Oh, i m on. i m sorry, i was enjoying listening to you snort. [ laughs ] levine: they gave him the late night show after the tonight show, and at the time, people thought, who s gonna watch television at 12:30 at night? who s up? i ll tell you who s up. young people. college people. is it going well? i know this is the first show and i think this guy needs a little support. dave letterman. mandabach: he was antiestablishment at his core. he was thumbing his nose to any existing social structures. lettermen: who are those women out there, by the way? woman: neighbors. i ll get rid of them. hey, excuse me. just keep it moving, come on. he kind of spoofed the whole notion of talk shows. it s the late night guest cam. please say hello to tom hanks. here he is. [ cheers and applause ] hanks: no one can go on the david letterman show and try to steer it towards a point of view or push something in particular. he just wouldn t stand for it. you re on to do one thing and one thing only
The crow s feet by my eyes, or the altitude of my caboose. well, i m at a loss. i don t know what a flying fig is. that s okay, they do. [ cheers and applause ] there s no trouble on the set. there is no trouble on the set. well, we have a very volatile relationship. there is a hate/love element to it. easy come, easy go! ha! burrows: the flirtations were great, and bruce and cybill were great. glenn caron kept them apart for a long time. and bravo to him. bianculli: what they did was they took the sam and diane dynamic from cheers and escalated it. cheers was, will they or won t they? moonlighting was, do they even want to? stay away from me. here i come. but i don t want you. i never wanted you. yeah, right. does entertaining mean at some point stopping the tease of dave and maddie? i mean, do they get together at some point? i hope so. well, that, that s gonna be resolved this year. we like to think of it as two and a half years of foreplay. bianculli: people who had been
You know, we could get in a two shot here, dave. we could actually send the crew home, couldn t we? [ laughter ] steinberg: you know, as a comedian, you want the biggest audience that you could get. for dave, he knew a lot of things that he would do were gonna alienate people. and he didn t care. he wanted his thumbprint out there and that s the most important thing. it s time for small town news. paul? excuse me. paul? do you have any do you have any accompanying music here for small town news ? paul shaffer, ladies and gentlemen. shales: the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside out that way was something kind of new. i mean, don t we look like guys that you d see hanging around together? absolwould you like to hang around with me? nope. i ve said it before and i ll say it again. this is the stupidest show i ve. i thought that i would never want to do this show with you. now why? because you thought i was a. an [bleep] [ laughter ] there s one rule i keep trying to
Background, stay with it. don t give up. and stay with us here in new york. we like having you. i like being here. thank you very much. dave is back in new york. you re going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? i don t much care because i found a way to deal with that pills and whiskey. you re on. oh, i m on. i m sorry, i was enjoying listening to you snort. they gave him the late night show after the tonight show, and at the time, people thought, who s gonna watch television at 12:30 at night? who s up? i ll tell you who s up. young people. college people. is it going well? i know this is the first show and i think this guy needs a little support. dave letterman. he was anti-establishment at his core. he was thumbing his nose to any existing social structures. who are those women out