Fan Request: Parallel Parking On 53rd Street | Letterman

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  • Опубліковано 29 чер 2023
  • Fan Friday Request:
    "Dave and company,
    How about some of the kids trying (and failing) to parallel park on the street? Your channel make my day every day.
    -Mike Seaton, Las Vegas"
    (From "Late Show," air date: 4/7/99)
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  • @hinthegroove9740
    @hinthegroove9740 Рік тому +62

    Only Dave and his team can turn parking a car into something I wanna watch twice 😊

    • @c.r.harris
      @c.r.harris Рік тому +3

      👍🏽😂👍🏽

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +7

      That's why Dave is a legend --- he could convince millions of people to spend 20 minutes watching nervous teens park cars 😂

    • @anitajinfla9762
      @anitajinfla9762 Рік тому +2

      Agree...😅😅

  • @Des_Zee
    @Des_Zee Рік тому +27

    It was little skits like this that made Dave must watch TV 🤣

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +6

      I really miss Dave --- he made the 80's and 90's seem so fun in a very wholesome way, without swearing and other offensive stuff

  • @danadominguez5760
    @danadominguez5760 Рік тому +19

    The technical and directing team behind this bit were brilliant. Hats off to everyone involved.

  • @tonymaher3034
    @tonymaher3034 Рік тому +19

    I was yelling "cut the wheel!!, Turn turn turn!. I never realized how fascinating it is to watch people try to parallel park

    • @elizabethlarson9655
      @elizabethlarson9655 Рік тому +3

      Same here!

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +1

      I love this clip because it reminds me how awkward and nervous I was as a teen male in the 80's who was really skinny with zits all over my face --- if somebody said I was gonna be on national TV doing parallel parking I would've cried and shat my pants LOL

    • @trekkiejunk
      @trekkiejunk 2 місяці тому

      Every now and again, i'm on my 3rd floor balcony, and i catch someone trying to parallel park. You can tell the ones that don't live in the city, because they have no idea what they're doing.

  • @illiamdeebe7579
    @illiamdeebe7579 Рік тому +21

    What a great bit. It was riveting and anything where Dave can improv to a live situation always works.

  • @bartholomewcubbins9723
    @bartholomewcubbins9723 Рік тому +15

    Parallel parking as spectator sport 👍 No pressure, kids!

  • @lorip.1110
    @lorip.1110 Рік тому +15

    Paul earned an extra 10 points on his driving test for wearing that smart-looking sweater vest.

  • @TTM9691
    @TTM9691 Рік тому +14

    The camerawork (and directing/editing) of this bit was brilliant. There's the Letterman Show, and then there's all the rest, doing Letterman. Everyone freely acknowledges it! When you see the original article again, like this clip, the contrast is unsubtle. I'm so happy Dave has this channel!!!!! What a wonderful way to go through the archives! I have a weird musical request: Eric Burdon once came on and sang "C.C. Rider" and Paul played an incredible solo, one that I used to rewind and watch over and over again. This would have been in the 80s, like '84, '85. Possibly the summer. Would love to see that again!

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +5

      I still can't figure out why Leno had better ratings than Letterman in the 90's --- Dave was still doing original and funny bits like this one while Jay was just sitting at a desk making lame commentary with celebrities --- Letterman had way more comedic talent

    • @rattalesbostonrockroll4960
      @rattalesbostonrockroll4960 Рік тому +2

      @@JoeZaccaris Leno watered himself down to mush. Letterman always kept an edge. Most people don't like an edge, they like mush. Now it's all mush.

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +1

      @@rattalesbostonrockroll4960 yes I agree, and it always baffled me why Leno held the #1 ratings over Letteman in the 90's --- Leno had more A-listers I guess, but Letterman was far superior with the comedic wit which made him a lot more entertaining

    • @TTM9691
      @TTM9691 Рік тому +1

      @@robertgoerss Absolutely.

  • @DaneOrschlovsky
    @DaneOrschlovsky Рік тому +17

    No pressure, kids! You know what they say, if ya can parallel park here, you can parallel park it anywhere.

  • @mmegraham
    @mmegraham Рік тому +9

    G-d bless Dave and his social media people. I needed this: this summer's time to teach my kid to drive!

  • @rocketreindeer
    @rocketreindeer Рік тому +5

    The thing is, when this was on, I took it for granted. Now, nobody does this kind of stuff. This is still hilarious decades later, but if one of today's guys did it it would probably be try-hard and unfunny. So I'm grateful for the lightning in a bottle of Dave and his writers, and Ruperts and Pat Farmers.

  • @oldmoviesinbwwithsubtitles3501

    This was hysterical !

  • @RichardHandal301
    @RichardHandal301 Рік тому +7

    "This is the only thing on CBS right now."

  • @Soulbrothersunny
    @Soulbrothersunny 3 місяці тому +1

    the crowd cheering for him is the most wholesome things ive seen this month.

  • @dehydratedwater9806
    @dehydratedwater9806 Рік тому +6

    In 75 driver's Ed was the highlight of my school year. I transferred schools in the middle of the term and the only class with room was an all girl class.

    • @WW-wf8tu
      @WW-wf8tu Рік тому +4

      If you are a female that means nothing. If you are a guy, that is a bonus. lol I had a few all girl classes that the "men" would have nothing to do with. Let me tell you what, when the guys jaws were dropping because I am strutting around with girls talking to me in the halls and giving them rides home, I had the last laugh. 😏 Typing, simulated model office, ten key, basic programing and cooking were not on the top of the tuff guy list of electives. But each and every 1 of those things set me decades ahead of my male piers. As well as the attention and respect of a lot of girls. (btw, I also took auto shop, weight lifting, advanced swimming to name just a few others too. lol)

    • @dehydratedwater9806
      @dehydratedwater9806 Рік тому

      @@WW-wf8tu yeah, I'm a guy.

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +1

      @@WW-wf8tu I never saw the benefit of all-girl classes in high school --- I wasn't gonna take business or home ec just to have girls around me LOL --- the only time I had for girls was maybe on a Friday night if they were drunk and wanted to make out

  • @AD-Dom
    @AD-Dom Рік тому +4

    Right up on that curb. Haha perfect

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +2

      You can tell Dave is a New Yorker because they all do that in NYC 👍

  • @nazaretsalinas9997
    @nazaretsalinas9997 2 місяці тому

    I have my parallel park test tomorrow, and I'm watching this for inspiration

  • @cgimovieman
    @cgimovieman Рік тому +4

    God I miss Dave. He had the greatest bits. I even had a Letterman cake with a top 10 list at my high school open house, and went to college for broadcasting. These kids are pretty much from my generation. Just 2-3 years younger. Nice to hear teens who are fairly well-spoken and not saying “like” every other word. 🙄 I doubt if most teens today can parallel park. Or most adults for that matter. A few of these cars are real boats by today’s standards too, and with no backup cameras or parking assist lines. My first car was a stick, and I can remember parallel parking in my driver’s test. As I remember I did okay. Not perfect, but passable. I feel like driver’s tests used to be harder than today. Or at least judging by the ways people drive they must have been. I regularly see people driving with their lights off at night, not using their turn signals, not knowing how to use a roundabout, not stopping at stop signs, and every other thing imaginable. Drives me nuts. No pun intended. 🚘

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +2

      I miss the 90's which is the last decade teens seemed respectful --- they lost all that now and enjoy being rude to everyone

    • @frankfranks1741
      @frankfranks1741 2 місяці тому

      @@kerzytibok3211 So true.

  • @dkthales
    @dkthales Рік тому +3

    I was yelling instructions at the monitor the whole time lol

  • @sojournersunrise2290
    @sojournersunrise2290 Рік тому +4

    Dave's on that one wheel motion

  • @oldmoviesinbwwithsubtitles3501

    They need to get closer to the red car

  • @JCO2002
    @JCO2002 Рік тому +7

    I drive a Land Rover here in Jamaica, so parallel parking isn't a thing that usually happens, but I know how to do it. They're all starting too far back and too far from the car parked to the side of them.

    • @johnsilva9139
      @johnsilva9139 Рік тому +3

      Yes. They started from the wrong position ( except Dave ) which made it almost impossible to pull in smoothly in one try. Surprised their fathers didn't coach them better. Guess they learned as they got more practice.

    • @JCO2002
      @JCO2002 Рік тому +3

      @@johnsilva9139 It would have been interesting to see the fathers try after the kids :-)

  • @S1L3NTG4M3R
    @S1L3NTG4M3R Рік тому +6

    Have a happy 4th of July!!!

    • @JCO2002
      @JCO2002 Рік тому +1

      Why? I'm not a Yank. Means nothing to me.

    • @lorip.1110
      @lorip.1110 Рік тому +3

      ​@@JCO2002psst...he's talking to Dave, not you, Salty.

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +1

      @@JCO2002 4th of July doesn't mean that much to Yanks anyway --- just an excuse to drink beer and shoot off fireworks

    • @JCO2002
      @JCO2002 Рік тому

      @@kerzytibok3211 Lol. Cool.

  • @robclarkson5356
    @robclarkson5356 Рік тому +2

    "Ooooh lord..."

  • @anitajinfla9762
    @anitajinfla9762 Рік тому +2

    Dave to Danielle: Dont discount the wind....you gotta little wind there.😅😅😅

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +1

      LOL that is a classic Dave-ism 😅

  • @LightningBoltJpS
    @LightningBoltJpS Рік тому +3

    How do you put in viewer requests? I’d like to see a compilation of Dave’s interactions with that robot arm thing that used to hand him the viewer mail on Late Night. That would probably be a lot of work, but somebody should do it.

  • @anotherb7068
    @anotherb7068 Рік тому +3

    This was so awesome

  • @lynnturman8157
    @lynnturman8157 Рік тому +6

    As Woody Allen would say: "That's okay. We can walk to the curb from here."

    • @trekkiejunk
      @trekkiejunk 2 місяці тому

      Letterman already made that joke.

    • @lynnturman8157
      @lynnturman8157 2 місяці тому

      @@trekkiejunk Not before Woody Allen did.

  • @ronflatter1235
    @ronflatter1235 Рік тому +3

    These kids are 40 now.

  • @rsgabrys----
    @rsgabrys---- Рік тому +3

    ------------------------- bumper car ride ....life is a carnival.....

  • @robinr.berardini4792
    @robinr.berardini4792 Рік тому +2

    Omgosh 😆

  • @edub9930
    @edub9930 Рік тому +1

    Better than anything on late night today put together 😂👌

  • @stevenmorrison4692
    @stevenmorrison4692 Рік тому +1

    I like how the show is obviously filmed in the day time considering the fact it would be dark outside if it was on at 11:30 pm.

    • @dip_trippy
      @dip_trippy Рік тому

      They would tape in afternoon

    • @trekkiejunk
      @trekkiejunk 2 місяці тому

      Yeah, every late night talk show has done that for the last 60 years.

  • @anotherb7068
    @anotherb7068 Рік тому +1

    Ty

  • @ronflatter1235
    @ronflatter1235 Рік тому +2

    LMFAO

  • @TheLadsBandLive
    @TheLadsBandLive Рік тому +2

    These kids are all 40, now. 😳

  • @cokesquirrel
    @cokesquirrel 11 місяців тому

    When I lived in china 1 of my favorite things to do was watching people with $ 500,000 sports cars trying to parallel park. 90% of them failed

  • @wiedep
    @wiedep Місяць тому

    Fair Lawn NJ, home of Ken's Magic Shop as featured on The Uncle Floyd Show.
    Does driving with an IFB in your ear constitute distracted driving?

  • @AR-ed3xw
    @AR-ed3xw Рік тому +2

    Surprised Jay didn't show up to change everyone's fuel filter or something

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +3

      Jay was never that funny --- he'd take this bit and just make fun of the kids for not knowing how a carburetor works --- he was an ass

  • @doctortheopolis3122
    @doctortheopolis3122 Рік тому +6

    What ever happened to automatic seatbelts?

    • @johnsilva9139
      @johnsilva9139 Рік тому +3

      Good question.

    • @Des_Zee
      @Des_Zee Рік тому +3

      Lawsuits

    • @kerzytibok3211
      @kerzytibok3211 Рік тому +2

      My sister's car in 1990 had one --- I think they disappeared quickly after that --- they were actually kinda dangerous?

  • @seanoneill5799
    @seanoneill5799 Рік тому +3

    Not one of them had their right turn signal on to park. Just saying.

  • @randyastle3301
    @randyastle3301 3 місяці тому

    This is why I haven’t owned a car since I moved to NY in 2002. Driving’s okay, but parking’s, um, not.

    • @trekkiejunk
      @trekkiejunk 2 місяці тому

      I don't mind parking at all. It's finding the space that's the nightmare.

  • @anitajinfla9762
    @anitajinfla9762 Рік тому +1

    12:26 Danielle nor her Dad wearing seatbelts. 🤔

  • @johnnynbk
    @johnnynbk 4 місяці тому

    Parallel parking with ppl watching, horror trip.

  • @UberDurable
    @UberDurable Рік тому +1

    What are they teaching them at driving school?

    • @JoeZaccaris
      @JoeZaccaris Рік тому +1

      I took Driver's Ed in high school and it was a boring class --- until the day when the teacher showed us graphic crash films --- mangled bodies!

  • @sappysuds4545
    @sappysuds4545 3 місяці тому

    Who is wondering what happened to divers ed in school?