I'm here viewing this after watching a small interview with Dave after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock ... In the interview, Dave pointed out that when he hosted the Awards back in 95 , ''no one got hit '' 🙂
Me, too. I remember watching the entire broadcast live. This was in the realm of: what is the wierdest dream I could have that can't possibly come true ... but it did. Letterman, Oscar, Oscar, Letterman.
Dave did an awesome job hosting the Oscar. He got bad reviews because did won't play the Hollywood game&suckup to studio executives. This is also why he didn't get The Tonight Show
I love David Letterman, so talented, witty and bloody funny. The media was ruthless because he didn't cater to them. Idiots, I say! Dave is a legend!!!
This just popped up on my phone as recommended. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Dave did not change the way he was. He made his living with his style of humor and interviewing people who would normally be looked over. I miss him
Say what you will, but this holds up. Completely and unfairly roasted at the time, Letterman had some fantastic jokes. That Arnold joke is a fuckin’ 10/10. 🤣😂🤣
I can remember, back in the day, I didn't like Letterman at all. Now I think he is a genius. He is most definitely an acquired taste, but once you 'get him', he is terrific. His offbeat, awkward yet very genuine style remains refreshing and I will miss him. Nice to see that he will be coming back in a limited capacity on Netflix.
Sorely underrated Oscar host - he's only time doing it. If you wasn't a fan of his late night talk show, you wasn't going to like this. This is normal Letterman stuff, and it's great.
@@pacojaviersg I think it's Andie Mcdowell that starred in the movie groundhog day together with bill murray. To get from her such a heartwarming genuine smile is a great thing. Her smile here is more than gorgeous is more like to fall in love with her. Not many poeple can provoke in her such a smile quite sure. Thanks Dave. You're the all time best.
@@peternemeth1777 thanks, your right, I don't know what's with me, can't remember many of their name's. Now I don't remember her 0:26
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Wow, I watched this live more than 20 years ago and it doesn´t look that bad now. It´s actually very funny. The thing is that now we´re used to guys like Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes and being "mean" to people. Back then the hosts were supposed to be more elegant and polite. Dave was Dave, you know, awkward, strange and very, very funny.
except for the Roger Ebert joke...and the Arnold Schwarzenegger joke...and the....basically all comedians are "mean". Gervais is hilarious. Dave does better with a more intimate crowd. I find them both great and talented.
Dear people, know that this was brilliant! Dave Letterman has had the "chops" since the I first watched him on a morning show in the early eighties. What a talent this man is!!!!
All the critics trashed him when he hosted, but look how bad it's been the last 20 years? This show is brilliant compared to what we've had since 2000.
What I'm getting from this comment section is that you either love David's humor or you hate it It's interesting that it ranges from "this unfunny guy bombed" to "this was fantastic" I personally find everything he said hilarious
I've just watched every available monologue from 1970 to this (don't ask), and this is the first one I've laughed all the way through. Don't know why he got hate for this. Guess his style of humor just didn't play everywhere.
He was amazing! Wtf is up with all these LA writers calling him "the worst host ever". He didn't suck up to the Hollywood glam like the other hosts of the time. 22 years later, this is still one of the funniest monologues. Letterman being Letterman,
Wrong. Look at the other opening monologues. They make fun of the audience all the time. It's not a kiss ass fest. You're not looking close enough. This was ranked the worst because the delivery was stiff, material was okay but dry, like an overpriced steak. Felt like TV jokes spoken at a higher volume. Personally, the worst one was Neil Patrick Harris and the year with James Franco/Anne Hathaway (not Anne's fault - Franco showed up stoned and was dead weight)
This hosting gig was like a fine wine, drank by a kid. The kid won't like it, whatever amazing wine you're setting down in front of him. Just give it time, let it grow. It will be amazing. 😄😁
I thought it was brilliant when he interviewed the Taxi Drivers and used them to remind the people in the audience not to take themselves too seriously and keep them grounded. I'm sure they hated it at the time, but fuck em'.
0:01: “From New York, future home of the Academy Awards, it’s The Late Show with David Letterman! Tonight, David welcomes from the Dallas Cowboys, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg and musical guests Sawyer Brown! Plus Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra! And now, the man who gives new meaning to the term, ‘The envelope please…’ DAVID LETTERMAN!!!!!”-Alan Kalter.
The joke at 5:28 was hilarious and I know Dave meant no disrespect to the late Ebert because they were friends in real life. Seeing Hanks and Rita Wilson’s reaction to the joke made it funnier.
Gene Siskel routinely insulted Ebert's weight on Letterman's show. This was a running gag, but the crowd seemed to have no idea that Ebert was often in on the joke.
The monologue was great...uncharacteristically so for Dave. His performance was terrific. He brought a freshly anarchic attitude to the proceedings, which might be what made people pan his performance, but which is an essential ingredient in comedy. The taxi driver skit, however, wasn't so hot. Less cut-in gags and more verbal interplay would've helped.
After hearing so many terrible things about this show, I had to come and find it, and it’s great. I don’t know what they were complaining about twenty years ago.
@@soccerscoutsbdtm9164 The entire monologue was funny. Not just the jokes, but Dave's cadence and timing was perfect. A lesser host could have screwed these jokes up with poor comic timing and being off cadence. Plus, Dave throws in his own personality. It's basically an extended version one of his late night monologues.
This was before we were so hooked up with the internet.I saw this show and I had the time of my life.I didn't understand the next day he got attacked for his hosting gig.
Dave's biggest targets were always people who took themselves too seriously or those who put on airs, which was and is pretty much everyone in Hollywood. They didn't take very well to Dave pretty much making fun of them all and the nature of an awards show. I remember watching it and finding it hilarious. Best moment was Dave pulling Tom Hanks from the audience and making him help with " Stupid Pet Tricks".
I see your point, but I wouldn't say that due to one cut away after a fat joke about Roger Ebert. Hanks looked like he was trying not to laugh and did look stiff, but I wouldn't read that much into that reaction. One thing that jumped out at me was how much people said that "Jack Nicholson impression" joke didn't go over well. It KILLED in the room.
That Ebert joke was great actually. Dave did a fine job, certainly much better than most of the corporate suckups who host. The Taxi Driver bit wasn’t that hilarious but just that Dave would include some actual regular blue collar folks in the show says a lot about him, he wasn’t an out-of-touch showbiz elitist type.
Wow it's been 24 years. We were all using Windows 3.1 and 14,400 baud modems waiting for boxes of Windows 95 diskettes and Ram Doubler to arrive at CompUSA.
Never saw this before---don't usually watch the Oscars---but have heard about it, and that Letterman bombed, etc... This is very funny, in my view, not sure why it has the bad rap.
every host in Oscars modern history has gotten bad reviews - I died laughing during the MacFarlane telecast and I think the critics were mental tearing that one apart. I actually giggled a few times during this one.
Wish he had hosted a couple of times... I feel like he was ahead of his time here, nowadays I perceive that many hosts do it similarly but in their own way, joking about the celebrities. The funniest parts to me was the Arnold joke and the Jack Nicholson impression.
I hate when people criticize a comedian whose humor they don't quite understand yet. Only they can know how the joke should have been told. The only thing a comedian needs is confidence. You can't teach someone to be funny.
Scene: SNL sketch: Unspecified awards program. Host David Letterman. Attendees Reshma Shetty and Emma Hunton. (camera pans from DL to RS) DL says "Divya" (pan to EH) "Davya" ."Davya" (pan back to RS) "Divya"
I've read many stories saying Dave was a terrible Oscars host. I'm not sure i get why, this is a great clip. Perhaps the Uma Oprah thing went on a bit long, but other than that, this is classic Dave.
I'd been searching awhile for just one part of this monolog--my personal favorite from memory--that being "Eat Drink Man Woman" was "coincidentally how Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Maria Shriver out on their first date". Still as funny today as when I first saw it nearly 30 yrs ago. Maria looked like she got a good laugh out of the joke; Arnold not so much. The NYC taxi routine has worn well over the yrs too.
The only reason why everyone has the opinion that it was terrible is because Dave said he did terribly so much he made people believe in it. If you all know Dave from his late night, he is humble to the point of downtrodden.... he did great... chris rock actually watched this monologue to prepare for his and he was like uhh, that was funny, whats the problem?
Letterman was actually one of the best hosts of the 90's. Only Billy Crystal was better. He was unfairly panned. Some credit his "bad" hosting performance for his ultimate decline in the Late Night ratings.
I'm here viewing this after watching a small interview with Dave after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock ... In the interview, Dave pointed out that when he hosted the Awards back in 95 , ''no one got hit '' 🙂
Same here.
Me, too. I remember watching the entire broadcast live. This was in the realm of: what is the wierdest dream I could have that can't possibly come true ... but it did. Letterman, Oscar, Oscar, Letterman.
Me too
Same
Ha! probably we watching it together in different place..
The always quirkily hilarious David Letterman! Came to watch after Dave’s post from yesterday. Watched it in ‘95, and it’s still amusing today.
yes hes great..2 me he comes second to Johnny Carson
I watched this yesterday for the first time. I was too young in ‘95. Holy hell he’s genius. Fan for life. Letterman is a legend!
roger ebert owed him a 🖐 💥
Amusing? It was awful. Carson was the perfect hose. Letterman was a train wreck
"'Eat Drink, Man Woman'...coincidently, how Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Maria Shriver out on their first date." THAT is an amazing joke!
Maria should have run up & batch slapt Dave for implying Arnold is Neanderthal..like the woke 2022's. Haha 😄
what if he was sensitive? 👋💥
I loved how Maria enjoyed the joke.
Dave is brilliant! He should never have been hated on for this! The taxi driver interviews were absolute gold!
Dave did an awesome job hosting the Oscar. He got bad reviews because did won't play the Hollywood game&suckup to studio executives. This is also why he didn't get The Tonight Show
1995! Senior in high school and blockbusters still existed! How times have changed!
I'd do anything to go back,. 😎
I love David Letterman, so talented, witty and bloody funny. The media was ruthless because he didn't cater to them. Idiots, I say! Dave is a legend!!!
This wasn’t that funny. So, I im understand the hate
This just reminds me how much I miss David Letterman being on TV every night. So good!
late night!!!
I watched it back in 1995 and felt that it was not his forum. He was so far above the Hollywood types. Loved it then, love it now.
This just popped up on my phone as recommended. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Dave did not change the way he was. He made his living with his style of humor and interviewing people who would normally be looked over. I miss him
Say what you will, but this holds up. Completely and unfairly roasted at the time, Letterman had some fantastic jokes. That Arnold joke is a fuckin’ 10/10. 🤣😂🤣
Agreed! And Arnold wasn't impressed!
@@paulkevinkoehler9490 Maria got it!
This was enjoyable. His laugh is so adorable
I can remember, back in the day, I didn't like Letterman at all. Now I think he is a genius. He is most definitely an acquired taste, but once you 'get him', he is terrific. His offbeat, awkward yet very genuine style remains refreshing and I will miss him. Nice to see that he will be coming back in a limited capacity on Netflix.
Dave needs to host again. I loved the job he did here.
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman joke was the best.
Arnold kinda had a frozen smile on his face, but Maria clearly got a real kick out of it.
Dave predicted that there'd be another Rocky sequel though.
Sorely underrated Oscar host - he's only time doing it. If you wasn't a fan of his late night talk show, you wasn't going to like this. This is normal Letterman stuff, and it's great.
5:28 The Roger Ebert joke was a classic Letterman crack LOL. Had me in stitches.
@@smnbgn Roger Ebert is fat and ate all the chocolates
It was vintage Dave. All I can say...
AND that his digs about Hoop Dreams were spot on.
Dave's jokes are all intelligent and funny. Big shout out to my childhood sweetheart at 7:57 - so elegant, so serene, so beautiful.
Don't remember her name
@@pacojaviersg I think it's Andie Mcdowell that starred in the movie groundhog day together with bill murray. To get from her such a heartwarming genuine smile is a great thing. Her smile here is more than gorgeous is more like to fall in love with her. Not many poeple can provoke in her such a smile quite sure. Thanks Dave. You're the all time best.
@@peternemeth1777 thanks, your right, I don't know what's with me, can't remember many of their name's. Now I don't remember her 0:26
Wow, I watched this live more than 20 years ago and it doesn´t look that bad now. It´s actually very funny. The thing is that now we´re used to guys like Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes and being "mean" to people. Back then the hosts were supposed to be more elegant and polite. Dave was Dave, you know, awkward, strange and very, very funny.
I loved it live then and love it now.
Gervais doesn't have any respect for actors. He is right in that.
except for the Roger Ebert joke...and the Arnold Schwarzenegger joke...and the....basically all comedians are "mean". Gervais is hilarious. Dave does better with a more intimate crowd. I find them both great and talented.
Is your first name pronounced "yahoo!"?
João Solimeo Classic Dave❣️
Dear people, know that this was brilliant! Dave Letterman has had the "chops" since the I first watched him on a morning show in the early eighties. What a talent this man is!!!!
Dude so underrated, better than most hosts definitely
All the critics trashed him when he hosted, but look how bad it's been the last 20 years? This show is brilliant compared to what we've had since 2000.
Dave is just ahead of its time.
Love Dave’s laugh 😆..... !! He did a Great job... I remember watching this .... wow... Freshman year of HS 🙈... where has time gone ...
David Letterman is always with the normal people
Aaww! I was 15yrs old when this aired! Good times
3:28 how gorgeous is Jodie Foster
agree top look for her
What I'm getting from this comment section is that you either love David's humor or you hate it
It's interesting that it ranges from "this unfunny guy bombed" to "this was fantastic"
I personally find everything he said hilarious
So many beautiful and young faces. That makes me want to do.. anything I wanted to do, faster, and remember it hard. And love it dearly.
this is deep. We should talk to each other
WOW
I've just watched every available monologue from 1970 to this (don't ask), and this is the first one I've laughed all the way through. Don't know why he got hate for this. Guess his style of humor just didn't play everywhere.
Laughing my ass off on a clip older than myself. Classics. Always good to watch an Oscar clip, whenever
Few months older than I am this has aged well
I found him fantastic hosting the Oscars. I miss Dave.
blueearthquake he’s baccckkk
So do We !
Haha that Schwarzenegger joke was funny though. Eat, drink, man, woman? lol
His delivery is so good, when he reads the title, you're already laughing, anticipating the many directions he could take that joke.
whateverpbk yes it was classic Dave Letterman
He is great here and this joke is great.
I came here expressly to hear that joke again.
Commander, the only jackass here is you.
He was amazing! Wtf is up with all these LA writers calling him "the worst host ever". He didn't suck up to the Hollywood glam like the other hosts of the time. 22 years later, this is still one of the funniest monologues. Letterman being Letterman,
Wrong. Look at the other opening monologues. They make fun of the audience all the time. It's not a kiss ass fest. You're not looking close enough.
This was ranked the worst because the delivery was stiff, material was okay but dry, like an overpriced steak. Felt like TV jokes spoken at a higher volume.
Personally, the worst one was Neil Patrick Harris and the year with James Franco/Anne Hathaway (not Anne's fault - Franco showed up stoned and was dead weight)
FAKE NEWS existed back then too
this is pretty good stuff...he was undoubtedly super hilarious...his mean-ness does the magic
This was awful
Nope it was awesome, ur awful 🤣
7:32 The Joker laugh :D (Joaquin Phoenix knew that laugh very well)
Looking back the dream works jokes are so unintentionally hilarious XD
what a year for movies, golden.
why does he say this was a disaster. seems like normal Dave Letterman
Oprah, Uma, have you met Keanu?
This hosting gig was like a fine wine, drank by a kid. The kid won't like it, whatever amazing wine you're setting down in front of him. Just give it time, let it grow. It will be amazing. 😄😁
I am here at home Dave. Watching you COVID-19 got me Trapped at home. Thank you Dave. You’re Wonderful
Would love to get the complete show. Anyone have it? Or a link to it? Thought Dave did a brilliant job to be honest.
This guy is a genius
Maria Shriver loved that joke... Arnold not so much.
Cause she related to it big time and and he was wondering why was that funny.
No award presenters were hit during the making of these 95 oscars
I thought it was brilliant when he interviewed the Taxi Drivers and used them to remind the people in the audience not to take themselves too seriously and keep them grounded. I'm sure they hated it at the time, but fuck em'.
Dave was simply the King. That's it. Not Johnny,not jack paar,not Steve Allen. David letterman.
0:01: “From New York, future home of the Academy Awards, it’s The Late Show with David Letterman! Tonight, David welcomes from the Dallas Cowboys, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg and musical guests Sawyer Brown! Plus Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra! And now, the man who gives new meaning to the term, ‘The envelope please…’ DAVID LETTERMAN!!!!!”-Alan Kalter.
The joke at 5:28 was hilarious and I know Dave meant no disrespect to the late Ebert because they were friends in real life. Seeing Hanks and Rita Wilson’s reaction to the joke made it funnier.
Gene Siskel routinely insulted Ebert's weight on Letterman's show. This was a running gag, but the crowd seemed to have no idea that Ebert was often in on the joke.
The monologue was great...uncharacteristically so for Dave. His performance was terrific. He brought a freshly anarchic attitude to the proceedings, which might be what made people pan his performance, but which is an essential ingredient in comedy. The taxi driver skit, however, wasn't so hot. Less cut-in gags and more verbal interplay would've helped.
I'm miss 1995 y'all.
TELEthruVOXx gosh me too
After hearing so many terrible things about this show, I had to come and find it, and it’s great. I don’t know what they were complaining about twenty years ago.
I don't know why he was considered a bad host, this is pretty easily the funniest Oscars monologue I've seen
@Jonas Bettencourt you didn't laugh at the Rocky part?
Thats so strange i thought all along he was considered the KING of late night television?? Ahh what do i know..
@@soccerscoutsbdtm9164 The entire monologue was funny. Not just the jokes, but Dave's cadence and timing was perfect. A lesser host could have screwed these jokes up with poor comic timing and being off cadence. Plus, Dave throws in his own personality. It's basically an extended version one of his late night monologues.
I GUESS THIS WAS THE ONLY ONE YOU'VE HAVE EVER SEEN.
i like letterman
So much better than some last editions!
This was before we were so hooked up with the internet.I saw this show and I had the time of my life.I didn't understand the next day he got attacked for his hosting gig.
Vintage Dave. The best.
I don't think David did bad at all, this is all 100% Dave. : / What was the problem?
+spacededman Dave's style is irreverent, movie folk take themselves too seriously
Dave's biggest targets were always people who took themselves too seriously or those who put on airs, which was and is pretty much everyone in Hollywood. They didn't take very well to Dave pretty much making fun of them all and the nature of an awards show. I remember watching it and finding it hilarious. Best moment was Dave pulling Tom Hanks from the audience and making him help with " Stupid Pet Tricks".
the thing I didn't understand was Tom Hanks didn't really have a sense of humor ... when usually Tom and Dave have many funny moments together
I see your point, but I wouldn't say that due to one cut away after a fat joke about Roger Ebert. Hanks looked like he was trying not to laugh and did look stiff, but I wouldn't read that much into that reaction. One thing that jumped out at me was how much people said that "Jack Nicholson impression" joke didn't go over well. It KILLED in the room.
The whole Uma/Oprah thing was just stupid and tiresome!!
Who remembers David lettermen giving Tom Hanks some kind of special award for work In Forest gump.
That Arnie joke was fucking hilarious!
And nobody got slapped, what a concept!!!!!
God, just take me back to 1995....
Please God
That Ebert joke was great actually. Dave did a fine job, certainly much better than most of the corporate suckups who host. The Taxi Driver bit wasn’t that hilarious but just that Dave would include some actual regular blue collar folks in the show says a lot about him, he wasn’t an out-of-touch showbiz elitist type.
R.I.P. Blockbuster video
Fuck the critics, Dave was awesome that night!
check bill crystal from 93
I agree - I thought Letterman was great. I would have LOVED to see Norm Macdonald host. That would have been classic.
Wow it's been 24 years. We were all using Windows 3.1 and 14,400 baud modems waiting for boxes of Windows 95 diskettes and Ram Doubler to arrive at CompUSA.
Never saw this before---don't usually watch the Oscars---but have heard about it, and that Letterman bombed, etc... This is very funny, in my view, not sure why it has the bad rap.
Who's here after Will Smith's slap?
Yes, after hearing Dave big himself up as a host.
@@redlady935 that was a good 1 minute monologue ain't it
He was funny. How was he bad people?
Who says he was bad?
@@kukoshkin He got bad reviews at the time... I'm not saying that's fair, but his hosting wasn't generally considered to be a success.
every host in Oscars modern history has gotten bad reviews - I died laughing during the MacFarlane telecast and I think the critics were mental tearing that one apart. I actually giggled a few times during this one.
He was voted the worst Oscar host of all time
@@redlady935 Nah, I'd probably give that to Amy Schumer this year.
Wish he had hosted a couple of times... I feel like he was ahead of his time here, nowadays I perceive that many hosts do it similarly but in their own way, joking about the celebrities. The funniest parts to me was the Arnold joke and the Jack Nicholson impression.
I hate when people criticize a comedian whose humor they don't quite understand yet. Only they can know how the joke should have been told. The only thing a comedian needs is confidence. You can't teach someone to be funny.
why did the press hate the uma oprah bit at the time ? it's dave being dave ?
hakim amalou I didnt even get it
Poor wittle snowflakes get offended at normal people acknowledging how goofy those names are.
jedijones I love David and his opening but it's not that anyone was offended it was just poorly executed and confused.
Holysheeeeeeet he really roasted the dreamworks deal. Dude roasted everyone there,
He's the king. There's nobody like him.
Hope Dave is available for the 100th show..................
The young dave was like conan
miss letterman.
good thing he is back on netflix
I never saw this, but the same thing brought me here. He's walking out like a straight trouble maker lol. I look forward to this video.
The brilliance of Letterman comes from simultaneously giving a crap and not giving a crap.
Dave was right nobody got hit this night.
They got slaughtered , brilliant
Scene: SNL sketch: Unspecified awards program. Host David Letterman. Attendees Reshma Shetty and Emma Hunton. (camera pans from DL to RS) DL says "Divya" (pan to EH) "Davya" ."Davya" (pan back to RS) "Divya"
I've read many stories saying Dave was a terrible Oscars host. I'm not sure i get why, this is a great clip. Perhaps the Uma Oprah thing went on a bit long, but other than that, this is classic Dave.
Notice though it got a bigger laugh the third or fourth time he said it. Classic Dave repetitive joke effect.
jedijones exactly!& he was great!
People today like offensive and dirty jokes, no wonder they dont like elegant and subtle stuff
I think the argument was that he was just doing a version of his own talk show.
To quote Conan, "Dave was the anti-show,"
People won't get him more often than not. Especially the Oscar audience during that time.
Dave is funny af.. I saw this when I was a kid.
DAVID HOSTING THE OSCARS!!!!!!!!! AAHHHHHHHH
In 2019 and is still funny af
They need to put up security screens between the host of the Oscars and the guests.
I'd been searching awhile for just one part of this monolog--my personal favorite from memory--that being "Eat Drink Man Woman" was "coincidentally how Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Maria Shriver out on their first date". Still as funny today as when I first saw it nearly 30 yrs ago. Maria looked like she got a good laugh out of the joke; Arnold not so much.
The NYC taxi routine has worn well over the yrs too.
!This guy hosting the oscars on the best year in movies history
I miss David Letterman show..
And when Dave hosted, nobody got HIT!
Best opening ever
Dave was the best host.
He,s goofyly slick does a great job livening the the event
Pure genius.
The only reason why everyone has the opinion that it was terrible is because Dave said he did terribly so much he made people believe in it. If you all know Dave from his late night, he is humble to the point of downtrodden.... he did great... chris rock actually watched this monologue to prepare for his and he was like uhh, that was funny, whats the problem?
Letterman was actually one of the best hosts of the 90's. Only Billy Crystal was better. He was unfairly panned. Some credit his "bad" hosting performance for his ultimate decline in the Late Night ratings.
That and Leno had Hugh Grant
Can someone please explain the Oprah-Uma joke please
I found this explanation....
dave being dave
6:46, Sylvester looking really good. Wow.
Forest Gump and Roger Ebert walk into a candy store....