Countdown to the Final Late Show, May 17-21, 2015

A collection of clips celebrating the last week of Dave on CBS.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
1. CBS Sunday Morning: Jane Pauley interviews Dave, and Jim Gaffigan offers a tribute.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015:
2. Bill Murray's last guest appearance on Late Show, as broadcast
3. Bill Murray's rally on Broadway, street view
4. Bill Murray, Jim Downey, and Steve Jordan, post-tape
5. Outside on 53rd St., remains of the cake
6. CNN: The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer with Jake Tapper, who previews his upcoming special on Dave*
7. Cable News: Hardball with Chris Matthews, with Lizz Winstead
8. Cable News All In with Chris Hayes, with Bill Carter
9. Cable News: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, with Bill Murray and Jim Downey (with a short clip from the following night's Late Show)
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - The Final Show:
10. WCBS 5 PM News
11. WCBS 6 PM News
12. CBS Evening News
13. Cable News: The Rachel Maddow Show
14. Cable News: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, with Steve O'Donnell and Jeff Martin
15. WCBS 11 PM News
Thursday, May 21, 2015:
16. Cable News: Hardball with Chris Matthews, with Stephen Battaglio, L.A. Times Television Critic
17. Cable News: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, with Kevin Curran and Tom Shales
* The full CNN special here: • CNN Special Report: Da...

[@andyrafchannel]

Watching on Feb. 6, 2023 from Manila. I love watching Dave Letterman in the Philippines.

[@rhesreeves5339]

I NEED these awesome compilations, Thank You! The way you put all of them together is just great. It makes the individual pieces greater than the sum of the parts by taking a great show and then pulling the best parts out. I'm grateful. Truly.

[@brigittemr3005]

The last year of my youth. I was an intern then a PA for the late show. I miss it every day.

[@plutosorbitoutthere]

Badass finish of childhood! Cool that you got to do that!

[@brigittemr3005]

@@plutosorbitoutthere 😉 I like to think so! Any job/gig after has been hard to beat

[@chadjones8499]

WOW!! You got to work with Dave? He has been my hero ever since I was 6 years old, my mom never understood why I would want to stay up and watch The late show, there will never be another David Letterman!!

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

I hope you've had some amazing experiences since then. Thanks for helping bring us so much great entertainment.

[@stephengiese7549]

Thanks Dave for being a significantly different late night talk show host. Like Carson he knew when it was time to leave. Thanks Dave, cbs and utube.

[@GregCurtin45]

So much fun to watch - thank you for sharing this with us.

[@johnsjohnson448]

Scott Pelley was the best CBS Anchor. Dave was always terrific. Thanks for sharing!

[@milfordcivic6755]

I watched him every night after work for over 20 years. There hasn't been any late night program since that I watch regularly.

[@jerryalicea8897]

Awesome overview of my hero. I love Dave, I miss Dave...no one will ever be as influential as Dave in Late Night television. Colbert is okay, but he's no Letterman. Jimmy (both of them) try as they will, will never be as inventive and memorable as Dave.

[@bernlin2000]

18:54 That pause...LOL. So great

[@stroock6394]

yessss i was hoping someone else commented on that

[@driftkrinsky6537]

Thanks for compiling this, Don! With this, for the first time, I've finally watched everything you've uploaded. It's a good thing Zinoman's book is set to arrive tomorrow. I can't imagine all the work you've put into your archives, but I'll appreciate it the rest of my life.

[@dongiller]

You've watched everything? Dear lord. :) But not the unlisted stuff. :)

[@Outlawstar0198]

@@dongiller why do you have items unlisted? I'd love to watch more!

[@dongiller]

@@Outlawstar0198 Various reasons; something specific for someone, things like that. Or I uploaded an updated version, then changed the earlier Public version to Unlisted.

[@newmoonsyzygy]

I miss you, Dave! Miss the show! 🕊

[@aquariusrizing]

Thank you for the final week especially. Fantastic tv.

[@scarymary461]

Watched him back in eighties 🥰 great stuff.,

[@jettaca88]

The best talk show host in my opinion. Probably a lot better than his idol Johnny Carson. Thank you Don for all things Letterman.

[@saintpreferred9223]

Bullshit.

[@paulkandal108]

Colbert is fine...not as crazy as Dave. I really miss Dave. After 33 yrs he's become a national treaure.

[@Grid78]

Managed to watch this before it disappeared - thanks for uploading, even if it didn't stick around.

[@dongiller]

Awaiting copyright dispute decisions within 30 days. It'll be up until that happens, and then it'll either stay up or disappear.

[@doderiolarkisso4038]

Just use youtube-dl if you really want to preserve this for private use

[@dongiller]

Thanks; not familiar with youtube-dl. I can always play it for private use. :)

[@doderiolarkisso4038]

youtube-dl is a bit of "work" if you will, since it's a command-line only program and you have to enter a bunch of commands in the dos-box on windows to make it work, but it's a very powerful tool

[@dongiller]

Thanks. Yeah, that won't happen. :) The two copyright claims that had earlier blocked the video seemed strange, so I filled out the YT forms to contest them. To YT's credit, they unblocked the video until they/we hear back from the copyright owners. The risk is losing the entire channel, but I think/hope I'll be ok. If not, grab 'em while they're still all up.

[@Jadecrest123]

Love all of your video's Don. Keep um coming.

[@ItsNotDarkYet]

Do you have all of the morning shows, Don? I really want to watch all of those. lol Come on, I know you have them. haha

[@dongiller]

Most can't be shared yet. Hopefully, in time.

[@lisahardy9707]

Have you had the pleasure of meeting Dave ?

[@dongiller]

Just fleeting contacts. Nothing substantial.

[@darrenfernandes1537]

WOW A legend no one could ever come close to his talent and craziness he was the Michael Jordan of TALK SHOW

[@michaelugwueke6312]

You should do a video similar to this, this time a countdown to the final daily show with Jon Stewart as host.

[@dongiller]

I should probably do a lot of things, but I’d first need the videos. Which I don’t have, so it won’t happen.

[@pleiadesdragon1391]

Great guy ....crazy but loveble

[@firouz4296]

Sandra Bernhard was the best guest he ever had and will always have.

[@stephenhuntsucker3766]

I would have watched him more if I had known what was to come after he retired!

[@firouz4296]

What came?

[@andyb811]

Mediocrity?

[@stephenhuntsucker3766]

@@firouz4296 More political nonsense and very little comedy!

[@freddyjefferson4526]

None better…..his guest are a truly loyal bunch of friends…..ask Julia roberts

[@erichodges6066]

Misused u man love ya I love ur late show ! Ur best

[@michelmadaire9652]

57:23 lol

[@erichodges6066]

So long Dave

[@royalsfan]

Bill Scheft sighting at 1:49

[@tadkingsbury79]

Murray ..what a head case . ...too funny

[@NetCerpher]

Conspicuous by his absence,Jay Leno.

[@erichodges6066]

Make me cry suffer

[@ComedyJakob]

Dave's the good kind of alcoholic. He'll drink for comedic reasons.

[@demetriramoundos7625]

Irritating you appropriate a disregard of our history. we Americans savory our history of comedy. Will Rodgers and Mark Twain were the Letterman of our times. they were and remain a reminder that no one at any time will fuck with our Liberty. it is not a game we play. comedy stabs at people who make comments like you do who don,t have a clue why and when you make statements like you do.

[@aprilcraddock169]

Ever think water?

[@jaysharpESQ]

1:31:00 the channel 2 news says Regis was on 150 times, then 7 minutes later around 1:38:30 they say he was on 136... wtf? Is there a discrepancy over "appearances" vs. sitting on the chair as ("guest") panel?? 👺💩👽👻👾🤖🧐🤨😮🤬😤🤌🏿🙅🏿‍♂👱🏿🤺🦈

[@dongiller]

Total Late Show appearances, both as guest and cameo: 143. Add 13 Late Night appearances, both guest and cameo. Total appearances on Dave, counting both Late Night and Late Show: 156. And please for the love of god, lose the emojis.

[@jaysharpESQ]

@@dongiller ahhh well thank you

[@enriquesinghjr]

He mentions that he stopped drinking and never had a drink after the age of 34, but I recall seeing him drink on air several times... fast forward to 23:00 and he does it on a cooking segment with Martha Stewart, but he did it several times... so what's the thing? Those were like his only exceptions or it was fake alcohol used on air?

[@dongiller]

Always fake alcohol.

[@enriquesinghjr]

@@dongiller I recall once he even drank some perfume lol... I think it was Paris Hilton promoting it... thanks for the quick reply.

[@dwaynesisto2466]

34 dislikes? NBC MGMT.

[@hicks727]

spent no time on the nbc show

[@LampoonGoon]

A. 27:00 Trust Bill Murray to end up getting the best-looking brunette twins I've ever seen to be inside a cake with! - and - B. As I've specified before, we didn't get Dave in New Zealand until late 1996 and from that point on I was hooked for life. My God, when I think of all the thousands of hours of Dave I've never seen, from his beginnings until nearly 3 years into his CBS era, I get that thrilled feeling knowing I'll be thoroughly entertained for many years to come. Hopefully, by the time I go into a retirement complex or residential care, every second possible will be available and loaded onto some kind of holographic storage medium - possibly available in a Limited Edition Canned Ham collector's tin!

[@goodteacup]

Nicholas Smith I have had the pleasure to discover Dave’s Morning Show back in 1980, I knew immediately, I was hooked, felt warm!

[@rhesreeves5339]

I'm a musician and we always watched Dave after the gig religiously. To be as tight as Paul Schaefer and the CBS orchestra was our goal as we were a house band that only moved three times in 20 years, all within a mile of each other. It takes so much work to stay fresh and learn new songs, all while trying to deal with a lot of pressure.The silent communication between the musicians as they watched Dave to be ready for anything from a drum lick after a joke to playing the songs for guests to walk out that always are an inside joke. (Like if Louis CK walked on they would play "Louie Louie", stuff like that.) We worked 6 or 7 nights a week so we saw literally every show and if I was going to be busy I'd set my VCR to record it and I'd lose my mind if someone turned it during the show. We are from Augusta the home of James Brown. TIGHT bands here. Obviously Dave is the main course and I STILL miss him. Also lastly I just want to add, I miss my best friend and bassist extraordinaire Mark Wright whose house was the center of all fun called "Club Jed". He loved Will Lee. Thanks everyone (or anyone) who read this for me.