I just finished watching _The Late Shift_, and one of the final scenes was a reenactment of Letterman's press conference - and now I can watch the real thing! Thank you for uploading.

@DaviMourao

10 жыл бұрын

Same here. Watched the move few days ago and was curious to see 'the real thing'.

@lancaster72680

9 жыл бұрын

redlightmax Kathy Bates was great in the The Late Shift

@assmane999

9 жыл бұрын

redlightmax The actors portraying Dave and Jay did an awful job. Not bad actors, just bad casting. The reenactments of their shows were so unrealistic and it seemed like it was put together by people who had no idea what their shows and personalities were actually like.

@lancaster72680

9 жыл бұрын

assmane999 you are clueless

@assmane999

9 жыл бұрын

kyle lang Come on, it was slapped together to capitalize off of the public interest in the controversy between, Jay, Dave and NBC.

Best thing Dave ever did was leave NBC ...The biggest mistake NBC ever made was letting him get away .

@roberts.3098

8 жыл бұрын

He would have been just as good at NBC.

@sirxavior1583

5 жыл бұрын

Not everyone at NBC was mean to Dave. The blame lies with Helen Kushnick, Warren Littlefield and John Agoglia. Dave Wright and Dick Ebersol chose Letterman over Leno. Wright could have easily overruled Littlefield and Agoglia. The only good thing Wright did was free up Letterman's contract so he could sign with CBS.

@zt1053

4 жыл бұрын

Leno kicked Lettermans but and Conan eventually got better ratings than Letterman. I don't think nbc had any regrets.

@TheH7469

4 жыл бұрын

@@zt1053 Well now we get Colbert vs. Fallon and Tonight Show is finally behind Late Show in all ratings. Do you think Letterman is less talented than these two? Also ability to get higher ratings as a host does not always equate to talent. On a talk show for example the guests that the show gets can turn the scales one way or another, or the legacy of the show with long-time fans continuing to watch no matter who the host is, etc. Point being if Letterman had taken over the Tonight Show, I believe he would have beaten a potential Leno Late Show rival. There's a reason that, especially at the time, The Tonight Show was the holy grail of talk shows.

@zt1053

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheH7469 Higher ratings means higher revenue and that’s all the suits cared about. No regrets

Class act all the way. one of the greats of comedy.

This was big news on 1993. You couldnt understand this if you werent 25 or over at the time.

@jedijones

Жыл бұрын

I was a teenager, a Dave fan, and I understood it.

If Dave had The Tonight Show he would have dominanted for years. He went out on his own with no existing show at 11:30 and still won the 1st 2 years.

Wow......E! was a NEWS Channel once?!

@sgreen11379

8 жыл бұрын

+PIX Promos & More its e! news now online is what this channel was

@PIXPromosMore

8 жыл бұрын

sgreen11379 Yeah, but I mean Long-form coverage of something like this...Not 30 second high-speed blurbs nobody cares about.

@orenthaljames5244

8 жыл бұрын

+PIX Promos & More Yeah, it broke into reruns of Kate & Allie to cover live entertainment news sometimes.

@RageTVHTX

3 жыл бұрын

More an Entertainment News Channel. They showed movies and had original programming, my favorite show was Talk Soup

@fstrgray82

Жыл бұрын

They even had an Entertainment Tonight-style show called E! News Daily. It was a fun channel between that, Talk Soup, and sitcom reruns. No Kardashians or anything like that. It was a fun time.

I can't not see John Michael Higgins as David Letterman.

He alone insisted CBS renovate the Ed Sullivan Theater and with a lot of talented guests resuscitated Broadway. Broadway was a mess, Dave cleaned it up by putting it on CBS, CBS won!

Dave had a good set off balls. Not taking the bullshit from NBC. The 11:30 slot killed both Dave and Leno. I watched Dave religiously at 12:30 but eventually lost interest with the 11:30 show. The edge was gone and so was I. I didn't go to Leno either because he lost his edge long before Dave. And now the Kimmel's and Fallon's or whoever are just terrible. I've never watched a full show of theirs because they are so very lame.

@theoldanarchist

5 жыл бұрын

Leno never had any edge.

@Snelly_2

Жыл бұрын

Well you definitely should have gone to Conan

I love Letterman so much

@mrmrmr5495

5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

Heh to hear him praise NBC that way...hook him up to a polygraph!

@JustForSneaksEnt

7 жыл бұрын

Conan O' Brien did the same thing on his final Tonight Show, even though he was shitting on them the week prior for the network screwing him over.

@HypnoSwag

Жыл бұрын

David said the EXACT same thing to Conan when he praised Leno's returning crew after his Late Night departure.

had letterman been on abc

Holiday in Cambodia?

Legend

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cant believe they had a news conference for a talk show host, and that he is holding a cigar on tv.

@aodox

9 жыл бұрын

chachee15 You should look into the book, the Late Shift. The story behind how he ended up at CBS and the insanity that lead to this .... the press conference will look sane by comparison.

@gfolkins1

9 жыл бұрын

chachee15 Back at the time all this was going on, there was a TON of media coverage about this. It was everywhere. The news conferences were a way to bring about closure to the whole circus that was the battle that would decide f Dave got the tonight show, giving Jay the boot, or if Dave would be free to go. NBC had their own press conference, and if anyone has a clip, I would love the link to it.

@Jamesbrowntv

9 жыл бұрын

chachee15 yeah things were very different back then. dave was one of the biggest stars in america at the time.

@anthonyrodriguez4574

7 жыл бұрын

chachee15 it's on the ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL

@highplainsdrafter595

2 жыл бұрын

Quoting a phrase from the movie Stripes: "Lighten up, Francis!"

I'm not American, i like David Letterman, but a news conference to announce that you're with CBS, I mean wtf,a news conference????

@abhiu2398

7 жыл бұрын

You need to read The Late Shift.

@zigzagbigbag

7 жыл бұрын

Octavian Caesar Hourigan I know it seems odd but at the time it didn't.

@Gravydog316

7 жыл бұрын

Money, ratings, ad rates... money money money.

@fstrgray82

Жыл бұрын

Many considered Dave the heir apparent to Johnny Carson’s throne, including Carson himself. Leno getting the job instead was pretty controversial. I second reading The Late Shift or watching the movie which is on KZread. The movie is a very faithful retelling of events.

@octaviancaesarhibernicus4447

Жыл бұрын

@@fstrgray82 isn't it a major rule of business that you can't allow someone even as famous as Johnny Carson to pick the successor to the show and I think the NBC brass proven correct overtime I absolutely despise NBC for what they done to Conan O'Brien If he didn't have Jay Lebo as a lead in then I think Conan would have been a success

His show suffered when he went to CBS. He lost something.

@NerdNest83

9 ай бұрын

Mostly ratings. When he went to CBS, they suffered after they lost their NFL rights to Fox, not to mention a lot of their long time affiliates.