Kids Show & Tell on Letterman, November 13, 1991

[@Rwrtnbf]

The kid simply being proud of the flashlight his mom gave him is about as wholesome as it gets.

[@leftylou6070]

Dead Cockroaches are wholesome too!

[@GrantTarredus]

Yes indeed, sir.

[@exfedrichard]

❤❤

[@kenbob1071]

The little girl that sang was adorable. The audience clapping made her so happy.

[@asteverino8569]

Very lovely 🥰 That Albert was sooooo cute in his suit.

[@Ibhenriksen]

The kid with the sock puppet using the same voice made it 10x funnier.

[@finnibertlunchiken7792]

Any segments with a group of kids were always good because kids are naturally funny and so is Dave which always ended up hilarious.

[@johnpendarvis7885]

The little girl singing is beautiful.

[@tomitstube]

"whata'ya think morty? saturday mornings 9 o'clock?" dave is hilarious with kids, his adult humor was a perfect combination for the kids and audience.

[@voidLogicx]

We need more kids like Albert .

[@trekkiejunk]

I did NOT expect that segment to end the way it did. Dave was right, too. If you look closely, there is a roach sill alive in that trap. Wow.

[@Rob_Kates]

A rat and cockroaches. The perfect New York City show and tell items.

[@trevorbayers2175]

Hahahahaha

[@MrWiseinheart]

🤣

[@Qolus]

You think YOU'VE got problems?! Some people think I'm a SOCK!!

[@tc3895]

The first kid...MICK Foley..and Mr. Socko! LOL

[@HCaulfield115]

Dave was amazing In these segments with kids and animals

[@Cassxowary]

Kids are animals too, because we are all animals and all animals have kids too

[@martintovar6666]

WoW just realized, those kids today in 2021 are 35, 36 years old.

[@charlesfuentes3695]

...& the last one's probably in lock up.

[@noahmizrahi9834]

The only one still alive is irene, you can google them....sad

[@trekkiejunk]

@@noahmizrahi9834 -- Source, please? Likely, none of them are famous, you don't get their full names, obscure TV segment, so i don't know how you could possibly have that info. Unless you're making a meta joke about child actors and their sad adulthoods, and it was just too dry for me to pick up on.

[@straycatttt2766]

“Albert, would you like to go into show business someday? Me too!” 😂

[@reglagirl5802]

Binge watching vintage letterman in 2022😂

[@nealdaleyjr7625]

I'm late to the party...2024

[@nypad5]

omg the kid with the flashlight so funny so cute hahahahahaaha

[@edub9930]

He was my favorite once I saw the ninja turtles t shirt

[@DrLumpyDMus]

Sock puppet kid looked like he was diggin' Debbie Gibson kid.

[@eghty8fox780]

It was the Joe dirt hair

[@tarantulagirl]

That kid in the red dress didn’t need to bring anything along, that party she had going on at the back with her Mullet was everything you could ever wish to see!

[@Cassxowary]

Normal hair for the time

[@brucegilbert7243]

I like the way David says"Thank you boys!" , like Lawrence Welk!

[@brucegilbert7243]

The Debbie Gibson imitator wins!

[@tigressnsnow]

Australia 🇦🇺 Sad that NY schools don’t have names just letters & numbers.

[@yachtibugatti1977]

Did anyone else notice after that girl sang the first two kids gave looks like ok trying to one up me?!

[@roachtoasties]

Dead cockroaches. Why didn't I think of that for show-and-tell when I was in the 2nd grade? :/

[@marydonohoe8200]

It was a bit rough at the beginning of the song, but the young singer was actually in harmony with the voice on the tape. Wonder how she has progressed through the years...🎶🎶👍🏽❤️

[@davidziemann9653]

those kids are approaching 40 years old, crazy

[@Fraan000]

Adorable ❤

[@wowmachineradio]

We all knew that kid who ate scabs, would drink anything, or would bring a roach motel full of dead bugs to show off at show and tell.

[@lynnturman8157]

I think Dave maybe woulda been a teacher if he hadn't decided to go into broadcasting.

[@SunflowerSunflower101]

Roach motel barely beats me out. One winter day I found a really cool rock that I put in my pocket to show for show & tell. A horrible stink started following me around & before long, the teacher was having everyone show the bottom of their shoes. Everybody was gagging & nobody could figure it out, including me - until I reached into my pocket to pull out the "rock" for show & tell. It wasn't a rock anymore - just a giant squishy gross dog turd. I lost friends that day - everyone thinking I purposefully brought a dog turd for show & tell. 💩

[@nealdaleyjr7625]

O my that is hilarious

[@thelostronin]

You DID though

[@MrWiseinheart]

That rat and the cockroaches are appropriate show and tell items for New York but a turd is more appropriate for San Francisco with all the recent events.

[@SunflowerSunflower101]

@@thelostronin unknowingly, but yes I guess I did. 🤣

[@kevinlakeman5043]

Ya know the kid with the dead cockroaches went places....like to see his bail bondsman.

[@charlesfuentes3695]

🤣

[@trekkiejunk]

Ouch. I don't know if that's racist or classist, but yikes!

[@stephenwoehr6500]

Naww . . . he couldn't have gotten arrested. "Don't you know who I am? I was on Dave Letterman. I was on the Show and Tell segment. I was the Cockroach Kid. Now you can't arrest such a cute kid as that . . . ."

[@everready19373]

So wholesome.

[@hippychic7546]

omg this was the best! he is so good with kids. the littlegirlwho sang, what wasnher mom thinking giving her a shag? OMG poor kid. just jeez! a shag!?

[@christinepaulus9385]

When late night was entertaining 😊

[@SuperSusieBell]

Omg the hi Dave come back!!

[@charlesfuentes3695]

Jeez that last kid must've made a bad rep back @ his school. Especially back home. Nice one, Charlie. 🐜

[@christopherlewis1315]

4:24 I swear I heard Dave say "two beautiful Ass names."

[@thesongbird2383]

PS-105 Sounds like a prison, rather than a school for precious little children. Some genius must have named NYC schools.

[@dongiller]

Don’t be silly. Schools all over the country were ID’s as PS-xxx. My elementary school was PS-247 in Baltimore, late 50s.

[@thesongbird2383]

@@dongiller Learn something new every day! I also attended elementary school in 1950s. My first school in Middletown, Ohio, was "Sherman Elementary", then we moved west to San Bernardino, CA, where I did grades 4-6 at "Marshall Elementary". Therefore, the numbering seemed foreign to me. So, I Googled "NYC school numbering" and it's quite interesting, starting in Manhattan early 1800s with PS-1. They ended up with multiple 1s, 2s, 3s & 4s and it got confusing, so they began adding people's names. The article mentioned your Baltimore as one with school numbers too.

[@lisarussell8874]

The little boy leaning in to hear the sock speak....

[@andydanko7074]

All these kids are probably graduates, married with children, and homeowners now!🤔🤔

[@mollykeane2571]

I wonder how many of them voted for Biden?

[@mtp4430]

One of them owns a home and a motel 6

[@charlesfuentes3695]

That last one opened up a Bug Circus...& acouple of "motels".

[@Peace-i7w]

@@mollykeane2571 don't bring politics into this.

[@YodatheHobbit]

@@mollykeane2571 All of them.

[@thomasskodzinsky3255]

The song was Foolish Beat by Debbie Gibson. Oh There was a time when Broken hearts and broken dreams Were over There was a place where All you could do was Wish on a four-leaf clover But now is a new time There is a new place Where dreams just can't come true It started the day when I left you (oh) I could never love again the way that I loved you (oh) I could never cry again like I did when I left you And when we said goodbye Oh, the look in your eyes Just left me beside myself without your heart (without your heart) I could never love again now that we're apart When I was sorry It was too late to turn around (turn around) And tell you so There was no reason There was no reason Just a foolish beat of my heart I could never love again the way that I loved you (oh) I could never cry again like I did when I left you And when we said goodbye Oh, the look in your eyes Just left me beside myself without your heart (without your heart) I could never love again now that we're apart Oh, can't you see I'm not fooling nobody? Don't you see the tears are falling down my face? Since you went away Break my heart, you slipped away Didn't know I was wrong Never meant to hurt you now you're gone Oh oh oh Do, do, do, do, do, do Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh I could never love again Now that we're apart Now that we're apart, oh I could never love again Now that we're apart

[@keithshaughnessy1645]

I can't believe Mick Foley stole that first kids gimmick!

[@derffurwood4820]

Those were the days. Back when kids were creative and funny. Nowadays they seem so scared and confused. WTF, over?

[@danielandrewgrant]

Comparing Letterman to the current crop of late night hosts is like LeBron playing one-on-one against a small child.

[@tigressnsnow]

These kids would be all pushing 30yrs now.

[@ysgdhio]

I'm sure the roach kid went far :-\

[@randalltaylor3700]

As soon as I saw Albert I thought Pee Wee Hermann

[@jala1081]

0:46 "i cant hear you!!"

[@davidstair9452]

Albert is at least 36 now. Feel old yet?

[@miked4958]

That first kid created Mr. Socko before mcfolley.

[@satchelconnor995]

I was 13. So cute

[@tinadonahoe3456]

Where is Peter Howard today

[@Augfordpdoggie]

the mullet

[@yvonnemurray5537]

Do u suppose these kids, now young adults are getting to see this? Sure hope so. I’m thinking the sock boy & the singing girl are now married to each other & have 2 elementary school children!!!!

[@GMBoehler]

That was a little bizarre!

[@davidziemann9653]

these kids are so cute.

[@craigmahon1303]

First rule of TV was not to have kids or animals. Dave did both.

[@agni2003]

I’m curious, in America schools have numbers, not names?

[@straycatttt2766]

They have so many NYC elementary schools that maybe they’d run out of names, lol. Probably a good idea now with political correctness and adults arguing over building name dedications anyway.

[@brucemoose9587]

yes, all schools are named after prez, important people, areas, etc,, except some big cities like newyork

[@ctee1117]

The roaches though!!!

[@thomasburns858]

Rats and roaches, that’s so New York.

[@ysgdhio]

Rats and Roaches was also the warm up band.

[@MikePuorro]

When television was entertaining and kids were kids.

[@trekkiejunk]

Right. Because television is not entertaining now, and kids are not kids. Wait, what? WTF are you talking about, dude? Mikey is that guy at your office who just has to be the contrarian.

[@dehydratedwater9806]

@@trekkiejunk he's right you know

[@diannemose244]

Like NYC doesn't have enough rats 😅

[@dougboyer5829]

Did Dave assign these items to his guests ahead of time?

[@dongiller]

No, these were the kids’ choices.

[@straycatttt2766]

I was concerned whether the last kid was going to end up touching or playing with the roaches.

[@Winterstick549]

Irene is now 40 plus years old.

[@operacarmen]

She's adorable and soooo cute!

[@faulltw]

I love the way Dave is so uncomfortable around children. Like he doesn't know how to interact with them. Make these segments funny.

[@nemesis1ization138]

What are you talking about?

[@faulltw]

@@nemesis1ization138 What are you taking about?

[@Ortega35mf]

So this is where mick Foley got his shtick from!!!

[@tombuir]

Lol. Their schools have numbers

[@trekkiejunk]

Is this the first time you're hearing about the public school system?

[@tombuir]

@@trekkiejunk in my state they’re all named after people

[@brucegilbert7243]

Albert borrowed socko from Mick Foley.

[@mfc4591]

The rat can have the roaches.

[@R4lee444]

But why a Latino boy with the roach motel...? Just wrong on so many levels. But still enjoyed the skit while watching the children act themselves. Thank God for these old clips that preceded political correctness.

[@jesamani75]

La cucaracha

[@straycatttt2766]

I think your last sentence answered your own question. The OP stated that these kids actually brought their own stuff. The show didn’t produce the ideas as a sketch unlike the annual kids Halloween segment.

[@trekkiejunk]

I do NOT think having a Latin kid with cockroaches is "just wrong on many levels." Why? It's a kid showing his life experiences. What's wrong is the comment section here with people joking that he grew up to be a criminal. THAT'S what's fucked up.

[@BeeFunKnee]

I would have thought those roaches would have been "cool" at his age. And it'd be icing on the cake if the roach motel had a spider or fly in there, too. It might be wrong on so many adult levels, but not on little kid ones. Kids make better people than big grownup people do. And they're more honest.

[@jimijackson]

Guess which one became a serial killer lol jk

[@voidLogicx]

Products of the American system

[@trekkiejunk]

If one had to, i would say the kid with the puppet.

[@moebetta4224]

Nice traditional surnames.