David Letterman/Tom Snyder Press Conference, August 9, 1994, Full

[@eyeontv]

Don, this is terrific, two of the best broadcasters ever, Dave is hilarious going after Bill Carter from the NYT. Tom and Dave are both natural broadcasters, thanks to you for posting this and all your Letterman archive work!

[@thejoshpresle]

I’m really sorry that I’m not old enough to have been able to appreciate Tom Snyder when he was doing his thing. He was great at what he did. Thanks for the uploads. These are great.

[@stevejacobs4246]

Tom Snyder was the best Late show, he is sorely missed.

[@tomwho8696]

Thank you!

[@Channel-cm7yc]

Tom was the best in all outlets radio & television. I miss the riveting interview and his general banter about daily life that he projected as really being no different than that of his viewers or listeners. David letterman is the type of guy in that how he paid a great deal of homage to great people and he had your back and took care of you. It was never a secret in how much Dave enjoyed a true broadcaster and interviewer like Tom Snyder. RIP to a friend of the airwaves Mr. Tom Snyder. You did impeccable work kid!

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

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[@spidermancrawlspace]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I so miss Tom Snyder and it's nice to see new, to me, clips of him is awesome.

[@spidermancrawlspace]

I just started a fan page for Tom after and I made this the first clip to be shared. Thanks again! facebook.com/TomSnyderFan/

[@HambonianStudios]

Tremendous video, Donz… But rhetorically speaking, who in the (KZbin) world gives this priceless video a thumbs-down?!?

[@dongiller]

Haters gotta hate.

[@tomwho8696]

There's always 1...

[@moaningpheromones]

'phil donohue' 100% disliked the video.

[@nedwart]

Tom Snyder was truly a gem, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't wishing he were here to comment on today's cultural climate.

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

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[@HoosierRooster]

Tom Snyder asked questions nobody else would....great show

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

💯👏❣️

[@johnking5174]

At 31:57 as soon as he just said "Dave" I knew it was Bill Carter's voice, and of course Letterman couldn't resist making a joke at him by calling him Phil Donahue. Carter has made a great living out of Letterman, Leno, Carson, Conan etc.

[@_PrimetimePranks]

Great rare footage thanks !!

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

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[@satchelconnor995]

I was in high school when he got his show. Had no idea who he was but when I had insomnia I loved watching it. Felt like I wasnt alone at night. So sad to know that he would die 13 years later.

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

😥 sad for many of us

[@Kedeas]

Great Video Thx for posting. Was always a big fan of Toms. The one thing that sticks out to me more than anything else is that if Dave was your friend he was your friend for life. He may not have had many but the ones he did he always went above and beyond to help. That says a lot about someone.

[@JSYBen]

Thanks for uploading this :) As much as I'm a big fan of Dave, I always found Tom the more fascinating, because there is so little of his story or shows available these days other than the odd famous interview he did. So it's really great to see nuggets like this. Thanks for uploading :) 'The Late Late Show' is a rare beast, in that it really did and still does try to give the host job to someone you wouldn't expect, and I think in pretty much every case, it's really worked. Tom, Craig Kilborn (less so with Kilborn I think), Craig Ferguson and now James Cordon.

[@dongiller]

JSYBen I taped all but one of Tom's LLS's (the one missing due to local news preemption) and have so far uploaded two full shows (Dave and the post-Oscars with Steinberg, Hunt, and Siskel) and one guest segment (Bill Wendell), all from '95. Will put up more when I digitize more of them.

[@ItsNotDarkYet]

I loved Kilborn's first couple of seasons, I don't think people got his sense of humor. For me Tom Snyder was the best host out of every person u listed. The David Lynch, Robert Blake, and George Carlin interviews are some that stick out in my mind. In those days most drugged out 21 year olds would stay up late with Dave and Tom- I'm surprised I remember those interviews. lol

[@JSYBen]

Oh yes I watched the Oscars special. I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it very much. Thanks for that :)

[@JSYBen]

Was Tom really much of a hit with the younger folks. I'm sure the research at the time said probably not, but i can't imagine every young person in America would want to watch a giggly school girl like Jimmy Fallon these days. Surely there would be room for a quiet conversational type like Tom.

[@dhpbear2]

@@dongiller Don, what sort of database software do you use to be able to make up these compilations?

[@tomwho8696]

Great footage!

[@DanJanTube]

We would watch Conan and then catch the super-late encore replay of Snyder at like 1:15AM. Perfect way to end your day

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

❤

[@jrt9]

I grew up in Carson and Snyder. I loved them both. Its just not the same anymore.

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

❤

[@googoo-gjoob]

don....thanks for this. it was a treat.

[@TerryWilkie]

Where on earth do you find this wonderful material? Miss Tom and the Colortini and Dave's show too, time is just flying by...

[@dongiller]

This one I got from “A.B.” :)

[@TerryWilkie]

@@dongiller Where ever you find them they are pure TV Gold!

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

I miss Tom's show, too, and I was very disappointed to see it go. I thought the Craig Kilborn show was a disaster. Kilborn was very good on ESPN and Comedy Central, but he never belonged on CBS. I always thought Jon Stewart would have been a much better choice, but would have preferred Tom Snyder staying on the air much longer. We don't have shows like Tom's anymore. Charlie Rose's was the last one like it. I'm 47 so I'm not a youngster anymore, but I miss the great one-on-one conversations like Tom's show, and Bob Costas's show, "Later". Late-night TV is a dumpster fire now.

[@johnking5174]

Tom Snyder was the personification of the purest form of talk show. He was what a talk show should be, talk. Now, out of a usual 45 minute talk show, only 20 minutes at most is dedicated to talking to their guests. Guests are superfluous now to people like Fallon and Kimmel. Tom was the last bastion of a proper talk show host. We do not have one left now in 2018.

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

I agree 100%. Today's hosts are all about making themselves look good. What Johnny, Dave, and Tom, even Jay understood is it's about making the guests look good.

[@gavinfitzgerald1471]

@@Sweetish_Jeff_ cant forget about conan o'Brien

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

Gavin Fitzgerald Agreed. I think Fox TV made a mistake in not pursuing Conan for the 11:30 slot. Fox is the only major network not to have a late-night show at 11:30.

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

Gavin Fitzgerald I’m personally not a big Conan fan, but I think he was treated horribly by NBC,

[@gavinfitzgerald1471]

@@Sweetish_Jeff_ I mean then again it's understandable why, the last 2 times Fox tried their hand at late night it failed, first with the late show with Joan Rivers, then The Chevy Chase show.

[@otiscampbell2194]

I sure do miss Tom.what a talk show host should be.. thanks for posting♡♡♡♡♡

[@weshoward4968]

Was. Not Should be

[@mhmrules]

I don't know why, but whenever Dave waved at the crowd and smiled, I waved back and smiled too.

[@nedwart]

Also, 31:58 is Bill Carter (whom Dave calls Phil Donahue)

[@dongiller]

As noted in the video description.

[@jjamiejackson]

Does anyone know what followed The Late Show BEFORE Tom Snyder took the job? What was on at 12:30 from Sept 1993 to Jan 1995?

[@Etobeeshawn]

Select CBS prime time re-runs Mondays to Thursdays and Kids in the Hall on Fridays

[@stevekay1925]

A test pattern 😋

[@johndalton3180]

The CBS Late Movie. Which, by the way, was not a movie. "Oh yeah, McMillian and Wife- that's a good movie!"

[@timholbrook7671]

RIP TS. you are an eternal TV-RADIO God! You are your own talk show GALAXY...

[@wiedep]

Looks like they removed the eye logo from the broadcast center main lobby and used it for this.

[@Danimal77]

How do you gain access to all these incredible videos Don?

[@dongiller]

For this video, I thanked the source in the description. For all over-the-air videos, I taped myself and acquired either dubs or entire collections from others. The back-story here - donzblog.home.blog/2019/01/16/the-journey-begins/ For much of the non-broadcast videos, let’s just say that I knew people. :)

[@at1212b]

@@dongiller you sir are a hero to many.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

God, i miss Tom. A great >interviewer, funny guy.

[@slbige]

44:57 Any other questions? How bout this guy? LMAO! I thought the same thing!

[@Picklesnot-co3k]

Here's one of my minor complaints about Tom: He promised to tell tales out of school on his last broadcasts then chickened out. Get why he did it, but would have loved to hear a few. Know who does that now? Keith Olbermann. Doesn't score him any points with friends, however.

[@bobjersey]

Don: "Great thanks to A.B. for the video" Bob: *That* A.B.?

[@dongiller]

Yeah. I tagged him on my fb page. He sent me this many moons ago.

[@FanboyFilms]

Dave loves to bust Howard's chops, doesn't he?

[@bucksdiaryfan]

I was a big fan of Tom Synder's "Colorcast" on CNBC, but I kind of knew he had an uphill battle reestablishing himself on network late night. I always got the sense that Dave put on after the Late Show because he wanted to imagine himself as Johnny Carson during his glory days of the 1970s... it was doomed to fail

[@stevekay1925]

I don’t remember where I read this but it was speculated that Dave put Tom on at 12:30 as a way to bring Toms show back being Dave’s nbc show had replaced the Tomorrow Show.

[@jonlindsay3662]

Tom Snyder #1

[@gooberthoreau]

This video is awesome, but I couldn't stand Tom Snyder's Late Late Show. Maybe I was way too young at the time it was on.

[@at1212b]

Same here. I was into Conan at the time.

[@zyxmyk]

Steve Allen would have been a more interesting choice. It may be that Steve Allen was so talented and funny that nobody wanted him on after them because he would be intimidating. a shame.

[@dongiller]

Steve Allen was 73 in 1994. He hadn’t hosted a tv show since 1981, and that consisted of 24 programs over a span of four years. Tom Snyder was 59 in 1994 and had been hosting his nightly CNBC talk show - as well as his radio show.afterwards. There’s no comparison as to who was more suited to host the Late Late Show in 1995.

[@mikestevenson576]

@@dongiller Absolutely. Also Dave was a pretty Steve Allen-esque comedian in lots of ways and this afforded way better contrast.

[@jamesmiller5331]

Was that real? Did he really just light up the executive over the NFL football thing? If so, Dave is my f'ing hero💪

[@ntcw]

Yes it was. CBS losing the NFL to Fox was such an embarrassment.