LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: January 15, 1992

Letterman's guests are actor Paul Sorvino, supermodel Elle Macpherson, musician Lou Reed, and New York Newsday columnist and author Jim Dwyer. I taped this rerun of Letterman's 1982-'93 NBC talk show on December 21, 1992; despite NBC's "Originally aired January 14, 1992" caption at the top of the broadcast, a member of the studio audience says in the comments below that the taping took place on the 14th but the episode didn't air until the 15th. (video source: WXIA Channel 11, Atlanta, Georgia/WMGT Channel 41, Macon)
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[@Joseph1701-A]

Thank you for posting this. I wish we still had decent late night entertainment like this.

[@RobertCass]

You're welcome! Times change ...

[@winonafrog]

What a kick-ass episode! No wonder it was on the re-run list. Thanks.

[@RobertCass]

You're welcome!

[@hollygarnish5326]

What I appreciate so much about these precious clips, besides David and all his regulars , are the guest he hand picked for his programs. For example , Charles Groden, Terri Garr, Norm Macdonald, they were a delite for me personally.

[@hollygarnish5326]

Absolutely the best of the the bunch.

[@krisharju8093]

Digging the commercials actually. Imagine 😂that

[@glen1ster]

Guests: Paul Sorvino, Elle Macpherson, Lou Reed, and Jim Dwyer

[@RobertCass]

Yes. I listed the guests as part of the video's description when I posted it last year.

[@gluecement]

I believe this was taped on January 14th but aired on the 15th. One of only a handful of shows I got to see live. There was a big storm watch that night and my friend and I just wandered into Rockefeller Center and instantly got standby tickets.

[@RobertCass]

So this episode didn't air the day it was taped? I wonder why. The TV listings from that week on Newspapers.com show both the 14th and 15th as the airdate, so I took NBC's word for it with its "Originally aired January 14, 1992" caption at the top of the episode. The peacock lied! (R.I.P., Paul Sorvino, by the way.) Thanks for the fact checking! I wish I'd been able to see a "Late Night" taping when Letterman was host.

[@gluecement]

@@RobertCass They actually call out the airdate switch at 9:00. It was dumb luck I got to see this show. I was also fortunate enough to see Dave's penultimate show in 2015. RIP Mr. Sorvino. Seemed like a super sweet guy.

[@RobertCass]

@@gluecement Yes, I'll always remember Sorvino weeping tears of joy when his daughter Mira won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards in 1996. A proud papa! Letterman's guests on January 14, 1992, were Marv Albert, Robert Klein, Cathy Guisewite, and Pierre Frene, apparently. Now, when was THAT show taped?

[@RageTVHTX]

Who’s this in place of Bill Wendell? He sounds familiar

[@RobertCass]

@@RageTVHTX A month ago one commenter here said it might be Alan Kalter, who replaced Bill Wendell on "Late Show" at CBS in September of '95.

[@ruthecker399]

dave king of late night

[@sandy3482]

good one Dave! leggy supermodel Elle Macpherson got to him and rightly so!

[@aaronz7056]

Two years later Elle was rocking her nude Playboy layout! Grrrrrrrr!

[@kobe41]

Pretty sure that's Jim Fagan announcing this show. Really cool

[@RobertCass]

I see what you mean! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaVdpiar752iM0

[@untexan]

Yes, he did the intro announcements and ad reads for the NBA on NBC. And 90s kids may remember him as the voice of the syndicated NBA Action show.

[@nedwart]

@@untexan One could make the argument that, aside from guys like Bob Costas and Marv Albert, he was THE voice of the NBA in the 90s.

[@Yobbie72]

14:24 has a Home Alone 2 ad; but Home Alone 2 wasn't released until NOVEMBER 20, 1992...So I'm guessing that this taping is a RE-RUN over the Christmas 1992-1993 period. Either that or I've found a glitch in the Matrix.

[@RobertCass]

In the description of the video I wrote, "I taped this rerun of Letterman's 1982-'93 NBC talk show on December 21, 1992."

[@Yobbie72]

so you did. I didn't see that tho. Another glitch? lol @@RobertCass

[@justayoutuber1906]

"Paulie might have moved slow, but that was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anyone."

[@FomorViceroy]

The substitute announcer sounds a lot like Alan Coulter; the man who would take over for Bill Wendell during the Late Show years.

[@jeffwolfe4058]

I prefer Bill Alan I really never liked

[@allendracabal0819]

@@jeffwolfe4058 I prefer Bill's voice by far. No offense to Alan.

[@Meshal11YouTube15]

What is the name of this font of English Letters that They wrote In The End Credits from Late Night with David Letterman? ( 57:40 , 57:48 🤔)

[@RobertCass]

Helvetica Extended is the best guess, according to www.reddit.com/r/identifythisfont/comments/18gdpp0/80s_snlearly_late_night_w_david_letterman_font/.

[@TowGunner]

Billy Joel had Elle. Lucky bastard! He wrote the song So It Goes for her.

[@thefarsidefanthefarsidefan7374]

Where was Bill Windell? That's a different announcer.

[@michaeldivincenzo2532]

WATCHED 2/3/23

[@jeremyminer3696]

The announcer sounds like Alan Kalter. Was he filling in for Bill Wendell that night?

[@RobertCass]

That seems to be the consensus in earlier comments made here.

[@winonafrog]

31:45 smiling camel 😅

[@jnadle1]

Hey, that's not regular announcer Bill Wendell during the intro.

[@RobertCass]

Good point. Maybe Wendell was out sick that day.

[@jacobjames8782]

Almost sounds like Alan Kalter

[@TheJeremyminer]

Yeah, I thought it sounded like Kalter, too! Definitely not Bill Wendell

[@Golbez1991]

And Ironically Bill was doing the voice over for the Later with Bob Costas during the commercial.

[@greatmcluhansghost7134]

Watching ads is kinda interesting from 1992 even tho they're so bad, like one at 40:00 for a restaurant called "Cuca Racha". Which actually turned out to be an ad for Energizer batteries. That's the ad agency Chiat Day, making fun of other ads. Watching modern KZbin ads in between other ads is too many ads.

[@RobertCass]

Correct: "Mi Cuca Racha" wasn't an actual competitor of Taco Bell's in the early '90s.

[@Twin0022]

It’s from 1/14/92

[@RobertCass]

If you read the video description and the other comments, you'll see why I list the 15th, not the 14th, as the original airdate.

[@sesa2984]

Lou Reed. Either totally brilliant or totally awful and it sounds nearly the same either way. Amazing nuance.

[@RobertCass]

He definitely had a unique singing voice, at least in my opinion. I've read that Reed was a notoriously tough interview, but when I talked to him in 2009 he was an absolute delight: popdose.com/bootleg-city-lou-reed-in-stockholm-may-74/

[@lindajones6903]

I.p.o

[@danielhouston8725]

Classic letterman end with a big chunk of boring guest

[@RobertCass]

Hey now, the late Jim Dwyer's a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. I've only won imaginary Pulitzers.