You're right! Johnny wrongly assumed that Letterman would take his place when he retired. When all that crud started, Dave flew out to talk with Johnny about what he should do. Carson told him not to let NBC do that to him and take the CBS offer. When Dave started on CBS, Carson would send him jokes. Letterman told the jokes, but at the time, no one knew that Carson was sending some jokes. He was really pleased with Letterman. Johnny did love Dave like a son, and he had such respect for him and vice versa.
@Harrison Ford will kill someone with his plane That is total BS! Letterman was awesome all the way through May 20, 2015. Even on a bad night, he was ten times better than the clowns doing late night today.
Not always clean, but always funny and entertaining! So much more than what the TV networks are offering up today. When Johnny Carson retired, that was the beginning of the end of late night television. When Dave retired, I switched to Gin!
Dave was so darn funny! Naturally quick witted, ...the stuff he came up with off the top of his head, amazing. What a great clip. I think Johnny saw and really admired his talent.
I watch these whenever they “pop up”. As a child in the 60s and 70s….the references are spot on! And Lorraine’s response to what Sandy Duncan was really like? OMG….I LOLed for 10 minutes!
iconoclast My politics and comedic interests are totally separate. I am unbiased when it comes to comedy, I can enjoy jokes that make fun of the left and democrats, unlike you who can only enjoy jokes if they are in your political interest. Who looks like the intelligent one out of these two categories then?
My favorite visit of his to the Tonight Show was the one where he flew out on the first of the big name discount airlines, Laker Airways, which he described as being for people who couldn’t afford to take the bus, and where everything you did in the lavatory was a bank shot.
Back when he still wore light colored jackets. I absolutely love him in one too, especially with real shoes on LOL and the shaggy curly hair and the sun tan. He went through so many subtle style changes. This one his eyebrows look lighter than his skin haha.
This isn't a comment on the video, but on the name of the channel. "Napkin Botany" is one of the strangest non-sequitur phrases I've ever read. I love it!
"Thank you very much." "How are you?" "Nice to see ya'." ...David walks on to Johnny's set as a guest but speaks like he's the host! He says the same things he says on his own show to his own guests... I guess once you're a host you can't act any other way, lol.
Dave's right about how safe it is to fly. Where it breaks down, statistically, is if there's an accident. I try to avoid either, but I'd rather be involved in a car crash than an airplane crash.
jack. we're supposed to discuss about throwing a big party johnny carson . oh big party huh ed mcmahon. yeah sure joan rivers. well i'm ready piggy and kermit. let's get this party started!
jack. we're supposed to discuss about throwing a big party johnny carson. oh big party huh ed mcmahon. yeah sure joan rivers . well i'm ready piggy . let's get this party started kermit. woo hoo!
Can see why Johnny liked Dave and not Leno. Leno didn't engage like that in real conversation. Instead, he rocked back and forth and slapped his hands together - a weak substitute for intelligent conversation.
I was forced to share this on Facebook along with the following introduction: "THAT'S THE THING YA KNOW... IT'S LIKE... ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER and before ya know it, you're watching a grown man, dressed in Velcro, jump on a trampoline and stick to the counter part of that Velcro, which is covering a wall... Now why would anyone do that? I mean, ya gotta ask yourself... right? That is to say, why would you stick around, (no pun intended) long enough to see that? Still, for your own well being and peace of mind; I highly suggest you do, because, you could very-well prove a bit of Holy Scripture by doing so... (Proverbs 17:22) Seriously!"
I remember trying to watch Dave’s morning show during the summer of 1980 while I was in Corpus Christi but the NBC affiliate KRIS wasn’t showing it. I was 10 years old staying at my aunts house. I was flipping the dial and I caught an out of town signal on channel 12, real fuzzy but I could tell what show it was. I don’t know how I knew about David Letterman but I was also watching the night of the first Late Night
Omg my dad has that same suit n tie DL Is wearing still In his closet 🥴😳😳 after all these yrs.... He jus refuses to buy new ones!! and keeps the old ones.... fermenting in his closet
Bad... but Dave can get away with it... because he has the perfect reaction to his own less-successful efforts. It blends into the whole performance. I can’t think of many others who could of played that off as well as he did.
Growing up in my days nobody, and I mean nobody was off limits. So that meant you had 3 options: 1 learned to give as good as you got. 2 laugh it off and ignore it 3 get angry, show your emotions and because of that better run away because the teasing would turn even louder and worse. Personally I went for number 2. As I got older I realized that kids can be really cruel because to a point they don't know better, but after certain age one has to considered more carefully what is funny and what is simply cruel not just to you but for the other person.
@@rustymertz that is because you never wore a 2500 Armani suit from the 80's and 90's. Suits today are none functional. One of the best dressed guys in Steve Harvey. His tailor is the balls.
I still remember this velcro stunt when it was live. I loved both Johnny Carson and David Letterman shows!
Johnny loved Dave and they always had great chemistry together. Spent 40 incredible years watching these two legends.
You're right! Johnny wrongly assumed that Letterman would take his place when he retired. When all that crud started, Dave flew out to talk with Johnny about what he should do. Carson told him not to let NBC do that to him and take the CBS offer. When Dave started on CBS, Carson would send him jokes. Letterman told the jokes, but at the time, no one knew that Carson was sending some jokes. He was really pleased with Letterman. Johnny did love Dave like a son, and he had such respect for him and vice versa.
@@cubnation NBC has always, and still does have issues.0
@Harrison Ford will kill someone with his plane That is total BS! Letterman was awesome all the way through May 20, 2015. Even on a bad night, he was ten times better than the clowns doing late night today.
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I thought Carson was a much better host...never liked the way Letterman always tried to upstage and clown his guests
Glad to see my two favorite late night hosts getting along so well!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
David Letterman super super talent
"Hi Ed," a perfect master stroke. The death stroke, the killing joke. Seriously, perfect timing
Reminded me of Charles Nelson Reilly, who would also turn and say hell to Ed or whoever the previous guest was with the same timing and cadence.
Letterman was always so self deprecating even when he was killing it. That was something I always liked about him. Hilarious!
now he's an old liberal asshole
Shin Igami He lost it and turned into an arrogant liberal
I think we found 2 of the 20 assholes giving this amazing video thumbs down.
This is when he was funny. Then he turned into the liberal asshole that turned half the country off.
@@livejay9062 it's funny that he is a liberal asshole but they're fine with a traitorous liar undermining their country.
I hope and pray there’s a place in heaven and Carson as got the tonight show 😢 god bless him and he’s missed so bad and long may David live 💚
Carson at 11:30pm and Letterman at 12:30am. You will never have two must see shows back to back like that again!
I used to watch both of these gentlemen in the eighties. Great “clean” comedy. Two legends of late night t.v! Wonderful chemistry!
Not always clean, but always funny and entertaining! So much more than what the TV networks are offering up today. When Johnny Carson retired, that was the beginning of the end of late night television. When Dave retired, I switched to Gin!
@@kevinstephenson3880 Tonight Show is sad today, Fallon is about as funny as a train wreck
Dave was so darn funny! Naturally quick witted, ...the stuff he came up with off the top of his head, amazing. What a great clip. I think Johnny saw and really admired his talent.
Did you miss the earthquake bowling joke? Carson said Leonard Nimoy was in search of a laugh.
I watch these whenever they “pop up”. As a child in the 60s and 70s….the references are spot on! And Lorraine’s response to what Sandy Duncan was really like? OMG….I LOLed for 10 minutes!
mother of god that is a trippy "MORE TO COME" card
Johnny, David, and Conan - all legends!!
@diver dave ... Conan isn't horrible. He's extremely clever and one of the best conversationists.
@@Novastar6 Diver Dave is deleted looks like. If everyone young watched these tapes they wouldn't watch Fallon
The last of the classy late night hosts who were also funny and did great interviews.
Back when talk shows involved talented people.
iconoclast He’s talented, but not a funny talk show host. He should go back to the Colbert report
iconoclast And I do not support Trump, how would you even think that?
iconoclast political humor is boring.
iconoclast My politics and comedic interests are totally separate. I am unbiased when it comes to comedy, I can enjoy jokes that make fun of the left and democrats, unlike you who can only enjoy jokes if they are in your political interest. Who looks like the intelligent one out of these two categories then?
iconoclast Ok then, Mr.Intellectual.
Mr.Dumbfuck 😂
I was being born while this was broadcast.
Happy belated 35th!
Dammn. I was 5 years old watching Hulkamania being born in 1984.
Yeah I'm your daddy
Johnny and Dave had good chemistry together.
Despite all the rumors they were great friends and had admirable respect for each other....
What rumors? I've always seen them being describred as good friends.
My favorite visit of his to the Tonight Show was the one where he flew out on the first of the big name discount airlines, Laker Airways, which he described as being for people who couldn’t afford to take the bus, and where everything you did in the lavatory was a bank shot.
Just like seeing old friends.
I was exactly 1 year old when this was filmed 😳
Back when he still wore light colored jackets. I absolutely love him in one too, especially with real shoes on LOL and the shaggy curly hair and the sun tan. He went through so many subtle style changes. This one his eyebrows look lighter than his skin haha.
Thank you
They had the weirdest drawings when they went to commercials, like Picasso on acid.
Yong Yu More like Monty Python drawings
I believe often the pictures were drawn my Johnny’s late son
“In my house, I can’t relax. I’ve got a dog, he drives me nuts. We call him Egypt, every room he leaves a pyramid.”
Big fan of both !
Letterman and Carson worked so well together.
This isn't a comment on the video, but on the name of the channel. "Napkin Botany" is one of the strangest non-sequitur phrases I've ever read. I love it!
he must love watching these again.
Two of the Masters.
Back when respect was real. Not Instagram respect or Snapchat respect!!
Back in the day when talk shows where entertaining and not political hack shows
"Thank you very much." "How are you?" "Nice to see ya'." ...David walks on to Johnny's set as a guest but speaks like he's the host! He says the same things he says on his own show to his own guests... I guess once you're a host you can't act any other way, lol.
i met dave in 97 in the hello deli next to the sudio
"This is my wave, baby. Don't cut me off..."
His remark about how hot it was was the reason why he kept it so cold in the Ed Sullivan theater.
Dave's right about how safe it is to fly. Where it breaks down, statistically, is if there's an accident. I try to avoid either, but I'd rather be involved in a car crash than an airplane crash.
"Send Leonard Nimoy in search of a laugh", gold!
James Hampton was part of the Mary Tyler Moore variety show as well.
Dead porn star s
How DID he get down from the wall?? 😂😂💥
jack. we're supposed to discuss about throwing a big party johnny carson . oh big party huh ed mcmahon. yeah sure joan rivers. well i'm ready piggy and kermit. let's get this party started!
jack. we're supposed to discuss about throwing a big party johnny carson. oh big party huh ed mcmahon. yeah sure joan rivers . well i'm ready piggy . let's get this party started kermit. woo hoo!
Loved Carson so much. He was awesome as a straight man to comics he had as guests.
I remember him
Dave was 37; the house in Malibu was really his girlfriend's house and Merrill Markoe still lives there..
Genius
Can see why Johnny liked Dave and not Leno. Leno didn't engage like that in real conversation. Instead, he rocked back and forth and slapped his hands together - a weak substitute for intelligent conversation.
Letterman didn't mention that he was a weatherman in Indiana, way back when.
Damond Cutter, he mentioned it at a diffderent time..
He also did racing commentary from Indianapolis for ABC when they had the 500 there each year. Totally different persona when he was serious.
Havnt watched a late night show since Carson
Two Masters
As a fat person, I agree with his "test"
Are your parts still moving?
Gold
I was forced to share this on Facebook along with the following introduction:
"THAT'S THE THING YA KNOW... IT'S LIKE... ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER
and before ya know it, you're watching a grown man, dressed in Velcro, jump on a trampoline and stick to the counter part of that Velcro, which is covering a wall... Now why would anyone do that? I mean, ya gotta ask yourself... right? That is to say, why would you stick around, (no pun intended) long enough to see that? Still, for your own well being and peace of mind; I highly suggest you do, because, you could very-well prove a bit of Holy Scripture by doing so... (Proverbs 17:22) Seriously!"
If David Letterman was a person of smaller stature he would be an oompa loompa. Never saw it until now.
The Surf Punks were a real band from Malibu, that became somewhat famous for a brief time. So what Dave said is legit, and not made up.
Dave a few years before the beard.
David Letterman was very handsome on this video
LENOVOVO gap tooted thumbsucking bucktooth? Is it butt ugly or buck ugly. Dave's pants are a weee bit too tight.
@@lindaclark5911 ....ya got any selfies Linda baby?
Why did Leno get the gig and not Letterman?
Johnny Carson
23/10/1925
23/01/2005
97 años
79 años
17 años
What happened to Dave?
I went and watched some Surf Punks. Not bad.
David looks like Eric Forman from that 70's show or Michael Strahan here lmao
DAVID (DAVE) MICHAEL LETTERMAN
12 DE ABRIL DE 1947
75 AÑOS
David Michael Letterman
12/04/1947
74 años (75)
the earthquake joke reminds me of Norm
When did Johnny stopped smoking on the show?
1981 was when the FCC tightened up their rules of smoking on television.
You could still catch him having a puff from time to time.
JOHNNY CARSON
23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1925
23 DE ENERO DE 2005
79 AÑOS
Started watching dave in 82
I remember trying to watch Dave’s morning show during the summer of 1980 while I was in Corpus Christi but the NBC affiliate KRIS wasn’t showing it. I was 10 years old staying at my aunts house. I was flipping the dial and I caught an out of town signal on channel 12, real fuzzy but I could tell what show it was. I don’t know how I knew about David Letterman but I was also watching the night of the first Late Night
14:47 this one is off the wall
Omg my dad has that same suit n tie DL Is wearing still In his closet 🥴😳😳 after all these yrs.... He jus refuses to buy new ones!! and keeps the old ones.... fermenting in his closet
A time when Walter Mondale was still praying.
I can't understand why anyone would think Leno or Fallon are funny, compared to these two geniuses.
FYI The Surf Punks are awesome.
Looks strange with an L.A. tan, like a glazed ham
Rich Hall buys a suit
Is that a toupee on David's head check it out it sure does look like it though
The earth quake joke was unusually bad, I hope Letterman fired that writer
Bad... but Dave can get away with it... because he has the perfect reaction to his own less-successful efforts. It blends into the whole performance. I can’t think of many others who could of played that off as well as he did.
Unfortunately this episode wasn’t as funny as I thought it might be🤷 I was never a fan of the Letterman show. But obviously the rest of the world was😐
Oompa Loompa eyebrows
omg that earthquake joke. no wonder dave loved norm so much.
Remember, most of these guys were republicans and no one knew! No politics!
Dave’s makeup is way over the top and it looks like he has a toupee.😊
Fred Flintstone respects traditional family values. He has a gay o time with his wife Willlllllllllllma.
Letterman is better as a guest than as a host.
So True.
When late night TV was funny...
Dave’s great. But Jhonny was the best.
2:43
Ol" Dave was wearing quite a rug. Looks like Plush Pile to me.
Naw Dave would never wear a toupee.
He would make fun of someone who wore one.
Yo
He is not wearing white socks!
LETTERMAN NEVER DID IT FOR ME !! 3 MINUTES FOR A JOKE
Dave could have done the Seinfeld show better than Jerry 🎭
Pretty sure Jerry was the least essential part of Seinfeld.
Dave became the biggest hypocrite known too showbiz
Why?
I never find his jokes to be funny. Sorry.
Letterman never killed Carson like Leno could do
jr* T uhhhhhhh you don’t know your history
jr* T carson didn’t like Leno , he helped push Johnny out read up on it , no secret Leno is a shit heel
Not true at all. Watch other appearances
Anodyne
God David Letterman was such a jerk
Most of the population is. Think of those around you - be honest, at least half are arrogant, offensive asses and they brag about it.
You can see the nasty side of Dave even in this clip. Thin people should never joke about those who are fat.
Different times different humour
Growing up in my days nobody, and I mean nobody was off limits. So that meant you had 3 options:
1 learned to give as good as you got.
2 laugh it off and ignore it
3 get angry, show your emotions and because of that better run away because the teasing would turn even louder and worse.
Personally I went for number 2. As I got older I realized that kids can be really cruel because to a point they don't know better, but after certain age one has to considered more carefully what is funny and what is simply cruel not just to you but for the other person.
Steve Richter As a moderately overweight dude, I completely agree with Dave and laughed at his joke.
You must not have liked Don Rickles.
Fat much?
just too boring to me IDK
Pete Maldonado Letterman wasnt his best self in this segment, I agree with u. I hope he fired that writer
Do not get into the exact change lane when you have a hunch 🪙
Look at how these suits fit back then....WTF is with this all look two sizes to small of today????
maxwell, suits today are based off suit fittings from the early 60’s. I agree. I like the suits now.
@@rustymertz that is because you never wore a 2500 Armani suit from the 80's and 90's. Suits today are none functional. One of the best dressed guys in Steve Harvey. His tailor is the balls.