Late Show - Fun with Rupert Compilation

The classic Late Show bit: Rupert Jee walks the streets and says and does whatever Dave tells him to say and do.

Towards the beginning, Dave frames it as a "sociological experiment" but is usually more to the point: it's "just really annoying people."

The "it was my thumb" line is one of my favorite moments in Late Show history.



When I first saw this bit, it was thrilling and hilarious and amazing. For some reason, it isn't quite that anymore. Maybe the world has changed, maybe I've changed, or maybe it's that I know how it ends (the video at the end of the clip).

Regardless, there's not a day that goes by that I don't want to see the jazz box.

Tonight Show - Will It Hot Dog?

Rhett, Link and Jimmy ask the age-old question, "Will it Hot Dog?"

Thunder in Your Heart

It may be the greatest combination of all-time. I'm so excited, I'm posting this before the video even ends.

Norm Macdonald Live - David Letterman

Well I advertised that it was coming so I may as well post the end result.

Let's start with some warnings first.

1) There's nothing tooooo amazing or revelatory here. It's a fun and interesting conversation to watch it if you have a free hour.
2) Everyone is complaining about the extreme closeups. Maybe listen to it as a podcast.
3) You got in-show commercials in addition to youtube ads. Shouldn't it really be one or the other?
4) Luther Burbank was a famous botanist who developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables.

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First Drafts of Rock: Blowin' in the Wind

This is a cute one for all the old people. Peter, Paul and Mary's first draft of "Blowin' in the Wind".

I assume it's coincidental that Kyra Sedgwick is playing Mary Travers (being Kevin Bacon's wife) but man, she is a dead ringer. I would never have guessed.

Conan's Superhero Vehicle

Conan unveils the Flaming C's vehicle at ComicCon.

RLM - Terrible Han Solo Movie Ideas

Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans discuss some terrible ideas for the new Han Solo spinoff movie.

"IT'S SO BAD, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN!"

Norm Macdonald Live Returns 7/25

A new season of Norm Macdonald Live starts July 25th and the first guest? David Letterman.

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I don't want to spoil anything but the theme of the new season seems to be extreme closeups.

Unexpected Cameos

For some reason I've come across some unexpected cameos lately so why not...

In Season 8, Episode 18 of Cheers, someone shows up as a background extra sitting at the bar. A young Glenn Beck appears in the background of the episode "Severe Crane Damage".

Enhance.

Even more surprising, to me, is an obscure actor in one episode of Golden Girls. In the Golden Girls episode "Sophia's Wedding" (Season 4 Episode 6 and 7) there is a strange wedding scene with Elvis impersonators.

And one of the Elvis impersonators happens to be a very young Quentin Tarantino.

Apologies for the picture quality, it's the best I could do. It actually looks more like Morrissey, really.

And that's really it except that I'm a slave for the Law of Threes....

Watching the first episode of Police Squad, there's a scene in a dentist's waiting room populated with patients. Playing one of the waiting patients is a very young David Schwimmer.

It's his first ever role.

Freestyle Canoeing

I can't do much better than one of the comments on the youtube page:

"First I thought he ran out of tricks but then he pulls that 360 spin and I felt like the lady in red."

There are actually journalists and photographers there. What is going on?

Late Night - The Guy Under the Seats

A compilation of every "The Guy Under the Seats" appearance.

I'm constantly amazed at how Late Night with David Letterman was so completely deconstructing the format - and how early on they were doing it. "Meta" comedy is so big on the internet that we think of it as "current" but here it is in the mid '80s.