https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwSlzbH954
It’s on some David Letterman video. Somebody on behalf of David Letterman recently started a Youtube channel. Well, I suppose technically it existed for many years but recently, they’ve started uploading stuff. It’s mostly clips from the show but this particular video is different. It’s something that was recently filmed just for the channel. A REALLY sycophantic woman talks to Dave about pre-planned photos that she “found” on some tablet.
The description says that she was a producer on the show. She laughs at every joke. She’s constantly trying to build him up. It’s really, really uncomfortable. This must be how he’s gone through his adult life. Just parasites constantly kissing his ass and telling him how great he is. It must warp you.
So anyway, Mike replies. He says:
With all these new segments, I wonder if it would be possible to get Dave to sit down and commentate over some old show clips. My guess is that he doesn’t like looking at old footage. But if he ever decided he wouldn’t mind, some commentary on the segments with Andy Kaufman would be phenomenal. Recently there was an upload where he was discussing the skits with Rupert Jee. Stuff like that is really appreciated and the type of content that makes this channel special. Thanks to whoever is organizing this, it means a lot.
He wants like DVD commentary over old footage. It’s interesting that he writes in the same ass-licking style that most people on Youtube do. Thanks the “Youtuber” for doing what they do and talks about how much their videos mean to them.
It’s kind of interesting that he fangirls out. His suggestion is sensible, though.
Mike is a long-time David Letterman fan. He wrote a letter to the show when he was a kid and it was read. There’s footage of this somewhere. Oh, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lug0rFn60ns
He also has a moderately embarrassing video that he sent to Conan O’Brien. As here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfXxsLn8pgs
Oh yeah. I remember this. He’s wearing a Cinemassacre t-shirt. Shameless. Fortunately, they didn’t air this.
Oh. And having watched this, I have to upgrade my embarrassment quotient. This video isn’t moderately embarrassing it’s…quite embarrassing. He does a Minecraft with Inspector Gadget type animation in here. And there’s bad acting.
I think that the guy working on this David Letterman channel is Don Giller. He’s some weird, almost certainly autistic guy who taped every David Letterman episode. He uploads compilations to Youtube and recently said that he got a job on the official David Letterman channel. Here’s Don Giller’s channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/dongiller/
He’s a real asshole. Every time somebody misspells Paul Shaffer’s name, he’ll respond with “Shaffer. Paul Shaffer.” That exact same response. Over and over and over again. He’s autistic. Doesn’t know how to interact with people. Autism explains the obsessive taping as well.
But if you just don’t try to talk to him or leave comments on his channel or whatever, he’s fine. His compilations are well done.
I didn’t really watch David Letterman. I watched Jay Leno, even though I knew it was bad and unhip and not funny. I watched Conan O’Brien, though, and I liked it. And I watch old David Letterman stuff on Youtube now.
David Letterman was also on a lot of game shows back in the day. Here’s an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctd-vGhQWHE
What exactly was he famous for in 1978, though? Was he a comedian? His co-“celebrity” on this episode is Anita Gillette, who, according to Wikipedia, was a theatre actress and regular game show panellist.
As a Mike Matei fan I've never seen those Mike clips, thanks for the history lesson in Mikeology.For real, I actually have a screencap of a message Mike left on a Youtube video that he uploaded. I'm pretty sure it was a J&MM episode although it's not really important where it was from. People used to spam the comments with shit about his 10″ penis, and if you were quick, Mike would reply “Yes it is actually 10″” and stuff like that, before deleting all the comments. I managed to screengrab one once. The saddest fucking thing is I'm 99% sure his dick is not 10″. The famous picture he uploaded to the /r/Cinemassacre Reddit back in the day was from a gay UK hookup site.
He does a lot of David Letterman stuff on his streams. I can't think of any concrete examples but he'll just suddenly do or say something, obviously imitating what he saw on the show.And he used to have that chain that he pulled down from the ceiling that would play a vintage McDonalds commercial. That's a rip off of Conan O'Brien who had a lever that he would pull and it would show a clip from a shitty tv show called Walker Texas Ranger.
To be fair that commercial is amazing