Viewer Mail on Letterman, June 13, 1985

[@Backlashed]

I remember seeing the shaving segment, I was in Junior High, we loved Dave and all the Chris Elliott apperances.

[@plaws0]

Hey - an old upload I haven't commented on! This, to me, is Peak Dave. The more I look through Mr Donz' archives and at the Letterman channel, the more I realize that, like many people my age (I was 18 when LNwDL came on the air) I want all you kids to get off my lawn. LN > LS. Just the way it is. Dropping stuff of a 5-story fire training tower in New Rochelle (or wherever) was subversive; getting NYC to close W 53 ST ... meh. Yeah, it's fun, but totally different vibe.

[@Maguffin604]

This damn show was the reason for my poor college grades.

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

Ha! I remember seeing this one when it aired... couldn't believe what I was seeing!

[@jk3521]

That guy that handed Dave a card at 7:34 looks a lot like Conan.

[@dongiller]

Head writer Steve O’Donnell.

[@LeeKav]

Wasn't Steve Jordan featured in 2 (or more?) Viewer Mail letters in the same night in 1982?

[@dongiller]

He was.

[@SailorCallie]

IIRC, Paul Shaffer DID IN FACT fill in for Dave after the latter's son, Harry, was born.

[@dongiller]

True; was that ever in dispute? This video is from 1985, two decades before Dave's son was born.

[@neonatalpenguin]

This was the day I was born.

[@royalsfan]

RIP Max Ophuls :P

[@i.p.knightly149]

Never be another like him.

[@KBTime]

I loved Al Frisch... any idea when he retired/left the show?

[@dongiller]

It was during the NABET strike in 1987. When the strike ended in early November, Dave welcomed everyone back, then noticed that Al wasn’t there. The next day he mentioned that Al had retired.

[@Stylus1]

How many cue card people were on Late Night?

[@dongiller]

Around five.

[@davebonnar1199]

requests -do you have Daves amazing monkie sketch, best of the furtive guy collection, pate fatovitch sketch especially him as the angry gas attendant- appreciate all you are posting huge fan

[@dongiller]

+Dave Bonnar Thanks; I have every Late Night, though 15 shows from early Spring '82 are incomplete. The Amazing Monkey bit aired on June 30, 1989. Haven't yet digitized it. I'll put together Chris's Fugitive Guy collection after I finish digitizing all of the shows that include it. Pete reenacting the angry gas attendant: July 23, 1987. Also not yet digitized. (I'm currently up to late July '85.)

[@bruhcolli5220]

Dave Bonnar no Late Shows?

[@brianwolters7560]

@@dongiller Still would love to see the 2nd Mr. Humidity Skit with "Angel"...

[@redshiftexperiment]

7:32 Steve O'Donnell I believe?

[@dongiller]

Correct!