The Bridget Jackson Collection on Letterman, 1985-88
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2017
- All of staffer Bridget Jackson's appearances on Late Night:
1. 10-1-85: With Gerry and Baby (Chris Elliott)
2. 1-16-86: Viewer Mail #4
3. 2-4-86: Who Asked For It #6 - Bridget's first scripted segment
4. 2-12-86: Live Remote outside Soviet Mission with Larry "Bud" Melman
5. 2-17-86: Gerry and Baby
6. 3-27-86: Viewer Mail #3
7. 4-22-86: Gerry and Baby
8. 4-28-86: Recorded phone message for 1-800 Calls
9. 5-19-86: With Alan Alda
10. 6-5-86: Intro to repeat
11. 7-7-86: Small Town News interrupt
12. 7-9-86: Dave calls TASS
13. 7-15-86: As guest host
14. 7-29-86: As "Dottie"
15. 8-14-86: Viewer Mail #2
16. 10-28-86: Late Night Crawfish Girl, 1
17. 11-3-86: NYC marathon mention
18. 11-5-86: Late Night Crawfish Girl, 2
19. 1-29-87: Viewer Mail #4
20. 5-6-87: Why We Edit
21. 7-17-87: Viewer Mail #2
22. 8-11-87: New Dial-It-Service
23. 9-25-87: Thrill Cam (as bunny with conquistador {Kevin Curran], 1)
24. 9-29-87: Thrill Cam (as bunny with conquistador, 2)
25. 9-30-87: Thrill Cam (as bunny with conquistador, 3)
26. 10-1-87: Thrill Cam (as bunny with conquistador, 4)
27. 10-2-87: Thrill Cam (as bunny with conquistador, 5); Viewer Mail #3
28. 10-28-87: Sister's Homecoming Queen Campaign, 1
29. 11-3-87: Sister's Homecoming Queen Campaign, 2
30. 2-9-88: Cold Open
31. 8-9-88: Nest Egg, 1
32. 8-10-88: Nest Egg, 2
33. 8-11-88: Nest Egg, 3
34. 8-12-88: Nest Egg, 4
35. 8-23-88: Nest Egg, 5
36. 8-25-88: Nest Egg, 6
37. 8-26-88: Nest Egg, 7
38. 12-16-88: A brief return
Note: Full videos of certain segments can be found here:
Gerry and Baby Collection: • Gerry and Baby Collect...
Viewer Mail on Late Night, January 16, 1986: • Viewer Mail on Letterm...
Who Asked For It on Late Night, February 4, 1986: • Who Asked For It on Le...
Alan Alda on Late Night, May 19, 1986: • Alan Alda on Letterman...
"O Canada" collection on Late Night, 1986 • "O Canada" collection ...
Viewer Mail on Late Night, August 14, 1986: • Viewer Mail on Letterm...
Viewer Mail on Late Night, July 17, 1987: • Viewer Mail on Letterm...
Even these short clips really capture what it was like to watch Late Night in the mid-late 80's.
Staying up at age 15-18 when I was supposed to be sleeping just to get my fix.
Fantastic stuff.
Agreed. ie Larry Bud Melman, Lee Marvin and Bill Hicks on one show? Wow!
I can't believe all the regulars on the classic NBC show I forgot about. I completely forgot Bridget. I'm also realizing just how much I watched this show. I'm recognizing a vast majority of the episodes like Chris Elliott as a baby and Larry Bud trying to get people to defect. There will never be another show like this one again. I don't think there ever could be.
Thanks for putting this together! I went to high school with Bridget and her sister Suzie and brother, Rocky. Rocky convinced me to go into engineering. We used to skate together. I was still in university when these aired. Great memories.
It's funny how Bridget's accent comes out more when she's flustered!
I had a crush on Bridget ever since I saw her wearing that cute Statue of Liberty hat in that remote segment. This is an outstanding collection, thank you so much.
Don Giller - This is quite an undertaking-- you're doing the lords work. I've pretty much watched nothing but these collections since stumbling upon them last week. I was obsessed with Late Night for it's entire NBC run. Cheers!
What an excellent piece of editing and work:) u, sir, are a great 👨
my favorite show. thanks for saving it well done
Chris Elliott as the baby might be the second most bizarre and disturbing thing I've seen on this show (after Dave's big cheating confession, of course). Chris's utter commitment to baby body language is amazing.
Thank-you Dave from Canada.
Sorry, but I think Dave is from Indiana. 🏎️🏁🙂✌️
Oh man, Larry yelling at the Soviets cracked me up. The odd thing is, his timing WAS better there!
Thanks very much for doing this, Don Giller. I've spent more than a few hours watching the clips you've taken the time to provide. Chris Elliott always makes me laugh out loud. He is a comic genius.
“Thanks cousin Dave”. If that were the only clip here I’d still fall in love with her!
Olaf saying “Go Fuhk Yourself” is the funniest damn thing that I’ve ever heard. And Dave’s reaction is priceless
I think it was Orlov--which helped to piss him off LOL
1:38 This is seemingly inspired by Dave's very real edict to his writers. They were repeatedly told things like "Dave doesn't sing, dance, or wear funny hats." So, naturally, they tried to get him to do so at every opportunity. Some writers even confessed they wrote bits they knew would get rejected. (See: "And Now: An Oral History of Late Night" by Brian Abrams.)
Way late to the party on this. Too much YT to watch. Just watched this last night 7/29/23 and loved it like all things Letterman. Luckily because Bridget seemed so terrified by the face time she was getting, that it was 1988 when she left to get married. I think she may realize how fortunate she was to not have all the social media around that would've really drove her insane. Great post and am watching all the Letterman collections I can since about a week ago.
Fantastic compilation...i'm also convinced Calvert has never heard anything Dave has ever said on a live remote now.
Ha! So true.
@@dongiller I enjoyed the early ones where LBM would be out of sync with the microphone, so that his or the other's words would be cut off.
Default User All here - ua-cam.com/video/fIIXJpDKaSw/v-deo.html
WHAT
Alan Alda's talent is a sight to behold! 🤩🥰😍
Aww... She was adorable.
I miss tripping up to Vancouver or White Horse etc back in the 90s. Oh Canada 🎶
Letterman clips always put a smile on my face
The Bunny and the Conquistidor look like something David Lynch would come up with. Love the Thrill Cam with Bill Wendell saluting as it flies by!
That's exactly what i always thought. I loved the conquistador and bunny bits so much.
It's weird I haven't seen this footage since it originally aired & remember it like it was yesterday
No, you just think that you do. If you truly remembered it then you could write a full description of what happens BEFORE seeing it again.
Amazing version of "Oh Canada"!
She did a heartfelt job of it! Canada does have a great national anthem!
So that's why Tom Cruise was hardly ever on Dave's show. He was too short
She's so adorable! What an undertaking this compilation must have been - how did you know she was the bunny?
I have the show’s Talent Payment log, which lists both guest and staffer appearances for each show.
@@dongiller ...how? Wait, who or what am I to question the archivist we didn't deserve.
Brings back memories of nights in college
Thanks Cousin Dave..
24:54 That body language lol
Remember the diner on Lex, near the Soviet Mission? Those guys came over in the afternoons to pick up take-out. They stood at the counter, wearing those knit suit jackets from Prostejov that always frayed at the cuff.
Early Letterman was a circus.
God Bless Don Giller
10:10 Would be verrrrrrrrrry interested to see Dave and Lee Marvin. Is it posted? Will have to search and see. Your channel is some kind of national treasure. Great work...
Thanks; both of Lee Marvin's appearances on Late Night have been uploaded by others:
05-16-1985 Letterman Johnny Carson, Lee Marvin, Eddie Van Halen -- ua-cam.com/video/mwjnMVv9gtc/v-deo.html
02 12 1986 Letterman Lee Marvin Chris Elliott - ua-cam.com/video/eDkmJk3J0Hw/v-deo.html
I uploaded a Viewer Mail segment from May 23, 1985, with Lee Marvin, taped a week earlier in L.A. -- ua-cam.com/video/Y_3IqPrEGIw/v-deo.html&spfreload=10
I graduated from LSU in 1982, I wonder if she was there then. At any rate, way to go Bridget, and the LSU Tigers for being the best college team ever, 2019-2020!
"Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs at 10:40
Chis Elliot as the baby in that skit seems like yesterday to me. And yet i totally forgot about Bridgette's recurring on air time. I remember now.
I was 14 when these appearances started. I had a huge crush on her.
Me too!
"wont get fooled again" after the speed kissing was great
Gerry Mulligan's baby!! It is SO good to see that again! I was LMAO then and we didn't even have LMAO. If I could suggest another collection, I'd suggest the Gerry and Chris collection. This just shows what a mistake it was for Dave to get a bigger budget from CBS.
I’ve uploaded both the “Gerry and Baby” and “Gerry and Chris” compilations (Late Night only).
@@dongiller Oh I missed that one!! Great, thank you!
Brilliant collection!! Thanks, Don....I didn't think I'd ever see Bridget Jackson again! I'm sure you have a Meg Parsont collection too, right?
It'll happen after I finish digitizing all of Late Night. Around 85% there.
So great reliving these memories I haven't seen or have been watching on crap VHS "EP" copies for years. Hey Bridget married the first Huckabee I ever heard of, howabout that!
Thing is, all of my own VHS collection was recorded at EP. I just never played the tapes back until I set out to digitize them three decades later.
I think that was the problem with alldavidletterman's uploads: he had made dubs of dubs, each succeeding generation worse than the previous, and while his YT contributions are worthy, they're of god-awful quality.
Yours are much better than mine, and I'm very grateful!
35:48 Ty Dave for the Oh Canada From Canada,Quebec.
Very Beautiful song, one of the best, oh wait, i meant THE best.
At the end Dave saying to Paul, THATS the way it goes.
Full collection here: ua-cam.com/video/LsVe4Q6KhvE/v-deo.html
The little girl still messed up some of the lyrics.
@@billyfouronesix The lyrics were updated in the 1970s.
Chris Elliott was so great on Letterman
His daughter was pretty good on SNL!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Don’t forget about his dad!
@@7rays Chris' dad was on what?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver He was a comedic giant. Bob Elliot.
ua-cam.com/video/MN7fZME4JG0/v-deo.html
I remember watching the bit with Olaf, an awkward segment that was made gold at 33:13.
What did olaf say to Dave before thet hung up ? Can't hear it well _(
@@captainscentsible1811 Olaf said, "Go F*** Yourself." It was censored, but the audience and Dave's reaction was priceless.
@@bainsey89 Bridget almost peed herself laughing!
Remarkable! Can't help but wonder (sort of in Dave's style) if you initiated this massive undertaking on your own or you were encouraged by "special friend" Bridget...
For this collection, on my own. After it was up, I contacted her on Facebook.
@@dongiller Props to you - Facebook rarely even enters my thoughts. Your Late Night knowledge is encyclopedic and makes me a piker!
The total disfunction of these Larry Melman skits make them hilarious.....
Dysfunction too
Bring back letterman! 2023!!!
It's true..... All babies are beautiful
. . . except those made by other men of course
A fabulous babe - huge crush on her - those eyes/that smile (sigh) xo
Don, my memory is fading and I'm probably remembering this all wrong. But do you remember a Late Night episode where Dave kept taking a picture out of his jacket pocket and saying things like "wow" or something like that? And I think he showed the photo to someone he was doing a segment with. I was a teenager at the time but I remember knowing that the picture came from a local DJ here in Alexandria, Louisiana named Gabby from KQID (now Q93) and it was a picture of her in a bikini. I don't think he ever showed it to the camera. I saw it when it aired but haven't seen it since. I hope my memory hasn't completely failed me.
My memory’s a blank on this one.
@@dongiller I'll try to get more info from my brother and friends. It was kind of a big deal to us at the time. I don't remember how much Dave gave away on the air about who sent the picture, I just remember him standing where he does the monologue and taking it out of his inside coat pocket and at one time even showing someone else. I now work at the radio station Gabby used to work at but I never knew her. I'll try to track her down and get the real story. Thanks Don.
@@qthelost Please do! I’m now just as curious as you!
All it needed was a couple of New York Officers Come along and ask to see the permits for the Russian Stand.
The go fund me to build a memorial statue to “Larry” is going quite well. Visit the city, see him, Calvert!
If they stayed married, they celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last month.
They have, and they did. :)
That’s so great!! I wish we knew what became of her. It’s just neat, somehow.
@@dongiller why was she so incredibly miserable doing those nest skits at the end?
Clancy Kobane Because she was uncomfortable being in front of the camera and embarrassed being the focus of attention.
That was one thing about Dave, he realized anyone coud be interesting to viewers, not just celebrities.
Did Don Giller ever write a letter to Viewer Mail
Nope.
that last shout from Larry's first Soviet bullhorn a reference to Star Treks Cekov ?
Letterman show was great to the 1980s. Brigitte is so cute and I has a pretty smile.
Dave must of liked her .. she got alot of airtime ..
must *have liked
must have *liked
Well that raises a question that probably should not be asked.
+Hank Gillette Especially by that Hunter Huckabee guy.
Earthdog BIG BROTHER FAN More like Dave got a lot of air time from her.
Looking back now, I wonder if Paul's comment about "Did you two have a thing before she got married?" hit a little too close to home (after the revelations about 20 years later that he had inappropriate relations with some of his staff members)...
Unexpected Edmonton roast 😂
1900 720-dave doesn't work anymore...dang, I wanted to hear from Bridget
@6:50 Barbara in the staff goes mad angry at Dave 😂😂
24:20 she wipes it off
Hunter is one lucky linguist.
do you have every show recorded?
Yea, though two shows from the early months in 1982 are incomplete.
thats amazing. Thats a lot of videotapes I'm sure
You have no idea. :)
you sir are a bad ass. This is something I would have done but I didn't have the funds to do that growing up. I loved staying up late watching Dave every night when I was supposed to be in bed because it was a school night
Thank you for doing this great service for Letterman fans everywhere.
Hi! How’s bayou?
I'm not the type who likes to start stuff, but I was wondering: Did Dave make Bridget nervous or uncomfy, or was she nervous in general, or was there some other explanation? Again, I ask this in earnest, not to start stuff.
She was just nervous and uncomfortable being on camera. Nothing more nefarious than that.
@@dongiller Thank you. I didn't want to believe it was anything unfriendly on her part, or Dave's, either, for that matter.
Hello, does anybody know what song is played after the "Top Ten Things Edmonton Still Has Going For It", at 1:33:02? ua-cam.com/video/Fk6jbfzaSi8/v-deo.html
It's killing me that I can't remember this song!
“The Mighty Quinn” written by Bob Dylan, a hit by Manfred Mann, heard here - ua-cam.com/video/K13hH0pJx5s/v-deo.html
@@dongiller Ahh, thank you!
Chis as the big baby was hilariou!
Do the Neena Beber collection.
Very few appearances.
@@dongiller True. But indelibly printed on my mind. I remember thinking "who the hell is that?".
it's dada-esque, dave
Paul came off as a superficial hipster but he had layers to him, man, like an onion.
what did olaf say to dave?
with inflation 1988 money to 2017 she was getting over $1000.00 a pop, it's double
Question: about the one, I believe which was the 1st piece in this collection (the one where Bridget is at the microphone, seemingly (?) an audience member & asks Dave why he doesn't have more short people on the show... knowing the Late Night ethos, etc (if that's a fitting description of it), it's difficult to tell, but when she stood at that mic, which, of course, could've easily adjusted the stand so she could've spoken into it w/o standing on her tiptoes...but, was she, at that time, really a "student" at LSU like she said (later on, she does repeatedly mention she's from Louisiana, combined w/her southern accent, so that's true, no doubt) or, was she already on the production staff as a "production runner" (though, at that one skit, she adds "...and assistant", which, I guess, would be plausible, I mean a "production runner" is assisting the others on the staff, especially Dave, since it was his show! I guess I probably answered my own question. I did notice, too, that in your list of the different bits she's in that that one's listed as "Bridget's first scripted part" or something like that... anyway, thanks for compiling all these great old Late Night moments; what an awesome show that was, IMO, the best late night talk-type show that ever was - nothing can touch that these days. Nowadays things are all so much more tight-assed, etc. You know? well, thanks, Don. BTW, Bridget is a cutie & a really good sport about all those things Dave and the rest of the writers, no doubt, had her do.
Bridget had been part of Late Night's Production Staff by the February 4, 1986, "Who Asked For It" segment. She first appeared in the closing credits three days earlier. Her name wasn't included in the previous full closing crawl from December 11, 1985. So when she showed up in the first clip ("With Gerry and Baby") from October 1, 1985, perhaps she was at the time still a student, then serving as one of the Late Night interns. I don't know any of this for sure, only that she's not included on staff then.
And thanks!
Sandra bernhard was on the show a lot back then, but never remember her much on tv. At this time.
Here’s Part 1 (of 3) of all of her Letterman appearances - ua-cam.com/video/ZScqp3nCdTc/v-deo.html
Links to Parts 2 and 3 in the description.
Lee Marvin and Bill Hicks on the same show?!
Almost; Lee Marvin guested February 12, 1986. Bill Hicks was scheduled to appear that night but was bumper until the next day. So while both didn’t appear on the same show, they were both in the green room awaiting their respective entrances onstage.
@@dongiller I eventually saw that. Thank you for making these compilations. It reminds me of staying up late to watch Conan when he was on Late Night.
What was that crazy lady screaming?
33:10 what did Olaf say ? i can't hear it and i'd love to know
53:15 Dave and Amy were married ???
1:08:45 What a lovely bribe :o)
Man what a great compilation - again !
Ah , the question was already asked and answered halfway down the comments : "Go F* yourself"
@@FlockOfHawks i guessed that's what he said yet i still couldn't hear it clearly.
Did Olav curse "F*** yourself" at 33:12?
I believe he did.
I wonder if they are still married. Wish I could say he was lucky.
They are, happily.
@@dongiller cool - that's a long marriage now, longer now than Dave's talkshow host career.
Messin' with Soviets
I DIDNT FREAKIN RECOGNIZE HER FROM BEGINNING UNTIL ALAN ALDA ! YEA NNOOWW I KNOW HER 😖 dang what is wrong with me
lips, slow down, yea thats understandable
she looks a lot like Bridget Phetasy.
It happened again.
@ 1:15:09 IT'S VITO!
Wonder where she is now
😆😆
WHAT did Olaf say about the gifts?
Something along the lines of GFY.
@@dongiller Not even in Russian! The nerve!
1:22 - Wow, a Top 10 about climate change in 1988.
sure why not ? the climate had been changing for billions of years :o)
@@FlockOfHawks But *we* have only been changing it for 100 years and change, and it didn't start becoming a mainstream hot button topic until quite a while after this aired.
True , @@yohei72 : our impact is disastrous , and has been building up since the early 19th century , and in the 1960s people began to notice and warn about what went wrong , we were ridiculed .
I had high hopes that Covi might make a difference , like in killing 90% of the human plague , but alas it didn't , Earth will suffer further , nothing will change . Maybe the next virus is better .
@@FlockOfHawks Get out of her with your psycho fantasies of mass death.
We don't have to choose between human life and a sustainable civilization - we can have both if we make some socioeconomic and technological changes.
@@Plisken65 Yeeeaah, and we took regulatory and technological steps to respond to them, successfully reducing the problems. Now we need to do the same with the climate emergency. You realize that sometimes things change in 30 years, right?
5:10 begging Soviets to immigrate. how things have changed in America.
1:23:00 > climate change was already a major topic 30+ years ago.
I have weather books from the 1950s where it's mentioned.
What did Olaf say to David? I played it back a few times, but wasn’t sure.
He said "Go fuck yourself."
Of course I was joking. Old fans of Dave's are given to jesting.
Bridget was so sweet! Whatever became of her?
I heard she got married and moved to Seattle.
Cam girl
paid assassin
She ♥ed a Hucakaby and lived happily ever after.
She's on the ISS now
Marry me Bridget
Alda, comb over.
5'4" is average height for a woman.
5'9" for American women
@@ABCDEFG-bk9gx *that* high ? where then do you place your ashtrays and empty glasses ?
@@ABCDEFG-bk9gx *men