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From: gschmidt@nyx.cs.du.edu (gl schmidt)
Subject: Top Ten Lists
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 02:57:25 GMT

For all of you interested in getting Top Ten Lists: New York Pocket
Books has a paperback out entitled _An Altogether New Book of Top

Ten Lists.  You should be able to find it in your local book store
for under ten bucks (I don't know the exact price since I work in
a library).  I even believe they list Dave as the author.

Also, I think there is a predecessor(sp).

Just being informative...

Mel - not Torme, not Tillis, not Gibson - just 'Mel'
From: wdavid@unf6.unf.edu (Godzilla)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Classic Holiday Episodes
Date: 27 Sep 92 05:37:14 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

In article <BABY.92Sep21234111@turing.info.polymtl.ca> baby@info.polymtl.ca (Philippe Grant) writes:
>
>
>I don't remember which year that was (maybe 3 or 4 yrs ago), there was an
>Xmas special where Dave actually sang and played the piano.  What was
>really funny was the setup where he's telling a cute story, and swoops into
>this corny song.  What is hilarious is they always showed just his hands on
>the piano, or his torso, but never the two together.  And when he sang,
>this huge mike would totally block your view of his mouth.

Sounds like the Christmas duo he did with Ted Nugent. They seem to get
along pretty well... when Damn Yankees was on the show a year or
two ago Dave ignored the introduction on the cue card and yelled
over "Hey Ted! You still the Motor City Madman?" 

-Bill
wdavid@unf6.cis.unf.edu
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 1992 19:20:32 -0400 
From: Stephen Joseph Gordon <sg4e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Crispen Glover

	The funniest thing about the whole affair was the next night's show. 
Dave was having a nightmare about Crispen on the show the night 
before.  Bif and Paul woke him up and Dave said something like,"Thank
God that was only a dream."  Biff and Paul then told him that it wasn't
and that they had followed Crispen back to his hotel room that night and
smothered him with his matress.  Dave said,"Thanks guys, I really
appreciate it.  That was really nice of you guys."  Paul and Biff told
him to 
"think nothing of it."
	I thought it was a riot.

	Stephen Gordon 

	<sg4e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
	
	
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From: kauffman@slab.unt.edu (DON KAUFFMAN)
Subject: Favorite Van Pattens/Body Parts
Organization: School of Library & Info Sci, UNT
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:16:20 GMT


	Definitely my favorite top ten list.
	Anybody remember what was on it?
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From: hari@NeoSoft.com (Doug Andersen)
Subject: Re: Show fade-ins and outs (Late Night Employees?)
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 16:22:57 GMT

In article <1ad5t4INN9ac@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, bdsm@poincare.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell) writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.144602.18528@NeoSoft.com>, hari@NeoSoft.com (Doug Andersen) writes:
> |> Whenever they fade to commercial or come back from a commercial they
> |> put up a picture they has "Late Night" on it somewhere (I'm sure there
> |> is a TV term for this).  Some of these feature objects (like a box of 
> |> cereal with Late Night on it), others feature people.  Does anyone know
> |> if these are employees of Late Night?  
> The TV term is (I think) "Bumper Slide".  Dave once mentioned this term some
> years ago, because LNWDL had just won some technical/creative Emmy for their
> bumper slides.
> 
> I believe that sometimes the people involved _are_ LNWDL personnel.  Although
> I haven't seen this particular bumper slide in a while, isn't the guy licking
> the Viewer Mail envelope Girard Mulligan (Gerry...you know, the fat guy with 
> the beard...he's in quite a few skits), one of the writers?  And I think that
> Dave has commented that the woman whose legs are shown in fishnet stockings might
> have been a secretary (or perhaps he was musing, _wishing_ that she were his
> secretary).
 
There was a bumper slide last night with a group of people touring a
museum, didn't notice any Late Night staff though.  Seems like they
could incorporate all sorts of Late Night Persona, like Meg for example.
 
There is also one with a woman with red toenails standing on a scale, with
her shoes to the side.  Could that be Rose?
-- 
Doug Andersen
hari@Sugar.NeoSoft.com
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From: aoek774@chpc.utexas.edu (David Letterman)
Subject: Who are you people??
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 22:18:18 GMT

I'm posting this for a friend.


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3 words:   Letterman is King!!

Last time I checked, this was a Letterman fan newsgroup.  However, I keep
seeing all these posts complaining about Dave and the show.  If you want to
bitch, do it on your "assenio" groups.  Dave Letterman is a Comedy God.  If
you are unable to deal with that fact, take a hike.

Paul

 
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From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
Subject: Re: my favorite Top Ten list
Keywords: eat more moose
Organization: The Hosequarium South
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:50:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.193756.19711@ncsu.edu>, jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY EDWAR COLEBURN) writes:
|> 
|> The HARDEST I ever laughed at a top ten list was "Paul Shaffer's Top 10
|> Synthesizer Sound Effects."
|> 
|> Some of the few that I recall were... (you'll have to picture them in
|> your own mind, no words I can use will suffice)
|> 
|> 4)  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the theme to "Three's Company"...
|> 	...but there's a gas leak in the cathedral.
|> 
|> 1)  The sound of a taxi-ing Boeing 747 running over a monkey.
|> 
|> Anyone remember any more of these? (I'll have to dig through my friend's old
|> tape collection.)
|> -- 

10) Batman "biff....pow!"

6 or 7) Three day old shrimp salad

That was my all-time favorite top ten list

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From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: Paul Shaefer
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:45:42 GMT

>>>> Hey, I just found out that Paul Shaefer was in the Blues Brothers' Band
>>>> (as in the movie).  What a carear?

>>He was also a manager-type in This is Spinal Tap.

>he was also in the short-lived sitcom "a year at the top" -- aoubt

He was also the band director for the original run of Saturday Night Live.
This was long before G.E. "Mr. Annoying" Smith took over.
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From: stitzel@lenti.med.umn.edu (Joel Stitzel (Med))
Subject: Re: ...Rocks and Garbage...
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:29:54 GMT

In article <19vgk8INNr9a@bigboote.WPI.EDU> bdsm@fermat.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell) writes:
>
>Incidentally, does anyone remember the ads for MELMAN BUS LINES?
>I can only remember one or two, the clearest one having Larry "Bud"
>Melman (in Bus Driver regalia) standing in front of a (picture of a)
>bus, declaring something very vaguely like
>
>	"No one likes to climb over the tops of seats, and at MELMAN
>	 BUS LINES, we understand.  That's why EACH and EVERY one of
>	 our buses is equipped with a convenient aisle down the middle,
>	 to make getting to your seat less of a hassle."
>
>The other commercial I remember featured Larry "Bud" and his "son". 
>("Bud", Junior?  I can't recall.)  The gist was of course that MELMAN
>BUS LINES was a family business, but there was probably something
>funnier in there.  (Oh, and wasn't there one about MELMAN buses being
>equipped with windshields?)

Larry "Bud"'s son is named Troy "Chipper" Melman.

Joey
From: ansell@uts.amdahl.com (Steven Ansell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Chris Elliot
Date: 30 Sep 92 06:35:02 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

bdsm@poincare.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell) writes:


>No, I think it was  "The Guy Under The Seats"...

Of course.  Chris Eliot was definitely more of a "Guy" than a "Man"!  
Anybody know what he's doing now?  Hanging out with his dad (the one
on "Get a Life" was his real dad)?  His dad was one of the funniest
parts of the show!  We better stop this now or we may need a group
called alt.fan.chris.eliot or alt.fan.chris.eliots.dad or ... never
mind.
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From: Judith_Beeman@mindlink.bc.ca (Judith Beeman)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: The "crazy lady" who bugs Dave?
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:32:37 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Hello. This group has recently been signed up to the net I'm on. I don't get to
watch Dave very often because-gasp!-I don't have cable for my tv. To make
things worse, I'm up in Canada and we get two channels without beloved cable.
Aw well life goes on (for those of you curious why I would NOT have something
so seemingly vital as cable tv the answer is simple...our local cable system
charges 50 bucks! to merely install the service. So far, we refuse, although we
seem to be weakening).

My big question is this: What's the latest on the nutty woman who has the
history of breaking into Letterman's house, etc. ??? How very scary. Just
curious. Judith from Vancouver.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen)
Subject: Monday's 9/28 show
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 06:43:45 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Was it NBC 'home office' or just my local affiliate station that dropped
about 10 minutes of Letterman tonight.  If it was nationally, kinda' funny
timing considering that just as it went out he was talking about NBC and
sister-stations.  Oh well, it was a repeat.
-- 

Lon Lowen Jr.                                lllowen@netcom.com
Netcom On-Line Communications
From: mike@leah.prc.utexas.edu (Michael Kline)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Paul Shaefer
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:18:42 GMT
Organization: Population Research Center, UT-Austin

In article <1992Sep25.191926.1771@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> hch@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Howard Helbein) writes:
>Hey, I just found out that Paul Shaefer was in the Blues Brothers' Band
>(as in the movie).  What a carear?
>

Paul was not in the movie.  It went kinda like this ...

Paul was the band director for SNL.  John Belushi had a falling out with
Gilda Radner, and when she did her "Gilda Live" movie, Paul was told by
John that he was not to help Gilda on the film.  Paul helped Gilda anyway
and John dropped Paul from the Blues Brothers Band and movie.

Mike


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From: scannell@bubba.ma30.bull.com (P Scannell)
Subject: Re: Chris Elliot
Reply-To: P.Scannell@bull.com
Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:35:38
	<2aRM03PY975500@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <81109@ut-emx.uucp>

Chris Elliot also had a one-shot comedy special on Showtime in which both Dave
Letterman and Bob Elliot made brief appearances.  (Letterman's lines were
something like, "So this is your little comedy special deal, huh?  Boy, they'll
put *anything* on cable."

Bob (Elliot) and Ray (Goulding) are also available on tape.  The third set of 
four tapes (presumably from their radio show) is currently being advertised in
the back pages of the New Yorker (a magazine worth its subscription price for
the cartoons alone!)
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Hey, What's UP?!?
From: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (William Petrisko)
Date: 2 Oct 92 02:21:31 MST
Reply-To: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: usa,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

>I told you guys my dad was on Letterman, and I was serious. What's your
>problem. Isn't that neat enough for you guys? What that's not cool
>enough for a reply? My dad happens to be a comedian, and he was on
>Letterman! 

Yay.  Obviously a well known comedian...

>I bet if I wanted to I could met Letterman! Well, maybe. So
>there. I was going to be a part of this board till you guys shuned me
>like a leper. I'll think about it still. Maybe if you guys are nice to
>me I'll forgive you, and we all can met Letterman. You'll have to be
>REAL nice though. Think about it.

Is it just me, or does this guy bug the hell out of everyone?  First
of all, even if you dad is a comedian, i'm not that impressed.  Is there
any reason you don't mention any specific dates or perhaps HIS NAME?

>				The man with connections,

More like the man-with-his-head-stuck-up-his-ass.  Get a life.

-bill
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From: gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: ...Rocks and Garbage...
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:34:30 GMT
Organization: UB

And of course the Republican slogans:

Vote republican and screw the spotted owl. (Thin bald guy)

what others?

Anybody compiling these?

"What do you want wicker?"

Gerson Koenig
gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu
From: gpkatch@alcor.concordia.ca (Gary Katch)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Contest:  list Dave's "pants" references!
Summary: Dave thinks pants are funny.
Keywords: pants
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:56:22 GMT
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I've noticed that Dave is obsessed with pants.  Examples
(disclaimer:  quotes are only as accurate as my memory):

"Worldwide Pants, Inc." 
		-- closing credits.

"...I'm not wearing any pants!"
		-- Dave's infamous blowhorn
		interruption of the Today show.

"I slip my dry-cleaner a ten, and after closing he lets me come
in and try on other guys' pants." 
		-- Monologue 

"The tour is coming through--quick, put on your pants!" 
		-- #1 thing overheard in the G.E. lab.

Please add to the above list.

-- gk
From: ansell@uts.amdahl.com (Steven Ansell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Chris Elliot
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:23:09 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

hch@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Howard Helbein) writes:

>To me Chris Elliot (aka Man under the floor) was the real life of the show.
>Anybody remember the other sketches he did?

>hch@astro.ocis.temple.edu

The Regulator Guy!!! :-)

Speaking of Chris Elliot, whatever happened to his show "Get A Life"?  I
thought it was hillarious!  


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From: aknowles@expert.expert.com (Anne Knowles)
Subject: Dave on Regis and Kathi Lee
Organization: Computer Publishing Group
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:47:38 GMT

I was listening to Regis and Kathi Lee as I was brushing my teeth
this morning and before you flame me for it listen to what you
missed. I heard the audience go wild so I went to look and there was
Dave making an impromptu visit. He traded ties with Regis and gave 
him an autographed photo of some guy I didn't know, then gave Kathi
Lee Gifford Late Night shirts for herself, her husband Frank Gifford
andf her son "Dobie." (For those of you who don't know, she talks 
incessantly about her son Cody.) Then he gave her kisses on
both cheeks,then gave a guy in the audience a huge piece of what 
looked like pork sausage and a kiss on both cheeks. Then he left.
Very funny, especially when he called Kathi Lee's son Dobie.

All this time watching Regis and Kathi Lee has finally paid off.

Anne
From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (have clue, will travel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: who do you think you are, bjorn nittmo? (and more foul-mouthed Paul)
Date: 26 Sep 92 19:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
Originator: jecoleb@c00009-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


swede@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
>The 'catch phrase' I remember best was from (i think) January 1990, sort of
>a 'first catch phrase of the 90's thing'.  The winner was, as far as my
>memory can recall:

>"Who do you think you are?  Bjorn Nittmo?"

>Delivered by Mr. Nittmo himself (he's a football player, i think.  maybe a 
>hockey player.)

Bjorn Nittmo was the starting placekicker for the New York Giants football
team at the time.  His name came up a week or so before this catchphrase
sprouted, when Paul Shaffer referred to him as "Al Titmo".  Dave busted out
laughing for about 5 minutes at this faux pas. (He then proceeded to blurt out
"By the way, Paul, did you know we can say 'piss' on the air now?",
and they merrily attempted to work the word 'piss' into the next 473 
sentences they said.)

Nittmo came on another time as a guest to demonstrate field-goal kicking,
and then in a cameo in the catchphrase contest.  The contestants were:

1)  (some guy)  --  "Uh, oh... we've got squirrels."
2)  (a cute little girl)  --  "I lost my dolly... DOWN THE CRAPPER!" 
		(complete with twisted evil grin from said urchin)
3)  (another guy)   "Uh-uh, pal... THAT ain't strudel."
4)  (celebrity guest Bjorn Nittmo) "Who do you think you are?  BJORN NITTMO?"
5)  (Dave's mom)  "Now, what would HITLER do in a situation like this?"

Bjorn reigned triumphantly until the next catchphrase contest, the winner of
which was a little old lady saying "Nicely packed, bag boy."  He went on to
play in the WLAF, as has been stated before; cut again, his current whereabouts
are unknown.

-- 
----------jeff the wonder llama, jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu

------"I am a penis. Worship me."--lead singer of rock band Bicycle Face,
     vainly attempting to gain attention of the crowd at the Cat's Cradle 
     in Chapel Hill, while opening for Mojo Nixon & The Toad Liquors
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel )
Subject: Re: Elle/Arsenio vs Claudia/Letterman
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:37:57 GMT

In article 10750@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
> >dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
> >>NO, Dave sometimes forgoes a "real" (dull) interview in favor of being
> >>DAMN funny!   That is what makes his show better than EVERYONE elses.
>
> >Since when is being obnoxious funny?  
>If you think he is "obnoxious", then I guess you just don't get it.
>
> >The only thing "funny" or unique about his show is the presently 
> >popular trend to be "outrageous".  Sort of like body noise and bodily 
> >function humor on HBO, et al.
>
>Ok, so you OBVIOUSLY just don't get the show at ALL.
>
> >Sure he's popular, but only to people who like his type of humor.
>
>Oh, brother.  So WHAT are you doing in alt.FAN.letterman?  You clearly are 
>totally blindsighted when it comes to "his type of humor", and just have
>no concept of what Dave or the show is about.  Save yourself a headache
>and simply don't watch!  Nobody is forcing you!
>
> >Many guests come on his show and are literally blindsided by him.
>
>Yea, right... stick with some simpering no-talent bore doing a talk show
>and then you'll get the sort of meaningless and petty "show biz" interview
>that you're "comfortable" with.  The rest of us want to be ENTERTAINED.
>
> >The only reason I ever watch him is to see Teri Garr.  They somehow 
> >seem to have a good interaction.
>
>"somehow"...  I wonder how Dave can manage it?  :->
>
> >>If they do [tell him off], then it's just that much funnier.  Cher or 
> >>that nut Shirley M. calling him an "asshole" is always sure fire "classic"
> >> material...
> >Sure it's classic.  It's also the truth.  
>Thanks Shirley... (bull)
>
> >I miss him every chance I get.
>Great!  Miss him every night and do yourself (and us) a big favor!
>
> >Shirley Maclaine IS sort of a nut, but she's got a good sense of humor
> >about her well known belief in past lives.  
>
>Ha!!!!   Now I *know* you have no concept of what you are saying.  The fact 
>that she has *NO* sense of humor about that nonsense was the whole problem
>with her appearance on Dave's show.  Dave tried to ask her about it, and
>all she could do was call him an asshole.  What a mindless bitch!  :->
>


Did anyone see the week of reruns called "People Who Hate Dave's Guts"?? Seems like it was
Oliver Reed, Shirley, Cher, Harvey ______, who else.




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From: hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh)
Subject: Re: Chris Elliot
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:43:20 GMT

ansell@uts.amdahl.com (Steven Ansell) writes:

>hch@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Howard Helbein) writes:

>>To me Chris Elliot (aka Man under the floor) was the real life of the show.
>>Anybody remember the other sketches he did?

>>hch@astro.ocis.temple.edu

>The Regulator Guy!!! :-)

>Speaking of Chris Elliot, whatever happened to his show "Get A Life"?  I
>thought it was hillarious!  


So did I and my sister, and many of our friends, a pox on Fox for taking this 
show off the air (as well as Dennis Miller).

Of course your forgetting Chris' greatest and first?? work....

The Panicky Guy!!!!!


	JaH

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