I love that Dave gets real giggles out of Bill, even when he's doing his thang.

Murray at his most effortless delivery.

@DarrenGlen

2 жыл бұрын

indeed effortless is a great description

@bikerrider4845

2 жыл бұрын

The Murricane strikes again

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Uh....uh.....uh.....uh..............I don't think so.

@brummms2862

2 жыл бұрын

He totally took a bump before coming out, right?

Never thought I’d get the pleasure of watching the morning show!! Thank you

Wow that whole thing was so good & natural.

Love how Bill nails all the camera angles.

Bill was raised in Wilmette and attended a private Catholic school Loyola Academy. The public school he snubbed was New Trier. Phil Donahue sent his children to New Trier.

“What about Bob” still one of my favorite comedies..

@commentresurrection1841

2 жыл бұрын

Baby Steps is my favorite book!

@josephdonnelly3169

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@tommitchell7294

2 жыл бұрын

Is this some kind of death therapy?

@josephdonnelly3169

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommitchell7294 😂

@mike62mcmanus

2 жыл бұрын

What about Bob was a drama, especially for Richard Dryfus...

Before Bill was drunk on Graham Norton, he was drunk on Letterman Dave was the OG for EVERYTHING

@troyevitt2437

2 жыл бұрын

He's spending his later years bumbling about Charleston, South Carolina, where he owns the River Dogs minor league baseball team and nearby beachfront property. He crashes wedding photo sessions in Historic Downtown, walks up to sidewalk diners and steals a French Fry or hush puppy (corn fritter) and eats it, saying, "Nobody's gonna believe you", after which he often covers the whole check for the purloined appetizer. When somebody is REALLY drunk and passed out, he takes a selfie using their phone. It's basically random Bill Murray-as-Land-Shark sightings.

@eternalextrapolations

2 жыл бұрын

@@troyevitt2437 Ah yes! There's a movie documentary about this called _The Bill Murray Stories_

Bill Murray is so random. He is fearless with his comedy. I think that’s why Letterman loved him - they are so similar. His brain just works so quickly - he killed with the questions from the audience.

@billyghostal

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, those clearly unscripted and spontaneous questions.

@jeremylindsey94

Жыл бұрын

Really? I thought it was pretty weak! It was obvious he wasn't kidding about not getting any sleep. I'm sure had he not been partying all night he would have been a lot sharper.

Damn that Phil Donahue 😂😅

Bill always brings it

Bill Murray is the reason I mispronounce that Greek sandwich 😆

This quality of this video is stunning. How did they restore forty year old video this well?

@davidjorgensen877

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. We always seem to take away a distorted perception of past eras based primarily on the images we have of that time, which for the most part are hugely deteriorated. This is what I remember TV from my youth looking like back when it first aired. Congrats to whoever preserved and/or restored this footage to a semblance of its original quality.

Bill was right. Just 5 days later, he caught Phil Donahue in his grandmother’s bedroom.

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

And then again, and again, and again, every day for 200 years.

Interesting to see that, early on, Dave was using the audience members as props for planted material. Nice to see how he evolved to using them in more spontaneous ways later. For context, this appearance comes just over 4 months after Murray's final episode of SNL as a cast member, and a little more than 2 months after Caddyshack premiered. The first episode of the next season of SNL had not aired yet, so I'm not sure if it was common knowledge that the show's cast was changing or not.

This really is one of the most hilarious interviews I've ever seen.

😂😂😂Strip mining! That got a belly laugh from me.

Morning show. What a journey. Legends.

22%!! Thanks, Jimmy Carter.

I didn't really appreciate Bill Murray's talent until Groundhog Day came out. Whoa, what a movie. His other stuff was kind of goofy, but that was a good flick.

@DeadPixel1105

6 ай бұрын

Groundhog Day and Scrooged. His two best films.

Pure comedy gold

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Weak, mildly amusing effort that doesn't really work.

The first time I saw David Letterman was on this daytime series. I was in the hospital, waiting to be put under, and happened on the show. I remember thinking how funny he was.

@jerrydwyer9057

2 жыл бұрын

My first was an Easter special where the rabbits on stage kept multiplying.

@sahej6939

2 жыл бұрын

Did u make it?

@tomripsin730

2 жыл бұрын

@@sahej6939 Nah. They get KZread in hell, but it only shows Letterman and Golden Girls reruns.

This is brilliant. National treasure he is.

@sstills951

2 жыл бұрын

If you're going to write like Yoda then your first sentence should say "Brilliant this is".

@ocan1033

2 жыл бұрын

I'm only half Yoda on my mother's side. Yodish she is.

@sstills951

2 жыл бұрын

@@ocan1033 Fair enough.

Bill Murray at his absolute best... and, in the moment, Letterman realizes it.

@monoped8437

2 жыл бұрын

dave always realized it

@daveg6839

2 жыл бұрын

I think I've watched every Bill Murray appearance on Letterman except I've never seen this one. The first few minutes are genius.

@jackm4457

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveg6839 This was from the Letterman morning show, so, like you, I had missed it. Of course Murray was the first guest on the 12:30 show, about 16 months late. Dave was the perfect straight man to Bill for ever and ever.

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, let's take your comment at face value. That elicits this comment from me: THIS IS HIS BEST? No wonder a lot people don't think he's that great.

@jackm4457

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLarryBrown So do you miss the old days when guests like Bob Hope would visit Johnny Carson and do a few scripted quips to promote an upcoming NBC special? Notice that Murray doesn't plug a thing, and doesn't do any re-hash of material. But, different strokes for different....

A bit of a history lesson: when Bill refers to a the last viewers question being a "John Anderson" type at 10:34 he's no doubt referring to the 1980 presidential debate that took place just prior to this episode airing that featured Sen. John Anderson (running as an independent) debating republican candidate Ronald Reagan. President Carter declined to participate in this debate.

@Creek54

2 жыл бұрын

I voted for Anderson in that election.

@SniffyPoo

2 жыл бұрын

there was also a Billygate reference early in the interview

@Mighty_Memer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I was thinking Yes was backstage or something.

@Fordham1969

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mighty_Memer Ironically, we would have been out of luck even if Yes was backstage since that was the year that Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman were replaced by the guys from the Buggles. Coincidentally me and a friend saw them at Madison Square Garden that year, we were 16 and bought the tickets before knowing about the personnel change. We were so disappointed!

@FrankIsAlwaysRight

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt

Dave’s morning shows were the best!

@JMacque

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I remember watching those as a kid/teenager during summer breaks.

@troyevitt2437

2 жыл бұрын

Same summer as Empire Strikes Back. I used to watch Letterman in a Vader helmet.

Early morning with David Letterman

Can't go wrong with a bonded collar:)

Amazed how clear this is for being 42 years old.

@lewisham

2 жыл бұрын

Film.

@bobgarner44

2 жыл бұрын

maybe sony betamax

@MatthewC137

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewisham Yup, digitized film clips have given a lot of young people the notion that we were stuck with pixelated crap back in the day.

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

You should see his face!

@nakamichiguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewisham not film, live TV. They've been nicely digitized from the original 2" tapes recorded at 30 Rock from the live broadcast, from what it looks like.

There was always the awkward walk around the chairs on Dave’s show. Bill solved it.

8:32 - It's wonderful to watch Bill and Dave struggle to resist the urge to make a comment about the woman's hair.

Bill Murray is a fine actor and a fellow women's tennis fan. Those were the good old days.

What I love about Bill is his Chicago accent.

@foleynj86

Жыл бұрын

It is a Great Lakes accent. It isn't specific to Chicago because the dialect actually stretches to Western New York.

@kpec3

Жыл бұрын

@@foleynj86 Either way, I still like it.

8:40 Roy Orbison asks a question about relationships.

Dynamite works well on gophers.

I think that he may have been telling the truth when he said he had been drinking all night.

@thisisme7587

2 жыл бұрын

Coked up to his gills, not drunk

@brummms2862

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisisme7587 thank you

"There’s a very real possibility that Phil Donahue is seeing my grandmother."

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

Still?

Prime Bill Murray, really something else!

This was before Bill knew what he was. 😂

Thanks, only seen one, called in sick just to be able to watch Dave!

9:53 I really think anyone engaged in a dangerous occupation like mining should keep their clothes on.

this made me sooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........never seen this before....

Murray out-trolled by a middle aged couple.

@jackm4457

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it was a middle aged couple, armed with lines written by Dave's staff. Although I give props to decent delivery by the wife.

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackm4457 During the few seconds she wasn't breaking character and laughing.

@jackm4457

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLarryBrown She did it a lot less than Jimmy Fallon.

@TheLarryBrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackm4457 That's Jimmy's script and his character.

@jackm4457

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLarryBrown Or maybe it's Jimmy being unprofessional and disrespectful to his co-performers; the way a narcissist says, "Hey.... Look at Me! Forget what the others are saying or doing, it's all about MEEEEE!!" Just sayin'

Never knew Dave had a morning show. I kept thinking Phil D was going to be the last guy to ask Bill a question.

@zefallafez

2 жыл бұрын

It lasted a couple of months in the summer/fall of 1980.

@stevenmandl4920

2 жыл бұрын

@@zefallafez it didnt last very long, like about 90 episodes. whats interesting is that not alot of network affiliates air what is being aired when the main networks are showing what they are showing.. got a feeling that not all of the country was seeing dave's morning show at all because some of the NBC affiliates mayve been airing their own programing during this time. just like here in milwaukee,after the today show ends at 9am, the NBC affiliate airs local prgraming till 10,and then goes back to the next few hours of the today show till noon.

@jedijones

10 ай бұрын

It lasted for 4 months in 1980. It really was the precursor to the Late Night show. Many of the same crew and comedy bits carried right over to Late Night, when it started 16 months later. By the end of the morning show, it was getting critical acclaim and had a huge cult following, despite the ratings failure. That's why he was able to parlay the failure into the nighttime show. The network felt he was the right man at the wrong time. It's a lot like how Police Squad failed as a prime time TV series, but then became a smash hit as movies. The powers-that-be believed the material was good and that it was worth giving it another chance in a different medium.

The woman @9:04 had to have been a plant!! What a cartoon, that wig and those glasses.

@jimmyguitar2933

14 күн бұрын

Nope. Just the 80s.

Never seen a clip of Dave's morning show. So glad these have put out. I think it's due to Conan putting out all of his content for free. It's about time!

This must be writers asking the questions they're to good!

Just priceless and then some Like a (rather old) breath of fresh air

Gold, pure gold

This is already classic Dave and Bill way back in 1980. I can’t quite imagine how this (or Dave in general) would have played in daytime but I guess that’s why it only lasted a few months. Daytime’s loss was late night’s gain.

I love that Letterman called Toronto a great city...

@mikestevenson576

2 ай бұрын

It was a different time.

@drcharlesbombay

2 ай бұрын

@@mikestevenson576 it sure was… We used to be great!!! World Class…

Man, this set makes it look like a day time talk show lol

I loved the morning show!

Star wars...yours, mine and our wars

Reminded me that I was lucky to see the real non Disney gentrified Times Square .

How many school days were skipped because of Dave's daytime show? I missed too many

@fatfreddyscat5767

2 жыл бұрын

My dad bought a betamax and we watched it at night.

@alro2434

2 жыл бұрын

I called in sick once.

Poor Marlo Thomas.

"Strip mining...or my stripping" kind of slips by, there.

@wanderingstar9322

2 жыл бұрын

I read the comments to see if anyone else caught that! Made me proud to be a Canadian.

@richinderbyshire4779

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingstar9322 I caught it but then I thought she said "...or mine stripping".

@1:05 just gold

Bill Murray at 6:18, visionary out-of-the-box "rat" buster!

22% a good interest rate, how times have changed.

Love is the key...

Bill Murray wasn't a star here yet but he was well on his way to being a beloved comedian. My top 5 Bill Murray comedies are: 1. Stripes 2. Ghostbusters 3. Scrooged 4. What About Bob 5. Groundhog Day

@BookClubDisaster

2 жыл бұрын

He was already a star from his SNL days.

@sstills951

2 жыл бұрын

I watched Meatballs the other day. I didn't find it very funny and it was very dated. Oddly enough I found its outdatedness interesting. A blast from the past.

@otakuwon

2 жыл бұрын

@@sstills951 Why didn't you find it funny?

@sstills951

2 жыл бұрын

@@otakuwon Not a bad question. I found it amusing, but not 'very' funny. I enjoyed the movie. I was born in 85 so you might think that the dated humor might be lost on me, however I grew up as a kid going to bed listening to old time radio comedians from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I think 'Meatballs' had an ok storyline, a good cast and a good setting but I suppose I didn't find anything in the movie to laugh out loud to. I don't think it was a bad movie, just not a hilarious movie.

@kdwaynec

2 жыл бұрын

The first half of "Stripes" is hilarious but the last part fell flat with the goofy Top Secret Military Winnebago. Having John Candy in any film is a bonus however.

1980? When our history of art class visited NY for the museums, I avoided Times Square. I let others report back to me what they saw.

22%!!

Letterman's old morning show.

@laraine8857

2 жыл бұрын

A great show and much missed when it was canceled. Four decades ago … ancient history … time really doesn’t fly, after all.

@ScottMartinD

2 жыл бұрын

@@laraine8857 > *A great show and much missed when it was canceled* I went through withdrawals for a while when it was cancelled. It was the only thing forth watching in the morning at that time. :)

I remember Letterman's morning show. Edwin Newman delivered legitimate news in the middle of it (it was an awkward fit), but it was a funnier, more off the wall version of Letterman's late night show.

Two giants.

This is prime Bill Murray. God he was amazing

@Leiflvr

2 жыл бұрын

@@HakanTunaMuzik Of course. He's just mellowed over the years. Still nuts but more mellow.

God! Two Geniuses

Holy cow... this was ONE year ago? That man aged a LOT in one year.

The moment this video clip finished an ad popped up for St. Jude Children’s Hospital (founded by Danny Thomas the comedian-tv producer-philanthropist….and father-in-in law of of Phil Donahue. I have to agree with Bill on Danny probably not liking Phil.

42 years ago... wow

Funniest man alive!

The set looks like Letterman's living-room.

I hope Phil Donahue got a good laugh out of this.

@MatthewC137

2 жыл бұрын

Sure he did, between Marlo and Bill's granny, he must've been all smiles. 😏

wow early days

Alex from Toronto is cute.

Bill Murray is a number one ain

What makes Bill Murray such a great comedian as he can be funny without being vulgar. Most comedians today have to cuss left and right and just say the most vial things to get a laugh out of people. Bill Murray is from an era of comedians that could make you laugh without making Your skin crawl at the same time.

@AUTOPSY666

2 жыл бұрын

A vile vial?

@m.vonhollen6673

2 жыл бұрын

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@sstills951

2 жыл бұрын

@@m.vonhollen6673 Why would anybody need to send a check/cheque?

@crnkmnky

2 жыл бұрын

@@sstills951 to pay for that high-quality history lesson, of course!

"it's kind of a John Anderson kind of question". I think that's the only time I ever heard Bill Murray say anything vaguely political.

Was Letterman on during the day for a while?

@dongiller

2 жыл бұрын

Dave had a live 10 am show for 18 weeks in 1980. This clip comes from that period.

@gelatinskeleton8745

2 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller thank you. I knew he has done daytime tv at the beginning ie local weather or something… Wasn’t sure if the show started out as a daytime show.

@ronachten2902

2 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller Hello, Donz! Hope you are well?

@ws4jb

2 жыл бұрын

@@gelatinskeleton8745 he gave a great interview with Seth Meyers and talked about the morning show.

@tommitchell7294

2 жыл бұрын

There never woulda been a "Late Night with David Letterman" if not for the morning show

22% for a loan? Damn

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

2 жыл бұрын

Let me introduce you to the payday loan, aka, math for dipsh*ts. It's 228% lol

☮️

No big deal Now we have Kelly and Mark.

This is from what is officially known as "The Ill-fated Morning Show."

@troyevitt2437

2 жыл бұрын

His deadpan humor wasn't for everybody. He would cut to 10 minutes of midday news with Edwin Newman, who was deadly serious, and then Letterman would say that when they came back from the ads, he would interview the man who invented the hammer. Plus his guests were "late nigh folk". Like Sandra Bernhard and Elaine Boozeler. He was basically doing a late night show during the day against the Donahue, Dina Shore and Mike Douglas shows.

the world needs more Donahue

@morbidmanmusic

2 жыл бұрын

He did it for the money.

Time in Joliette???

@curtiskretzer8898

2 жыл бұрын

Joliet

I'm so old I voted for John Anderson.

@JKiler1

2 жыл бұрын

That was the first election I paid any attention to, but I was not old enough yet to vote.

Bill sounds just like Brian Wilson.

David letterman also was a host of some weird gameshow. I can't remember the name

I wonder if Bill even remembers this?

I'm fairly certain Bill Murray is zooted here

he looks so young

@jahimjauh-hey5653

2 жыл бұрын

Time fucks us all.

Gear-O, or Year-O?

Was Bill Dave’s first and last guest?

I swear Dr Disrespect is in that audience.

i would like to know where you can get a hot meal for a fair price

The god they call Bill Murray.

Caddyshack star is chevy chase