my first guest has a special tonight on nbc welcome steve martin
thank you thank you very
steve speak time for your medicine steve hi david how are you oh yeah i was doing that this morning
steve um
you want a beer yeah maybe uh maybe maybe for lady
yeah warm beer at 10 in the morning hits the spot look at the the brand name
on here get a close shot of it right over there put it over there they can't use the real name
because that would be a free plug so they have to cross it off so we have hodge brook horde
that disguise give me a good glass of pudge book or beer
let me explain uh why i'm in bed to the audience i'm looking for action
i uh you know we worked on this tv special it's on the night at 10 o'clock called all
commercials and it takes a long time to prepare these things and we work for three months on it
and a lot of writing and casting and shooting it takes a long time and i was working 12 hours a
day so hard and i said the day this show is on the air i'm gonna stay in bed all day and drink beer
watch tv yeah yeah but i wanted to come on and let people know that
show's on the air so this is sort of a compromise well i appreciate you uh
compromising your beliefs but it was exhausting work huh yeah it turned out pretty good
oh i think it turned out real funny and it's a very uh commercial show it's
what uh it's uh no nothing but steve steve oh hi hi
it's nothing but commercials eh
pardon me
the show there what do you got you get
see what else is on a whole pound of delicious candy in each imagine
the all-cartoon channel here in new york
so what would so yeah what other things just nothing but commercials huh yeah it's uh
totally commercial see i always felt that you know i did my first two specials and i
got a lot of letters uh from people saying that the best part were the commercials
so it gave me an idea for uh for this show and uh it's basically it's not really a satire of
commercials is they're treated with great dignity you know and uh we had to you know
write some of our own and uh there is one brief entertainment segment but that's all what would
that be that's the nitty gritty dirt band singing so that's a good time to okay and uh we we have
we we have some videotape of this uh show and uh can we take a look at that now uh what are
we gonna see do we need to explain that uh no it's not much this is just another one of our
commercials see i had you know i did the tonight show on friday and i did the today
show this morning we've shown a different clip on every show so and you know usually you see
people they're out promoting things and they always show the same clip yeah you'll see i
chose a different clip for every show so this is like what do you think ladies and gentlemen
a different clip from his special tonight steve martin every now and then you hear folks talk
about a product that's made with love well me and the folks here at the motel dairy farms
have come up with what we think is a good it's called honeymoon butter you say what the hell
what the hell is this honeymoon butter deal what kind of a deal is it well i'll tell you
we skim the richest cream off the top of the finest milk from our best cows
and we pump it directly into the water beds of our honeymoon sweets
in the morning butter
pretty good deal just remember rhythm rich honeymoon money
is made with love
steve martin
good morning welcome back steve martin is here and uh we talked
about your show on tonight called all commercials
and uh you know every time i go anywhere on an airplane um
stewardesses uh uh oh it happens to me all the time
sort of like a telethon this is why we've got to keep this money coming in ladies and gentlemen
stewardesses uh are always doing you i mean so to speak
uh you know what i mean they're always they always say a wild and crazy guy
and then they always go excuse me isn't that funny when they do that
i love it when i say excuse me it's so funny hey you mean there's a possibility that you
got that from stewardesses possibility i got a lot of things from stuart
that's the kind of a quick gag i like it
that was totally unrehearsed
so um well let's hear you try and be funny
is there anything you'd like to get off your chest uh that you haven't covered did you just
uh you fed up you angry you mad at anybody uh uh uh anything you want okay
go ahead i could not believe what they wrote about me in the national inquirer
i am so angry at this it's one of those predictions oh yeah can you go listen to this
says steve martin will appear in the david letterman show in his pajamas in a bed
that's where you are that came true i shouldn't have done this
it looked like it was going to go though there looked like it was going to go oh good and then
it had um had the beginning of the end no no steve no have another poge wait a minute
so how did you get started as a comic
how does it feel all right do you write your own stuff you know the question that i always like is
where do you come up with those bits
you write all your own stuff here's a good question i understand you have
some funny typewriter paper that's on there i'm supposed to answer that
you know we've made a huge mistake these are for ruth carter stapleton
that was a good one wasn't it you are yeah you're very funny well you're a funny guy you
know you're a funny you're a funny no steve we were talking the other day who's funny
and they say well there's only one man funny that's steve oh no no you are funny we were
talking the other day he said there's only one funny guy and that's david well oh okay thanks
uh no no no no now uh what are you doing now you're
wrestling what happened to this mic if this weren't here it just flopped like that
that reminds me of this
how did you we'll get back in bed steve uh we have to pause uh we'll be back
say are you coming to new york soon well when you do have fun with us in our studio audience that's
right to tickets the david letterman show there of nbc lady rockefeller plaza new york new york 100.
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