Viewer Mail: Dave's Unbelievably Stupid Letters From Viewers | Letterman

Why doesn't Dave read viewers' entire letter? Is he willing to give away a new TV? Answers to these and other burning questions when Dave opens up his mailbag.
(From "Late Night," air date: 11/15/84)
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[@SeanAllocca]

It's Thursday, time for Viewer mail! Best segment of the week. Thanks Letterman gang behind the scene for posting these classic clips.

[@thetunapeckerblues]

I love the way he jumps

[@TheGreatAtario]

I mean, might as well, y'know?

[@bat_grams]

@@TheGreatAtario yeah...go ahead

[@MegaPrincefox]

Paul's such a sweet person

[@chiefscheider]

Phil Donahue will be 87 this year and is still married to that girl Marlo Thomas 👍

[@lorip.1110]

That whole segment was at least 'potting soil' worthy.

[@truantray]

I'd go all the way to cup and sponge.

[@proto-geek248]

It's always nostalgic to get a GLIMPSE of Dave.

[@ruthecker399]

love dave miss him

[@jfh9209]

At least the audience liked the dog and Morgan's smiles.

[@plaws0]

Oh, the Phil Donahue Countdown Calendar. Those were the days. Remember when they had it on the side of a building, I think up in the Bronx, and it caught fire?

[@plaws0]

I looked it up. I half-remembered that the mic was an RCA (DX 77 model) but couldn't remember if it moved with him to the Columbia Broadcasting System and apparently it did. The one on his desk at EST was, apparently, a gift when he left the National Broadcasting Company which was of course the broadcasting arm of the Radio Corporation of America ... long before those General Electric weasels took over (of course, GE and RCA and NBC and even ABC were all part of the same corporate pot, the outgrowth of a government seizure of Marconi radio patents around the time of WW-1).
Regardless of all *that* it's a great looking mic. Apparently Johnny Carson had the same model in his early, presumably East Coast, days.

[@mhmrules]

That guy kinda looked like Phil Donahue... I can't be sure tho. ;P

[@KDJW5]

The answer to that question is... the RCA 77D Condenser microphone.
Many announcers and TV hosts swear by this pill-shaped classic.

[@UpstateMediaNY]

I think you mean "Ribbon Mic".

[@kinsmed]

Dear Dave, something about Paul's shortcomings...

[@petewhite85]

Please please Barbara and Mary have Paul on your "Podcast"

[@lynnturman8157]

Barbara and Mary have a podcast?

[@WEPDRabbitEarsTV]

So great.

[@otisdriftwood1697]

6:42-7:05 HILARIOUS !!!

[@politicalgrandstanding6646]

Fan request: how about some Mary Chapin Carpenter
also have her appear with you on the podcast

[@robclarkson5356]

I bet the monkey wrangler wished they'd been given the day off

[@Blanco83]

When late night talk shows were actually funny!

[@morbidmanmusic]

speed to lie??

[@truantray]

Another segment he eventually dropped before he mailed in the last ten years.