Dave fan with far too much time on his hands.
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Jul 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
While looking for the date of the TV Guide that @WOEPD_TV posted, I dug out this golden oldie.
April 19-25, 1980 cover story. Before the morning show had been announced and debuted two months later.
Jul 4, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s YouTube fun.
I received this email from YT:
I then emailed the guy who filed the complaint to YT:
Sep 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#NormMacdonald Collection on Letterman, Part 1 of 5: The Early Years, 1990-95 #NormMacdonald Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 5: 1996-97
Sep 14, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
My Norm Macdonald story:
On May 12, 2015, I received a note from someone requesting that I contact Norm regarding help he was seeking. I was given his contact info, so I emailed him and asked what he was looking for. He wrote back:
"Thanks, Don. All I am looking for is Dave's stand-up jokes, before he was a talk-show host."
So I sent him some audio files from Dave's radio days.
Feb 4, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Another long-winded thread!
I'm preparing something that'll mean extremely little to the vast majority on the planet, but hopefully a lot to a very select few:
The comedy team of Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses.
Jay had grown up in Baltimore. He was related to one of my mom's closest friends, which led her to babysat him in the '40s. By the mid-'60s, Jay and Tom had been performing regularly at The Cellar Door in D.C.
Feb 4, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
My pal @AdamNedeff is _the_ world authority on game shows. Today he posted on FB what makes his "hobby" worth it: A contestant from "The Price Is Right" contacted him for a show she was on in 1959. He, of course, had and sent it.
It was the first time she'd seen it in 61 years.
Adam then asked if I had any favorite requests from DaveWorld, and that was the biggest mistake he made today. My response:
