Article 79060 of alt.fan.letterman: Path: ddsw1!news.mcs.net!news.exodus.net!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!world1.bawave.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: ldmorett@aol.com (Ldmorett) Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman Subject: Show report 6/27 part 1 Date: 29 Jun 1996 22:04:30 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 201 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4r4nbe$blg@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: ldmorett@aol.com (Ldmorett) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Ok, so this will be long, beware got to the theater at noon and stood in line, got seats 3 and 4. and, now, with your ticket, you get a free drink at the pizza place next door between 2 and 4 pm. ok, so we get back at 4pm and things were running late, as always. then everyone smelled smoke and it seriously looked like it was coming from nearby, and the paiges started to seem nervous and then someone comes out and yells "fire in the lobby"!!! so by now, we're like "great, now what can go wrong?", but it turned out to be some buring garbage in a garbage can, so everything was ok. I also saw the guy from that one bit a long time ago where Dave talks to door to door sales people (one of them being a Mary Kay lady) and anyway, the guy selling knives was there, they let him right into the theater. we got inside late and we watched "dave and paul play golf" - a change from the last time I was there which was on the 5th of june, when we watched dave answers want ads. walli came out to warm us up, the band came out and as soon as I saw paul's jacket (it was FUZZY or something - hard to tell on tv, but it was fuzzy looking in person) I decided that I wanted to ask Dave if I could touch Paul's coat. I know it's dumb, but it looked pretty cool. so dave comes out with hardly any time at all, and he says that he wants to be honest with us and that if he wasn't honest with us, then he would be a punk. he didn't want to lie like some other tv people might do. he said that he thinks he has tick fever and he didn't know what to do. D: so, I think I have tick fever, has anyone else had this? about 15 people raise their hands and I figure, oh what the hell, why not, so I do too and then yell "I had it once dave!" - well, I was cheerleader in high school so I have a big mouth and sure enough, dave heard me and called on me. D: yes miss, you say you had tick fever, I wanna know your symptoms. so, stand up, give us your name and where you are from L: I'm Lisa from Rochester NY D: ladies and gentlemen let's hear it for Lisa from Rochester NY (wow, that was cool - all those people clapping pour moi, well, sort of) D: so, you had tick fever. (at this point I am so damn nervous, not knowing what the hell to do, and I am thinking of symptoms to say to Dave), How did you get it? You weren't rolling around in the woods, were you? L: well, um not exactly D: then how'd you get it Now, here is where I had no clue what to say and I think I don't do well under pressure, I was not ready to be asked about tick fever, that is for sure L: well dave, I uh, got it from... from scooping ice cream where I work in the summer D: oh, well, you know that Baskin Robbins new line of tick ice cream can be harmful L: yeah, I ate some of that. D: anything else? someone yells "15 seconds!" so dave has to go L; they told me if I go to the Late Show, I would be cured. D: ah, well, that is not a very good story. L: david letterman, I can't beleive you just said that to me! D: I gotta go, enjoy the show and he was off and I got the ham, this one delivered by walli, not by Dave like the last time. I know I sounded like a complete idiot, but it is too late now, and the way I see it is like this: Dave said when he met the president he said something dumb to him, so it is like the same thing, I said something dumb to Dave. oh well. anyway, the show starts..... part of the monologue was edited. he messed up a lot and one joke didn't make it on there, I don't remember what it was, but he stumbled his way through it and then said "I had pre-show punch" ( I wanted him to mention tick fever) - so that didn't make it to the air, and also, he said "what about Robert Downey Jones? huh, what about him?" when he was naming famous broadcasters ("what about oprah?"). on his way to the desk he made the motion to someone that the monologue flew right over his head (or maybe he meant ours). viewer mail, one letter didn't make it and I beleive it was from beaverton, OR. the last letter had to do with a, um, one of those hospital things that they use in emergancy rooms for heart attacks... a defib... something. anyway, the question was if dave had one. so dave says "of course we do, biff.." and biff came out and it's too bad this didn't make it because Biff's shirt was funny looking that day. anyway, he told dave that theirs was out on loan to rupert in the hello deli,. so then they cut to rupert, now this may have been pre-taped (we watched them rehearse it, but I have no idea if they pre-taped it or not) - anyway, rupert was doing an operation on a ham and then he uses the de-thing and he says "george clooney can kiss my ass" - very funny. but the thing is, we watched them rehearse this in the deli that day and they were there doing it for an hour and a half, they had a five pound canned ham they were using and then they had a cooked ham with pineapple on it (that is the one that made the final cut) and they rehearsed it a million different ways. I can't beleive they didn't use it in the final sho. They should have gotten rid of that topten list. dave even said it sucked after he did it. also, another edit during viewer mail, after dave gave alan the announcer the bullhorn thing, and between letter number 3 and when dave read the letter, the bullhorn made a strange noise while alan and someone were trying to fix it or something. it was pretty funny, caught everyone off guard and dave made some comment about how new toys entertain his staff. it was great, too bad it never made it. dave didn't watch the video about the enormous hands. and the entire staff was laughing when the "girl" in the dress (I beleive his name is Leonard Tepper) came out and climbed off the chair. everyone was laughing and sickened. what a riot! BTW - when alan used the bullhorn... it was VERY LOUD!! after he announced Cher and The impersonator came out, dave sat at his desk and laughed his ass off, and I am thinking to myself "unbeleivable, how rude, he is laughing at her" - so since I was looking over at the desk, I didn't notice that it was NOT cher. as you all could tell, she said he looked like shit. she kept on rubbing her fishnet stockings, now I know it is strange that I noticed this, BUT they were LOUD and kinda annoying. first commercial - NOTHING. they didn't talk to each other at all, two people came out and they each talked to dave and cher and that was it, they didn't speak to each other until just before the commercial was over, he leaned to her and said something, and then the commercial was over, when I wastched it on tv, it looked like they were talking the whole time. wrong. 2nd commercial - same stuff, he whispered something to her and that was it, she got up and stood in her spot to sing. I think this commercial was longer than normal, paul and the band kept repeating the same song, I got the impression that something was wrong that had to be fixed. I'm not sure. but cher just stood there over by the band and danced a little bit and dave at his desk. so then you all saw the kiss, no need to say anything there, only that in case it wasn't obvious on tv, well, dave kissed her, she didn't kiss him (the second kiss). after the goose, did you catch her going to try ot grab his crotch? also, I saw other posts about the backup singer in the middle, her dress. it had tassels or something on it, hard to see on tv. it still looked good though. during the song, dave watched his little monitor at his desk the whole time, he didn't tap a foot, finger or anything. and he didn't hear (or he could have ignored) the comment made by her about the kiss on the lips that was going to follow the song. after she sang and he goosed her and all of that, he whispered something to her and then she left, that was it, nothing interesting there either. sorry. during this commercial, dave had to get his coat wiped off, he had makeup or something from cher, what was funny abou this, is that he had the same problem when I was at the diana ross episode. he was annoyed at the replay of the goose. so then commercial, shaq comes out. He is HUGE, wow, did you see the size of him next to dave? I mean, dave is pretty big, but SHAQ??!! after this segment, shaq stayed in teh chair and this is when they brought out the brownies, jugs of milk were also brought out and put behind dave's desk. also during the commercial, it looked like something was being planned or asked with shaq. dave asked him how tall he was (6'7") - and between the two shows, I could see a little monitor and shaq was on it and it looked like they were taping something with shaq. not sure what it was, and I don't remember if he had the same clothes on or not. we shall see, he was sitting there and there was a cement wall or soemthing like that behind him. ok, so that show is over. time for the second show. that is in part 2 Lisa Article 79053 of alt.fan.letterman: Path: ddsw1!news.mcs.net!news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: ldmorett@aol.com (Ldmorett) Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman Subject: Show report 6/27 part 2 Date: 29 Jun 1996 22:06:02 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 102 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4r4nea$bnk@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: ldmorett@aol.com (Ldmorett) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com So now it is between the two shows, and walli explains what is going on and he says that a comedian andy kindler is coming out and then someone tells him that he is wrong. he never told us who the guest was going to be. walli answered questions while we waited. People ask the dumbest things. some interesting stuff. dave has 21 cars in LA. he quit smoking (I think I knew that) some people left after the first show and others were brought in from the street. dave came back out, nobody changed their clothes. paul still had that pink thing on and dave had the same thing (by the way, he was complaining all night about the shirt then, too) Felicia, in the band, took off her hat, but that was it. so dave comes out "we have some other stuff we have to do and it'll take like 10 minutes and basically it will be the same crap from before, I mean, when you get right down to it, it is all crap and you people are lucky enough to be a part of the crap. thanks for helping us out." so then he goes on about the tick fever again, talking about his symptoms, fever and cramps. then someone (a stage hand) mentions joint problems and dave said he has had no joint problems. he goes on to say that no one cared that he has tick fever. I think we were just all a little stunned, that's all. but anyway, he went on aobut how no one cared about his problem and then cher came out and said he looked like shit and he didn't like that at all. he said it was just one of those days for him. so he goes on about cher. "now that we're sure that she is gone, what about that Cher?? What the HELL was that? serioulsy, I mean she comes out here, tells me I look like shit and then kisses me. what the hell was that?" Ok, second show, they did 3 segments with harry connick jr. I am not going to spoil it, but I thought it was pretty good. they talke about his 9 week old baby, wrestling (maybe it was boxing), action figures, martians, johnny cash (harry does an impression, and dave sings and wants harry to join in, but he doesn't), and jeff goldblum. the third segment is a song off of his new cd. he is also in "independance day". commercials, same old stuff, dave says a few things to the guest and then ignores them. during the song, dave watched his monitor, that was it. It is hard to tell if he enjoyed the song or not. i have now seen 4 musical guests on the show (alanis morrisette, cher, diana ross, and harry connick jr) and he only seemed to enjoy alanis. at one point, he complained once again about the shirt problem, and again about the coffee. I guess something was wrong with it or something. he still likes to put his leg on his desk, what the heck is THAT? the cameras were on us about 4 times, but we didn't make it on once. I guess I didn't look good enough for the control room. too bad for me. 4 times! 0 for 4 that night. anyway, it was a great time and we were in the studio for about 2 hours. walli collins will be a guest on july 15th. during one of the commercial breaks, I told alan, the announcer that I wanted his job for the "letter number 2" thing, and he said it is a good thing I didn't take it from him. during another commerical, tony the cue card guy was singing, and I wish I could remember the song, but he and someone else were in the corner singing as loud as they could, and it was SO FUNNY!!! there was some punk outside trying to sell a cue card that was supposedly used on the show, which wasn't of course, but I thought that was really REALLY low. so, then we headed out, and there I am in NYC walking with a ham, how dumb did I look?? so we went right to the train station and we were near 30 Rock and I turned around and there was Biff. He got outta there fast, I mean, we went right up there, and he had to had left at the same time as us, or close to it. so I saw him and said hi, and I told him I was happy that I got the ham, and then I told him I was upset that i sounded so dumb and that dave caught me off guard. then a stranger came by and said "sorry biff, you're not going to get the ham from her". it was very funny. so, that is it, my fingers are tired from typing, thank you for your support! Lisa