Martin Amis Doesn't Care For Margaret Thatcher | Letterman

Martin doesn't hold back when talking about the British Prime Minister and U.S. VP Dan Quayle.
(From "Late Night," air date: 6/7/90)
#martinamis #danquayle #letterman
Subscribe to Letterman: bit.ly/3GeOIAg
Follow Letterman on Social:
Facebook: / davidletterman
Instagram: / letterman
Twitter: / letterman
TikTok: / letterman
Welcome to the Letterman KZbin Channel, home to all your favorite clips from Late Night and Late Show - as well as conversations with the writers, producers and performers who helped make it all happen. The language may strike you as quaint & flowery, the clothing comically lacey & ornate - but that’s how things were back in this colorful and now bygone era.

[@mjrleaguesweetie]

I’ve lost track of how many times I learned that some person of note died because this channel posted a video of their appearance on Late Night

[@wintercame]

We don't have delightful, naughty late night conversations like this any more. It's a pity.

[@tonymockeridge338]

What a great way to remember Martin Amis. Dave let him have at it, as they say and it was glorious to behold.

[@loriglick8037]

Thank you KZbin, where else can we instantly watch the past of the present. Rest in peace Martin Amis.

[@grahamnoble4887]

Always good to go past to the back.

[@johnjosmith42]

this is marvellous, i had no idea Martin was on Letterman. thanks ever so much for posting.

[@Brandon-tk2rw]

lol I always see this account post on MA videos.... I respect the respect

[@danpalmer5451]

Martin Amis AND Steve Gutenberg on the same show. What a time to be alive!

[@marknewbold2583]

Next up: Iris Murdoch and Sam Kinison

[@lukehottovy7572]

“John Self is addicted to the twentieth century.” Rest in peace MA, you will be sorely missed.

[@lordbunbury]

Rest in peace dear Marty ❤

[@woodhouse122]

RIP Martin 😞

[@mariyamwaniki]

The minute i saw this, i knew he had died. Letterman has literally interviewed everyone

[@appidydafoo]

RIP to the legend

[@pauloleary9441]

What unassuming genius, gotta love his humane wit!

[@JP-Putster]

Spot on...on all accounts ...RIP Sir Martin

[@duhusker4383]

He's not a Sir.

[@davepearen8954]

😂 naughty man!

[@Broatch6]

The famous Amis sentence. Can’t think of any writer - alive or dead - that was able to write an entire book of fabulous sentences. Consider : London Fields, The Information, Experience, Inside Story. With Martin Amis it was always a case of : Better get your Dictionary out. U knew U were going to be entertained (wonderfully) but also informed (usually about the underclass and the very rich) …. even dare I say it : Educated. The mark of a great book is anything worth re-reading again and again and again …. Amazingly …. Just about anything by Martin Amis

[@keefriff99]

Ah, Thatcher, Bush I and Quayle…what I wouldn’t give to go back to the quaint days of those types of conservatives compared to the frothing lunatics we’re saddled with now.

[@seanwebb605]

Oh wow! Fantastic.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Never heard about this guy until now, but he's great. RIP

[@johnjosmith42]

pick up a copy of his novel 'Money'. Funniest novel in the english language and a masterpiece.

[@josephasghar]

Money: a suicide note. A key novel of this, of any, century.

[@thomasgilson6206]

Martin is now throwing down a pint with Hitch in St Peter's Pearly Gates Pub.

[@jedaaa]

I think they'd both rather be somewhere else 😂

[@CUMBICA1970]

Gee I was wondering why this interview was on my feed and I'm learning he died 4 days ago. Saw nothing on the news. Loved his essays throughout the years.

[@josephasghar]

Goodnight, little Keith.

[@jacobcrayola9311]

TERRIFIC! Brilliantly funny!

[@billthestinker]

Amis and Hitchens were quite close, very close indeed

[@albertocastro3678]

Gracias Martin por tu legado, hus libros y criticas, descansa ahora campeon😢 vuela al cielo que te espera RIP

[@ronmills5234]

When public intellectuals used to appear regularly in public. Thanks and goodbye to him.

[@marknewbold2583]

He wasn't an intellectual

[@stereoroid]

RIP. His dad Kingsley Amis was just as famous.

[@Broatch6]

Yes . In his time he was. But not nearly as good a writer as Marty. But then again no one ever was or is. That famous Amis sentence. Can’t think of any writer - alive or dead - that’s ever come close to writing an entire book of fabulous sentences and then done that again and again and again, year after year, decade after decade Just consider : London Fields. The Information. Experience. Inside Story. Night Train. The mark of a great book is anything U re-read over and over again

[@deadinthebed963]

Martin amis wrotr some slop, not least Lionel Asbo.

[@KungEMuller]

This is yet another reason why Letterman's show was one of a kind. People spoke their minds on his show, and so did Dave.

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

actually, he let them speak their minds😅, Dave doesn't say what his mind is 😌, extremely professional...🎙️

[@KungEMuller]

@@Nicolas-uu3jr Interesting.

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

@@KungEMuller 🫃

[@KungEMuller]

@@Nicolas-uu3jr Wait. Did you see some of his rants?

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

@Kung-E Muller ...he's no Carson..., but no one is..., or will be😏😒

[@ollieboy117]

haven't read any of his books but after watching this interview, I'm dying to

[@sudipchatterjee]

Vicious… 🔥🔥🔥❤

[@dianewinters8628]

Yes when changing those diapers you either throw up or cry. I did actually put a clothespin on my nose a few times to get through it.

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

5:45 who would imagine that this degree of inarticulacy would be trumped as it were!

[@yohei72]

True (and delightful) story: When Thatcher died, "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" went to #2 on the UK singles chart. That's how hated she was.

[@simonbyrd6518]

YES WE CAN "imagine it in America!"

[@jsizemo]

Clearly, this was a few years before Dave had his child.

[@analcommando1124]

Too bad his old man loved her.

[@martydav9475]

Indeed he did. Kingsley Amis was pretty much with Philip Larkin on the subject of Thatcher: "Oh I adore Margaret Thatcher" - Philip Larkin.

[@Monklane79]

Loved Martin. Loathed Margaret.

[@RobertJones-st3wj]

Never realised how short he was

[@MultiVince95]

Friday 6th July 1990

[@michaelmouse4024]

Brexit - the solution to a problem that never existed - Martin Amis (RIP)

[@marknewbold2583]

Amis was best known for his narrow defeat at Lakeside by defending champion Bob Andersob

[@rovingpixels6398]

Oh for the days when celebrated authors were celebrated on late night TV. Thanks, Dave! (And yet, while I clicked particularly to hear the diss on Thatcher, questioning her womanhood feels unworthy. Some people are just rotten, whatever their chromosomes.)

[@brianmunich7051]

Marty smashed it in this one.

[@gerardmccavana4905]

He was totally correct regarding Thatcher. What an evil piece of work she was. No humanity in her whatsoever.

[@migueltarrero3333]

From Maggie to brexit tale

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

RIP

[@white-dragon4424]

I wish he wouldn't keep swapping between saying British and English. It confuses the colonials.

[@skyjockbill]

Gosh, Martin was funny - such dry wit. Much missed.

[@lynnturman8157]

He doesn't? That's a load off my mind.

[@Tomurow]

Wow, Martin was so right that we Brit's only understand things that are bad for us...

[@skidoc681]

Thatcher was the BEST thing that happened to the UK EVER!!!

[@jonharrison9222]

Utter balls.

[@haraldodunkirk1432]

Sorely missed. Was hoping for more, maybe an anti-woke final salvo.

[@jonharrison9222]

Then you are a dimwit.

[@artfasil]

Boring gentleman, Thatcher was way more entertaining.

[@ChuckMock3826]

Margaret Thatcher was a STRONG an EXCEPTIONAL leader!! Thank God for Margaret Thatcher!!!

[@jonharrison9222]

I doubt even god likes the picture of her buddying up with Jimmy Saville.

[@stefanoturci2386]

Great Martin

[@Phil_Mitchell]

I could never understand what Martin's best mate Christopher Hitchens saw in Thatcher sexually. She wasn't particularly feminine in the way I want my women to be as Martin alludes to. Anyway RIP Martin.

[@kenhoughton192]

Domination.

[@superspecialty5169]

Boring topic and someone changed/cleaned up yours! 🥱🙄🧐