Another Trip Down Classic Letterman Lane

Here’s another one of my very favorite Letterman clips.  Late Night with David Letterman, which ran from 1982-1993 on NBC, was a groundbreaking show that influenced generations of comedians and humor writers and changed the whole talk show format.  I read Mike Sacks’ new book of interviews with comedy writers And Here’s the Kicker recently and there was hardly an interview where the show wasn’t mentioned.  This clip is one of my favorites from the old show.  Dave did a viewer mail segment regularly, which turned into CBS mailbag for legal reasons after the network move.  In this one a girl wrote in to tell him that the sneakers he wore on the show weren’t classy enough, and Dave went out to her house with a camera crew to meet her.  She wasn’t home, so he moved their lawn and her younger brother showed up and took the crew to her room to go through the shoes in her closet.  They finally met up with her at her job at Sears where Dave presented her and the family with a nice Bug Zapper machine and got her to help him pick out a nice pair of penny loafers in the shoe department.

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