Martin Amis Doesn't Care For Margaret Thatcher | Letterman

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2023
  • Martin doesn't hold back when talking about the British Prime Minister and U.S. VP Dan Quayle.
    (From "Late Night," air date: 6/7/90)
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  • @mjrleaguesweetie
    @mjrleaguesweetie Рік тому +53

    I’ve lost track of how many times I learned that some person of note died because this channel posted a video of their appearance on Late Night

  • @wintercame
    @wintercame 11 місяців тому +16

    We don't have delightful, naughty late night conversations like this any more. It's a pity.

  • @loriglick8037
    @loriglick8037 Рік тому +36

    Thank you UA-cam, where else can we instantly watch the past of the present.
    Rest in peace Martin Amis.

  • @johnjosmith42
    @johnjosmith42 Рік тому +33

    this is marvellous, i had no idea Martin was on Letterman. thanks ever so much for posting.

    • @Brandon-tk2rw
      @Brandon-tk2rw Рік тому +2

      lol I always see this account post on MA videos.... I respect the respect

  • @tonymockeridge338
    @tonymockeridge338 Рік тому +9

    What a great way to remember Martin Amis. Dave let him have at it, as they say and it was glorious to behold.

  • @lordbunbury
    @lordbunbury Рік тому +14

    Rest in peace dear Marty ❤

  • @danpalmer5451
    @danpalmer5451 Рік тому +10

    Martin Amis AND Steve Gutenberg on the same show. What a time to be alive!

  • @lukehottovy7572
    @lukehottovy7572 Рік тому +4

    “John Self is addicted to the twentieth century.” Rest in peace MA, you will be sorely missed.

  • @pauloleary9441
    @pauloleary9441 9 місяців тому +5

    What unassuming genius, gotta love his humane wit!

  • @woodhouse122
    @woodhouse122 Рік тому +6

    RIP Martin 😞

  • @appidydafoo
    @appidydafoo 6 місяців тому +2

    RIP to the legend

  • @mariyamwaniki
    @mariyamwaniki Рік тому +6

    The minute i saw this, i knew he had died. Letterman has literally interviewed everyone

  • @keefriff99
    @keefriff99 Рік тому +46

    Ah, Thatcher, Bush I and Quayle…what I wouldn’t give to go back to the quaint days of those types of conservatives compared to the frothing lunatics we’re saddled with now.

  • @JP-Putster
    @JP-Putster Рік тому +4

    Spot on...on all accounts ...RIP Sir Martin

  • @Broatch6
    @Broatch6 Рік тому +3

    The famous Amis sentence. Can’t think of any writer - alive or dead - that was able to write an entire book of fabulous sentences. Consider : London Fields, The Information, Experience, Inside Story.
    With Martin Amis it was always a case of : Better get your Dictionary out. U knew U were going to be entertained (wonderfully) but also informed (usually about the underclass and the very rich) …. even dare I say it : Educated.
    The mark of a great book is anything worth re-reading again and again and again …. Amazingly …. Just about anything by Martin Amis

  • @davepearen8954
    @davepearen8954 10 місяців тому +2

    😂 naughty man!

  • @thomasgilson6206
    @thomasgilson6206 Рік тому +9

    Martin is now throwing down a pint with Hitch in St Peter's Pearly Gates Pub.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa Рік тому

      I think they'd both rather be somewhere else 😂

  • @ronmills5234
    @ronmills5234 Рік тому +13

    When public intellectuals used to appear regularly in public. Thanks and goodbye to him.

  • @billthestinker
    @billthestinker 6 місяців тому +1

    Amis and Hitchens were quite close, very close indeed

  • @CUMBICA1970
    @CUMBICA1970 Рік тому +2

    Gee I was wondering why this interview was on my feed and I'm learning he died 4 days ago. Saw nothing on the news. Loved his essays throughout the years.

  • @seanwebb605
    @seanwebb605 Рік тому +3

    Oh wow! Fantastic.

  • @Frankincensedjb123
    @Frankincensedjb123 Рік тому +13

    Never heard about this guy until now, but he's great. RIP

    • @johnjosmith42
      @johnjosmith42 Рік тому +8

      pick up a copy of his novel 'Money'. Funniest novel in the english language and a masterpiece.

    • @josephasghar
      @josephasghar Рік тому +3

      Money: a suicide note. A key novel of this, of any, century.

  • @josephasghar
    @josephasghar Рік тому +2

    Goodnight, little Keith.

  • @stereoroid
    @stereoroid Рік тому +9

    RIP. His dad Kingsley Amis was just as famous.

    • @Broatch6
      @Broatch6 Рік тому

      Yes . In his time he was. But not nearly as good a writer as Marty. But then again no one ever was or is.
      That famous Amis sentence. Can’t think of any writer - alive or dead - that’s ever come close to writing an entire book of fabulous sentences and then done that again and again and again, year after year, decade after decade
      Just consider : London Fields. The Information. Experience. Inside Story. Night Train.
      The mark of a great book is anything U re-read over and over again

    • @deadinthebed963
      @deadinthebed963 2 місяці тому

      Martin amis wrotr some slop, not least Lionel Asbo.

  • @ollieboy117
    @ollieboy117 6 місяців тому

    haven't read any of his books but after watching this interview, I'm dying to

  • @jacobcrayola9311
    @jacobcrayola9311 Рік тому

    TERRIFIC! Brilliantly funny!

  • @KungEMuller
    @KungEMuller Рік тому +15

    This is yet another reason why Letterman's show was one of a kind. People spoke their minds on his show, and so did Dave.

    • @Nicolas-uu3jr
      @Nicolas-uu3jr Рік тому +1

      actually, he let them speak their minds😅, Dave doesn't say what his mind is 😌, extremely professional...🎙️

    • @KungEMuller
      @KungEMuller Рік тому

      @@Nicolas-uu3jr Interesting.

    • @Nicolas-uu3jr
      @Nicolas-uu3jr Рік тому

      @@KungEMuller 🫃

    • @KungEMuller
      @KungEMuller Рік тому

      @@Nicolas-uu3jr Wait. Did you see some of his rants?

    • @Nicolas-uu3jr
      @Nicolas-uu3jr Рік тому

      @Kung-E Muller ...he's no Carson..., but no one is..., or will be😏😒

  • @sudipchatterjee
    @sudipchatterjee 9 місяців тому

    Vicious… 🔥🔥🔥❤

  • @albertocastro3678
    @albertocastro3678 Рік тому +3

    Gracias Martin por tu legado, hus libros y criticas, descansa ahora campeon😢 vuela al cielo que te espera RIP

  • @dianewinters8628
    @dianewinters8628 Рік тому +2

    Yes when changing those diapers you either throw up or cry. I did actually put a clothespin on my nose a few times to get through it.

  • @MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist

    5:45 who would imagine that this degree of inarticulacy would be trumped as it were!

  • @yohei72
    @yohei72 Рік тому +4

    True (and delightful) story: When Thatcher died, "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" went to #2 on the UK singles chart. That's how hated she was.

  • @simonbyrd6518
    @simonbyrd6518 Рік тому +1

    YES WE CAN "imagine it in America!"

  • @jsizemo
    @jsizemo Рік тому +1

    Clearly, this was a few years before Dave had his child.

  • @gerardmccavana4905
    @gerardmccavana4905 Рік тому +5

    He was totally correct regarding Thatcher. What an evil piece of work she was. No humanity in her whatsoever.

  • @analcommando1124
    @analcommando1124 Рік тому +2

    Too bad his old man loved her.

    • @martydav9475
      @martydav9475 Рік тому

      Indeed he did. Kingsley Amis was pretty much with Philip Larkin on the subject of Thatcher: "Oh I adore Margaret Thatcher" - Philip Larkin.

  • @brianmunich7051
    @brianmunich7051 6 місяців тому

    Marty smashed it in this one.

  • @Monklane79
    @Monklane79 Рік тому +1

    Loved Martin. Loathed Margaret.

  • @RobertJones-st3wj
    @RobertJones-st3wj Рік тому

    Never realised how short he was

  • @marknewbold2583
    @marknewbold2583 Рік тому

    Amis was best known for his narrow defeat at Lakeside by defending champion Bob Andersob

  • @MultiVince95
    @MultiVince95 Рік тому +1

    Friday 6th July 1990

  • @michaelmouse4024
    @michaelmouse4024 Рік тому +1

    Brexit - the solution to a problem that never existed - Martin Amis (RIP)

  • @rovingpixels6398
    @rovingpixels6398 Рік тому +5

    Oh for the days when celebrated authors were celebrated on late night TV. Thanks, Dave! (And yet, while I clicked particularly to hear the diss on Thatcher, questioning her womanhood feels unworthy. Some people are just rotten, whatever their chromosomes.)

  • @migueltarrero3333
    @migueltarrero3333 11 місяців тому

    From Maggie to brexit tale

  • @S1L3NTG4M3R
    @S1L3NTG4M3R Рік тому +3

    RIP

  • @white-dragon4424
    @white-dragon4424 Рік тому

    I wish he wouldn't keep swapping between saying British and English. It confuses the colonials.

  • @skyjockbill
    @skyjockbill 9 днів тому

    Gosh, Martin was funny - such dry wit. Much missed.

  • @stefanoturci2386
    @stefanoturci2386 2 місяці тому

    Great Martin

  • @lynnturman8157
    @lynnturman8157 Рік тому

    He doesn't? That's a load off my mind.

  • @Tomurow
    @Tomurow Рік тому

    Wow, Martin was so right that we Brit's only understand things that are bad for us...

  • @skidoc681
    @skidoc681 Рік тому +1

    Thatcher was the BEST thing that happened to the UK EVER!!!

  • @haraldodunkirk1432
    @haraldodunkirk1432 Рік тому +2

    Sorely missed. Was hoping for more, maybe an anti-woke final salvo.

  • @artfasil
    @artfasil Рік тому

    Boring gentleman, Thatcher was way more entertaining.

  • @ChuckMock3826
    @ChuckMock3826 Рік тому

    Margaret Thatcher was a STRONG an EXCEPTIONAL leader!! Thank God for Margaret Thatcher!!!

    • @jonharrison9222
      @jonharrison9222 Рік тому +1

      I doubt even god likes the picture of her buddying up with Jimmy Saville.

  • @Phil_Mitchell
    @Phil_Mitchell Рік тому +2

    I could never understand what Martin's best mate Christopher Hitchens saw in Thatcher sexually. She wasn't particularly feminine in the way I want my women to be as Martin alludes to. Anyway RIP Martin.

  • @superspecialty5169
    @superspecialty5169 Рік тому

    Boring topic and someone changed/cleaned up yours! 🥱🙄🧐