Crispin Glover Collection on Carson & Letterman, 1987 re-up
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- 1. May 14, 1987: Tonight Show
2. July 28, 1987: Late Night
3. July 29, 1987 Late Night Cold Open
4. August 21, 1987: return appearance on Late Night
Crispin Glover did the NBC talk shows to promote "River's Edge." His first spot was on The Tonight Show on May 14, 1987, and, while visibly nervous, he seemed somewhat sane, and Johnny played along.
Then his appearance on Late Night happened. Dave's show on July 28 was an hour-long disaster: The opening act tested new sound effects, all of which bombed. Next was the Top Ten list, which wasn't ready. Then Myrtle Young, the Potato Chip lady. Then an awkward interview with Ally Sheedy, promoting her film "Maid to Order." Then an attempted call to James "The Drifter" Baggett, but Dave got an airport by mistake. The Top Ten still wasn't ready.
By this point Dave was already on edge from the screw-ups and odd guests. Then came Glover. From a 1992 broadcast of NPR's "All Things Considered" in which movie director Trent Harris explained how his new feature film, "Rubin and Ed," came to be:
"[Glover] said, 'Come on over to my place. I've got something I want to show you.' So I go over to the place he lives in Hollywood. It's a big tower with an elevator in it, so I pushed the elevator button, and I'm waiting in the lobby and the doors open up, and this creature steps out of the elevator in striped bellbottoms, platform shoes, strange hair, double-knit tight polyester shirt, thick glasses, and then he started to giggle, and I realized that it was Crispin and he said, 'Wouldn't it be funny to do a film about this character. Wouldn't he be a great character to write a movie about?' And I said, 'No.' I mean, it's a frightening image to see Rubin Farr for the first time. But then this -- he was invited to go on the David Letterman show, and he said, 'Wouldn't it be interesting if I went on as Rubin Farr?' And I said, 'No.'"
But Glover went ahead and appeared on "Late Night" as Rubin Farr, the character he'd later play in Harris's film. And what was Harris's first reaction to seeing Glover on with Dave? "I literally had to get in the closet. I started to watch the thing, and then I found myself standing up on the couch going, 'No, no, no,' and then I got in the closet and closed the door, hoping that somehow it would stop."
(Quotes here come from LATE SHOW NEWS #164, August 5, 1997.)
Dave was not amused. After all that had preceded Glover's appearance that night, his mood had already darkened, and Glover's character was first met with bemusement but then disdain, the kick the final straw.
After Glover's segment, Dave discussed the mess with Paul, asked again for the Top Ten (still not ready), and called James again, this time successfully. By the end of the show, Dave thanked his guests, Glover's name conspicuously absent.
The next night, Dave, Paul, and Biff exorcised the event in a Cold Open.
Three weeks later, on August 21, Glover made a return appearance. It went considerably better.
Fun fact: July 28, 1987, was exactly five years after the Kaufman/Lawler appearance.
I sometimes see him, shopping in my local Trader Joe's - he wears cool vintage 1940s suits in the daytime and very much stands out.
Oh my goodness. I would love to run into him. 😂😂😂 even just seeing him from afar. I need to know what Trader Joe’s.
@@Phoenixhunter157 Grocery store. I had to look it up too😅
Stop lying
Let me guess, it’s the trader Joes in Los Feliz ?
This guy is a genius and it's a true shame that we haven't seen more of him over the years.
Could you imagine if Glover, Andy Kauffman, and Joaquin Phoenix all appeared on the same episode?!?! 😂
and harmony korrine
and Aubry Plaza
@@globetrotting2628 Aubrey plaza certainly is kind of wacky on a talk show I will agree with you on that.
Joaquin?
@@ustdkriboocheJoaquin PHOENIX you dummy!
Bless you. Crispin Hellion Glover is an original and should not be forgotten.
6:35 I love how authentically happy he sounds showing and explaining his gifts and creations. He's beautiful.
The way he laughs kills me! He is great😂
Glover, deserving of an Oscar in the rivers edge.
I remember watching the Glover kicking episode when it aired. Wacky guests made Late Night great but this was next level. We talked about it for weeks. Then after a while you start to wonder whether it actually happened. What a treat to see it again. Dave and Paul nonplussed. ''I'm 40. I went to college." Thank you for uploading.
I love when Letterman is out-weirded and doesn't know what to do - you can see it in the early Kaufman appearances too, took a while for Letterman to get Kaufman I think, alas Crispin didn't get enough appearances
When I first saw Back To the Future, I used to think that Crispin was actually an older actor showing his true age in 1985, and playing the part of a teen in 1955. It's amazing what movie make-up can do. Look how big they made Biff look. Then you see an interview with Tom Wilson in 1990 and he is a trim, young-looking guy. I WANT that musical volcano!!
My goodness, Don. What a gift you’ve given us.
He is just very entertaining. I'm sure life isn't boring for whoever spends time around that guy
Love this - tried to follow Crispin Glover's endeavors in his heyday. I bought his Rat Caching and Oak Mot books early on - still have them and I now I need to find them and take a peek again. Cool art/tifacts - rare, but not in high demand since they are off most people's radar - but still worthy coffee table gems. Saw him hanging at Canter's on Fairfax between the late 80s and early 90s - perfect guest for those golden-era Dave days.
He's so marvelously awkward. A sweet soul indeed.
I would pay to watch Crispin Glover, Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldbloom in a free-for-all debate. 😆 LMAO Pure spasmatic insanity eruptions.
That sounds like it could be the lineup on one of SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy sketches 😄🍻
I love how he's in character every time.
That isnt a character
@@user-er1xz4zq9v it was, actually. ruclips.net/video/m5eLYzltZPU/видео.html
He gives me possible serial killer vibes
@@user-er1xz4zq9v Or is it?
Pretty sure he has Asperger's and just plays himself.
Carson was always knew how to play it cool and calm, he was the best.
His craziness aside, Glover's career in 1985-86 was legendary. Back To The Future (1985), At Close Range (1986), River's Edge (1986) His appearance on Letterman in 87 was the peak of his golden era.
He's been blacklisted for it. Wasn't allowed back to back to the future movies.
Wasn't he an addict?
@@shac9131 I believe he backed out of Back to the Future 2 due to a salary dispute. And he successfully sued the studio when they used his likeness and footage of him from outtakes of 1 for 2. I don't think he has ever talked about being an addict.
@@johndalton3180
You may be correct. I just for certain remember hearing he was a total dick to work with and was blacklisted.
Don't forget Friday the 13th IV in 1984. In my opinion, Jason's best kill.
I made 2 albums with Crispin, based on these appearances..
It was classy of Dave to have Glover back on the show.
What I love is Dave saying, "You want to have dinner with the guy?" Just sums it up.
Whether he's doing his so-called performance art characters or that's his 'real self' - either way he's squirrelly as heck and creeps me out !
Glover's Late Night appearances were among the most circulated clips among the elite tape-trading crowd in pre-RUclips days (my trade circle would often include Cheers' George Wendt, Firesign Theatre's Phil Proctor, Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes, SXSW Film honcho Charlie Sotelo, and directors Rick Linklater & Robert Rodriguez, for example) but I'd never seen the Tonight Show one. You never fail to amuse!
Ken, what other tapes were part of that ring? Orson Wells "big dish of peas" Casey Kasem's "fuckin dog dying!" and Judy Garland's drunken "Sid Luft is an animal" tape? Those kinds of things? Was there anything that remains unseen on the internet?
Gibby tapes made the rounds in my circle BITD. I wasn't the VHS guy though like you. Had a guy... You guys are historians.
@@johndalton3180 Those are the sort of things I'm talking about. The farting Tilton tape, the "Spirit of Xmas" that led to South Park, Chuck Berry's... you know. Some of the people were mainly rock music fanatics, others film people and some just nuts like me - a lot of odds & ends are still up on my old 1nceBitten2wiceShy YT channel. I'm sure there's stuff that's still not on the net, but any specific masterpieces? Nothing in particular immediately springs to mind...
Did you trade physical tapes?
@@kenlieck7756 I'm talking about my late teens when people lived with roomies in cheap houses. Every house had a video guy who made compilation tapes of weird crap from cable, like Tilton farting, or Rev Gene Scott raving as bikini clad girls from Sunset danced. We'd pop in a comp tape, get loaded and laugh at the stuff.
This guy is one of my favourite actors of all time.
Thanks for all the extra text info, Don.
Crispen Glover is a phenomenal actor. I still can’t tell if he was doing a publicity stunt or super nervous
Nobody reads my descriptions.
@@dongiller wow! You solved the mystery. Thanks for the info 🙏
Crispin is awesome. Wonderful amounts of awkwardness.
He's kind of the original person who made nerdiness cool, imho.
He sets it up but doesn't go anywhere with it.
I am mentally exhausted watching this clip. I never realized his inability to speak without a script. People here commenting on what a genius he is here, Im thinking not so much.
Wow. I have been looking for that clip about them killing Glover for years. I remember seeing that when it first happened. Very rare clip. Nice find.
I love his NY sense of humour. hahaha Sending everybody up, I think.
… dude at the end with a “Shamrock” pub shirt on from Wildwood, NJ - 🤙🏼🤘🏼❤️
I was watching the night Crispin starting kicking. (Also the night Dave first came on, but I didn’t know Dave was coming. I was waiting to see videos.)
I've read somewhere that the girls who yelled 'nice shoes' were plants set up by Crispin.
Funny thing is I always remembered this when Dave came back after commercial break after Crispin didn't want to stay for another segment even though they begged him to stay that Dave said "Paul, his shoe literally came a foot from my head." But that's false memory. Oh well, I still like to remember it that way.
Great anthology! Thank you for sharing!
One of a kind & true artist
HIs time with Dave reminded me of Andy Kaufman.
"Super freak, super freak, he's super freaky, Yow..." And Carson's sitting there acting like Crispin is normal. Letterman years later couldn't do it and walked off of the set. Oh, just found that this clip is on here. (At 10:15.)
"Did your mom ever say anything about it being a really difficult birth?" 🤣🤣🤣 Dave is the greatest.
He was so great in Dead Man.
thank you, Don.
I love how Carson just plays the straight man and lets the magic happen such a cool interview.
He was acting in this interview. I am disappointed that he didn’t present himself as his true self.
Look forward to seeing him in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
whenever it comes out on Netflix.
your channel is light years ahead of the current Letterman channel
After reading the very awesome video description it kind of feels like Joaquin Phoenix borrowed this idea for I'm Still Here.
Everybody makes fun of the guy, but he did some really terrific work in important movies. Hope he's doing okay now.
He's doing fine as long as you don't mention BOB GALE
He owned a building sorta near Highland Park in LA 10 years ago… had some cool parties there. Very normal, really. Seemed like a happy guy.
He's fascinating to watch. I smiled all through the Carson interview.
I was really hoping Carson had him back after that appearance. I wasn't sure if he was endeared or not.
Letterman drip is heavy lmaoooo. Super-hi adidas with the tan and grey suit?
I think Chrispin is doing some acting in all of these various personas he shows on Carson and Letterman. He's sort of doing his own take on Andy Kaufman's routines with Jerry Lawler on Letterman's show back around 1982 where you can't quite tell if it's real or acting. Actor Joaquin Phoenix would carry on this concept in 2009 on the Letterman show, where Joaquin was acting as a bizarre eccentric personality, who was, perhaps, mentally ill. But at the end of the day, they're all just acting in roles to entertain the audience.
Nobody reads my descriptions.
I can't believe he took my favourite childhood toy, the Tomy spotbot and turned it into nightmare fuel...
He is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I know you don't post full eps much but I'd love to see the July 28th disaster ep. Always loved a good dave disaster!
I was one of Crispin's best pals back then. Way talented guy...
What was that kicking about? Why wasn't Letterman warned about it?
@@Stewie-th7lt Was a "bit"...
I love those shoes
I’d like to see Nardwuar interview Crispin …
he should be in a bond movie as a villain...carrying the tradition on
Like in the Charlie's Angels movie?
Johnny was so good
Crispin, in that first clip on the Tonight Show, looks like he could today be comedian Daniel Tosh's brother... or his uncle. The resemblance in the face is striking, even with the 15-25 year difference between them. Just put a similar long hairstyle on Tosh for them to look nearly identical. But what I would like to see today is Crispin having a role in a James Bond movie, just like his father Bruce did. Crispin looks so mature & adult now that he could possibly play a Bond villain. That itself, if he plays the role properly, could turn heads & make him popular & more castable. Hopefully, the James Bond franchise will not go extinct for this to happen, which does need to happen sooner than later as he too is getting older by the minute ... unless he gets a Bond role in his 60's-70's.
'I can kick' 🤭🤘
I juat have to ask: how come the top 10 wasn't ready? Didn't they have all day/week to make one?
Much to do with the NABET strike, when competent folks responsible for preparing the list for broadcast weren’t available.
@@dongiller I can only compliment and thank you for such a quick reply and clear answer as well. Thanks TheDonz! 😊
Those shoes are sweet!!!
He deserved the Oscar for River’s Edge
I’m pretty sure I saw a repeat airing of Crispin nearly kicking Dave in the head during something called “Dave in Danger Week”. (Don, could you list which episodes were repeated that week? Besides the C. Glover show, I seem to remember one where Dave cut his finger on a vegetable slicer *after* the guest had warned him to stop.)
Not at the computer at the moment, so I can’t list the repeats right now. But the finger-slicing is here - ruclips.net/video/wNGtOnzw2ZU/видео.html
Ok, at the computer. Dave in Danger Week:
May 28, 1990: repeat from April 7, 1986 (super slo-mo: Dave slips onto birthday cake)
May 29, 1990: repeat from March 4, 1987 (Dave slices finger)
May 30, 1990: repeat from August 20, 1986 (Tom Savini hits Dave with hammer)
May 31, 1990: repeat from July 28, 1987 (Crispin Glover nearly kicks Dave)
June 1, 1990: repeat from September 6, 1984 (Suit of Alka-Seltzer that nearly suffocated Steve O’Donnell during rehearsal)
@@dongiller Thanks, Don! (I was living overseas at the time, and my parents had sent me a care package which included a VHS tape of Letterman episodes - one that had consisted of most of Dave in Danger Week. The tape must have included four of these episodes (the birthday cake is the only one I don’t remember).)
@@MichelleUS66 The cake mishap is here at around 17:45 - ruclips.net/video/dYUTJidSo2E/видео.html
Omg it's George McFly!
YOU ARE MY DENSITY ...
Glover would make another appearance on the Late Show in 2003, but only when Will Ferrell was guest hosting during Dave's case of shingles.
Plus another Late Night appearance in 1992. This collection focused only on 1987.
❤❤❤
Reminds me juoqiun Phoenix as joker
He must have grown up in "quite the bubble" in North Hollywood. Yes, all of his junior high/high school classmates went on to become scientists, or doctors, or lawyers, or such, and he grew up to be ... Crispen Glover! What do you know? My gosh, and I thought Irvine was bad. Oh, well. At least he has his hobbies to keep him occupied!
I was today years old when I learned Julian Glover was Crispin Glover's dad!! 🤯
And you are today’s year old when you find out he is not and that Bruce Glover is his father
@@Ben-nh9xw yes! Bruce...Mr Wint.
He is weird, but this dude as an artist was definitely trolling the whole concept of these talk shows and the joke of it all. In how they are set up for self-promotion, instead he was giving people something to talk about in the likes of Andy Kaufman and Joaquin Phoenix. Think about it. Out of all the interviews you may have seen on talk shows, how many do you actually remember? You may not like it, but in the end, you feel something, even if it's being uncomfortable or irritated.
That guy was crazy. He’s on the spectrum.
yeah - which kind of makes me wonder how he kept getting offers of work through the years...he's just so creepy to me. Supposedly it's an act, 'performance art' for shock value & publicity or whatever, but if that's true the Crazy is still in him, close to the surface, wanting to come out.
@@katiezee2 Amen.
Those are competely different things.
" In an interview in 2011, Back to the Future co-star Michael J. Fox talked about the incident with Letterman, saying "Crispin isn't crazy, just excitable."
@@Tracymmo there are different types of crazy. One is a loss of reality and truth, leading to confusion. Another is emotional, which results in the misery of being unable to respond normally to stimuli. Too much or too little. I don’t want to sound mean or unkind or judgmental. Life is hard for everybody, especially for those who are wired differently.
" a mind bender", ha ha... sometimes I get the feeling Carson might've tripped a few times... maybe Leary slipt it in his coffee one night...
okay. read the comment section, thanks don
krispen has an eddie murphy laugh
was the first interview before willard? freaky,....lol
He could play a great Joker or Riddler.
More Riddler than Joker.
He would have made a better Riddler than Jim Carrey.
Or creepy thin man
It seems he wasn't acting at all in the movie. Just playing himself.
What's with the wig?
Nobody reads my descriptions.
@@dongiller The question was rhetorical?
@@dongiller I did, and Thank you for it
@@jahbay Why are you asking us what you meant?
@@dongiller I read your description, and what it doesn't say is, was it only "acting" just the one night (the first Dave night)? Because that was the worst, but all of it was cringeworthy.
I wonder if they had to pay when Crispin sang that Beatle song?
I wonder if the organization displaying his “art” realized the joke was on them.
the best move here is apologizing in a graceful manner, not giggling like a 4 yer old but hey, whatever.
i know if i was him id be laughing too 19:47
It's a sever form of Dyslexia. I have a brother with this same condition EXACT BEHAVIOR.
Nobody reads my descriptions.
shit he does look like richard the 3rd lol.
Charlie angels ,? Is that the rat movie man
yes
He's gotta be doing a bit right? Or maybe he played up his weirdness for so long he just kinda got stuck like that?
Nobody reads my descriptions.
@@dongiller Thanks, that confirms the one visit was a bit, but he's still being a wackjob in all his other appearances. My point is, he probably tried too hard to be weird and got stuck there. Not on Letterman, in life.
Looking at it in 2024, i feel that all of this was all one big publicity stunt.
He's given great performances but I don't like him having to do his weird thing on talk shows...just don't do the shows lol
i wonder why glover did that, was there a reasoning behind that, his dad appeared in the bond movie as gay henchman controversial at the time, and several mission impossible episodes, mission impossible films and the bond films are having a rivalry now, kind of funny to think that, now that bond killed himself will ethan hunt as well. no offense but bruce glover any crazier than he was, or was he abusive no offense, but man was he on something, no offense just really weird feel bad for david letterman.
Nobody reads my descriptions.
He's ASD. A very nervous Elon Musk
Really obscure stuff. What a waste.
You’re welcome.
He is hard to watch
He needs more stimulants in his system
The guy is so damn cringe this is letterman's worst guest.
Wow his father was Mr Wint in Diamonds are For Ever :o