uh tonight ladies and gentlemen is a viewer mail
night every thursday since we first went on the air
let me remind you these are actual letters from actual viewers and we certainly appreciate
your participation by the way i'm getting a lot of
good feedback on my uh project now to get dick clark off tv
carl's coming in are there a lot of cars uh relatives everybody's saying you know you get a
point dave i don't want he doesn't have to leave everything just put him back on the bandstand
show he can still do bands he can do but get him off the blooper deal i don't i don't mean i mean
the man's very talented man but anybody could stand there with that and introduce bloopers
uh so we'll give that to somebody else get him off the game show he can even keep his
radio countdown show and then get him off that time square deal every year new year's
but i feel a groundswell here and i think we all know how painful that can be
let's uh let's get right to it shall we we only have 90 minutes tonight so here we go dear dave
letter number one begins where do you get it respectfully thomas helke san francisco california
uh well thomas one place you get it is from strange mail that's why our staffers
always wear these protective neoprene gloves when handling your sort of letter
no no
letter number two begins dear david you do have a very cheap program you would not give away a
television because it was used as a doorstop and then you would not give away a t-shirt well really
the prizes you do give are really nothing of value thank you for having the cheapest show on tv
sincerely yours mary a smith co-host new york is that right paul coho's new york cio codes
it's apparently coast new york ladies and gentlemen and we've
been informed that it's next to glen falls
well about us being the cheapest show on television i have to agree with you uh we
we like to think of ourselves rather than cheap as being you know kind of frugal but uh you you
should have been watching us in the early days when things first got started we really
had no money in those days and we were in fact i have some of the prizes we used to give away
in the early days for example here is the oh this is a popular item this is the late night tote bag
and then of course we gave away some of these these are the late night mechanical pencil leads
get those out of here and this was very popular
remember we used to give away a lot of these paul the late night travel case
we do what we can ladies and gentlemen this is not cable tv by the way this is free entertainment you
don't have to pay a nickel for this um letter number three are we up to letter number three
dear dave one thing about the show bothers me it seems that during viewer mail this comes to us
from i own oregon by the way uh one thing about the show bothers me it seems that during viewer
mail you will put any stupid letter on the air not just the best ones am i right apparently
letter number four begins dear dave we think it would be a great idea
if you had a salad bar in the studio
uh not only for the audience but also for the guests and yourself just think how relaxing it
would be for someone on the show for the first time to be able to fix their own tasty fresh
salad just a thought joel goss and micro well joel and mike unfortunately nbc prohibits the
serving of food or drink in the studio i think you can see the sign there but during commercials
we do try to accommodate our guests as i think you'll see from this videotape from an earlier
program once that's pretty funny thank you listen uh we'll have to do a commercial
and then we'll be right back that's really great it's going very well how do you feel
a salad uh no we don't have a salad bar uh we have a photocopier though would you like
to make some copies i have a letter from my sister no go ahead knock yourself out thank you
just one please no problem did you get the toner in there okay brian oh yeah all right
we're doing everything we can please where are we i've lost my place here where the letter number
dear dave letter number five i believe it is begins uh please change the guest chairs back
to where they were originally this new setup is terrible there for a period of time we switched
the guest chairs and we're not sure why uh are you doing the show for the pleasure of
your guests the letter continues or the viewers now the camera seems further away from you and
this screws up your takes this is a devoted man fan rather a devoted fan max m hicks from
warren ohio well you're absolutely right max the new setup was a problem for my uh
takes and that's why we had to put the chairs back in their original position here's a little
bit of videotape from one of the shows where the chairs were at the other side of the desk and
but i said yeah i was broke so i took the bars you know it was 12 500 that was an
awful lot of money then that's that's pretty darn good for for 16 lines yeah
16 lines uh excuse me a second jack but what what is that over there right up there
okay well we'll be right back
hey my money's gone
the uh the interesting thing about that tonight jack was here he he changed
suits in in a like a fraction of a second he one minute he was wearing a
kind of a brown suit and then the the next second he had on that uh lovely little gray number well
yeah uh we're ready to go aren't we paul we got a good show folks
thank you for being here we'll be right back with stupid pet tricks