I am 43 and live in Melbourne Australia. The Late Show with David Letterman made me want to move to New York and be part of the culture. Meg, I feel, represents the best of it. I was so sad and angry when 911 happened. These clips are an archive of the 'Golden Age' that we must all treasure.
Finding someone as charming as she is was like winning the lottery on that first call. What a great bit this was, and part of the hilarity is Dave dialing the phone himself. This is such prime Dave. Thanks for all the work putting these together.
Mario Cisneros But even with a dozen or two channels, they were almost all infomercials or off the air overnight, so only a couple (maybe 3) would have any real shows on. So technically correct?
We had the 4 main channels, NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS, and then we were lucky, we lived an hour outside Chicago, and we picked up 2 extra channels out of Chicago on UHF. Channel 32, and Channel 44. They actually had good stuff on them every once in a while, for kids anyway. Some pretty good cartoons, and White Sox games. I was a Cubs fan, but still occasionally watched the Sox. I liked watching when Wilber Wood pitched because he threw knuckleballs. As a kid that putch just fascinated me. He joined the Sox in 1967.
@@sfcmp7005right same here in Philadelphia and then at some point when I was still just a kid we ended up with originally I think just one channel on UHF and then to and then three ... wow when we went into UHF we really thought we were badass having one or two extra channels at first ... but it really did make a difference though .
This is crazy -- I hadn't thought about Meg in forever, then earlier today she popped into my head, and now I see that you posted these compilations just days ago, Don. You're the best!
Took me some 7 hours to watch the entire video , pausing between each episode to read the comments , do some cooking , check some backgrounds , follow some links The quality of this video is absolutely top : it *never* loses the focus yet provides a lot of context and the cuts are close to perfect - Don created a true masterpiece here And the comments here are of a rare quality too , without a single dissonant And Meg the Gem , the Star of the Show : Heaven must be missing an Angel , but please don't tell them we know where she is ! What a great place to revisit from time to time Thank you Don 🙏
@@kurtdanielson993 She married an actor named Daniel Katz she still lives in manhatten and works for another publisher and wrote a coffee table book abotu Weird Al Yankovick
I must have been working night shift at this time since I don't remember these segments at all. Nonetheless, I clicked the video thumbnail because she looked cute. Turned out to be a good choice -- she's adorable.
OMG, who could forget the loveable Meg and over one million views I can see many can share the sentiment. Don, it only takes one guy to put together all these wonderful Dave moments from the past and you are the man! I had to create a new playlist for Dave clips.
May I say that this is absolutely the best channel on TH-cam. Thank you. Everyone who watched that original NBC show knows the magic that surrounded it. You tuned to see Dave. You never knew what was going to happen. Even Eddie Vedder said that before Pearl Jam he was a night security guard and David was his co-pilot every night.
There is a lot of PAINSTAKING old school editing in order to build a video like this, similar to how I remember doing with a pair of cassette recorders, later VCRs. This is *VERY WELL DONE.*
@burteriksson When making audiocassettes there was a brief time interval that the erase head preceded the record head, meaning that when you push record there is a tiny overlap, "double recording". I liked that effect, so a new song ttarted above the last second or so of the previous fadeout. I was fascinated with (and going for a similar effect to) how DJs sometimes would play the downbeat of a new song over the fade-out of another (though they did it with two separate turntables, and just let them run together briefly before twisting down the old one's [on air] volume and lifting the needle and killing the speed and lifting the disc and sleeving it and setting it in the "played" stack. Tragic that that will not make the a great deal of sense to many nowaday listeners, even though everything I just described was the DJ's human hand operations, not electronic mumbo jumbo!).
@burteriksson You busted me! Yes, nobody, but nobody "pushed record" to start recording; as you said, they released pause. At the perfect instant! Often while watching a stop watch, after the practice run establishing the exact time that the downbeat or first sound occurred! But **I** just lied! There *were* occasions where you pushed record to begin: when you heard something on radio, and said, Oh SPIT and breathlessly ran up to get it going. Hysterically examining opened cassette cases and praying that they were empty, so you wouldn't record over a treasure, because you hadn't labeled it yet! Or making wartime decisions like, can I tape over this thing that I really wanted to keep, except I don't have any new tapes at the moment! Like, when you heard the guy on FM already starting "Sunday night album hour" five minutes early, OWWW, so there's no time for sane and rational behavior!
@burteriksson XL II C90 :) Lots and lots of 'em. I even remember, and this is bad, the emergence of C90's because initially it was presumed that only 60s could be thick enough for suitable fidelity. And 120s were considered way out of the question for "serious" people. And those 60s made for interesting compromises with double music albums! I also remember the advent of "Chromium Dioxide" and "metal" and many debates over whether they would tear up your heads. And I'm also old enough to know people who mocked the "relatively lo-fi" cassette-using music recording people categorically, as they had their slick TEAC reel to reels. And they did indeed sound bodacious. Hey, I admire and salute your transfer project! I'm scared to start, it's such a big job.
Man Dave hit gold when he called Meg. Three hours of content with a high quality guest who was up for hijinks whenever he was short of filler and no money outlaid. No writers required and they didn't even stump for a tripod for some of them. Didn't even have to plug a movie or show. Meg is a talk show host's dream.
@@famousoriginal7971 Celebrities aren't "real people?" Man, you need to get your head screwed on straight-go back to school or something. That is some of the dumbest shit I ever heard.
Thank you for the great compilation! This is what made Dave one-of-a-kind! He would do ridiculous bits, with ordinary folks and neighbors... and loved every minute. Miss Dave. ❤
Wow!,..Hey,..Thanks for The Blast From The Past!.. ..I Remember Watching Almost All of These When They Aired!.. It's Great to See How The Whole Meg Bit Evolved Over Time!.. Meg Was Always The Highlight of The Show!.. ..Meg Is Just Great!.. :-)
Love seeing these old letterman videos. Every night as a kid I stayed up to watch letterman. Was never an early bird, always a night owl. Still today at 41, I have a hard time getting to sleep before 1am, usually like 2-3am and up at 7 for work. Anyway this brings back so many memories watching in my room with the volume low, so my parents didn’t hear me
This is great...thanks for putting it together, Don! Meg really rolled with it better than could be expected. Not over excited, not stuffy; just fun and level headed. Fantastic!
She reminds me of the summer intern or page girl Dave kept calling out at the hallway desk near the Today show. She would answer the phone “6A.” I think her name was Jill Greenberg” or something like that.
This is so great because no cue cards are involved! It's all off the cuff and it's brilliant! What a time to be young and thriving, along with Dave, Paul, the band and Meg! ❤❤❤
Can you imagine the dedication ? He is an archivist extrordinaire !! To have taped every episode on VHS, watch it, notate various aspects, categorize them via subject, assemble them & put them out for all to enjoy ? I am no slouch, but THAT KIND of dedication is just wonderous !! Can you imagine the hours behind that kind of effort ? Kudos to The Donz !! 🚬😎
Thank you for all the great Letterman compilation videos you have put together. It’s a shame that there is nothing available commercially and your videos are so wonderful. Thanks for all your efforts.
Good call! I didn’t even notice it either. This is pretty much an unprecedented happening, at least in my personal TH-cam experience. You got me over here actually trying to think of the last 17 minute video I watched that didn’t have at least two, I’m leaving you a 👍🏽 too.
Meg was such a beauty. As an aside, I can't believe those office windows would actually open. I wonder if building codes ever changed them to prevent them from opening?
I had an office in NY city as recently as late 2019 and the window opened. If the building was built that way there's no law that made the landlords seal them up.
@@johnphelan5382 Thanks, John! Now I know the answer! I was thinking that many businesses seem to do whatever they can to limit the possibility of people hurting themselves -- and, thus, limiting their liability. Growing up, I don't recall having warnings on so many things (e.g. "Please do not stick sharpened pencil in eyes or ears. Harm may result." or "Caution: Coffee is hot. Please do not pour in lap.") or access to many dangerous areas or situations being as limited or restricted. In the case of windows being allowed to open in office/residential buildings, certainly it would be helpful on lower floors, if evacuation by the Fire Department were necessary. And, people don't seem to be throwing themselves or other items out of the windows that do open, so perhaps humanity deserves more credit than I give it. :-) I hope you and your loved ones are well and remain so.
The thing that blows my mind is that Dave started talking to Meg in 1990, in my mind I remember this as something Dave did early in the Late Night era around 84 or 85 at the latest. I didn't think I was watching Dave as much in the 90's but evidently I still was because I remember watching the very first Meg episode and many after that.
@@tonym994 She embezzled $18.5 million from her employer Simon & Schuster, dumped Tony, and disappeared. It is rumored that she is living on a private island just off Bora Bora with the fire dancer.
@Joe Turner Are you insane? There is nothing even remotely similar. Carson was like a network talk show. Letterman was like a cable access show was put on network television.
i don't remember this when i watched. i'm sure it was kind of a running gag, but when you watch it like this, it's very sweet. and, again, outstanding editing.
I like them all, but one of my favorites has to be when Dave invited Meg over to assist with Kamar the magician. Meg was such a good sport and we got see her. I really enjoyed the review of the paperbacks that she brought over. Such a nice smile and so pleasant.
She has so many virtues, I could go on and on... But, here's this: she has the cutest, most distinctive wave EVER! I look forward to it in every segment.
@@bradmilano3717 I disagree, but understand your skepticism. Like all the reality shows are 100% scripted. Even American Pickers and that goofy British show Wheeler Dealers.
@@bradmilano3717 Sure you do. Dave did things like this all the time at NBC, calling payphones to get a random to come on the show, calling the restaurant below the office window and having the waiter take the phone to a table. The reality is more like: nine times out of ten you don't get somebody who works this well, and the one time you do, you milk it. Hence, they had probably a dozen or more random civilians on the show in this fashion, and most of them weren't this entertaining, but the one who was they kept having back.
@@bradmilano3717 In other words: yes, the more likely outcome was that this wouldn't have worked nearly so well, in which case it would have been just one throwaway segment and you wouldn't be commenting on it. (Which is what happened in 9/10 segments like this one.)
i failed abysmally attempting a similar approach , did you succeed ? I just cant stop watching it , i pause between two episodes to read and enjoy the comments , that i manage , but then it's on with the show . We found a Gem here .
This a great piece of work here Don. Hats off. These Letterman Shows broke the mould and the UK equivalents are dated and duff. Dave reigns supreme. I love digging into your vaults on youtube. If I want to cheer myself up in these terrible COVID times this is where i come for a smile and a tear. Thank you man for all of this huge work you have brought to millions internationally. Much love from Henry in London England
Meg's history on Late Night was the greatest non-celebrity saga in history! I loved the hell out of this bit...for a while, we used to gather round the TV anticipating Dave messing with Meg.
I am so glad someone remembered Meg Parsont. She was a fixture in the late '80s when I was in college and I always loved how nonchalant she was in her appearances, always genuine and never star struck. She worked in the Simon and Shuster building, which Dave of course always called the Briggs and Stratton building. She definitely understood comedy. I hope that Meg's life since then has been good.
I’m laughing so hard. Wasn’t watching Dave back then so missed this awesome show & Meg. Wishing I had beautiful hair like that. What a great sport she was & I learned to love Dave in later years. What a hoot!🤣
This makes me so happy, to finally get to see MEG! She was ALWAYS a joy to see. If I had been David Letterman I would have proposed to her!!! She was, IMHO, one of the PRETTIEST girls on TV. I was bummed out when Dave moved to CBS, because it meant that Meg wouldn't be on Dave's show! And, once Dave moved to CBS, and if I had been Dave, I would have offered her a job, and, I would have doubled whatever she was getting from Simon & Schuster!!!!!!!
I am 43 and live in Melbourne Australia. The Late Show with David Letterman made me want to move to New York and be part of the culture. Meg, I feel, represents the best of it. I was so sad and angry when 911 happened. These clips are an archive of the 'Golden Age' that we must all treasure.
An hour and a half of this held my attention better than any movie made in the last few years.
Finding someone as charming as she is was like winning the lottery on that first call. What a great bit this was, and part of the hilarity is Dave dialing the phone himself. This is such prime Dave. Thanks for all the work putting these together.
This was GREAT!!! Feels like being transported back in time...I miss David Letterman...Thank you so very much for putting this together💖
These clips bring me true joy. I was young and naive in 1990, and this takes me back there, despite it all.
I always liked how Meg waved by opening and closing her hand. It’s endearing.
It is right ? I was just thinking the same thing
The show was incredibly lucky to happen to call Meg out of all the offices in her building. She was wonderful and always seemed fun to talk to.
I totally forgot about Meg. She was a cutie and a real sweetheart. Just made me remember why I loved Dave so much. Thanks for putting these together.
burteriksson don’t be like that
I bet she was popular with the staff after she was on the show.she probably got sick of hearing .have you heard from dave haha
Don, This is a joy. Thank you so much.
Remember when we had 3 channels and late night was this good?
Four Channels, wherever i am. ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS (not that i am bragging.)
That was in the 1950's
Mario Cisneros But even with a dozen or two channels, they were almost all infomercials or off the air overnight, so only a couple (maybe 3) would have any real shows on. So technically correct?
We had the 4 main channels, NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS, and then we were lucky, we lived an hour outside Chicago, and we picked up 2 extra channels out of Chicago on UHF. Channel 32, and Channel 44. They actually had good stuff on them every once in a while, for kids anyway. Some pretty good cartoons, and White Sox games. I was a Cubs fan, but still occasionally watched the Sox. I liked watching when Wilber Wood pitched because he threw knuckleballs. As a kid that putch just fascinated me. He joined the Sox in 1967.
@@sfcmp7005right same here in Philadelphia and then at some point when I was still just a kid we ended up with originally I think just one channel on UHF and then to and then three ... wow when we went into UHF we really thought we were badass having one or two extra channels at first ... but it really did make a difference though .
What a stroke of luck to get the sweetest woman in the United States of America
No, not even close.
This is why Dave is GREAT! Dave was always real, original, and appreciated everyone on his show. There will never be another "Dave"!!
yes he is really funny! They made me laugh!
@@sharonblac he was funny till he went Woke.
how can anyone down vote this? Thank you for pulling this together!!!
This is what I loved about Dave's early years. He was always doing crazy, off the cuff things. Simon and Schuster must have loved the publicity.
April 30 2020,At home waiting for the world to calm down and watching this of what I have never seen before.
Thanks Dave. Your still number 1.
My N3xt Guest Needs No Introduction is Dave's newest evolution. I LOVE IT TOO!
This is crazy -- I hadn't thought about Meg in forever, then earlier today she popped into my head, and now I see that you posted these compilations just days ago, Don. You're the best!
Jeez Don. You are a credit to society. Thanks x
Can I go back to this time please? 😭
This is so perfect for the Corona Virus Quarantine. Bless you for this compilation!
If you do make it back in time, invest everything in APPLE!
Took me some 7 hours to watch the entire video , pausing between each episode to read the comments , do some cooking , check some backgrounds , follow some links
The quality of this video is absolutely top : it *never* loses the focus yet provides a lot of context and the cuts are close to perfect - Don created a true masterpiece here
And the comments here are of a rare quality too , without a single dissonant
And Meg the Gem , the Star of the Show : Heaven must be missing an Angel , but please don't tell them we know where she is !
What a great place to revisit from time to time
Thank you Don 🙏
Thank _you_!!
Yes, Don is a talented man
Just love her wit. She is a fav of mine and have watched most of her presentations, conversations and interviews.
I love that you put the right amount of intro into each clip. This is great editing! Much appreciated!
Thanks! I think context is crucial.
@@dongiller yes thank you so much for all the hard work you have done over the years organizing and curating these collections .
Great I've fallen in love with a woman from 1990
She is only 56. Wonder about her marriage and any kids.
A) i don’t like the direction of this thread b)it’s messed up we both know what she looks like know (still beautiful)
@@kurtdanielson993
She married an actor named Daniel Katz she still lives in manhatten and works for another publisher and wrote a coffee table book abotu Weird Al Yankovick
Robert Asch 👍👍
I must have been working night shift at this time since I don't remember these segments at all. Nonetheless, I clicked the video thumbnail because she looked cute. Turned out to be a good choice -- she's adorable.
OMG, who could forget the loveable Meg and over one million views I can see many can share the sentiment. Don, it only takes one guy to put together all these wonderful Dave moments from the past and you are the man! I had to create a new playlist for Dave clips.
👏👍👍♥️😀
Meg thanks you for making this. I remember this skit it was lots of fun. Dave at his best.
Megan is such a sweetheart, first time ever seeing it thanks to TH-cam's recommendations
She was so great right outta the gate. "Is that a good deal?" Thanks for posting these.
@Jobby Peel annoying?
He did almost hang up on her a few times _) she did not want togo on the air
July 2019; I love Meg. Dad just died and she cheered me up. Thanks Dave. She has a ton of cool.
Sorry for your loss. Anybody who publicly says they love their Dad or that they’ve lost their Dad and is broken up about it is a-ok with me.
That's terrible but I am glad to hear that this video has cheered you up
She has such a sweet voice and demeanor, and watching this is so addicting.
Thanks again, brother. Revisiting our dear friend Meg made my day.
May I say that this is absolutely the best channel on TH-cam. Thank you. Everyone who watched that original NBC show knows the magic that surrounded it. You tuned to see Dave. You never knew what was going to happen. Even Eddie Vedder said that before Pearl Jam he was a night security guard and David was his co-pilot every night.
This is the kind of stuff that brought Late Night above and beyond anything before it, and ensured the longevity.
i couldn't have said it any better than that
chatting with an office girl?? i guess.
@@Johnnynbk The innovation and risky behavior that Late Night started and continued. Sorry if you can't understand.
This compilation is a labor of love.
There is a lot of PAINSTAKING old school editing in order to build a video like this, similar to how I remember doing with a pair of cassette recorders, later VCRs. This is *VERY WELL DONE.*
@burteriksson When making audiocassettes there was a brief time interval that the erase head preceded the record head, meaning that when you push record there is a tiny overlap, "double recording". I liked that effect, so a new song ttarted above the last second or so of the previous fadeout. I was fascinated with (and going for a similar effect to) how DJs sometimes would play the downbeat of a new song over the fade-out of another (though they did it with two separate turntables, and just let them run together briefly before twisting down the old one's [on air] volume and lifting the needle and killing the speed and lifting the disc and sleeving it and setting it in the "played" stack. Tragic that that will not make the a great deal of sense to many nowaday listeners, even though everything I just described was the DJ's human hand operations, not electronic mumbo jumbo!).
@burteriksson You busted me! Yes, nobody, but nobody "pushed record" to start recording; as you said, they released pause. At the perfect instant! Often while watching a stop watch, after the practice run establishing the exact time that the downbeat or first sound occurred! But **I** just lied! There *were* occasions where you pushed record to begin: when you heard something on radio, and said, Oh SPIT and breathlessly ran up to get it going. Hysterically examining opened cassette cases and praying that they were empty, so you wouldn't record over a treasure, because you hadn't labeled it yet! Or making wartime decisions like, can I tape over this thing that I really wanted to keep, except I don't have any new tapes at the moment! Like, when you heard the guy on FM already starting "Sunday night album hour" five minutes early, OWWW, so there's no time for sane and rational behavior!
@burteriksson XL II C90 :) Lots and lots of 'em.
I even remember, and this is bad, the emergence of C90's because initially it was presumed that only 60s could be thick enough for suitable fidelity. And 120s were considered way out of the question for "serious" people. And those 60s made for interesting compromises with double music albums!
I also remember the advent of "Chromium Dioxide" and "metal" and many debates over whether they would tear up your heads.
And I'm also old enough to know people who mocked the "relatively lo-fi" cassette-using music recording people categorically, as they had their slick TEAC reel to reels. And they did indeed sound bodacious.
Hey, I admire and salute your transfer project! I'm scared to start, it's such a big job.
Bah! Just a pair of scissors and some tape!
That’s how ya knew you had the bug
"The Smith and Wesson building, no the Briggs and Stratton building." This is good stuff. Thanks for compiling this.
It's May 27 so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!🎁🎸🎷🎺🎻🌃🎉🎈. I hope you've had a wonderful life for the past 30 years.
Me too.
Man Dave hit gold when he called Meg. Three hours of content with a high quality guest who was up for hijinks whenever he was short of filler and no money outlaid. No writers required and they didn't even stump for a tripod for some of them. Didn't even have to plug a movie or show. Meg is a talk show host's dream.
It's three videos of Meg in all. Almost 7 hours of Meg.
It’s almost like REAL people are just as OR MORE interesting than celebrities (Who are not real people.)
That suit was not cheap! Paul
@@famousoriginal7971 Celebrities aren't "real people?" Man, you need to get your head screwed on straight-go back to school or something. That is some of the dumbest shit I ever heard.
Meg Parsont was GREAT! What a SPORT & so sweet!!
Thank you for the great compilation! This is what made Dave one-of-a-kind! He would do ridiculous bits, with ordinary folks and neighbors... and loved every minute. Miss Dave. ❤
What a trip for Meg. Just happened to answer a phone one night, translates into a 4.5 hour Letterman best on TH-cam in 2020.
4.5 hours?
2:48:41 is 2 hours, 48 minutes, and 41 seconds
@@mwilliamshs you see how it says PART 1 there genius? and actually there are 3 parts, so its more like 6.5 hours. Thanks for playing!
@@calixa so either way you were off by 2 hours
@@mwilliamshs just take the loss buddy, he was right, you were wrong, move along.
@@pondababa4197 fight! fight!
Wow!,..Hey,..Thanks for The Blast From The Past!..
..I Remember Watching Almost All of These When They Aired!..
It's Great to See How The Whole Meg Bit Evolved Over Time!..
Meg Was Always The Highlight of The Show!..
..Meg Is Just Great!.. :-)
I remember this bit back in the day.
Dave had a real talent for showcasing everyday people and bringing out the best in them.
I too vividly remember Meg and the bit for a number of shows. Hard to believe this was 32 years ago?! Holy sheeit we're getting old.
Love seeing these old letterman videos. Every night as a kid I stayed up to watch letterman. Was never an early bird, always a night owl. Still today at 41, I have a hard time getting to sleep before 1am, usually like 2-3am and up at 7 for work. Anyway this brings back so many memories watching in my room with the volume low, so my parents didn’t hear me
I'm so glad YT recommended this gem to me, she is adorable
This is great...thanks for putting it together, Don!
Meg really rolled with it better than could be expected. Not over excited, not stuffy; just fun and level headed. Fantastic!
Probably why he brought her back so often. He looked really excited when he called her.
She was very funny, the way she played along
She reminds me of the summer intern or page girl Dave kept calling out at the hallway desk near the Today show. She would answer the phone “6A.” I think her name was Jill Greenberg” or something like that.
This compilation is so much fun, I can't break away!!!! Meg is so sweet.
When we all watched and enjoyed the same wonderful show. Thanks, Dave.
At the same time.
Thanks to you for compiling and thanks to Dave. Great bits.
Charming young lady.
I end up watching this whole thing every year or two. Never gets old. I miss that show.
Anyone else have a mini-crush on Meg back in the day? I mean, besides Dave. lol
I think Dave was more into Tara, but was also charmed by Meg. ;)
she was adorable, beautiful smile.
Ms. Parsont had such a wonderful telephone manner and, obviously, built a rapport, with Dave.(and, yes, indeed, I had.)
I did
YES
Thank you again, Don Giller. It's like I'm 14 again, watching Dave on that little black and white in my bedroom with the rabbit ears.
This is fun. Meg is great. I sat through the whole thing. I really need to get up and do some things before I watch Part 2.
At 26:00 “That pasta and tap water diet agrees with you.” THAT David Letterman was the best. Quick, smart, hilarious.
This is NYC at its most charming. Great video.
This is so great because no cue cards are involved! It's all off the cuff and it's brilliant! What a time to be young and thriving, along with Dave, Paul, the band and Meg! ❤❤❤
I loved this recurring bit so much. She was just so adorable and couldn’t have been more perfect for the show ❤️
Thank you for putting this together for us!
Can you imagine the dedication ? He is an archivist extrordinaire !! To have taped every episode on VHS, watch it, notate various aspects, categorize them via subject, assemble them & put them out for all to enjoy ?
I am no slouch, but THAT KIND of dedication is just wonderous !! Can you imagine the hours behind that kind of effort ?
Kudos to The Donz !!
🚬😎
@@craigfazekas3923 I am so happy I found his channel. HIs work is outstanding!
@@craigfazekas3923 ehhhh the Donz 👍
Thank you for all the great Letterman compilation videos you have put together. It’s a shame that there is nothing available commercially and your videos are so wonderful. Thanks for all your efforts.
Reruns from a long past sane era are the only late night I've watched in a decade. Thanks for posting the Meg reels, good times!.
I'm glad TH-cam recommended this to me. This is hilarious.
I planned on watching maybe 15 mins of this... ended up watching the entire 3 hours and now on to the next 2 parts!
@@77dris
You're not alone!
Just finished part 1 now off to part 2 , just cant get enough of it...thanks Don Giller .
The fact that this is an almost 3-hour youtube video with no ads...wow.
s It's not like YOU noticed the lack of ads
Good call! I didn’t even notice it either. This is pretty much an unprecedented happening, at least in my personal TH-cam experience. You got me over here actually trying to think of the last 17 minute video I watched that didn’t have at least two, I’m leaving you a 👍🏽 too.
Duke Thomas
I was appreciative of the lack of ads
@burteriksson Really though eh?
@burteriksson "Really though, eh?" is a thing that Canadians say...well, Nova Scotians do, maybe not all Canadians.
Meg was such a beauty. As an aside, I can't believe those office windows would actually open. I wonder if building codes ever changed them to prevent them from opening?
I had an office in NY city as recently as late 2019 and the window opened. If the building was built that way there's no law that made the landlords seal them up.
@@johnphelan5382 Thanks, John! Now I know the answer! I was thinking that many businesses seem to do whatever they can to limit the possibility of people hurting themselves -- and, thus, limiting their liability. Growing up, I don't recall having warnings on so many things (e.g. "Please do not stick sharpened pencil in eyes or ears. Harm may result." or "Caution: Coffee is hot. Please do not pour in lap.") or access to many dangerous areas or situations being as limited or restricted. In the case of windows being allowed to open in office/residential buildings, certainly it would be helpful on lower floors, if evacuation by the Fire Department were necessary. And, people don't seem to be throwing themselves or other items out of the windows that do open, so perhaps humanity deserves more credit than I give it. :-) I hope you and your loved ones are well and remain so.
Thank you so much. I had forgotten about funny and lovely Meg.
I remember that first one. I'd tuned in for Todd Rundgren. Lol! Meg was instantly a favorite bit. Thanks for the memories
The thing that blows my mind is that Dave started talking to Meg in 1990, in my mind I remember this as something Dave did early in the Late Night era around 84 or 85 at the latest. I didn't think I was watching Dave as much in the 90's but evidently I still was because I remember watching the very first Meg episode and many after that.
Come back to us Dave.
We all miss you.
Thank you for the memories and Paul.
And this gal as well....
This was one of the most entertaining bits on late night TV ever! Meg was such a good sport.
why didn't she become a big star? "where are they now?"
@@tonym994
She embezzled $18.5 million from her employer Simon & Schuster, dumped Tony, and disappeared. It is rumored that she is living on a private island just off Bora Bora with the fire dancer.
always knew she was shady.
Meg brings me joy.
In case no one has mentioned it before, at the very beginning Paul is playing "Telephone Line" by ELO as the "dialing music"
Thanks, I was just going to ask that.
Yeah, fairly sure we all got it.
He even mentions it.....
Christopher Gardner through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights
Meg is now waving to the entire world, if not universe, for at least two years now. A tremendous legacy, and I'm not being ironic.
Again, Don Giller, these videos are SO much appreciated. Thanks!
The Letterman show was so different from everything else that I'd ever seen on TV. It was the first time a TV show actually made me laugh out loud.
Hooked on his morning shows in 1980, must see!
@Joe Turner Are you insane? There is nothing even remotely similar. Carson was like a network talk show. Letterman was like a cable access show was put on network television.
@Joe Turner Wrong, 100%. No resemblance in style, format, shtick, routines.
Dave changed the game.
@Joe Turner still appreciate how wrong you were?
i don't remember this when i watched. i'm sure it was kind of a running gag, but when you watch it like this, it's very sweet. and, again, outstanding editing.
I like them all, but one of my favorites has to be when Dave invited Meg over to assist with Kamar the magician. Meg was such a good sport and we got see her. I really enjoyed the review of the paperbacks that she brought over. Such a nice smile and so pleasant.
There are a lot of good old material from this great shows. Thank, god! Who can watch the "late shows" from today?
I felt Dave was at his peak in these years. Great job on the compilation.
His first few seasons at NBC were golden.
She has so many virtues, I could go on and on... But, here's this: she has the cutest, most distinctive wave EVER! I look forward to it in every segment.
You know this was set up
You don’t randomly get a looker that plays coy
@@bradmilano3717
I disagree, but understand your skepticism. Like all the reality shows are 100% scripted. Even American Pickers and that goofy British show Wheeler Dealers.
@@bradmilano3717 YOU don't.
@@bradmilano3717 Sure you do. Dave did things like this all the time at NBC, calling payphones to get a random to come on the show, calling the restaurant below the office window and having the waiter take the phone to a table.
The reality is more like: nine times out of ten you don't get somebody who works this well, and the one time you do, you milk it.
Hence, they had probably a dozen or more random civilians on the show in this fashion, and most of them weren't this entertaining, but the one who was they kept having back.
@@bradmilano3717 In other words: yes, the more likely outcome was that this wouldn't have worked nearly so well, in which case it would have been just one throwaway segment and you wouldn't be commenting on it. (Which is what happened in 9/10 segments like this one.)
Just finished watching all three parts. So wonderful to see these again, brings on some serious nostalgia!
It's amazing how well this show holds up, almost 30 years after he left NBC.
Imagine that! A regular gal, just an ordinary New Yorker, who becomes a sensation long before TH-cam is even thought of.
Wow that's the power of national broadcast media, eh? Gotta love those big corporations always making dreams come true for the little guy!
Love your Zappa icon.
Thank you for putting these together!
So nice to see the show as it was. I'll be watching this one half hour at a time for weeks. Thanks!
i failed abysmally attempting a similar approach , did you succeed ? I just cant stop watching it , i pause between two episodes to read and enjoy the comments , that i manage , but then it's on with the show . We found a Gem here .
@@FlockOfHawks I did not succeed no. Actually i watched the whole thing right then and now four years later im watching the whole thing again.
Thank you so much for all the time it must have taken you to make this collection.
So happy there aren't any damn interruptions. Thanks mang.
This a great piece of work here Don. Hats off. These Letterman Shows broke the mould and the UK equivalents are dated and duff. Dave reigns supreme. I love digging into your vaults on youtube. If I want to cheer myself up in these terrible COVID times this is where i come for a smile and a tear. Thank you man for all of this huge work you have brought to millions internationally. Much love from Henry in London England
Wow. Thanks!!
@@dongiller sincerely mean't. Thanks for coming back. All the best from Blighty
Meg's history on Late Night was the greatest non-celebrity saga in history! I loved the hell out of this bit...for a while, we used to gather round the TV anticipating Dave messing with Meg.
So effing charming.....the whole thing. This is what made this show so special.
I remember watching this and couldn’t wait every night when she would be on,it was great she was such a sweetheart....
Awesome!! Thanks for all the work I think this had to be. Very appreciated. Made my night.
Thanks again, Donz. Scores of Dave fans developed a nice crush on sweet Meg.
I am so glad someone remembered Meg Parsont. She was a fixture in the late '80s when I was in college and I always loved how nonchalant she was in her appearances, always genuine and never star struck. She worked in the Simon and Shuster building, which Dave of course always called the Briggs and Stratton building. She definitely understood comedy. I hope that Meg's life since then has been good.
To be clear, her first appearance was on February 15, 1990.
@@dongillerThat cannot be right. I remember her appearances beginning when I lived in a dorm and I last lived in a dorm in May 1988.
@@gheller2261 It is right. February 14, 1990, was her first appearance. As noted in both the video and the description that no one reads.
I think we're all hoping that Meg will add a comment on this compilation.
Thank you, Don. I've watched the Meg trilogy twice now. A lot of fun. Thank you for your hard work. Peace! ✌
Incredible!! Thank you SO much for making this! What an awesome thing to do 🥰
I’m laughing so hard. Wasn’t watching Dave back then so missed this awesome show & Meg. Wishing I had beautiful hair like that. What a great sport she was & I learned to love Dave in later years. What a hoot!🤣
i'm CERTAIN your hair is beautiful, too.
This is such a reminder of how great this show was. Dang, I miss it.
I came here to laugh, not fall in love 💘
She's quick minded, a real treat, when he had her come on the show
This makes me so happy, to finally get to see MEG! She was ALWAYS a joy to see. If I had been David Letterman I would have proposed to her!!! She was, IMHO, one of the PRETTIEST girls on TV. I was bummed out when Dave moved to CBS, because it meant that Meg wouldn't be on Dave's show! And, once Dave moved to CBS, and if I had been Dave, I would have offered her a job, and, I would have doubled whatever she was getting from Simon & Schuster!!!!!!!
I’ve been waiting for these ones! Thanks for putting these together - that’s a lot of material. Can’t wait to watch them!
Watching this on Easter Sunday 2020. Also Dave's 73 birthday. April 12 ... Happy Birthday Dave
Do not watch this compilation ... unless you are fully prepared to realize how lousy the present crop of late night tv shows really are.
Kimmel is ok.
It's called improvisation...
What? No one can ever surpass the brilliance of the laughing hyena known as Jimmy Fallon!
/s
well put
Damn straight