this is a guy who hates humiliation. the cbs producer pled guilty to attempted grand larceny and spent four months in jail. a week after the scandal, dave apologized to his wife on air. my wife regina has been horribly hurt by my behavior. and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it s yurs your responsibility, you try to fix it. so let me tell you, folks, i got my work cut out for me. dave called this the lowest point in his life. the couple did reconcile and they are still together. talk about electric television. it s just television like nothing else you ve ever seen. his ratings went up. his ratings went up after that. but you know his ratings have never recovered much from the early days because he s always been playing from behind. and at some point i think he stopped feeling like he could win. coming up, dave.
and i had a shot of her. it got big, bill laughs. turn the volume down immediately! she can t be stopped. nonstop laughs. yet writer steve o donnell said dave never thought he was good enough. i think it could be painful for people close to him. i have saved dozens of little notes he wrote and they were like i hate myself and standby show. he would underline that. even as he worried about his own success on cbs, dave paid it forward just as carson had done for him. you better be as good as letterman! i ll give it a shot. he should maybe put him away. conan o brien was a virtual unknown when he replaced dave on nbc s late night. i was being pummelled to death on television every night. hey, hey. we d only been on the air just a couple of months, and dave came on as a guest.
carson going into someone s house. dave, you have to remember, was wearing like the pleated pants and the adidas. it was all coming from a completely different angle. didn t he mow her lawn? i think he did. the fact he walked out of the tv and was going through people s stuff in their room had a huge impact on me. had a huge impact on pop culture, comedy and all the show that s would come after his. not bad for a boy next door from indianapolis, indiana. his dad harry was a florist, his mom dorothy a church secretary. his mother later wrote a cookbook filled with photos of dave and his two sisters an all-american family who loved a good laugh and watching television. our household was full of arthur godfrey productions. these boys that don t do anything, they just sit in those chairs and keep them warm. i can just remember being fascinated by when they would
i want to thank the people at the special prosecution bureau and the manhattan district attorney s office. he hates humiliation. he pleaded guilt tow attempted grand larceny and spent four months in jail. a week after the scandal, dave apologized to his wife on air. my wife regina has been horribly hurt by my behavior and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it s your responsibility, you try to fix it. so let me tell you, folks, i have my work cut out for me. dave called this the lowest point in his life. the couple did reconcile and they are still together. talk about electric television. it s just television like nothing else you have ever seen. his ratings went up. his ratings went up, but they never recovered much from the early days. he has been playing from behind.
this morning i wake up and next to me in bed is the head of a peacock. so i don t know. broadway s ed sullivan theater. it s a marvelous, wonderful edifice, and we couldn t be happier to be here. august 1993. the thing more than anything else, it was the double balcony, and it was enormous. ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful program tonight, bill murray, billy joel. dave s first night on a new network. welcome broadway, baby. in a new time slot. when the dust of the late night war settled, jay leno had the tonight show and dave had a multimillion-dollar deal with cbs. it was a risky move. cbs did not have anything in their history of late night. so letterman comes on, and his first few months on the air was absolute can t-miss television. it s a joke, okay? it is me, you jerk.