hi I'm biff henderson uh i met david letterman in 1980 when i was assigned by nbc to the david
letterman morning show and i worked the morning show the late night show at nbc
and then when we went to cbs i did the late show with david letterman there right up until the last
program i'm very humbled with the experience over all the 37 plus years and i have to be honest i
did so many different things skits and travels and every place all over the world that it's hard to
even remember everything one of the first times i uh remember being in any type of film i think
this this was a part of a film festival that the show had put together different people were
doing their films and i think dave's film was about him marrying the director gurney's wife
at one point i come in and i give dave the business in the stomach literally trying to knock
him out i think he felt that pretty good and he even thought maybe the second or third time about
marrying the director's wife you may kiss the bride all right i did it i married mrs hal gurney
yeah yeah you did but at what cost by stealing hal's wife you have alienated everyone on the
show why do you think that nobody came to your wedding paul that's not true look here's biff
henderson one of our stage managers hi biv dave here's a little gift from everyone on the crew
i did nba finals world series with the yankees and others super bowls and for instance the
super bowls i remember when they were presenting the trophy to the to the super bowl champions
as they were coming down to give it to them i jumped out and touched it first
i remember riding around with the bullhorn and and opening up the van and sometimes i would be
concerned about getting myself into trouble or something like that but to be honest with you
i was prepared because i was in a van and i could easily close the door
and drive off sir did you come here one minute please
would you give me a soda get on the bike what are you doing
now would you give me a pretzel
sir what are you waiting for you seem like a nice fellow let's share a smoke
sir on the bench please do it for me put your shirt on
you are making us sick
i have never seen that color shirt before
you in the red skirt you should not be in the crosswalk you should be on the curb you too sir
so i can make sure that you hear me my dear
mr fireman is there any chance i can play with the siren
okay spring training with the new york yankees i remember being
at spring train in one year and alex rodriguez a-rod he had this idea i think he was trying
to improve his image or something because he had been sunbathing in central park he wanted to know
if i was and we were willing to give him uh some suntan lotion i had no problem with that it wasn't
much fun touching a-rod but you know at any rate you know it if it worked it worked you know and
that was the end of that i asked alex rodriguez to teach me how to become a baseball player
he had me stretching hitting and filming i have no idea why he had me do this
dave and paul and everybody was deciding that they were going to cut their pants for some reason
reluctant to leave
seems reluctant to leave
there we go
this was no boating accident
hey hi how are you
i had a nice pair of pants on that i really liked
and they they thought and they said so biff or something about cutting my pants i said oh
now we're going too far no i'm out come on if you kind of let's cut them there
and be very very careful yeah maybe we should have sent these out yeah all right
did i'm sorry did did you quit or something
you didn't quit did you know we were back in the comments oh no no you look like you quit
you're all right yep all right come on finish it up you see anything like that
look at it you scared us all you startled us all there with that thing you know be
careful be careful oh you're all right yeah watch yourself all right there now just ask
thanks thank you very much gonna take yours off too you want to take yours off
you go backstage and take yours off and then come out when you're ready all right
oh no okay you can't cut them but we'll take care of them yeah take care of me what do you got like
what do you got like million dollar pants what do you mean you can't cut those dollars i'll
take care of it all right all right you know what it you know what it is it's the heat the
heat's gotten everybody whenever the old mercury gets up over 70. oh lo el diablo loco diablo
i remember making uh images of myself out of different things like post-it notes cheese
bubble gum ice sculpture legos dominoes and the one that really blew my mind was this young man
that wanted my face tattooed on his leg now i said people will do anything just about to get on tv
tell the folks about some tattoos that you have on your left leg i believe it is uh well i got a
four light shirt related tattoos late show related tattoos all right let's take a look at them
uh our first one here is the uh the lovely marquee yeah that's the logo there
i gotta well you dude back here i got a paul and alan oh wow
whoa
and uh when when people see those on your body i assume others have seen those yeah what what what
is the reaction uh anywhere from amazement to uh i'm kind of an idiot or something like that yeah
ryan uh tonight you're going to do what sir i'm going to be getting another late show tattoo ah
and it'll be uh biff henderson it'll be on the top of my leg wow befendership
get them on there and what would a tattoo like that cost you uh i don't know but brad's radar uh
all my other ones cost about 100 bucks each and what will it cost to have him removed
you look tremendous thank you feel good i feel good dave look like a kid feel good feel good
i just had the tattoos removed everything went great so uh all those painful decisions i made
as a young man are forgotten gone no one has to see anything do you hear that sound back there
you hear that sound yeah why don't you just stick your hand in a blender
let's do that it sounds the same yeah but he has to live now with paul and myself and biff
on his leg you know what there's so many jokes you can come up with that about why only on one
leg when you want to split that when you want to split those images on the other leg you know
ryan how's it going my friend you close uh it looks like we're almost
done all right brad let me take a look at that if you don't mind
wow
wow that's that's beautiful it is gorgeous it actually is lovely it's beautiful you know you
have a nice build ryan well thank you dave dave the tattoo oh yeah well good luck in life good
luck to both of you it was this guy who had an act in las vegas who claimed he could hypnotize people
i don't know how to um explain it i i do believe hypnotism works but i had a great opportunity
to just relax for a while while i work so i if you want to believe that i was hypnotized okay
i was it's hypnosis night sleep now sleep now there he goes he's out like a carp now ain't he
all right now can we make him do a funny thing yeah what would you like him to do uh i want to
when he uh uh uh when he comes to i just want him just to start laughing about how much money
i make and it's way too much money just laugh and laugh and laugh you got it the kind of real open
your eyes the moment dave says how much money do you think i make it'll hit you full force
and you will roar with laughter on the count of three open your eyes feeling fantastic in
every way one two three fully aware jeff how are you doing okay you think i do okay job
on the show you do great i screw it up every now and then though you know i screw it up well it's
funny yeah but i'm as far as you're concerned i'm i'm worth the money they're paying me right yeah
yeah you're sure you're worth the money yeah you don't think i'm getting too much money
honestly i'm out there sweating my brains out
if i was making like 100 bucks a week would that be too much
okay sleep no
i mean i know all the stuff you read in the newspaper you know
that's not true i ain't making that i'm really not making that much money babe
the moment you open your eyes you are madonna in her rawest
and sexiest best on the count of three you're madonna one two three wide awake
how are you okay nice to see you good to see you thank you very much for being on the show
i really appreciate it oh it's good to be here very nice of you
i'm i'm sorry what did you just say i just
i said it was nice to see you and thanks for coming on the show
get him on the phone i'm putting bim to sleep you all right buddy i'm okay
all right but i gotta go there i gotta do this all right do whatever you need to do this show
all right okay lie down if you'd rather lie down go right ahead all right right now okay sleep
sleep sleep now oh my god
what do we do what do we do he's out
i know we'll do the top 10. what about this man what about this unconscious man here in the chair
screw it do the top 10. the top 10 will put him even deeper under
is is i don't know is he all right i just feel kind of silly with an unconscious human sitting
here next to me huh all right and then he'll be fine right he looks so he looks so peaceful oh god
i hope he's all right biff it's it's me dave at the count of three you'll awaken refreshed happy
confident full of wonderful feelings and thoughts excited by the knowledge that you're here with
your friend dave and that our long relationship continues everything better than it ever has been
in every way possible for you me and all your family here we go one two three
i know you all right let's walk around a little let's just get up here and walk around can you
get up yeah easy easy i i know i know ladies i know it looks like you're witnessing a crime but
believe me everything is fine watch your step there beth you okay
do you notice you notice how i avoided that part about the rays yeah