Fan Request: Parallel Parking On 53rd Street | Letterman
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- Fan Friday Request:
"Dave and company,
How about some of the kids trying (and failing) to parallel park on the street? Your channel make my day every day.
-Mike Seaton, Las Vegas"
(From "Late Show," air date: 4/7/99)
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Only Dave and his team can turn parking a car into something I wanna watch twice 😊
👍🏽😂👍🏽
That's why Dave is a legend --- he could convince millions of people to spend 20 minutes watching nervous teens park cars 😂
Agree...😅😅
The technical and directing team behind this bit were brilliant. Hats off to everyone involved.
It was little skits like this that made Dave must watch TV 🤣
I really miss Dave --- he made the 80's and 90's seem so fun in a very wholesome way, without swearing and other offensive stuff
What a great bit. It was riveting and anything where Dave can improv to a live situation always works.
I was yelling "cut the wheel!!, Turn turn turn!. I never realized how fascinating it is to watch people try to parallel park
Same here!
I love this clip because it reminds me how awkward and nervous I was as a teen male in the 80's who was really skinny with zits all over my face --- if somebody said I was gonna be on national TV doing parallel parking I would've cried and shat my pants LOL
Every now and again, i'm on my 3rd floor balcony, and i catch someone trying to parallel park. You can tell the ones that don't live in the city, because they have no idea what they're doing.
Parallel parking as spectator sport 👍 No pressure, kids!
The camerawork (and directing/editing) of this bit was brilliant. There's the Letterman Show, and then there's all the rest, doing Letterman. Everyone freely acknowledges it! When you see the original article again, like this clip, the contrast is unsubtle. I'm so happy Dave has this channel!!!!! What a wonderful way to go through the archives! I have a weird musical request: Eric Burdon once came on and sang "C.C. Rider" and Paul played an incredible solo, one that I used to rewind and watch over and over again. This would have been in the 80s, like '84, '85. Possibly the summer. Would love to see that again!
I still can't figure out why Leno had better ratings than Letterman in the 90's --- Dave was still doing original and funny bits like this one while Jay was just sitting at a desk making lame commentary with celebrities --- Letterman had way more comedic talent
@@JoeZaccaris Leno watered himself down to mush. Letterman always kept an edge. Most people don't like an edge, they like mush. Now it's all mush.
@@rattalesbostonrockroll4960 yes I agree, and it always baffled me why Leno held the #1 ratings over Letteman in the 90's --- Leno had more A-listers I guess, but Letterman was far superior with the comedic wit which made him a lot more entertaining
@@robertgoerss Absolutely.
Paul earned an extra 10 points on his driving test for wearing that smart-looking sweater vest.
G-d bless Dave and his social media people. I needed this: this summer's time to teach my kid to drive!
'G-d'?
No pressure, kids! You know what they say, if ya can parallel park here, you can parallel park it anywhere.
The thing is, when this was on, I took it for granted. Now, nobody does this kind of stuff. This is still hilarious decades later, but if one of today's guys did it it would probably be try-hard and unfunny. So I'm grateful for the lightning in a bottle of Dave and his writers, and Ruperts and Pat Farmers.
God I miss Dave. He had the greatest bits. I even had a Letterman cake with a top 10 list at my high school open house, and went to college for broadcasting. These kids are pretty much from my generation. Just 2-3 years younger. Nice to hear teens who are fairly well-spoken and not saying “like” every other word. 🙄 I doubt if most teens today can parallel park. Or most adults for that matter. A few of these cars are real boats by today’s standards too, and with no backup cameras or parking assist lines. My first car was a stick, and I can remember parallel parking in my driver’s test. As I remember I did okay. Not perfect, but passable. I feel like driver’s tests used to be harder than today. Or at least judging by the ways people drive they must have been. I regularly see people driving with their lights off at night, not using their turn signals, not knowing how to use a roundabout, not stopping at stop signs, and every other thing imaginable. Drives me nuts. No pun intended. 🚘
I miss the 90's which is the last decade teens seemed respectful --- they lost all that now and enjoy being rude to everyone
@@kerzytibok3211 So true.
the crowd cheering for him is the most wholesome things ive seen this month.
Right up on that curb. Haha perfect
You can tell Dave is a New Yorker because they all do that in NYC 👍
In 75 driver's Ed was the highlight of my school year. I transferred schools in the middle of the term and the only class with room was an all girl class.
If you are a female that means nothing. If you are a guy, that is a bonus. lol I had a few all girl classes that the "men" would have nothing to do with. Let me tell you what, when the guys jaws were dropping because I am strutting around with girls talking to me in the halls and giving them rides home, I had the last laugh. 😏 Typing, simulated model office, ten key, basic programing and cooking were not on the top of the tuff guy list of electives. But each and every 1 of those things set me decades ahead of my male piers. As well as the attention and respect of a lot of girls. (btw, I also took auto shop, weight lifting, advanced swimming to name just a few others too. lol)
@@WW-wf8tu yeah, I'm a guy.
@@WW-wf8tu I never saw the benefit of all-girl classes in high school --- I wasn't gonna take business or home ec just to have girls around me LOL --- the only time I had for girls was maybe on a Friday night if they were drunk and wanted to make out
I have my parallel park test tomorrow, and I'm watching this for inspiration
This was hysterical !
"This is the only thing on CBS right now."
I was yelling instructions at the monitor the whole time lol
I drive a Land Rover here in Jamaica, so parallel parking isn't a thing that usually happens, but I know how to do it. They're all starting too far back and too far from the car parked to the side of them.
Yes. They started from the wrong position ( except Dave ) which made it almost impossible to pull in smoothly in one try. Surprised their fathers didn't coach them better. Guess they learned as they got more practice.
@@johnsilva9139 It would have been interesting to see the fathers try after the kids :-)
How do you put in viewer requests? I’d like to see a compilation of Dave’s interactions with that robot arm thing that used to hand him the viewer mail on Late Night. That would probably be a lot of work, but somebody should do it.
Dave to Danielle: Dont discount the wind....you gotta little wind there.😅😅😅
LOL that is a classic Dave-ism 😅
They need to get closer to the red car
Dave's on that one wheel motion
Have a happy 4th of July!!!
Why? I'm not a Yank. Means nothing to me.
@@JCO2002psst...he's talking to Dave, not you, Salty.
@@JCO2002 4th of July doesn't mean that much to Yanks anyway --- just an excuse to drink beer and shoot off fireworks
@@kerzytibok3211 Lol. Cool.
As Woody Allen would say: "That's okay. We can walk to the curb from here."
Letterman already made that joke.
@@trekkiejunk Not before Woody Allen did.
"Ooooh lord..."
------------------------- bumper car ride ....life is a carnival.....
The dark days before rearview cameras!
I like that old Jetta
This was so awesome
Better than anything on late night today put together 😂👌
I like how the show is obviously filmed in the day time considering the fact it would be dark outside if it was on at 11:30 pm.
They would tape in afternoon
Yeah, every late night talk show has done that for the last 60 years.
These kids are 40 now.
What ever happened to automatic seatbelts?
Good question.
Lawsuits
My sister's car in 1990 had one --- I think they disappeared quickly after that --- they were actually kinda dangerous?
Fair Lawn NJ, home of Ken's Magic Shop as featured on The Uncle Floyd Show.
Does driving with an IFB in your ear constitute distracted driving?
Surprised Jay didn't show up to change everyone's fuel filter or something
Jay was never that funny --- he'd take this bit and just make fun of the kids for not knowing how a carburetor works --- he was an ass
Omgosh 😆
When I lived in china 1 of my favorite things to do was watching people with $ 500,000 sports cars trying to parallel park. 90% of them failed
Sunday 4th July 1999
These kids are all 40, now. 😳
This is why I haven’t owned a car since I moved to NY in 2002. Driving’s okay, but parking’s, um, not.
I don't mind parking at all. It's finding the space that's the nightmare.
Not one of them had their right turn signal on to park. Just saying.
LMFAO
Ty
12:26 Danielle nor her Dad wearing seatbelts. 🤔
Parallel parking with ppl watching, horror trip.
What are they teaching them at driving school?
I took Driver's Ed in high school and it was a boring class --- until the day when the teacher showed us graphic crash films --- mangled bodies!
Who is wondering what happened to divers ed in school?