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From: matt@ms.uky.edu (Matt Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SHOW
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:28:00 GMT
    <8SEP199216111349@reg.triumf.ca>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

<<long bantering about style and content of show deleted>>

I am sure your letter has generated alot of response, but I would
like to add my 2 cents worth.

The off-beat, slapstick comedy of Letterman is exactly what we
need.  I don't see how you or anyone else could think that the
show is catering to the deterioration of the intellect of this
world.  Good Lord, you are sounding like Dan Quayl(e).

Comedy such as Daves, Jay Leno, or Arsenio are a welcome release
for the everyday hassles and burdens of peoples lives.  I myself
wish I could watch it more often than I have time for now.  With
all the natural disasters, riots, and lack of faith in government
institutions that you hear about day in and day out, it is good
to know that you can turn your TV set on, and relax a little, get
a good laugh in, and perhaps wake up the next morning with a little
better attitude on life in general.

There are different genres of comedy, which probably explains 
why there are 3 different types of late night hosts.  People 
need an avenue to escape the routine of their lives, and to remember
what it is like to laugh again.  I am not saying that Dave is the
end all be all of comedy on television, but I seriously don't see how
he could be to blame for any of the troubles in the world today.
Sounds more to me like people are looking for an easy excuse for their
problems, instead of working them out themselves.

matt

-- 
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  - my roomate                               mwmcco00@ukpr.uky.edu
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Subject: Re: DAVE!!
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:47:02 GMT

edc@dna.bchs.uh.edu writes:

>Yup, really good stuff.  There were actually two film festivals.
>Who could ever forget the first one, with the Immortal video
>"Dress Cool", by Paul and the *original* World's Most Dangerous
>band.  Great song, amazing video.  Just thinking about Paul Schaefer
>in a collarless grey suit and a Beatle wig brings a smile to my face!

Or "Chris Elliot, Television Miracle," revealing the animatronic
technology which convinces us so cleverly that such a being as
"Chris Elliot" actually exists.  Or Catherine O'Hara and Andrea
Martin's tribute to PMS, complete with a flawless, disjointed
parody of Calvin Klein's "Obsession" ads.  Those were some of
the funniest Letterman-associated moments ever.
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
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From: kachun@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ka Chun Yu)
Subject: Re: Sears / Giggly Girl
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:14:13 GMT

jwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Wasson) writes:


>One of the best long-form segments had to have been the time Dave read
>the viewer mail, and got a letter from a girl that asked something to
>the effect of:

>"What's up with your sneakers?"

>Well, Dave and crew "leave" the studio, drive out to here place somewhere in
>the northeast, and go to her house to deliver her a bugzapper.  No one was
>home and finially her brother showed up, and took them on a tour of the
>house/her room.  Then they went to the local Sears store where she
>worked, and she coudln't believe it was Dave, and could not stop giggling.
>As Dave put it, "What's that annoying sound?".  They went on a shopping
>spree of the shoe department for Dave.

The best part was when her brother took Dave and the camera crew into her
bedroom and they started going through her stuff.  The giggles were hysterious
too.

>It was great. :)

-- 
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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Favorite things...
Date: 9 Sep 1992 04:12:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

From last spring, just before the New York primary:
Letterman's doing his monologue and Biff comes over and asks if he can
have $100.  Letterman gives him a C-note and Biff goes over to the stage
door, opens it, and behind it is Jerry Brown, taking the money and
spouting his 800 number.  Brown handled it perfectly, thanking Biff,
smiling and waving, and walking off.  Classic.
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's Morning Show
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:12:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Sep14.164723.15933@gdwest.gd.com> good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good) writes:
>
>Hey, does anybody remember back before "Late Night" (around 1980 I think)
>when Dave had a show that was on 9:00 - 10:00 *AM*.  I don't remember too
>much about it, except for "Mrs. Marv Mendenhall" (played by Edie McClurg?).
>
>On one show Mrs. Marv got to fly around the set (using wires, of course).
>
>I think the show was only on for one summer.  Anybody else remember?

I don't remember that show, but I remember Dave on an episode
of ``Mork & Mindy''.  He played a small-role "wise-cracking"
character, if I remember correctly.

I also remember Dave playing a Spanish-speaking doctor on a
Spanish-language soap opera.  Of course, this soap opera was
a parody shown on LNWDL.  I hope to see more episodes of this
soon.

>-- 
>David Good                                               good@gdwest.gd.com
>
>                 This space intentionally left blank.

"They're not booing... they're chanting `Dave!  Dave!'"

-- 
====== Mike Levis   mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ======
"I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good   .--.
life, I thought I was happy.  Then I found something  (OS/2)
that changed it all..."  --  Anonymous, 2112  [Rush]   ~--~
From: cosjoaa@yalevm (Joo Costa)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: The Tonight Show
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:40:10 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.letterman
Organization: Yale University

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
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From: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Subject: Re: Viewer Mail
Reply-To: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 18:29:55 GMT


In article <1992Sep11.171727.27716@newsgate.sps.mot.com>,
weaver@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Dave Weaver) writes:
|>
|> Has anyone on the net had one of their letters used on the show?
|> If so, tell us about it. I have sent a couple in, but no luck.
|>

I have also sent in a letter, with no luck.  What I would like to
know is, if they _do_ decide to use your letter, do they let you
know in advance so that you can make sure that you watch and/or
tape the show?  Or do you have to tape every Friday show just in
case your letter is picked?  If the latter is the case, I wonder
how many weeks you would have to do the taping?  Most letters
read which show a date are dated within the last month or so.


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Phone:(514) 765-7903    16, Place du Commerce
FAX:(514) 761-8503      Verdun, Quebec
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"You know, you're not exactly dealing with a chimp!"
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From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Subject: Re: Dave's Playboy Interview?
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:30:43 GMT

In article 18pd9aINNekn@bigboote.WPI.EDU, cyrman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Christopher David Cyr) writes:
>
>	Tonight on the show (Thursday, 9/10), Dave was talking to Siskel and
>Ebert about the fact that he has done a Playboy interview.  Anyone know the
>month/year of the issue he was in?
>
>cyrman@wpi.wpi.edu
>
>
>

Yes.  :)
From: jamieson@terapin.com (David Jamieson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: The Crispin Affair
Date: 6 Sep 92 01:36:25 PST
Organization: BBS

I disliked Miller on SNL.  I took his vanity at face value (part of the act I
now see).  I thought he had some great momments on his talk show.  Then I
rented his concert video.  This guy is absolutely brilliant!  His work on SNL
is but a dim shadow of his act.  I don't think Letterman can maintain his
pacing... unbelievable.  No, Letterman isn't a great stand up.  We just love
him because he'll say anything and makes us think it just entered his head the
momment before-- raw, spontaneous energy.  That's not as true as the statement
the Letterman is the best actor, most controlled performer to yet host any
variety of talk show.  When you see him on other shows (Carson,  B. Walters)
you notice he's ajusted his whole act.
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From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SHOW
    <18gjq6INN7hs@agate.berkeley.edu> <mcirvin.715913934@husc8>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:57:42 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <mcirvin.715913934@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:
>
>
>The music on the Leno Tonight Show, with Branford Marsalis and 
>company, is far better than Doc's band or Paul's.  That's about

Whoa Whoa Whoa!!!  Now, I'll agree that Marsalis has a ton of talent and for
Jazz he probably *is* the best.  *But* with Paul you can name any song frrom
the past 50 years and *bam* he'll play it.  They may not be gods at making
their own music but, they are pretty good at being versatile and playing
alot of *different* kinds of music which is what you need on Dave's show.

Alex

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From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: Cooking with Dave
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:07:06 GMT

In <1992Sep8.230509.1875@bnr.ca> christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher) writes:

>In article <1992Sep6.035520.11280@nmt.edu>, sclever@nmt.edu (Shawn
>Clever) writes:
>|>
>|>  Anyone see the episode (fairly recent, I think) when Dave is getting some
>|>cooking tips from this woman and she points to a dozen eggs on the table
>|>and asks dave how he can tell which eggs are hard boiled and which ones
>|>aren't?  He immediately responds,  "Oh, I know just how to do this... You 
>|>toss one to Morty!"  With that, he immediately lobs one at Morty before he
>|>even has a chance to react.  Plllffckkkkttt!!   It was raw.   It looked
>|>so unrehearsed, so completely off the cuff, -- and Morty was laughing as 
>|>he was wiping the egg off his face,   I laughed like I never have on this
>|>show before.


>Is this accurate?  I don't think so.  I thought Morty caught the
>egg and tossed it back.  Then Dave tossed one at Paul Shaffer who
>caught it and tossed it back.

These are two separate shows, both have been shown in the last few weeks.
I saw them both.  The one where the egg breaks on Morty was the most
recent.

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From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: Hal (& bonus top ten list)
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:42:55 GMT

In <Bu634p.4Hn@me.utoronto.ca> steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman) writes:

>brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan) writes:

>>>>>>> On Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:05:39 GMT, steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman) said:

>>> As for your misspelling of Hal *Gurnee* and Al *Maher*, for shame...

>>Isn't that "Gurtner"? :-)

>How about Grunee, Grunwald, ...

Or "Grundman"?

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From: gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Live at 5 and the Stanley Cup
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:37:48 GMT
Organization: UB


I remember htere was one time when Letterman went over to Live at 5 and stole
the actual Stanley Cup. I don't know what L@5 was doing with it though.

Can anyone (confirm/deny/fill in the details) on this?

Gerson Koenig
gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu
From: gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Letterman letter
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:36:21 GMT
Organization: UB

thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:
>to the alt.fan.letterman newgroup!  I'm sure that someone at the 
							      ^^^
>NYC university would be glad to assist you in doing this... and us

"an" (or is it "a", aww just say "A New York City") university. There 
are several.

>Alex

Gerson
gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu
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From: dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt)
Subject: Re: L7(?) on Letterman Last Night
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:58:55 GMT

>You are correct sir!  That's exactly how they got they're name.  They're
>logo (I guess that's what you call it) is two skeleton hands coming together
>forming the square.  The group is named for the connotation.
>
>As far as L7 (the group) is concerned, their song was weak.  This is the
>hardest group of girls I have ever seen live.  I got roped into seeing them,
>as was very pleasantly surprised.  An all girl heavy metal band?  Oh no!  Not
>another Vixen?!  WRONG.  This was a fantastic show and yes, they can play.
>I bought their latest CD after seeing them, and that's kind of lacking, but
>not a total disappointment.  BTW, what they played was "Wake Up Dead".
							 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

   The song that L7 played on Letterman is called "Pretend We're Dead".


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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Re: Feeling sorry for Dave..
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:13:58 GMT

In <hersh.716152061@xenon.lcs.mit.edu> hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:

>>Actually, in this case I think he was being more sincere.  Concrete Blonde
>>has been on Late Night a couple of times and Letterman seemed to really
>>take a fancy to them.

>Hey is Dave married?? I noticed it seems he really had the hots for the
>chick in Concrete Blond. Then again he has also seemed to have the hots for
>a number of sexy model types on the show (both known and unknown) and
>has appeared to come on to some of them. So is this an act, or is Dave
>hard up??

When Dennis and Dave were talking about this, I'm sure Dave said
something like "I used to be engaged to her," <her> meaning the lead
singer from Concrete Blond.
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: In Living Color ripoffs of Dave...
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:21:52 GMT
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Originator: guckes@medusa

<DSF105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Hey hey hey, lookee here, kids. . .
>
>    "Vo est der laudner steuben" (approx.) was said while
>Dave was looking through the periscope of some submarine
>or other, guided by an older lady--who Dave tormented the
>entire time.  I can't name the submarine, but I believe the
>translation that Dave gave for his words was, "Where are the
>Landers Sisters?"

How about
"Wo ist der Leutnant Steuben ?"
meaning
"Where is Lieutenant Steuben ?"

Maybe he pretended to look for a WWII ship named "Steuben".

I could be wrong. I have never seen the show. flames > /dev/nul

Sven :)
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Viewer Mail
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:16:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: jes2x@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU's message of 11 Sep 92 00:49:20 GMT

>Does anybody remember the letter where someone asked "Dave, do you remember
>your first time?"  (This episode was right after the final Carson Tonight
>Show, btw)

I think so, you know, I remember it as if it were yesterday . . . [screen
goes all wavy, fade in to:]

I think the question was "Do you ever hang around with Paul aside from
the show?"

>Anyway, he had flashback where he and Paul were drinking coffee and it was
>a parody of the "Jean Luc" Maxwell House (I think) commercial.

It was a parody of the General Foods International Coffees commercial.  The
commercials are *nearly* as odious as the alleged "coffee."  Nearly.

>They finished it by saying "Do you think anybody ever found out where we
>buried him?"

Right after they look at each other, point, and simultaneously say "Jean
Luc!" Dave says, "Do you think the police ever found out we beat him to
death and buried his body in that shallow grave?"

>Truly one of the funniest things they've ever done.

Hey, you got the important part exactly right!
--
 From the catapult of:              |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
   _,_  J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
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 \      /   baldwin@usna.navy.mil   |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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From: rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Subject: Re: General Electric 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:23:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.051901.27493@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>dwdyer@polari.online.com writes:
> >Which brings up an interesting point. There are folks that want a total GE
> >boycott, being that GE makes not only nuclear reactors, but weapons,I think.
>
>Sure.  Plenty of 'em!  But more than that they also make a LARGE number 
>of commercial and military jet engines!  Any "boycott" would also have
>to include grounding many of the worlds airlines and air forces.

>PLUS, G.E. Astrospace builds SATELLITES... including the ones that carry
>Late Night and *all* of NBC, not to mention quite a few cable services.

Worse than that!  GE invented the PUSHBUTTON -- no keyboards, no doorbells,
no touch tone telephone, no momentary pushbutton devices of any sort.

on the more serious side, I don't think that GE makes nuclear weapons, but
they do make the detonators for nuclear devices.  Bad enough in itself.

But hey!  this is alt.fan.letterman, not alt.nitpick.about.ge



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From: merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy)
Subject: Re: Favorite Bits
Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, Eden Prairie, MN
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:26:34 GMT

kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

>>>	Yep, I remember him.  In fact, his name is Stevie Starr...

>>   The best item he swallowed was a light bulb.  You had to see it to believe
>>it...  The guy made a horrible gasping noise in order to get it down his
>>esophagus.  I think the whole audience was sickened by it.  I'm surprised he
>>brought it up intact.

>I hate to break it to you, but people who do this, don't actually swallow
>anything!  It is a trick.  The sound effects and the swallowing motions are
>all part of the act.  These guys produce a great effect, but it just isn't
>physically possible to swallow a light bulb whole!

Depends on the size of the lightbulb.

>I don't know how the trick is done, but I would assume that it involves
>some sleight of hand, and distraction (makes you look at one place, while
>the action is happening at another place), i.e. standard magician tricks...

Well, as an amateur magician, I can say that Starr's act is legitimate,
no slight of hand.  The lightbulb (not a standard 60-watt; smaller) clearly
went down his throat, as he kept his mouth wide open, with no hands.
Starr also appeared on Howard Stern's show once; he swallowed two fish.

Swallowing things is nothing new; see "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women"
for human waterspouts and a guy who used to routinely swallow a dozen
frogs & regurgitate them later, all still alive.

Just as a note, when he swallowed the four coins, he had to pass on one
(#4, I think) because it apparently got out of his grip.  He only coughed
up three in all.

Nobody's mentioned the Rubic's Cube!?  That was the best part.

---
Merlyn LeRoy
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From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
Subject: Re: "Or, as we say in Indiana,"
Keywords: eat more moose
Organization: The Hosequarium South
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:50:16 GMT

In article <18n0a0INNa87@agate.berkeley.edu>, ajay@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ajay Sreekanth) writes:
|> During the monologue on tonight's show, Dave mentioned George Bush
|> in one of the jokes and then said "Or, as we say in Indiana, Boosh.".
|> This got me thinking of other words that he claims are pronounced
|> differently "back home in Indiana".  
|> 
|> I can remember "spay-shel" (for "special"), "noo-cular" (for "nuclear")
|> and "sa-tistic" (for "statistic").  I'm sure there are many more that
|> I can't recollect.  Can anyone add to the list?
|> 
|> This must be the silliest thread yet, but hey, isn't that what this
|> newsgroup is for? :-)
|> 

li-bary. 

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From: logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Ghostly Images
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:59:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Sep7.171537.20865@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez) writes:
>Does ANYONE remember (roughly '86 or '87) when, completely randomly,
>(like during an interview) the image of Tom Snyder being projected 
>onto the front of his desk or the wall?  It was truly strange...

I remember once they were just going through something relatively unexciting
(like some shots of scenery), when lo and behold, there was Tom Brokaw's
face for just a 1/2 second.

Anyone remember the giant wall size count-the-days-til-Phil-Donahue-moves-
to-New-York calender?  Every day they'd show a little bit more of a picture
of Phil that must have been 12-15' in size.

I think my favorite absurdity, though, was the time that they showed a home
video quality snippet where Dave and Paul are out driving in a
convertable.  They stop at a 7-Eleven, where Paul gets a Hyper Big Gulp (or
was that Ultra Big Gulp) which is about 4 feet tall, and costs around 50
cents.  :-)

Adios,
  Logan
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From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu ("Timothy R. Veatch")
Subject: Dave's fraternity
Reply-To: veatch@cs.toronto.edu
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:59:07 GMT

Rumor has it that Dave is a Sigma Chi.
Any truth in this?
Supposedly he makes a Sigma Chi gesture at the beginning
of each program.  Anyone know what it is?

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