Dave's 30th Year Staffers Top Ten on Late Show, February 1, 2012

"Top Ten Things Staffers Would Like to Say to Dave on His 30th Anniversary in Late Night"
This is in reference to Mark Malkoff's conversation with long-time Late Show writer Bill Scheft (and later, Scott Ryan) on his Carson Podcast, linked below.
Bill gave some inside info on Jude's Top Ten selection.
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[@SaintMartins]

Holy smoke Don Giller ! i just read an artical that The New York Times wrote about you online (dated April 6, 2017) Called "David Letterman's Unlikely Archivist" Someday you'll be famous like Dave.

[@dongiller]

And just as wealthy! :)

[@robertdavis4192]

30 years , we've never met, sounds like my parents marriage lol

[@davidrichter9164]

Good one 😅😅

[@johnhorn3344]

Damn, I loved that show.

[@theritchie2173]

Wow, that's 43 years now that Dave's been working for Barbara.

[@JohnRoland]

It speaks highly of Letterman that people would work for him for 30 years. Unheard of in show business

[@andrewpetik2034]

The top ten are almost always hilarious!

[@rogertrujillo7423]

I remember Rick Sheckman from Courtroom Etiquette in 1987. He played the juror.

[@dongiller]

Here’s Rick’s Elvis collection - ruclips.net/video/Z4IKiWlETrg/видео.html

[@lmntcrnstn4970]

Subtle joke at 4:59 (choice of words to censor)

[@timfeleppa3156]

Superb

[@robertdavis4192]

Bravo! Bravo!Huzzah! Jolly good show Donny boy, Jolly good!!

[@StevenTorrey]

A lapel pin for 30 years off service is just not enough! Why not a million dollar bonus!

[@ankuwadhwani8651]

hey don, do u have that show in which there is no audience due to snow storm ?

[@dongiller]

I do. But there was an audience. The show began with maybe 30 in the seats. Eventually the seats were filled up.
It was during Hurricane Sandy when there was no audience throughout the show.

[@user-bn7bk5mw4s]

I remember that

[@LRS905]

I just wonder who was playing bass while Will Lee was walking out there!

[@dongiller]

No one. The seat was vacant, as was the keyboard.

[@LRS905]

@@dongiller Then someone must had been filling in a basic rhythm, you can feel it there.

[@fatbackfunk]

@@LRS905 I was curious about that myself. One thing is certain, the bass part was definitely being played by someone. My guess is that it's most likely one of the guitar players. Not likely Felicia, seeing as she's definitely strumming chords. So it's probably the other guitar player, which doesn't appear to be Sid (regular guitar player), but whoever it is, is probably playing the bassline on guitar but using an octave pedal, which would of course, lower the pitch.

[@aaronz7056]

Sad Jimmy Fitzgerald, Kathleen Ankers, Bill Wendell and Calvert Deforest couldn't have been part of this line-up....

[@BaccarWozat]

Or even Chris Elliot and Rich Hall

[@morbido13]

#8 was really cute

[@icetraigh]

Hey Don! Remember when the announcer guy would yell out "LETTER NUMBER THREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"? Got any clips of that gag?

[@dongiller]

I have everything. The bit got pretty obnoxious and tired real fast. Odds are poor I’ll take the time to put together a compilation.

[@dougboyer5829]

Sounds like trouble