Staff Favorite Moments: Writer Bill Scheft | Letterman

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • The longtime Letterman writer talks about the first joke he ever wrote for Dave, giving Bill Clinton his winning slogan and the longest laugh in the history of the show.
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    Welcome to the Letterman UA-cam Channel, home to all your favorite clips from Late Night and Late Show - as well as conversations with the writers, producers and performers who helped make it all happen. These highlights have been artisanally-produced, carefully-curated, and chosen completely at random by an old computer that used to pick numbers for the New York Lotto back in the 90’s.

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  • @illygah
    @illygah Рік тому +29

    I don't think this one had an ending. I love the way it finished (I'm laughing, it was funny) but that last sentence never ended. God Bless Barbara and Bill and Jim and Don and Dave and Chris and Merrill and Gerard! Merry Christmas, all of us!

    • @billscheftyoutube
      @billscheftyoutube Рік тому +25

      The last sentence, which I eventually got to when Barbara and I stopped giggling, was "I just wanted to get that stare from him. I had made him laugh enough. When I said something that he knew was funny but couldn't laugh at, he would just stare at me. That was my goal...."

  • @cactaceous
    @cactaceous Рік тому +46

    I loved the shows more than anyone can love anything. These staff moments I love just as much. They make my day.

  • @Bernstorm5000
    @Bernstorm5000 Рік тому +14

    Don't know why I didn't watch all these when you posted them. I am finally catching up on all these "Staff Favorite Moments" posts. To Dave, Barbara, Mary and the Pants team, these are fantastic. Congrats. I remember a majority of these clips, but this concept of highlights with back stories is just perfect. Probably better than posting old episodes. Love the extra context which sometimes makes these segments even funnier. Keep it up-and thank you.

  • @Mo_Taser
    @Mo_Taser Рік тому +38

    That contained a totally unexpected heart warming moment.

    • @daniellecyr6169
      @daniellecyr6169 Рік тому +2

      I just finished watching the video 10 seconds ago and now I'm going to have to go back and re-watch to remember what that heart warming moment was! 😂

  • @chattiermike140
    @chattiermike140 Рік тому +10

    Loved Joe Grossmans acting on the show. Need a video from him on the channel.

  • @maxjanssen9616
    @maxjanssen9616 Рік тому +18

    The blue card note incident killed me.

  • @OTOss8
    @OTOss8 Рік тому +17

    This was excellent. It's wonderful to hear from the writers who took up the tremendous challenge to slake our burning thirst for humour using only the pungent and oft-times florid sweat born of their toil. Cheers.

    • @GPSjammer
      @GPSjammer Рік тому +5

      Somebody found the thesaurus

    • @OTOss8
      @OTOss8 Рік тому +2

      @@GPSjammer Oh the prose is intentionally purple but those are hardly thesauran words. If I were deep into the thesaurus I would have found more lurid words to replace things like "excellent, wonderful, hear, writers, tremendous, challenge, toil" etc. you get the point. Cheers bud.

  • @plaws0
    @plaws0 Рік тому +6

    First, Mr Scheft, thanks. Second, right there with you on the de-raisining of the oatmeal-raisin cookie. Personally, I would *also* remove the oatmeal, but that's just me.

    • @cactaceous
      @cactaceous Рік тому +6

      There is no need for raisins to coexist with oatmeal. Let alone in a cookie! I would Scheft raisins out of my oatmeal cookie too. Any day.

  • @clairrice7290
    @clairrice7290 Рік тому +8

    Great show. Once got a speeding ticket racing home to catch the open.

  • @deborahhansen7516
    @deborahhansen7516 Рік тому +5

    OMG, “I’m being told he’s ok.” I am dying.

  • @westleywest7259
    @westleywest7259 Рік тому +7

    Hey Dave and Late Night. I thought I’d seen every bit on every episode! But there’s always something I missed. Seeing these now, is one of the best things in Media World there is to watch. These are great! I look forward to the next and next and next…
    Thanks!

  • @sunshinegirl1655
    @sunshinegirl1655 Рік тому +17

    16:20🤣 Sounds like she had been wanting to say this for a long time. I miss watching this show every night. Thanks Don.

    • @dongiller
      @dongiller Рік тому +4

      Walter’s name has a funny spelling here.

  • @bernlin2000
    @bernlin2000 Рік тому +5

    Bill will forever be impressed on my memory for goading Letterman to try and play an Eagles song on the air, potentially costing the show hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees 🤣 great moment in the later years.

  • @rickbecler7268
    @rickbecler7268 Рік тому +3

    Sorry I hit send too soon haha. My name is Rick I was one of your satellite uplink engineers when you're in San Francisco in the 90s, I also worked on all the Manny the hippie remotes after you went back to New York. Do you think you guys could show some video from that week and also from the Manny the hippie segments, thanks! You still Rock Dave!

  • @robclarkson5356
    @robclarkson5356 Рік тому +6

    Loved every second of this, thanks!

  • @tvviewer4500
    @tvviewer4500 Рік тому +5

    I love these retrospectives. These are really treasures

  • @paulocuaresma9480
    @paulocuaresma9480 Рік тому +7

    More staff favorite moments 🤩 Thanks Don

    • @dongiller
      @dongiller Рік тому +3

      You’re welcome? I’d love to take credit, but this, and everything else shared on this channel, is all Walter.

    • @paulocuaresma9480
      @paulocuaresma9480 Рік тому +3

      @@dongiller Thank you so much Walter too for making this channel great 🙏🙏 I was laughing so much on the vomit bit as I just finish Gaines favorite moment 😂😅🤣

  • @UpstateMediaNY
    @UpstateMediaNY Рік тому +3

    "PAUL!" with theme music courtesy of R.E.M. Nice!!!

  • @MrEvans1973
    @MrEvans1973 Рік тому +2

    Somewhere, I still have a VHS tape with the “Where the hell is Paul?” when Dave found him at Roseland jamming with Bob Dylan and his band. October ‘94.

    • @daniellecyr6169
      @daniellecyr6169 Рік тому

      I have a few VHS tapes at my mom's place. No longer have a VCR to play them on though so have no idea what's on them!!

  • @rickbecler7268
    @rickbecler7268 Рік тому +2

    Oh I forgot to tell you that when Manny went to see a movie for the show, don't know what movie it was, he hit on my fiance, it made me laugh

  • @GrantTarredus
    @GrantTarredus Рік тому +3

    Bill, you made my life happier by going to work every day. So I thank you!

  • @sojournersunrise2290
    @sojournersunrise2290 Рік тому +3

    11:00"get a bucket, Dave!!"

  • @LordMarlle
    @LordMarlle Рік тому +1

    I have no idea why, but that cookie bit was amazing

  • @Plisken65
    @Plisken65 6 місяців тому +1

    NBC Dave was funnier.

  • @jimsmith3091
    @jimsmith3091 Рік тому +2

    Guy just looks like a comedy writer.

  • @MrAlwon23
    @MrAlwon23 Рік тому +1

    What exactly is going on with that cookie? Are you picking raisins out?

  • @freeadrian1144
    @freeadrian1144 Рік тому +1

    15:16 It is close, but I think Tom Malone's ATM joke may have it beat.

  • @Brian-uy2tj
    @Brian-uy2tj Місяць тому

    I take it he doesn't like raisins in his cookies?
    I felt like I was at the zoo watching a monkey pick "whatever" off of his buddy and nibble on it.

  • @jjryan1352
    @jjryan1352 Рік тому +1

    For a second I could have sworn he was Mr. Lippmann from Seinfeld.

  • @Orangeflava
    @Orangeflava Рік тому +1

    Is this Richard Fancy aka Mr. Lippman aka Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld? 😅

  • @sojournersunrise2290
    @sojournersunrise2290 Рік тому +2

    good times

  • @mjgoodson
    @mjgoodson Рік тому +2

    Good stuff, Maynard

  • @HHH-ye1ro
    @HHH-ye1ro Місяць тому

    And…we are off to a hilarious start. 🙄🙄🙄

  • @assmane999
    @assmane999 Рік тому +5

    “Oh, I forgot to plug it in. It’s still Urine” 😂

  • @MD-wk3gj
    @MD-wk3gj Рік тому +1

    These Staff Favorites are so funny.

  • @briant6669
    @briant6669 4 місяці тому

    WTF was he taking out of the cookie?

  • @jlynn468
    @jlynn468 Рік тому +1

    I forgot to plug it in lol.

  • @Bernard91784
    @Bernard91784 Рік тому

    Bills’ the best loved seeing him on set in the sports jacket with a rolled up show program in the jacket pocket..!
    Thanx for the laughs Mr Scheft! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @AaronJohnson-mo8rf
    @AaronJohnson-mo8rf Рік тому

    the "i will not be berated this way" bit is hilarious
    i got a chuckle from that

  • @alansmemoriesofnothingands8029

    I think Joe Grossman should've taken over the Late Show.

  • @hamsandwichson
    @hamsandwichson Рік тому

    Dude looks like he just stepped out of the Ed Sullivan theater.

  • @thomassalyers1391
    @thomassalyers1391 Рік тому +2

    Thanks Bill,, incredibly cool,,,

  • @hinthegroove9740
    @hinthegroove9740 Рік тому

    Thanks for the good times

  • @proto-geek248
    @proto-geek248 Рік тому

    These videos are great 👍

  • @rjonzun5828
    @rjonzun5828 Рік тому +17

    We don't have a clue but we don't have a Quayle. Wow. Late shows hitting both sides. Remember those days?

    • @yohei72
      @yohei72 Рік тому +4

      Well, that was before one side went full fascist.

    • @yohei72
      @yohei72 Рік тому +1

      Well, that was before one side went full fascist.

    • @briant6669
      @briant6669 4 місяці тому

      Yeah the dems have gone full authoritarian.

    • @tdward23
      @tdward23 26 днів тому

      ​@@yohei72😂😂😂

    • @tdward23
      @tdward23 26 днів тому

      ​@@yohei72😅😅😅

  • @rickbecler7268
    @rickbecler7268 Рік тому

    Hi Dave, Love You!

  • @SamCanada1
    @SamCanada1 Рік тому

    👍

  • @pauld.172
    @pauld.172 Рік тому +1

    Bill is clearly a funny, likable guy and I was a regular viewer until the last show.
    Still, regarding the later CBS years, so much of the comedy outside of the monologue seemed to be ‘gratuitous, marginally funny running gags.’
    Alternately, author Bill Carter called it thin gruel.

  • @danevans6812
    @danevans6812 Рік тому +3

    Sure likes to talk about himself.

    • @billscheftyoutube
      @billscheftyoutube Рік тому +13

      Well, if I won't talk about me, who will?

    • @ineedausernamenow999
      @ineedausernamenow999 Рік тому +2

      @@billscheftyoutube can I double like your comment? Loved listening to you on the Carson podcast

    • @billscheftyoutube
      @billscheftyoutube Рік тому +4

      @@ineedausernamenow999 Thanks for remembering....

    • @d.e.7467
      @d.e.7467 Рік тому

      @@billscheftyoutube I didn't know that you were responsible for the oil dip stick bit but I've always remembered it and thought it was absolutely hilarious. My reaction would have been far different than the tow truck driver. He must have seen a lot of weird behavior and become jaded. Thanks for the grememoryat memory.

  • @haydenwilliams1114
    @haydenwilliams1114 Рік тому

    Bye-bye, Cindy. Best wishes to you.

  • @assmane999
    @assmane999 Рік тому +2

    Wtf…that cookie part seems like a glimpse inside the mind of a psychopath

    • @DanK123
      @DanK123 Рік тому +1

      I think maybe he was removing.....raisins?

    • @assmane999
      @assmane999 Рік тому +1

      @@DanK123 well, he did it in a very insane way

    • @DanK123
      @DanK123 Рік тому +1

      @@assmane999 To each his own insanity.