course in how to write a david letterman talk show. meryl marco was a genius. she understood how important foolishness was. merrill marco was the soul of our show. excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, i m sorry. we re experiencing technical difficulties. lemonade and what looks like minnows, a thing full of minnows, dave. she came up with stupid pet tricks and viewer mail. i m going to introduce now our first pet and his owner in stupid pet tricks, ladies and gentlemen. history is being made here today. all the remotes. you just can t beat eating near a cab, a truck, or a bus. the whole show is all from her mind. if anybody had watched the show from the first day, i think they would have seen a really strange kind of experimental
meryl marco was a genius. she understood how important foolishness was. merrill marco was the soul of our show. excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, i m sorry. we re experiencing technical difficulties. lemonade and what looks like minnows, a thing full of minnows, dave. she came up with tricks and viewer mail. i m going to introduce now our first pet and his owner in stupid pet tricks, ladies and gentlemen. history is being made here today. all the remotes. you just can t beat eating near a cab, a truck, or a bus. the whole show is all from her mind. if anybody had watched the show from the first day, i think they would have seen a really strange kind of experimental evolution. hi there, good morning and welcome to the david letterman
i suck snot. did you set the table? set the table? i felt like i was living in a bunker. i thought you said wreck the table. i ended up firing myself from my job, because i was i thought it it would be better without me being in the line of fire. for dave. every year, merrill marco wrote for late night with david letterman, than won the emmy for best writing. she ends up stepping down. they never won another emmy for best writing. letterman always took what he did on the air, as part of his real life. and he would talk to his mother on the show. and afterwards, he d say, oh, boy, i m glad i got to talk to her tonight. now, i don t have to call her the rest of the week. thank you very much for the broadway tickets.
important foolishness was. merrill marco was the soul of our show. excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, i m sorry. we re experiencing technical difficulties. looks like minnows. she came up with stupid pet tricks and viewer mail. going to introduce, now, our first pet and his owner in stupid pet tricks. ladies and gentlemen, history is being made here today. all the remotes. you just can t beat eating near a cab, a truck, or a bus. the whole show is, all, from her mind. if anybody had watched the show, from the first day, i think, they would have seen a really strange kind of experimental evolution. hi there. good morning and welcome to the david letterman show. my name, of course, is david letterman. i remember, very clearly, my
letterman? the answer? merrill marco. dave had an interesting voice. and i think i brought i brought a level of weird art school sensibility to it. she helped create the aesthetic on a very concrete level. the more adventurous, the baffling. but i was clueless that the show was a success, or ia failure. so mostly, my memories are that everything could have gotten us cancelled. finally, our head writer, merrill marco, ladies and gentlemen. i would feel lightheaded and almost faint when he would do a run through of the comedy material. because i would feel like, if it didn t go well, you know, i had let him down. i was calling it, modesty, my little merrill. well, i d be proud to play a part in this epic. do you have a script for us? dave was miserable, most of the time. it was always, i suck.