hi i'm jimmy kimmel this is my favorite youtube channel i have a youtube channel but i don't look
at that this is the one i spent most of my day looking at i'm embarrassed to say it because
dave might watch this but i'm an obsessive david letterman fan i had a license plate
on my car that said late night when i was in high school my birthday cake said late night
with david letterman the cake on it i started smoking cigars because of david letterman no
joke i watched every one of these shows i didn't have a vcr i was up at 12 30 watching these shows
late for high school every morning was known in school as the kid who watched david letterman
not exactly most likely to succeed but somehow i never thought i would host a talk show i just
my dream was to one day become dave's friend and that is probably never going to happen but i do
have a show and i've had the fortune of meeting dave many times and to me these videos most
everything you remember from your childhood does not stand up it does not it just isn't as good as
you remembered it it's either slow or it's just not that funny i can't get enough of these videos
i can't believe how funny they are i just and it brings me back to that moment when i was sitting
at my desk in my bedroom i had a 12 inch black and white tv set that i'd stolen from downstairs and
we got a color set and that was it i was there and locked into the show when the theme song kicked in
it was and so exciting and when the show was over i couldn't wait till the next day
so some of my favorite moments from late night with david letterman i have to start with a
segment a remote segment nobody was nobody's ever been better at doing these not just late night
just ever than dave was there's a segment called well i called it just bulbs and dave went into
a a store that sold bulbs and just so happened that he'd asked the woman a very patient woman
if they had other things and he asked her if she had shades and she said no if you want shades
you have to go to a store called just shades and of course they cut right to a store only in new
york called just shades it's great the name of the store was just bulbs and that's exactly what
we sell just bulbs okay so besides bulbs what do you have here nothing how about shades could
you get shades here no we are just bulbs if you want shades maybe going place called just shades
what uh what is the name of the store just shades
and uh what what can you get in here what can you get in here these shades that's by winston that's
why our name is just shades but seriously what what can you get besides shades here
i owe great debt to david letterman to late night with david letterman to the writers and
um producers and everyone that worked on the show but you can really see it in this clip because
larry bud melman who was the first person ever to appear on late night with david letterman this
man who had no skills really or talent i guess and yet he was hilarious i don't
think he knew that he was funny or at least he didn't know why he was funny but he was
funny and dave sent him to port authority the bus station to welcome tourists to new york if you've
ever been to new york and been to port authority you know that you know it's not not a great place
and but larry bud was there with a hot towel and a microphone that he didn't know how to use at all
and this is one of those situations where my uncle frank kind of filled the larry bud melman role
for me on my show but there's a situation where you think you know
what's going to be funny about the idea and then it takes a a left turn and then it's
something entirely different so here just just watching larry bud mellman work a microphone
is television magic welcome to new york sometimes called front city
and where where are you from the eastern shore of virginia
oh do you have any questions about new york
wow
did you have a snack
one of the shows i watched a lot when i was a kid was mash and alan alda was a great actor
and i never really thought of alan alda as a you know somebody you'd think was funny and other than
thinking he was funny and dave went into a chinese restaurant and i don't know what their intent was
but the result was an investigation of sorts into alan alda and his proclivities when it came
to eating chinese food in the last several years much has been said and written about alan alda the
tv star and the film star the motion picture director writer humanitarian champion of minority
causes but surprisingly enough we know very little about allen alda a guy who likes chinese food
that's why we're here at the hunan park restaurant this is david chang one of the
owners david nice to see you nice meeting you too and this is david fang paul i'm sorry paul
um tell us about this photograph of alan alda here in the apron i guess he actually worked at the
restaurant for a while huh no he never worked in a restaurant actually it's uh back to the
eight years ago we when we first restaurant opened in 98th street in broadway he's become the regular
customer they later be controlled my personally friend good friend of yours now when he would come
to the restaurant paul would he would he actually wear his own apron like that uh that's it that's
actually it's um part of the four season movie he shot so we're doing this in the kitchen i teach
him how to cooking and preparing chinese food so you guys in a way were indirectly responsible for
the success of that movie this movie is not in the domestic when uh sure in the theater let's
go to the internationally he's a promotion that's a movie i see now here here we see alan alda and i
guess that's uh paul now uh what what kind of food does he enjoy he likes stream beans and he likes
to noodle with a sesame sauce fried dumpling most food we have he like it very much does he
have soup oh he has to all the time what kind of suit uh house especially and what about uh
chopsticks does he use chopsticks oh he uses chastity very well does uh when he eats here
does you know you clear the dishes away is there a lot of crumbs of food and stuff left over
uh no not very yeah now what kind of a tip would the guy leave you very good very good tip
the hunan balcony restaurant another chinese restaurant in a different part of town and yet
once again in the window we see more photos of alan alda here on the left the complete montage
of allen alda cooking and over here another photograph of alan alda with the owners so we
decided to come in and talk to the manager james about uh alan aldon man who truly seems now to uh
love chinese food how do you do james nice to see you uh at the other chinese restaurant we found
out a few of alan alda's likes and dislikes what can you tell us what insight as to his ordering
can you offer us well when he comes he bring his wife he coming down all the two sweeties for
her meal and does he ever order too much and have to take some home no he ordered a hot special soup
over sometimes he changed the dish you know and so variety he does enjoy a variety and fried dumpling
of a condom with sesame sauce especially like the string bean and broccoli with uh garlic sauce let
me ask you something at the other restaurant we heard that uh he uh did use chopsticks he
used the chopstick and he doesn't really leave much of a mess is that true here yeah it's true
he never lived on a mess or something on his table like that that's uh has he ever never been in any
trouble ever get rowdy out of hand no he's a very gentle but he's really nice rice steamer
fried uh stephen rice and about a tip we found out at the other restaurant pretty good tipper
yes but it could tip you here uh do you have any other photos of alan alda we can just kind of uh
but you could almost put together a whole series of alan alda chinese restaurant trading cards
great well thank you very much james i appreciate your time and trouble
well there you have it uh another view of alan alda truly a man who
loves chinese food and i don't know about you but i feel like uh i know him a little better now
i love when dave would go out into the field as we call it which is really just
leaving the office but dave went to this inventors convention and the inventions were
mostly ridiculous but there was one invention i know it wasn't fake but it's just so ridiculous
it couldn't possibly be real this guy invented a um some kind of a device that would prevent
you from being buried alive and naturally dave asked you know is this has this been a problem
and the guy through an interpreter explained that he'd been buried alive three times and so
this is why he felt it was necessary it seems like at least at the inventor's convention that
the better inventions are coming from mexico city and this is uh roberto moncey muncie vice
and uh pedro cruz whom we know is going to interpret for us what is uh uh the invention
we're interested in according to the pamphlet life detector to avoid being embalmed or buried alive
the premise is now if a loved one appears to be dead is loaded into the coffin locked
into the box and is still alive this alarm system will let the loved ones know that
local herb is not gone yet right he doesn't have to do anything there are system systems
connected to his body that will automatically uh make uh make it known that he's still alive um
could you ask roberto um does this happen a lot uh yes uh he told me to tell you that he was
buried alive three times he got a little worried about it so now he developed this idea and uh it
has proved to be of a great interest to a lot of people who died three times people thought he died
and then they put him in the coffin and at the funeral uh he woke up or it was mere chance all
of these times one of these times was he was going to be robbed and somebody saw that he was still
alive and that was how he came uh after which time did he get the idea for an alarm to prevent this
after the second time when he was thrown off by a horse after the after the third time
that you were buried alive it must have got to be annoying huh not just the mind
it's the most terrible feeling that you might experience you might you start carrying a card
with you that just says i'd kind of like another opinion one final question i can
understand being buried alive once you know sure everybody's going to make a mistake or even twice
you know somebody's looking the other way they close the lid but uh three times how how has it
had happened to him three times he says this is something that he can't explain it just happened
to
well congratulations on the invention and better luck to you thank you thank you again pedro thank
you one of the clips i've watched the most of david letterman this is something that
my band leader clito and i quote all the time is there was a woman on the show who had some
monkeys that wore dresses and that's a great start and one of the monkeys was menacing dave
and this is one of the few times that you see dave show real fear uh i think what crispin glover was
on was one and this is another uh the monkey was lunging at dave and dave said something to the
effect of i i think he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna reach into my neck and pull a vein out
how are you yes sandy why don't you go get your chair down
offer your hand to the lady like a gentleman
she's she's gonna leap at me and pull a vein out of my neck and kill me
well stand here maybe you'll get some maybe you won't stand here that's right
pour a little bit in sandy's glass quietly
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