Now is the time on the Letterman channel when I tell my Pea Boy story. When I was hired in Jan. 1991 to work in the recorded sound stacks of the Library of Congress, the Lord God King BuFu of Recorded Sound at LC also was a huge Letterman fan. At some point months after the final Pea Boy sketch, well after Marvin Hamlisch had written the Pea Boy song, LC had some sort of Gershwin concert with related event, cocktail party, etc., and my boss approached Hamlisch when he was nearby. He told Marvin he loved his Pea Boy song. Marvin thanked him, then looked wistfully upward into the distance as he recalled his composition and said, “I liked Pea Boy.…”

@Daniel-4077

8 ай бұрын

Sweet...haha

@winonafrog

3 ай бұрын

😅

That Paul Newman bit is legendary

Time to make a t-shirt with Biff’s face that says “I’m just too damn funky for my own good”!

Man, do I ever miss this show.

Fun Fact on the Top Ten Numbers Between Ona and Ten, from September 22, 1989 - Head Writer Steve O’Donnell wrote about this eight years ago: There had just been a crash at JFK. An airplane had, like, jockeyed down the runway and just gone into the bay. It was called Flight 5050. And there were no known fatalities.* But it was a very strange, eccentric airplane crash. So the list we had prepared an hour or so before the show was "Excuses of the Flight 5050 Pilot." *There were, in fact, two fatalities, but this had not been reported at the time of the broadcast. And I'm standing literally backstage. The band is playing. Dave is looking at the blue card and says, "You know, Steven, I don't think we can do this list. I know no one died, but it's still a plane crash! And it seems like a bad idea. Do we have anything else?" And, of course, we didn't really have anything else, but I said, "What if we do 'Top 10 Numbers Between One and Ten?' I'll mix 'em up." He said, "OK." Well, I went to the chyron operator and we kind of wrote it as quickly as we could. It really took us about two minutes. I tried to get an element of surprise in there. For example, there's a tie at number one, and I did that by at number three having a fraction. Two and a half or seven and a half or something.

@mackdaddyg321

Жыл бұрын

Great bit of info. Thanks.

@SidelerMN

Жыл бұрын

I knew about that top 10 list but never knew the back story. Thanks for sharing Don

@shatnershairpiece

Жыл бұрын

Don, did you ever post the clip where Paul is eating breakfast, his pancake flips off his plate and then Dave spread eagles his legs on the kitchen counter to avoid getting hit by the pancake. I literally cried tears of laughter at that skit and I cannot find the show it was in. It did make it to a 'best of yearly show' and it was from the mid to later 80's.

@dongiller

Жыл бұрын

@@shatnershairpiece Honesty don’t know. It’s likely from a Viewer Mail piece, but I can’t find a date for it at the moment.

@dongiller

Жыл бұрын

I spoke too soon. I was searching in Late Night when it was actually Late Show. September 29, 1994.

Well, I must say this. David Letterman was so lucky and blessed to have Donick Cary on his team. That was awesome.

Love all these bits. Pure genius

Don is responsible for Pea Boy AND “where the hell are the singing cats?”??? Legend. Absolute legend.

@winonafrog

3 ай бұрын

💯

I live half a block away from Just Shades on 59th and Just Bulbs on 58th. Both East of 2nd Ave. As a fan of Letterman’s since I was 8 years old in 1987 and knowing that remote well, I can’t help but smile every time I walk by either on my way to the subway.

@saylefish8779

Жыл бұрын

They’re still there? Amazing.

Behind the scenes - always SO GOOD. Thanks, Walter. "Sue Hum you saved the show." 😂

@Letterman

Жыл бұрын

Hi Pat!

@keithpl5438

Жыл бұрын

@@Letterman Bring on the Hula girl (woman) and the Brazilian model for Favorite Moments! They were around for SO many shows, just quietly in the BG... Also...what about Laurie "Rose" Diamond??

@mariyamwaniki

Жыл бұрын

I just started watching these cause it seems everytime someone dies lately, Dave has interviewed them. He was in my life weeknights ( i had to actually stay awake back then) forevah.

It says a lot about Letterman, the show and the general magic of Late Night and The Late Show that so many people continue to contribute long after their time there. If I were asked by former employers to do... well, anything, I'd probably be dismissive at best. So it's appreciated that this channel exists for endless great clips and memories but even better to have these Staff Favorites.

I remember seeing the Donahue mash potato skit when it first went out, and I thought it was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen, and still do!

May you never run out of former staff members to hit up for these. But if you do, start over and do it again!

@keithpl5438

Жыл бұрын

I'm hoping they find the Hula Hoop girl, Anna Jack (whom I briefly dated!), and the tall Brazilian model that was on the show for years (whom I only wish I dated...). They breezed in and breezed out but I'm CERTAIN they have some fun stories.

@TheBrettWilson

Жыл бұрын

@@keithpl5438 I seem to recall hula hoop girl progressing to grinding sparks off metal. Or did I dream that?

@keithpl5438

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBrettWilson NOPE! You didn't dream it...but that was a different woman! Sometimes they'd BOTH appear on Letterman's stage.

@TheBrettWilson

Жыл бұрын

@@keithpl5438 Ah yes... come to think of it, I think I may have dreamed about that 😏

@keithpl5438

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBrettWilson 😂

Great Yo La Tengo shirt!!

I admire the commitment to continuity when it came to pea boy. Anyone could of worn that pea suit and no one would of been the wiser, but they still tracked down the original pea boy which I find hilariously awesome! 😂

I have seen so many... (2023)... thanks again!! :)

A friend of mine who's 10 years my junior didn't grow up watching Dave, and I had to explain some of the things that made this show, and Letterman, so great...and Donick covered two of those: 1. The Top Ten Numbers Between 1 and 10, and 2. The way certain facts get slightly exaggerated when telling a story (Cary's "I've been doing this for nearly a hundred years now").

Dave one of the greatest of American comedians

Another one in the win column. Well done. That Casey Kasem bit cracks me up every time.

Greetings from Poland this is great, I love those Letterman's video.

Awesome Yo La Tengo shirt

"I'm a celebrity" / penguins = masterpiece.

Let's all thank this man. He is might be the reason why we have Wheel of The Worst.

6:21 The pea character reminds me of so many Conan segments that were similar. Shows just how influenced Conan was by Dave's show.

One thing we can be absolutely certain of, Donick Carry never studied at Puget Sound! Poojet Sound?

I have to say... I watched Letterman since childhood due to WAY too much screen time 😂 and TBH a majority of the satire went way over my head. It is an awesome nostalgic feeling to see segments locked deep in my subconscious... Being reminded of my initial feeling... a sort of old interpretation... Then I grapple with how dumb I was. (Born in 1986)

Love these recollections. 😂😂😂

Please....PLEASE post the Dave's Video Collection segment(s)!

I love these ... recollectory(?) ... videos. Thanks for all the resurfaced memories!

@2:12 This is BRILLIANT!!!! 😂😂😂

Save me some herring, I'll be right back.

I never thought we’d actually have Peas In Our Time.

This is one of the best so far....More BTS / B-roll (all the stuff that Don Giller hasn't already posted), please?

Gonna have to agree with Paul on this one. I clicked on this video expecting singing cats, but was disappointed to not find any. I’ll be leaving (a like) now.

@12:59 Donick also got to write for Joe Namath on The Simpsons. At least he's the credited writer for Bart Star, which featured the "vapor lock/remember what I told you" bit.

@brhcary4582

Жыл бұрын

YES! I had planned to put Joe Namath in EVERYTHING I worked on from then on... I have tried and pitched TONS of Joe Namath appearances for many shows. BUT its never lined up exactly like letterman/simpsons

It's pew-jet, not poo-jet! 😂

Really enjoyed this, thanks 😊

I love the behind the scenes info, like the process of approaching Jagger to get him on the show.

That Yo La Tengo T-Shirt

I'm enjoying the sheer pageantry of it all!

Donick still can't say Puget Sound! (It's "pyu-jet")

I’m Pea laughing!

Thanks Donick, love this! (Great t shirt too)

I like shades 😂❤❤❤

The Yo La Tengo shirt = 👍👍👍

Soooo frickin funny

Pea Boy is excellent. And 8:12 is hilarious (God help us)

It's Hal Gertner!

@plaws0

Жыл бұрын

_That's Gurnee, Dave._

I didn’t know Dan Harmon was a writer for Letterman

I've never seen the mashed potato, Phil Donahue bit before. Steals his paycheck. 😆😆🤣🤣

PEA BOY!!!

I would love to know what these people are doing now and/or if they continued in showbiz after their time with Dave.

@green4black

Жыл бұрын

Yes - Donick went on to become a writer for The Simpsons and has produced a number of other shows and projects.

What about Evil Dave Letterman from Howard Stern 😂

😂

☆☆☆☆☆

Uhh.....ya got any gum?

Sad to hear mocking laughter in the audience. Best was ten times sexier than John and Paul, five times as George, on any photo shoot. A brutal world, this rock and roll.

@allendracabal0819

3 ай бұрын

But Pete couldn't pronounce "Puget Sound". That was his undoing.

Hey Letterman you tube channel, you need to tell these staff writers that they only get to pick ONE piece that they were involved in. Otherwise it's just a video resume.

💡🪟, bulbs, shades, MEH.

This guy has some of the easiest bits to write. Anybody could come up with this stuff

@assmane999

Жыл бұрын

Anyone can draw triangles on a canvas, but only Picasso could execute it in a way that set him apart from anyone else. Sure anyone could come up with Peaboy, but it wouldn’t have been as iconic.

@allendracabal0819

3 ай бұрын

A challenge for you: come up with one bit, and describe it here. We'll see just how good you are.

Donick Cary is one of the good guys.

*The PMRC really should've been enforced over Dan Rather singing with REM*