(crowd cheers)
Fortunate to be sitting here with Mr. David Bowie.
(crowd cheers)
Thank you for doing it.
My pleasure.
Thank you for performing for us, that was terrific.
Oh that was, there's some great shirts in the audience.
Look at that shirt.
(crowd laughs)
That's how we recruit, oh yeah,
there's a man dressed completely in silver, I believe.
That's right, there we go.
(crowd applauding)
They like the shirt.
The guy is like, thank you, thank you, yeah.
That's show business.
Yeah, there's so much to talk about and we always try to--
And so little time.
And so, so little time.
And then we turn to the big tooth,
I'm not even gonna mention this.
(host laughing)
Carry on, what were you gonna say?
Well, you know what?
Its famous lore about you
and I've never actually asked you,
you've been on the show several times, about your name.
Yes.
It's a famous thing now that your name,
initially Davy Jones.
Yes it was Davy Jones.
And in the '60s you had to change it because
Rick, the monkeys came along
and they were just getting popular
when I was just early my career,
so I very wisely changed it to Tom Jones.
(crowd laughing)
True story?
True story, I was Tom Jones for about a couple of weeks
and just as I was doing the photo session,
he released his first record, it's not unusual
and so then I moved on through.
Then you were David Cassidy?
That David Cassidy.
(crowd laughing)
Yeah.
Then you were like, wait a minute, Sean Cassidy.
Yeah.
He'll never make it, yeah, okay, very nice.
Then I'm gonna show 'em (indistinct) slightly better.
So, it basically took you years, yeah,
to get on the right name.
Now, something that came out about you recently, and this,
maybe this is embarrassing,
but I thought we have to bring it up.
You were recently named the 25th richest man in Britain.
That's gotta be.
(someone exclaims)
Yeah, wooh!
(crowd laughing)
Wooh, you've accrued great wealth.
Yeah, right, that's something.
(crowd laughing)
What a crass gesture.
You wanted me to do a mime piece.
Yeah, yeah. I just did it.
That's right, it's a mime, once was a mime, always a mime.
The pain, right?
Walking against the wind.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
We'll get you to do some mime next time.
No you won't. Yes, we will.
(crowd laughing)
(crowd applauding)
We're gonna loop what you just did over and over again
and make you look insane.
But what's it, I would think. That's been done already.
I think.
(crowd laughs)
I did that myself successfully.
Oh, you've done that?
Okay, you've already made yourself look insane.
I would think that would be difficult,
if it gets published that you have all this money,
how do you give people gifts at Christmas?
You can't just give them like, it's a shove,
it goes inside your shoe and it keeps it shape.
It's, I mean, that's not gonna do when you're the 25th.
I'll buy them a string of islands.
Oh, you've done that?
Yeah, string of pearls, string of islands.
(crowd laughs)
What are you Shecky Greene?
Is this thing working?
That came after Sean Cassidy, but I dropped it.
You tried Shecky Greene for a while?
Yeah Shecky Greene didn't happen for very long.
(crowd laughs)
That was 1972.
You had a--
That was 1972.
Yeah, trust me,
this is gonna be a famous interview one day.
(crowd laughing)
(crowd applauding)
Once they figure out what the hell we're talking about,
when they release the transcript of this.
Did you know that we get to Shecky Greene?
Yeah, that was my plan the whole time.
That was pretty good.
I wanted you to talk about Shecky Greene.
My ways have fell off.
You had a songwriting contest a while ago.
Yeah.
Tell us about that.
I didn't win.
(crowd laughing)
You invited people all over--
It's my site, I put up a melody and a chorus
and I asked the users of the site to contribute lyrics.
And the winner came to the studio
and we put the song on the album, "Hours", the new album.
(crowd cheers)
Exciting.
Thank you, was that over "Hours" the new album?
Yeah.
(crowd cheers)
The consummate business man.
Amazing.
Now the 24th richest, man.
(crowd laughs)
You know, I find out about this contest
and I'm a bit of a songwriter.
(crowd laughs)
Why would you laugh at that?
And I submitted a song.
Did you get my song?
I didn't win and I was, I thought.
I'm sure we saw it, yeah.
(crowd laughs)
I thought my song was really good.
And I thought maybe you hadn't, you know
you must have gotten a lot of submissions
but since you're here now,
I thought I should show my song to David Bowie.
(crowd cheering)
In fact, I have it right here
and I thought maybe you'd perform it right here
and we'd see who had the best song.
(crowd cheers)
You don't mind, do you?
(crowd laughs)
Okay, here we go.
(crowd laughs)
It's in G, you like G, huh?
I love G.
Okay.
I live for G.
Here we go, I'll get you in the mood.
(guitar music)
♪ There are so many talk show hosts ♪
(crowd laughs)
♪ But he is clearly better than most ♪
(crowd laughs)
♪ He's a handsome man, but I'm not lying ♪
It should be and.
And I'm not lying.
♪ His wonderful name is Conan O'Brien ♪
(crowd laughs)
(crowd cheers)
Hold on, get to the good part here, here's the good part.
(guitar music)
♪ Ground control ♪
(crowd cheers)
How about? Huh?
You've bust your G-string.
(crowd laughs)
(crowd cheers)
How about big red Tom?
(crowd laughs)
What are you bubbling about?
I thought the lyrics were good,
I think it kind of falls apart at the end
but I thought, it was very nice of you to do that.
What do you think?
Don't ask me that please?
But you're supposed to be such a nice guy.
Yeah.
We have to talk before we go about this,
You've come out with a game, Omikron.
That's not a career.
What?
You've come out with a video game.
(crowd cheers)
You sir are a wise ass, all right?
(crowd laughs)
Careful or I'll talk about a bucket under your desk.
All right, we won't talk about that.
What's behind the bucket?
Show everybody.
I have a bucket under here
and you can keep commenting on it rehearsal.
But look, what's behind the bucket.
A brush.
That's right.
(crowd laughs)
(crowd cheers)
David Letterman has nothing under his desk.
Oh, there's something down there.
All right, let's, we have a clip here of the game,
and in this game, it's a city that you've created.
This city, well, I didn't create,
this was invented by the French.
Therefore there's a lot of strip bars, red light districts,
smooching couples, gorgeous women.
Really?
Yeah, it's quite fantastic.
it's so French that the guys on the street, hey
and they come at you with guns and they say,
"I'm gonna, what are you reading?"
(crowd laughs)
"You're reading William Gibson?"
"Valein, that's all right, Celine".
So it's kind of got a french twits on it.
What kind of video game is that?
but we have a clip here.
Do we need to know anything
or should we just roll it?
Let's roll it.
Okay.
You're not the first video game player
to get your soul trapped in this dimension.
(game theme song plays)
There was a naked woman in there.
(crowd cheers)
You can't show that.
It's almost 1:30, you'll get in trouble.