our first guest has been uh the very first guest on every first television program we've ever done
ladies and gentlemen here he is our good friend bill murray bill
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nice to see you bill that was some entrance are you all right i went to the other place
there's nobody there god is it dead over there dead there'll be somebody there in
a couple of weeks people crying yeah you know that was that that entrance was truly amazing
that wasn't even the entrance that i had planned really no i wanted to you know do something really
special and i hear anything for everybody i had i'm really done and i'm i'm late i'm in the wrong
place they're waving me up the street you know
to call your name you know i didn't have i just think i have i had something really really good
what did you have planned you could do it again if you like you want to try it again
see all right bill murray kisses me that's the kind of thing we couldn't do at 12
30. ladies and gentlemen here is our good friend bill murray
oh god what a night that was much better now that was an entrance what a night i'm glad mr
newman wasn't here to see that golly oh what a cut doesn't he look great looks like a million dollars
paul's like will you somebody no yeah
oh guys oh no it's really it's an honor to be on a show with you
and mr newman mr brokaw this great great studio audience here at the ed sullivan theater
oh dang it what's the matter are you all right you seem a little preoccupied dave oh god i can't even
i can't even say it isn't your coward is there trouble is there trouble at home bill yeah dave
i'm such a coward dog help me kill me man i want i want to come clean but i can't i'm such a coward
i want you to take some deep breaths or just relax and tell tell me what the problem is here
i i've been living a lie for the last 10 minutes well what how bad could it be well
damn i don't know where it started you know i came from a big family i needed attention and
it's like i gotta come out here and i can't just walk out or wave or do this thing i gotta
i gotta do a backflip fall down
i'm living a lie dave i didn't belong up here on the stage a few minutes ago
you know you could win a tony
what is the problem maybe i'd feel a little more secure dave do you remember those 200 brave
local new york union workers who read to this place there's more like 600 but yes i
do i remember them yes well i knew that this audience was going to go mad for them just
mad for them i knew they were going to go nuts for them because of what they did to this dump
i knew they were going to go crazy you know and i knew i wanted what they were going to get
right but you don't deserve that so that's all right of course i don't deserve it but
i took it don't you see no i don't i don't know david this is me joking maybe i've
never heard this voice before but this is what i sound like when it's really me
coward phil just what are you talking about they were those
guys those brave guys what out here hell yes bill
hell you didn't happen to tape the show from the beginning did you
we usually just tape it intermittently
can you show dave
when those brave construction workers came on the stage all right this is
fascinating all right let's see what are you talking about okay they're there oh no
you have no business being out there
you didn't belong out there
i'm sick about this oh god you do love me
we have to pause for a commercial we'll be right back here with bill murray yes sir
bill murray is on the program this evening also billy joel how cool will that be a
little bit later billy joel here yes sir and uh we're chatting with our old friend bill
murray what else is going on in your life anything else on your mind anything yeah my
life right now because what you just did what's the matter it's payback time now man you did me
a salad i'm doing you one right why did you a salad how many salads do you need a day
a huge salad is good for like days and days and days okay all right that was a huge thing well
sure any time i can help i'll be more than happy to it's payback time something's been troubling me
all day i'm going to do something about it right now i got in a cab coming over here i said hey
bill what are you up to i said i'm doing the new dave letterman show driver says to me who's dave
letterman yeah i said wait a minute what what's your story pal what are you doing because well
i work a day shift you know i wake up i go to the i said dave let him in the late night chilly show
come on come on he goes i'm in bed at 12 o'clock yeah well there see that's the problem it hits me
there are a lot of people who don't really know who you are
i mean there i and i think this could be a bit of a problem
for you may we get the network to run some promos
look every every little bit is going to help and i think we got to get started on
that uh i i just think that there's i mean because i think you've got the late night
people you got the bakery people sure you know you got like the custodial people clean up offices in
the middle of the night dairies people working in dairy yeah the insane asylums they're all up yeah
i just think you've got to go over that those the people you want to go after are the people who
like wake up you know when the sun comes up right and basically when it's down a couple more hours
and then they go to sleep nine to five yeah that's your target audience okay that's who you want to
get to the next one you know chevy chase told me an interesting thing once he said when in doubt
put your name in front of you and people will know who you are well it's not a bad idea you know what
i remember that i keep these things i keep them i i keep these and and it works believe it it works
you know here you go there and then look oh a little name tag very nice okay look thank you
i got a bunch of you take all of these all right well for later because you're gonna
you know later you're gonna change that jacket you know put it on another jacket
you know like a shriner this is nuts but you know what the other thing that he said to me was
get your picture have you got a driver's license on you because if you can put a picture you know
there was a time when i didn't have a driver's license but they gave they gave it back oh here
yeah right there there there you go can we get a shot of this right over there take a look here
can you get a shot of this see there you are dave letterman and then you're over there on what
9119 old creek dry creek road everywhere in new hampshire it's right there you know
now now you got this going for you it's like come on by sunday if you can you know
and the thing is bleeding this is going to work all these people are going to drive by
the house and go oh you know drop in say hi say hey you know we visited the other day
david letterman yeah and if you're not there hey he's not there you know what i mean yeah
yeah you know who this worked for big time no presley is that right that kind of got
him off the ground people are still going by his house he hasn't been there for years
anything else any other little tips well this is nuts but it's going to work
you know what they do here in the daytime the hairpin you know people come in here all day
long don't they yeah they're in here all day long they come in here and they do the joker's
wild here in the afternoon that's right i think they you're like they do your chest
is right here people are gonna look up here and see this desk and what are they gonna say
that johnny bench doesn't know jack i think you may you get the right idea
i i knew it was a mistake
yeah and then they're going to walk up here you know another thing you do and everything you do
you're in a crowd of people walking down the street a lot of people you just go die
you're with a lot of people you're going to be proud of people you just go dang
hey dave people turn around and they look at you all right
and they connect right here dave that's an instant reinforcement absolutely
but you got to pay the ultimate price dad what is that personal appearance personal appearances
sure yeah i'll be happy to take my hand what are you doing come on let's go wait a minute hold on
hey who's that who's that
what's his name
if we're not back somebody lock up all right okay ready yeah it's a big word hi everybody look
thank you very much
anton
look a little thing a little thing right in there hit it again
i said it like two months ago i said it's a waste of time stealing nbc paint
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