This was the first time I ever saw David Letterman and that first letter solidified my years long enjoyment. Every time I think about the show I went back to that letter and here it is again. Immortalized.
@@Barny-26 I wrote a blog essay on the origins and history of Viewer Mail, along with a PDF spreadsheet of every letter writer and location on both the morning show and Late Night, 1980 and 1982-93.
All of the Dutch people I know are very tall and broad shouldered. (It might be worth noting that I only know one couple and their three adult children.)
At the end of one particular Viewer Mail that essentially had gone 0-5 Dave said something like ‘It’s as quiet in here as in a carpet showroom.’ It might have been the first Friday night show of January, 1988, or at least that month.
This was the first time I ever saw David Letterman and that first letter solidified my years long enjoyment. Every time I think about the show I went back to that letter and here it is again. Immortalized.
Someone had fun painting "Sad Paul"
The Sad Paul gag was very funny and touching. The classics will truly never fade away.
This is my sister's letter. She was 19 and I was 22.
@@Barny-26 No, the letters were always real. The first head writer Merrill Markoe came up with the idea of answering the viewer mail.
@@Barny-26 I wrote a blog essay on the origins and history of Viewer Mail, along with a PDF spreadsheet of every letter writer and location on both the morning show and Late Night, 1980 and 1982-93.
Even the bad Letterman clips are like gold!
So much funnier at NBC than the show at CBS. Cheap, low budget humor, and gags that don't work, man, I laughed so hard.
I'm still waiting delivery of my "Sad Paul".
Nice to see the 'Sad Paul' painting getting the credit it deserves, hanging next to Gericault's 'The Raft of the Medusa' in the Louvre.
:D
All of the Dutch people I know are very tall and broad shouldered. (It might be worth noting that I only know one couple and their three adult children.)
Sad Paul is even funnier peeking over the edge of Dave’s desk.
I love Paul, ❤️ he was always dependable. Stay all those years. Do they still make Schaeffer pens. 🤔
I love comedy when it doesn't work.
At the end of one particular Viewer Mail that essentially had gone 0-5 Dave said something like ‘It’s as quiet in here as in a carpet showroom.’
It might have been the first Friday night show of January, 1988, or at least that month.
I recommend 'cool cat saves the kids' if you enjoy a dumpster fire of a media project 🖖
I think they wanted it to be dumb
That was some snarky Viewermail!!
Ham inspector - No OFF position to the genius switch. 🥃🍻🧦
Haha, that's awesome! Did Margaret Keane paint the "Sad Paul" painting?
What I was thinking, when did Dave quit throwing ✏️ pencils at the camera, glass breaking sound 🤔
Dave loved jokes about ham.
dave king of late night
Haha it was the kind of awkward surreal that Adult Swim took to extremes.
I miss the early years of awkwardness. The CBS era was slick.
A clear case of flop sweat😅
Are two of the Dutch Masters Steve O’Donnell and Jeff Martin?
Yes
The third is Matt Wickline.
@@dongiller Thanks Don!
@@dongiller Thanks, Donz! (Fare thee well, alt.fan.letterman.)
Does anyone own "Sad Paul"?
uuoyckf.... lol.
First And very funny! 😂
This video should be deleted
why?
@@sozzlish Disastrously unfunny 😂
Reminds me of a question Dave asked Arnie Barnes:
“Do you get the show? I mean, I know you get it, but do you get it?”