving to CBS; (2) the audience was having fun, not getting *restless*; (3)
there was nothing *wrong* with what happened at the beginning -- Dave's a
professional and can handle such jovial displays (e.g., his neck injury
comment was just a simple joke to establish superiority in the interview,
the kind of thing that goes on in almost every interview on the show).

There was nothing weird about the interview, and I'm sick of people
condescending to place Dave and his guests in some kind of bizarre personal
psychological fantasy world.

Yeah, yeah, I know; I don't have to read the group.

-chris
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From: mfleming@mta.ca (Michael Fleming)
Subject: Re: Remember (part II) ...
Reply-To: mfleming@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:39:30 GMT

In article <1d863oINNogb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:

>I remember one VERY early version of this "comparison" bit; it was on a
>"viewer mail" letter (as most of them were) asking whether one should shave
>upward or downward.  They ran a test: shaving up produced normal results,
>and shaving down produced a spurting fountain of blood from the neck.
>Except that the tester was not Chris Elliot, but . . . ARGH I can't
>remember his name!  One of the stagehand-type people, large white man with
>black hair, not Al Mahr.

Was it Gerrard Mulligan?  I know that he and Chris often appeared on segments
together, so it may have been him.  Just a guess on my part.

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From: mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman)
Subject: Re: Dave at 11:30 - Why?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:26:37 GMT

If I remember correctly, back at home, Arcineeeo (loozer) wason at 11:00,
but here Florida, he's on at 11:30...huh? Make sence?a (home = calif)
--
 Marshal Perlman <> Florida Institute of Technology <> (407) 768-8000 x 8435
                 Private Pilot - Airplane Single-Engine Land
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letterman ... working????
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:31:28 GMT
Organization: clearer than blir

In article <Bx79rs.sp@DMI.USherb.CA> paien00@DMI.USherb.CA (Nick) writes:
>
>	I hould like to know how many days is Letterman working?
>        Because 1 show out of 2 is a rerun... 

The basic pattern as I've noticed it is:

1. All Mondays are reruns.
2. For two weeks Tuesday thru Friday are new shows.
3. For one week Tuesday thru Friday are reruns.
4. Repeat.

This mostly works but sometimes it seems that he's gone longer than
two weeks. But I don't remember a new group of shows going more than
two weeks straight. Right now he's into the first week of new shows,
but Tuesday was also a rerun due to the election I presume.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
               CompuServe:  70402,3020
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From: mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman)
Subject: Re: Connie Chung on last night's show
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:23:12 GMT

rosch@cpdw.enet.dec.com (Ray Rosch) writes:

>The fact that Dave is interviewed, written-up and discussed concerning his
>unhappiness with NBC is an obvious ploy to gain leverage - he's teasing NBC
>like he teases the audience.  You should realize that Dave has considerable
>control about what he'll talk about on the show - not to the extent Carson
>required on the Tonight Show - but enough for him to always be comfortable.

Except Howard Stern...howard is just wacko! But him and dave are buddies. 
(I"ve seen the two of them together at an angel game)
--
 Marshal Perlman <> Florida Institute of Technology <> (407) 768-8000 x 8435
                 Private Pilot - Airplane Single-Engine Land

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From: christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher)
Subject: Sam Donaldson's top 5 reasons why David Letterman should move to ABC
Reply-To: christo@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:59:24 GMT

                      Sam Donaldson's top 5 reasons
                  why David Letterman should move to ABC
          (Aired on "Late Night with David Letterman", Nov 4/92)

     [[Sam Donaldson was Dave's first guest, and referred to the
     three month contract extension Dave signed with NBC that also
     gives him the right to look around.]]

     5.  Double dates with Doogie Howser.
     4.  Three words: No Bryant Gumbel.
     3.  The weasels at ABC are better than the weasels at NBC.
     2.  It's the only network that Dan Quayle can spell.
     1.  You wouldn't have the funniest haircut at ABC.

     (c) Copyright 1992 by Sam Donaldson

  ----------
  "With Dan Quayle, you get what you see.  It is not a carefully
  constructed facade meant to conceal a steel trap mind."
                                -- Sam Donaldson, November 4/92, on
                                   "Late Night with David Letterman"


-- 
Mark Christopher        Bell-Northern Research          christo@bnr.ca
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From: st1p8@rosie.uh.edu (Kemp, Paul)
Subject: Top Ten List for 11-5-92!!!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: I missed 11-6-92! :( 
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:45:00 GMT

                 Top Ten Mistake's in President Bush's
                     Re-Election Campaign Strategy
                            November 5, 1992

        10. Ill-advised speech at every campaign stop entitled
            "Screw You and Your Miserable Little Lives"
         9. Trying to show sensitivity by open-mouth kissing
            Bob Dole
         8. Fitzwater in a miniskirt
         7. Turned off many potential voters with his naked
            interpretive dance to "Baby Ima Want You" [?]
         6. Scheduled Desert Storm a year too early
         5. The vomiting was funny the first time, but at the
            end of every rally, no, we got sick of it
         4. Barbara refusing to show a little more leg
         3. During final train tour, shouldn't have kept taking
            leak of back of caboose
         2. Senseless negative ads showing Dukakis shoplifting
         1. Dan Quayle is no Stockdale


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From: pinto@rbdc.wsnc.org (Mike Pinto)
Subject: Sam Donaldson's top 5 list?
Organization: Red Barn Data Center Public Access Unix, Winston-Salem, NC.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:04:59 GMT


   Did anybody catch Sam Donaldson's list of reasons why Dave should go to
ABC? They were pretty funny... Maybe someone would post them here since I
didn't bother to write them down or anything (didn't tape that show..)

-- 
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Mike Pinto                  
pinto@rbdc.wsnc.org         
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From: peb2g@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Penny E. Breyer)
Subject: C Students at Ball State
Keywords: scholarship, Dave, C students
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:13:10 GMT


I think Dave sponsored a scholarship for C students, not   
funding for a building on campus or whatever.  I also
heard that the scholarship was only proposed - our
beloved hero apparently forgot about the needs of
average students at his alma mater!

Penny Breyer
EMAIL: peb2g@virginia.edu
From: slgsn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Is Paul a dork? Naw!
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:57:43 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

"Hey, Dave don't you think that Paul is the biggest dork in the whole world?"
"Well, my good friend, if you mean 'dork, in the nicest, most sensative way,
than, yes , Paul is the biggest dork in the whole world."

-Letterman  '91
    




         %!!$C
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From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: Sam Donaldson is a scream
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:54:40 GMT

lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen) writes:

>I wonder about these 'ole newscasters.  I think Letterman would actually
>be a great newscaster, dontchya' think?

Ummm... You say this knowing he used to be a weatherman in Indianapolis,
right??

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"
From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Please post 10-30-92 TTL
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:15:35 GMT
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

On Wed  4-Nov-1992  2:14p, Bob wrote:

B> bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple) writes:
B> | Because, when I played back the tape which was SUPPOSED to be David
B> | Letterman, there say[was?] the moron of the century, Jay Leno.

(I meant "sat", not "say".. oops)

B>   Does anyone in America watch this moron?

Apparently so.  I certainly don't.

B>   Don't you just hate Jay Leno?  I do.

He should be neudered along with the guy on the Burger King commercials!

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From: niceswangern@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: World's Most Dangerous Band  (Was Re: Letterman & Tonight Show)
Date: 8 Nov 92 11:10:45 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <1992Nov7.233436.29556@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>, tiverson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thor Iverson) writes:
> In article <1992Nov7.200356.16658@samba.oit.unc.edu> Edgar.Estrada@launchpad.unc.edu (Edgar Estrada) writes:
>>I like Leno but I wish he would get a new band. I can't seem to get into
>>it. To me, it looks like x number of friends getting together for a jam but
>>not like a band that fits together.
> 
> I have to disagree...
> 
> The Tonight Show Band is by far the best _stand alone_ band on
> television (yes, even better than "The Heights"...).  Dave's
> band (I refuse to type TWMDB) is the best at.............
                         ^^^^^

	If I remember right, didn't Paul decide to drop the "The" from "The 
World's Most Dangerous Band"?  This was because Edie Brickell & New 
Bohemians were on one night and Dave kept calling them THE New Bohemians, 
and was later corrected.  Then the next night (I think) Paul came on & 
announced that they were dropping their own 'The' from their band name.
Personally, I like World's Most Dangerous Band better than the old name.

				   Send Cash,
				   Nate
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From: mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman)
Subject: Re: Dave on NBC News
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:55:31 GMT

sarty@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Jay A. DeSart) writes:

>In article <1992Nov7.023609.11288@csusac.csus.edu> cs17530@gaia.ecs.csus.edu () writes:
>>Hey, fans!  
>>
>>	Did you all see Dave on NBC Nightly News for Friday, November
>>6th?  It was great.  He was in a uniform (like a pilot's) and talked
>>about how Daylight Savings Time should be optional!  He even made a
>>remark about "Good Luck"  to Tom.  
>>

>Yes!  I was trying to figure out what he was doing wearing that uniform.
>Not that he really needed a reason, though.  I haven't seen LNWDL since.
>Has there been any mention of it?

>"For you it would be, say, 3:00 and for me it would be 2:00 and that would
>be all right."

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>Jay A. DeSart                           "I speak. . .not with any sense of
>Dept of Political Science            futility, but with a panicky conviction
>Bolton 617a  UW-Milwaukee            of the absolute meaninglessness of
>(414) 229-4484                       existence which could easily be
>				     misinterpreted as pessimism."
>                                                             Woody Allen

>. . . And several butcher's aprons.

an i get a copy of that tape (if you have it)
--
 Marshal Perlman <> Florida Institute of Technology <> (407) 768-8000 x 8435
                 Private Pilot - Airplane Single-Engine Land

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From: mdward01@nx08.mik.uky.edu (michael d ward)
Subject: Top Ten Lists
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx08.mik.uky.edu!mdward01
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:16:46 GMT

Where are all the recent top ten lists???  Keep em coming if someone could please!!

Michael
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From: c162-db@po.berkeley.edu (Jon Kung)
Subject: Re: Larry Bud
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:19:34 GMT

selent@fraser.sfu.ca (Frank S.) writes:
>
>I was watching CBS Saturday morning and I saw this show which had Larry
>Bud in it.  It was a very strange show.  It had something to do with
>scouts since he was dressed up as one.  
>
>I think the name of the show is _Amazing Live Sea Monkeys_.  If that
>is the show it aired at 11am in the morning on CBS.  
>
>Anybody ever see this?
>

Saw it.  Pretty wacky trio of Sea Monkeys blown up to human-size
by the mad doctor Howie Mandel.  They act like Three Stooges clones
and are good-natured and innocent.

This episode had the three Monkeys trying to find a way to fit in,
so they go and sign up with the Moose Scouts, the local division
being headed by the father of a (the?) girl they know.  Larry "Bud"
Melman played (awfully, as usual (: ) the grand head of the Moose
Scouts, wearing these ridiculously long moose antlers, making a
surprise inspection of the Sea Monkeys' group.

I thought Larry "Bud" was hilarious, such a bad actor that he
messed up and the director left it in!

-Jon Kung, watches cartoons -- wanna fight?
From: tiverson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thor Iverson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letterman and the Tonight show
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:08:29 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

In article <dlcogswe.721367473@vela> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:

> Leno tries to be Mr. Niceguy to EVERYONE and has
> read everybody's book and seen everybody's movie.

The problem, as I see it, is that this "niceness" comes off as
incredibly phony.  He ends up being rude to guests as he tries to
exhibit this spirit of bonhomie and quips himself right out of
conversations.  Dave is often accused of being rude to guests (and
sometimes he is--some deserve it, and some rely on it for humor
[Charles Grodin, fr'instance]), but it's part of his shtick, and
well established as his interviewing style.  Jay's false good
humor just makes him seem shallow.

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* "They that can sacrifice essential liberty for the sake of a little         *
*  temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."--Ben Franklin         *
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* "I know how a grown man likes to organize his ham."--David Letterman        *
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* "You can't have something for nothing. * Thor Iverson                       *
*  You can't have freedom for free."     * tiverson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu * 
*                           --Neil Peart *				      *
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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Chris Elliot on LATER
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 04:35:43 GMT


Does anyone have a copy of the apperances Chris Elliot did on the
Bob Costas LATER interview show?  I remember they were pretty good,
but I didn't get 'em on tape...<damn!>   One was just with Chris 
(plugging GAL), and the other was Chris Elliot and Bob Elliot talking 
about the book "Daddy's Boy".

I sure would like to see these things again, and add them
to my video collection of course...<heh>
From: sarty@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Jay A. DeSart)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: home offices
Date: 11 Nov 1992 06:34:04 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30

In article <1992Nov11.013625.16953@ultb.isc.rit.edu> eaw3593a@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>I am from Lebanon, PA, one of the original home offices of the show and I was
>wondering what it takes now to be a home office and how many have their been?  
>Any clue???? anyone??? anyone??? 
>
>Thanx
>
>Bets
>


You know, that's a good question.  Another one would be what was the first
home office.  I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Milwaukee.
And I'm not saying that out of any civic pride or anything because I
consider myself a Minnesot'n (particularly since the University insists on
doing so).

I'm fairly certain it was Milwaukee.  And then it made the fateful
move to Scottsdale, AZ to go along with the trend of everything moving to
the Sunbelt.  After that it has moved around quite a bit and my memories
are a bit foggy about that.  I seem to recall it being in Oklahoma and maybe
even Nebraska at one point, as well as Lebanon, PA.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jay A. DeSart                           "I speak. . .not with any sense of
Dept of Political Science            futility, but with a panicky conviction
Bolton 617a  UW-Milwaukee            of the absolute meaninglessness of
(414) 229-4484                       existence which could easily be
				     misinterpreted as pessimism."
                                                             Woody Allen

. . . And several butcher's aprons.
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From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: Letterman and the Tonight show
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:51:13 GMT

bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:

>  Although the band is a problem, I think the primary reason the show
>  is getting such awful ratings is the low quality of the writing and
>  Jay Leno himself.  The show just isn't funny.  A Wall Street Journal
>  reviewer commented on the lack of real laughter from the audience and
>  and its replacement by "prompted applause," which gets really annoying 
>  after a while.  I don't think Leno will last long.

The primary thing that annoys me is the whole show seems phony.  The set
looks plasticky, the band seems less than sincere (like the awful
closing theme song), Leno tries to be Mr. Niceguy to EVERYONE and has
read everybody's book and seen everybody's movie.  The jokes aren't all
that great, although the musical acts are much better than when Johnnie
was running things.

Leno used to be one of the funniest comedians in America, but he was a
lot goofier then.  I serious Jay doesn't cut it, in my opinion.

I don't think Leno will get the boot anytime soon, though.  Dave does
want a change and he definately wants an 11:30 timeslot.  Hopefully,
he'll go to another network (CBS, I hope) and blow Leno's ass out of the
water.

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"
From: mwl@csa.bu.edu (Manny Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Request:  Top Ten signs that you are in love with Opra (?)
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:13:53 GMT
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department


did that list get posted ?  if so, can someone repost it?

								= Manny
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