Please stop calling me chief! Via WIVB-TV Channel 4, Buffalo NY.
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I went to a Letterman taping in 2011. Just before the taping, I bought a sandwich from Rupert. Nice guy, took a photo with us and everything! While there, I also bought a Late Show t-shirt. Then, while in the studio audience in the Ed Sullivan theatre, Dave noticed my shirt. He asked me where I got it, and I told him I got it at the deli. He made a self-deprecating joke à-la-Letterman about how their show is so bad they have to sell t-shirts out of a deli (hahaha)... then he asked me how much I paid for the shirt. I said “twenty bucks” and then he took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to me. Crowd went nuts. I will never forget that... my little Letterman moment!
@andreaudet4 жыл бұрын
Do you still have the $20 or did you go buy another shirt? How were the sandwiches?
@vinnycarrocia75114 жыл бұрын
@@vinnycarrocia7511 Sandwich was good. Twenty bucks was spent at the bar later that day. :)
@andreaudet4 жыл бұрын
Awesome I wish i could go. Very good 👍
@asmodeusasteroth71374 жыл бұрын
Cool story. Dave was one of a kind. The only one of the bunch that was ever in Carson’s league.
@scottarivett4963 жыл бұрын
@@andreaudet 20 dollars for one drink I bet
@why-even-try-brotendo3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely MISS television like this. No one did it better than Dave in Late Night.
@Airplane_Willy2 жыл бұрын
Hell yes. Nobody included their neighborhood in the show like Dave did.
@dwaynesbadchemicals Жыл бұрын
Dave: do you know how we play Please stop calling me Chief? Rupert: yeah you just keep calling them Chief.
@the6ig6adwolf3 жыл бұрын
Ruperts face when they were going to disqualify him. 😂😂😂😂
@alexandermacdougall78732 жыл бұрын
I so agree. Priceless...
@kristinemunholland8980 Жыл бұрын
Fun to explain to your kids : I used to set up our VCR to record Letterman when I had to go to sleep as a kid, then watched it the next day after school!
@ProfessionalDad4 жыл бұрын
I’m 71 years old. I wish I knew how to set up the VCR in order to record it like you did. No, I was stupid, I stayed up and was sleep deprived in school because I had to watch Letterman. Don’t tell anyone but I have been secretly in love with David Letterman for 40+ years. 😮 😊❤😂😂😂
@charlenemack70409 ай бұрын
So did I!
@JonathanHudgins8 ай бұрын
My dad did the same thing but he watched it as he taped it
@tolerants23127 күн бұрын
i love how dave sticks it to those greedy ass landlords at the pizza place. imagine seeing someone do that on corporate bootlicker TV in this day in age.
@ActuallySanFrancisco4 жыл бұрын
Yea! Yes.
@Maya_Pinion Жыл бұрын
I think the pencil gag at 2:50 is to sort of soften his legitimate anger at the whole situation.
@RoxStar1968 Жыл бұрын
I liked it when Dave would send Rupert out with an earpiece and Dave would tell him what to say. HILARIOUS!
@Frankincensedjb1235 жыл бұрын
That was the best. Once I started laughing I couldn't stop.
@nobasementinthealamo38594 жыл бұрын
RAMONA.
@SJReid823 жыл бұрын
Laughing so hard. Absolutely hilarious
@Urbex42 Жыл бұрын
Now that was real comedy, Dave liked his ppl to be very nonchalant & made for him being funnier w his skits
@jimicmore1895 Жыл бұрын
Dave was soooo good. Every night was an event. Even the the bad shows were good. I was lucky enough to be in the audience for a show in June of 2008. Jack Black was the main guest.
@johnhorn33442 жыл бұрын
Jack never disappoints.
@4seeableTV Жыл бұрын
"Wow, audience making up their own joke." - brilliant
@munefresh5 жыл бұрын
I once stopped by and talked with Rupert, he came out, we spoke for bout 20 min, he was a big OU fan & was interested in Oklahoma history, cool in person as on tv. Next time I was in NY, I gave him a SOONER ball cap. Rupert was so unassuming & perfect for Dave's sketches
@jimicmore18953 жыл бұрын
Who cares
@fart7505 Жыл бұрын
@@fart7505 hi dumbass, I guess you do by responding your rudeness
@jimicmore1895 Жыл бұрын
Well you obviously do since you replied 🤡@@fart7505
@krazykevin422514 күн бұрын
I love how you could be doing anything anywhere in the world and all of a sudden be on the Letterman show.
@craigcampbell18433 жыл бұрын
This was my absolute, all-time favorite segment 🤣 It never seemed to kill, but Dave sure as hell loved it. That was the best part.
@ODUBlue2 жыл бұрын
Whatever makes you happy, chief
@marcusmoser69112 жыл бұрын
This and beat the clock lolol
@zenseed75 Жыл бұрын
@@zenseed75 I liked "Know your cuts of meat"
@CF0RD Жыл бұрын
I remember when Dave had a daytime show. I loved him from the beginning and knew he was going places.
@Sakja3 жыл бұрын
That morning show was every bit as funny as his late night show. Was just the wrong time slot to reach his audience.
@KenRobert Жыл бұрын
Most laid back person on television. Rupert Gee
@wannabe46682 жыл бұрын
I had totally forgotten how funny the Rupert Gee stuff was all those years ago. Classic.....
@ticnatz5 жыл бұрын
Rupert nailed this stuff. Kept it real down home.
@Lovethemusic3855 жыл бұрын
michael rud someone just gave him that shirt can you believe it?
@defaultusername1234 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, Chief.
@FerdinandCesarano3 жыл бұрын
Lololololol!!!
@joycampi72332 жыл бұрын
Rupert is the best part of this whole bit.
@sethdankinvsgtwfs9774 жыл бұрын
Stuff like this is why Dave was so great.
@williamfriley5 жыл бұрын
His shirt means "Corn Dog Eternal"
@KristinWaites9 ай бұрын
Other late night hosts try to act crazy. Dave IS crazy. That’s the difference. 😉
@barneyba5 жыл бұрын
The Jim Morrison of late night tv.
@clancykobane91024 жыл бұрын
That's why Dave is the KING of Late Night T.V. - He influenced most if not all of today's late night talk show hosts, and many of them have stated that themselves.
@CanadianAmerican2 жыл бұрын
Biff lugnut....hahaha,nice.
@Maya_Pinion Жыл бұрын
This dude used to be on all the time back in the day. I remember one time they just went in there to buy gum.
@johnnyfelcher81565 жыл бұрын
Johnny Felcher I liked the one when he was a waiter and he would carry the glasses of water to patrons with his thumb in them. When they complained he said” who are you the queen of England?”
@jdderm92175 жыл бұрын
You mean Rupert? Ya, he was on the show as much as Dave for a while.
@chado30005 жыл бұрын
I saw that one!
@tinnitusthenight55455 жыл бұрын
@@jdderm9217 "That was the David Letterman special 1996 and that was the greatest thing I ever saw from David's show and I still have a VHS tape of it.... That was the same one where they had 'Moe: the badass meat slicing man' segment....best Dave EVER!"
@gregpeller14994 жыл бұрын
Dave's reaction to the song kills me
@yourgameisstupid5 жыл бұрын
7:57 Aww, man that was probably one of the best memories of this guys teenage years!
@deanrane1961 Жыл бұрын
Rupert's segments were almost always funny. He always just said stuff in such a dry way that it was funny, and they always had some situation or ironic gag going on also.
@d.aardent93824 жыл бұрын
The dark rings under his eyes are from working long hours in the deli, not from "other substances ". I admire that.
@wayneburgess28856 ай бұрын
This was when Late Night television was awesome!
@DennisMoore6645 жыл бұрын
someone just gave me this t-shirt -- that element of minor oddity and surprise may not even be possible in today's TV world, alas
@grosolo4 жыл бұрын
I miss it dearly
@tma22904 жыл бұрын
Have another Werther’s Original, old man
@fart7505 Жыл бұрын
@@fart7505 Get off my lawn, punk! 🤣✌
@DennisMoore664 Жыл бұрын
I miss these Rupert Gee skits. I wonder if he still works there. Might grab a T-shirt and a sandwich when I'm in town.
@frankbeans59214 жыл бұрын
frank beans he does I saw him two weeks ago
@nickiminjaaj64354 жыл бұрын
Did you order some frank and beans there? LOL
@josephhymel80754 жыл бұрын
commenters making up their own jokes
@moreygloss92484 жыл бұрын
Frank and beans!! Chief!!
@senorfish25033 жыл бұрын
My wife and I met Rupert back in 2007.. he was great and let us take a picture of him.. he seemed to enjoy it as much as we did
@PAKiller13 жыл бұрын
Yes Minnesota state fair on his shirt love it
@paulbongard15894 жыл бұрын
Wow. I didn't realize just how much I missed Dave. But then, I'm an old fart. Will it float ?
@johnnoecker84715 жыл бұрын
Always loved will it float.
@theinsaneshecklador65984 жыл бұрын
Dave was good at offbeat things like will it float. I always enjoyed stuff being thrown off roofs...super balls...TV's...etc.
@jm57324 жыл бұрын
@@jm5732 My housekeepers son was the world champion pumpkin grower many years ago. Dave actually contacted him about throwing it off the roof. He declined because the seeds were too valuable to him. Would have been really cool to watch.
@theinsaneshecklador65984 жыл бұрын
Will it float...in the Dancing Waters? Er, I mean “Prancing Fluids”? Filmed with the Thrill-Cam 360.
@kaithongsavanh36494 жыл бұрын
@@kaithongsavanh3649, "Grinder Girl", "Hula-hoop Girl" in unison! "Velcro Suit", "Alka-Seltzer Suit"! I can't stop remembering all the crazy & hilariously gut-busting "Schtuff" he and his crew came up with!
@michaelwertzy98084 жыл бұрын
Dave at his best. There will never be another one of him. Kimmel tries but he fails. Miss ya Dave.
@HardRockMiner5 жыл бұрын
HardRockMiner Kimmel sucks. Carolla is way funnier. Kimmel couldn't hold a candle to Letterman.
@mitchellcumsteen92205 жыл бұрын
Amen
@musicman76enator5 жыл бұрын
Kimmel's a fucking joke! Not funny by One one-thousandth! :( :(
@SuiGenerisAbbie5 жыл бұрын
He's funny when he's making fun of Deranged Donald, which is all the time, so yeah, he's pretty funny.
@MerkinMuffly5 жыл бұрын
carolla has literally never once been funny. He just whines in his Bert from Sesame Street voice.
@zelqam73054 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha, just the first 25 seconds alone so clearly point out why Late Show with David Letterman was such a damn good show. Hahahahaha! It's just funny. It doesn't TRY so damn hard to be funny, it just IS funny.
@xxxx855 жыл бұрын
I remember my first time getting called Chief by a much taller and senior co-worker… I kinda had the look of Michael Scott getting awarded a “Dundee.”
@randymichel459 Жыл бұрын
FYI, the theme song is "Big Chief" by Professor Longhair. Get it, chief?
@chas2185 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting
@fawltyborstals3 жыл бұрын
It's actually a good looking sandwich.
@ianwashburn20125 жыл бұрын
For an American perhaps. The girl on the right with the cheque though......
@narvul5 жыл бұрын
Damn it, that's what I was going to say!
@randymagnum1435 жыл бұрын
Except for the kid in the middle. I would just eat the two red slices of bred, er bread.
@chado30005 жыл бұрын
Yes but where are the chips?
@kjoliver41255 жыл бұрын
The sandwich the gift certificate and standing between two beautiful ladies is called the heavenly sandwich. Condiments not needed.
@sbhamba4 жыл бұрын
Good old times. I still remember it.
@rafaelmadrigal15345 жыл бұрын
I miss you 90's. I will never, ever forget you.
@the99thtimelord163 жыл бұрын
Amanda thank you so much for posting such a treasure
@lindaarnold83212 жыл бұрын
When Dave says, "Gonna have to disqualify you", Rupert looks STUNNED. I mean FUNNY!
@danabaker596 Жыл бұрын
I miss when you turned on the tv for some entertainment.
@dupperskeez4 жыл бұрын
Right, wtf happened? I watched Leno headlines, and Ellen photos came up, it was so painful, dry and dark behind it...not fun or good Carson, letterman Leno others, Sit coms and fun shows every thing is banned unless it's hateful I think it started when the EU formed.....
@asmodeusasteroth71374 жыл бұрын
Okay dad. We kept the whole cabinet full of VHS tapes for you. But seriously, TV killed the radio star, and the internet killed TV. All that's on TV now is shit designed to make old folks think the Democrats are trying to vaccinate them so that they'll stay too scared to notice who's robbing them blind. It's basically Facebook for the elderly.
@protahgonist2 жыл бұрын
Damn. I cant believe i didnt watch Norm McDonald or Dave Letterman until they were both gone. Fucking legends.
@FlamingKarrotopProductionsFKP Жыл бұрын
2:50 classic Dave I love when he would do something random like that
@sk8terboi100035 жыл бұрын
Oh nice I was in 9th grade when this aired. I also don’t think I would have figured it out lol.
@ericmagee90545 жыл бұрын
I cringe that this was taped just slightly over two months before 9/11, and no one knew what was about to happen. Nick :-)
@nicholassterling8483 Жыл бұрын
Man O man, how we miss Dave every night..!
@ScratchGlass92 жыл бұрын
I went into a bar and ordered a beer. Was sitting next to a guy and I said "what's up dude?" He looked at me kind of pissed and said "don't call me dude". I said, "okay dude". So, I'm laughing in my beer and just sensing the guy simmering next to me. Hilarious.
@michaelangelos51174 жыл бұрын
So happy and carefree. Little did they know what was coming in about 2 and 1/2 months
@loosenoose2 күн бұрын
Since David Letterman show is no more, i miss the hello deli place.😔
@matthewfarmer2520 Жыл бұрын
im from uk and i went in that deli and bought the hello deli tshirt when i was in ny. i met the owner.
@mikewatte44785 жыл бұрын
Who gives a shit
@HipsterDoofus1005 жыл бұрын
Cosmo Kramer wouldn't say that-he'd be fascinated by that story! I like it too! That's cool you went there and met him and got a souvenir. It would be fun!
@zelqam73054 жыл бұрын
How'd you like New York, chief?
@mattk16314 жыл бұрын
Matt, try calling everyone Chief for a day. Maybe it'll even stick as a lifetime habit. Ok, Chief?
@zelqam73054 жыл бұрын
Surprised that after finding out Mike's parents were in the studio enjoying the show,Dave didn't go on a rant "Enjoying the show in air conditioned comfort while leaving your minor child alone on the hot dangerous NYC streets,hmmm folks"
@marknapiorkowski5 жыл бұрын
Ya sure, missed opportunity for comedy gold.......security
@carrrexx71904 жыл бұрын
rupert was always a good sport lol. letterman was the best. i remember one show he kept talking about how a lightning bolt shot through the studio and almost killed him. yet it never happened. just randomly through the entire show he kept mentioning this lightning bolt that wasnt real hahahah.
@hippa2dahoppa25 жыл бұрын
I never got to see the show :( from the clips ive seen on youtube its apparent he had some real comedy chops though
@leorickt.96045 жыл бұрын
An innocent day. 10 weeks later, the world would change forever.
@navyguyinva5 жыл бұрын
And it all came tumbling down.
@KingDecahedron5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Michael Jordan announces his return to the NBA
@robocock4754 жыл бұрын
Rupert is a legend!
@markwindow58654 жыл бұрын
Late night TV blows right now. Dave was the best.
@theogeo149 ай бұрын
I miss this era of the show.
@Scrapla117 күн бұрын
NowFallon has puppy quiz. Jeez
@glendale65 жыл бұрын
Idk who was smoking what when they hired Fallon to do that show.
@defaultusername1234 жыл бұрын
Don't even watch, I stopped watching, I watched Leno head lines, and then Ellen photos pop up I watch, It's dry, it's dark and tense, you feel something hateful behind it.... Comedy is dead, so are good old sit coms and other shows. I just think something changed when the EU formed, a strange shift I don't like it
@asmodeusasteroth71374 жыл бұрын
Stop calling me Chief and Catherine Zeta Jones wow what a show
@nathanbabiuk62864 жыл бұрын
Looking at the banner of Hello Deli in the video from 2001 ( 1:27 ) and then at Google Maps today. It's the exact same banner, complete with patch job in the upper right. That thing has stayed together for over 20 years.
@4seeableTV Жыл бұрын
Did they ever release a home version of _Please, Stop Calling Me Chief?_ If not, they should have.
@0okamino5 жыл бұрын
Letterman and Conan were the best
@SonicDeeHedgehog Жыл бұрын
4:39 Wow, Tom Brady was only 15 here.
@MerkinMuffly5 жыл бұрын
He'd only won like 2 or 3 rings at this point
@zaq553 жыл бұрын
Miss nice kids like this. We'll mannered, confident, not glued to cell phone
@knickandchester5 жыл бұрын
You typed this on your phone you troglodyte
@Ralph_Sandwich4 жыл бұрын
Hello Deli just celebrated their 30th anniversary of being in business. There was a little ceremony outside the deli. Paul Shaffer was there & made a speech. Rupert was also there, of course!
@SuperC8882 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know the title of the music played when they handed the big cheque?
@kontrabidangungguy5 жыл бұрын
Josh Ashcroft, "Let the Eagle Soar"
@1800allyoucaneat5 жыл бұрын
Rupert made that sandwich in 60 seconds!
@aaronreeder57532 жыл бұрын
Place looks pretty much the same as when I visited in 2018. :)
@natepike61474 жыл бұрын
Dave made the simplest, everyday occurrence funny.
@randyw.991614 күн бұрын
👍thanks Amanda.
@brucebudka5 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the song they started playing when the girls presented the check to the kid???? Is it Michael Bolton, A love so beautiful??
@marksoprano007 Жыл бұрын
Johnny left some pretty big boots to fill and boy did letterman rocked those puppies like nobody’s business. Anyone on air now isn’t even in the right department ....
@HomerMcPoT1014 жыл бұрын
Conan doesn't really have a show anymore just a chat show....next to that has to be Kimmel.
@SharkMinnow4 жыл бұрын
Is there an an episode of Please Stop Calling me Chief with a native american?
@onpsxmember5 жыл бұрын
Somebody needs to upload “Please Stop Calling Me Debbie” as well.
@scottpiper2135 жыл бұрын
Spent a week in New York when it was cheap after 9/11 and the best part was going to the Hello Deli.
@tbx594 жыл бұрын
Even after years at CBS, this still had the genuine, off the rails, could go somewhere nuts feeling to it. Not as much as what I've seen from the old NBC Dave, but more than anything made now. It's all too manufactured and refined. The hilarity is always in the awkwardness and the errors.
@NoellaScott Жыл бұрын
How is Rupert? Is he still there? Anyone know if he was on ant of Dave’s last shows?
@dallastrujillo75402 ай бұрын
The one thing that would've made it funnier is if Dave told the kid the sandwich he just got "is valued at $500,000. You got one more sandwich coming Chief!"
@BernWag17 күн бұрын
1. Letterman, 2. Conan. No one else even compares.
@gregorykrug8034 Жыл бұрын
One million dollars .... worth of hello deli gift certificates! lol
@those__18805 жыл бұрын
Those __ Today, that would generate a lawsuit!
@timprescott46344 жыл бұрын
Do you have the "She's already gone,Chief"clip?
@adamsmashups4839Ай бұрын
Rupert G, so many memories
@hankigoe8294 жыл бұрын
2018 update. Please stop calling me "Boss."
@springhillgolfer8785 жыл бұрын
stop calling me chief tune is "professor longhair's big chief" a NOLA classic
@saxonwax Жыл бұрын
That guy is my age…miss Letterman.
@katxl7Ай бұрын
Anyone know the song that plays when they bring out the giant gift certificate?
@dead_yellow2 жыл бұрын
The tall girl on the left was eyeballin that kids sammich...
@JG01014 жыл бұрын
Pairing him up with jack hannah is awesome. I was lmao
@ilovemycat3335 жыл бұрын
I worked with a guy that called everyone "slick" it was annoying, figured he saw his mother and called her slick
@markcornish25193 күн бұрын
We saw Rupert at his hello deli when we were in New York would have ask for a selfie i chicken out 😕
@jnb75315 жыл бұрын
What's the song at 7:17 ?
@jonathanrojas1246 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised his corn dog didn't bust through that check 🐣
@roycoots72335 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 Dave was the best!
@dmontes1335 жыл бұрын
This is it chief
@Luke-qz3wu5 жыл бұрын
Where csn I get that soundtrack!!!!!!!! "STOP CAAAALIN ME CHIIEF da da da."
@herbjergens63504 жыл бұрын
I need more thumbs! Dave, Rupert and a sandwich - there's your deli combo.
@barrycowan3540 Жыл бұрын
Were there any other times where Dave played “Please Stop Calling Me Chief?” My boys and I have fun calling each other Chief as a result of this bit.
@flyjarrett3 жыл бұрын
Whatever happened to Rupert? Him & Mujeebar were the best.
@mitchellcumsteen92205 жыл бұрын
I miss Dave
@stugots1625 жыл бұрын
I miss all my dead family who used to watch Dave.
@pattysherwood70913 жыл бұрын
5:49 the face 😂
@MrMice...7 күн бұрын
I just got my 6 year old daughter to say please stop calling me chief, then I showed her this video after I stopped laughing.
I went to a Letterman taping in 2011. Just before the taping, I bought a sandwich from Rupert. Nice guy, took a photo with us and everything! While there, I also bought a Late Show t-shirt. Then, while in the studio audience in the Ed Sullivan theatre, Dave noticed my shirt. He asked me where I got it, and I told him I got it at the deli. He made a self-deprecating joke à-la-Letterman about how their show is so bad they have to sell t-shirts out of a deli (hahaha)... then he asked me how much I paid for the shirt. I said “twenty bucks” and then he took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to me. Crowd went nuts. I will never forget that... my little Letterman moment!
Do you still have the $20 or did you go buy another shirt? How were the sandwiches?
@@vinnycarrocia7511 Sandwich was good. Twenty bucks was spent at the bar later that day. :)
Awesome I wish i could go. Very good 👍
Cool story. Dave was one of a kind. The only one of the bunch that was ever in Carson’s league.
@@andreaudet 20 dollars for one drink I bet
I absolutely MISS television like this. No one did it better than Dave in Late Night.
Hell yes. Nobody included their neighborhood in the show like Dave did.
Dave: do you know how we play Please stop calling me Chief? Rupert: yeah you just keep calling them Chief.
Ruperts face when they were going to disqualify him. 😂😂😂😂
I so agree. Priceless...
Fun to explain to your kids : I used to set up our VCR to record Letterman when I had to go to sleep as a kid, then watched it the next day after school!
I’m 71 years old. I wish I knew how to set up the VCR in order to record it like you did. No, I was stupid, I stayed up and was sleep deprived in school because I had to watch Letterman. Don’t tell anyone but I have been secretly in love with David Letterman for 40+ years. 😮 😊❤😂😂😂
So did I!
My dad did the same thing but he watched it as he taped it
i love how dave sticks it to those greedy ass landlords at the pizza place. imagine seeing someone do that on corporate bootlicker TV in this day in age.
Yea! Yes.
I think the pencil gag at 2:50 is to sort of soften his legitimate anger at the whole situation.
I liked it when Dave would send Rupert out with an earpiece and Dave would tell him what to say. HILARIOUS!
That was the best. Once I started laughing I couldn't stop.
RAMONA.
Laughing so hard. Absolutely hilarious
Now that was real comedy, Dave liked his ppl to be very nonchalant & made for him being funnier w his skits
Dave was soooo good. Every night was an event. Even the the bad shows were good. I was lucky enough to be in the audience for a show in June of 2008. Jack Black was the main guest.
Jack never disappoints.
"Wow, audience making up their own joke." - brilliant
I once stopped by and talked with Rupert, he came out, we spoke for bout 20 min, he was a big OU fan & was interested in Oklahoma history, cool in person as on tv. Next time I was in NY, I gave him a SOONER ball cap. Rupert was so unassuming & perfect for Dave's sketches
Who cares
@@fart7505 hi dumbass, I guess you do by responding your rudeness
Well you obviously do since you replied 🤡@@fart7505
I love how you could be doing anything anywhere in the world and all of a sudden be on the Letterman show.
This was my absolute, all-time favorite segment 🤣 It never seemed to kill, but Dave sure as hell loved it. That was the best part.
Whatever makes you happy, chief
This and beat the clock lolol
@@zenseed75 I liked "Know your cuts of meat"
I remember when Dave had a daytime show. I loved him from the beginning and knew he was going places.
That morning show was every bit as funny as his late night show. Was just the wrong time slot to reach his audience.
Most laid back person on television. Rupert Gee
I had totally forgotten how funny the Rupert Gee stuff was all those years ago. Classic.....
Rupert nailed this stuff. Kept it real down home.
michael rud someone just gave him that shirt can you believe it?
Thanks for posting this, Chief.
Lololololol!!!
Rupert is the best part of this whole bit.
Stuff like this is why Dave was so great.
His shirt means "Corn Dog Eternal"
Other late night hosts try to act crazy. Dave IS crazy. That’s the difference. 😉
The Jim Morrison of late night tv.
That's why Dave is the KING of Late Night T.V. - He influenced most if not all of today's late night talk show hosts, and many of them have stated that themselves.
Biff lugnut....hahaha,nice.
This dude used to be on all the time back in the day. I remember one time they just went in there to buy gum.
Johnny Felcher I liked the one when he was a waiter and he would carry the glasses of water to patrons with his thumb in them. When they complained he said” who are you the queen of England?”
You mean Rupert? Ya, he was on the show as much as Dave for a while.
I saw that one!
@@jdderm9217 "That was the David Letterman special 1996 and that was the greatest thing I ever saw from David's show and I still have a VHS tape of it.... That was the same one where they had 'Moe: the badass meat slicing man' segment....best Dave EVER!"
Dave's reaction to the song kills me
7:57 Aww, man that was probably one of the best memories of this guys teenage years!
Rupert's segments were almost always funny. He always just said stuff in such a dry way that it was funny, and they always had some situation or ironic gag going on also.
The dark rings under his eyes are from working long hours in the deli, not from "other substances ". I admire that.
This was when Late Night television was awesome!
someone just gave me this t-shirt -- that element of minor oddity and surprise may not even be possible in today's TV world, alas
I miss it dearly
Have another Werther’s Original, old man
@@fart7505 Get off my lawn, punk! 🤣✌
I miss these Rupert Gee skits. I wonder if he still works there. Might grab a T-shirt and a sandwich when I'm in town.
frank beans he does I saw him two weeks ago
Did you order some frank and beans there? LOL
commenters making up their own jokes
Frank and beans!! Chief!!
My wife and I met Rupert back in 2007.. he was great and let us take a picture of him.. he seemed to enjoy it as much as we did
Yes Minnesota state fair on his shirt love it
Wow. I didn't realize just how much I missed Dave. But then, I'm an old fart. Will it float ?
Always loved will it float.
Dave was good at offbeat things like will it float. I always enjoyed stuff being thrown off roofs...super balls...TV's...etc.
@@jm5732 My housekeepers son was the world champion pumpkin grower many years ago. Dave actually contacted him about throwing it off the roof. He declined because the seeds were too valuable to him. Would have been really cool to watch.
Will it float...in the Dancing Waters? Er, I mean “Prancing Fluids”? Filmed with the Thrill-Cam 360.
@@kaithongsavanh3649, "Grinder Girl", "Hula-hoop Girl" in unison! "Velcro Suit", "Alka-Seltzer Suit"! I can't stop remembering all the crazy & hilariously gut-busting "Schtuff" he and his crew came up with!
Dave at his best. There will never be another one of him. Kimmel tries but he fails. Miss ya Dave.
HardRockMiner Kimmel sucks. Carolla is way funnier. Kimmel couldn't hold a candle to Letterman.
Amen
Kimmel's a fucking joke! Not funny by One one-thousandth! :( :(
He's funny when he's making fun of Deranged Donald, which is all the time, so yeah, he's pretty funny.
carolla has literally never once been funny. He just whines in his Bert from Sesame Street voice.
Hahahaha, just the first 25 seconds alone so clearly point out why Late Show with David Letterman was such a damn good show. Hahahahaha! It's just funny. It doesn't TRY so damn hard to be funny, it just IS funny.
I remember my first time getting called Chief by a much taller and senior co-worker… I kinda had the look of Michael Scott getting awarded a “Dundee.”
FYI, the theme song is "Big Chief" by Professor Longhair. Get it, chief?
thanks for posting
It's actually a good looking sandwich.
For an American perhaps. The girl on the right with the cheque though......
Damn it, that's what I was going to say!
Except for the kid in the middle. I would just eat the two red slices of bred, er bread.
Yes but where are the chips?
The sandwich the gift certificate and standing between two beautiful ladies is called the heavenly sandwich. Condiments not needed.
Good old times. I still remember it.
I miss you 90's. I will never, ever forget you.
Amanda thank you so much for posting such a treasure
When Dave says, "Gonna have to disqualify you", Rupert looks STUNNED. I mean FUNNY!
I miss when you turned on the tv for some entertainment.
Right, wtf happened? I watched Leno headlines, and Ellen photos came up, it was so painful, dry and dark behind it...not fun or good Carson, letterman Leno others, Sit coms and fun shows every thing is banned unless it's hateful I think it started when the EU formed.....
Okay dad. We kept the whole cabinet full of VHS tapes for you. But seriously, TV killed the radio star, and the internet killed TV. All that's on TV now is shit designed to make old folks think the Democrats are trying to vaccinate them so that they'll stay too scared to notice who's robbing them blind. It's basically Facebook for the elderly.
Damn. I cant believe i didnt watch Norm McDonald or Dave Letterman until they were both gone. Fucking legends.
2:50 classic Dave I love when he would do something random like that
Oh nice I was in 9th grade when this aired. I also don’t think I would have figured it out lol.
I cringe that this was taped just slightly over two months before 9/11, and no one knew what was about to happen. Nick :-)
Man O man, how we miss Dave every night..!
I went into a bar and ordered a beer. Was sitting next to a guy and I said "what's up dude?" He looked at me kind of pissed and said "don't call me dude". I said, "okay dude". So, I'm laughing in my beer and just sensing the guy simmering next to me. Hilarious.
So happy and carefree. Little did they know what was coming in about 2 and 1/2 months
Since David Letterman show is no more, i miss the hello deli place.😔
im from uk and i went in that deli and bought the hello deli tshirt when i was in ny. i met the owner.
Who gives a shit
Cosmo Kramer wouldn't say that-he'd be fascinated by that story! I like it too! That's cool you went there and met him and got a souvenir. It would be fun!
How'd you like New York, chief?
Matt, try calling everyone Chief for a day. Maybe it'll even stick as a lifetime habit. Ok, Chief?
Surprised that after finding out Mike's parents were in the studio enjoying the show,Dave didn't go on a rant "Enjoying the show in air conditioned comfort while leaving your minor child alone on the hot dangerous NYC streets,hmmm folks"
Ya sure, missed opportunity for comedy gold.......security
rupert was always a good sport lol. letterman was the best. i remember one show he kept talking about how a lightning bolt shot through the studio and almost killed him. yet it never happened. just randomly through the entire show he kept mentioning this lightning bolt that wasnt real hahahah.
I never got to see the show :( from the clips ive seen on youtube its apparent he had some real comedy chops though
An innocent day. 10 weeks later, the world would change forever.
And it all came tumbling down.
Yeah, Michael Jordan announces his return to the NBA
Rupert is a legend!
Late night TV blows right now. Dave was the best.
I miss this era of the show.
NowFallon has puppy quiz. Jeez
Idk who was smoking what when they hired Fallon to do that show.
Don't even watch, I stopped watching, I watched Leno head lines, and then Ellen photos pop up I watch, It's dry, it's dark and tense, you feel something hateful behind it.... Comedy is dead, so are good old sit coms and other shows. I just think something changed when the EU formed, a strange shift I don't like it
Stop calling me Chief and Catherine Zeta Jones wow what a show
Looking at the banner of Hello Deli in the video from 2001 ( 1:27 ) and then at Google Maps today. It's the exact same banner, complete with patch job in the upper right. That thing has stayed together for over 20 years.
Did they ever release a home version of _Please, Stop Calling Me Chief?_ If not, they should have.
Letterman and Conan were the best
4:39 Wow, Tom Brady was only 15 here.
He'd only won like 2 or 3 rings at this point
Miss nice kids like this. We'll mannered, confident, not glued to cell phone
You typed this on your phone you troglodyte
Hello Deli just celebrated their 30th anniversary of being in business. There was a little ceremony outside the deli. Paul Shaffer was there & made a speech. Rupert was also there, of course!
Does anybody know the title of the music played when they handed the big cheque?
Josh Ashcroft, "Let the Eagle Soar"
Rupert made that sandwich in 60 seconds!
Place looks pretty much the same as when I visited in 2018. :)
Dave made the simplest, everyday occurrence funny.
👍thanks Amanda.
Does anyone know the name of the song they started playing when the girls presented the check to the kid???? Is it Michael Bolton, A love so beautiful??
Johnny left some pretty big boots to fill and boy did letterman rocked those puppies like nobody’s business. Anyone on air now isn’t even in the right department ....
Conan doesn't really have a show anymore just a chat show....next to that has to be Kimmel.
Is there an an episode of Please Stop Calling me Chief with a native american?
Somebody needs to upload “Please Stop Calling Me Debbie” as well.
Spent a week in New York when it was cheap after 9/11 and the best part was going to the Hello Deli.
Even after years at CBS, this still had the genuine, off the rails, could go somewhere nuts feeling to it. Not as much as what I've seen from the old NBC Dave, but more than anything made now. It's all too manufactured and refined. The hilarity is always in the awkwardness and the errors.
How is Rupert? Is he still there? Anyone know if he was on ant of Dave’s last shows?
The one thing that would've made it funnier is if Dave told the kid the sandwich he just got "is valued at $500,000. You got one more sandwich coming Chief!"
1. Letterman, 2. Conan. No one else even compares.
One million dollars .... worth of hello deli gift certificates! lol
Those __ Today, that would generate a lawsuit!
Do you have the "She's already gone,Chief"clip?
Rupert G, so many memories
2018 update. Please stop calling me "Boss."
stop calling me chief tune is "professor longhair's big chief" a NOLA classic
That guy is my age…miss Letterman.
Anyone know the song that plays when they bring out the giant gift certificate?
The tall girl on the left was eyeballin that kids sammich...
Pairing him up with jack hannah is awesome. I was lmao
I worked with a guy that called everyone "slick" it was annoying, figured he saw his mother and called her slick
We saw Rupert at his hello deli when we were in New York would have ask for a selfie i chicken out 😕
What's the song at 7:17 ?
I'm surprised his corn dog didn't bust through that check 🐣
😂😂😂 Dave was the best!
This is it chief
Where csn I get that soundtrack!!!!!!!! "STOP CAAAALIN ME CHIIEF da da da."
I need more thumbs! Dave, Rupert and a sandwich - there's your deli combo.
Were there any other times where Dave played “Please Stop Calling Me Chief?” My boys and I have fun calling each other Chief as a result of this bit.
Whatever happened to Rupert? Him & Mujeebar were the best.
I miss Dave
I miss all my dead family who used to watch Dave.
5:49 the face 😂
I just got my 6 year old daughter to say please stop calling me chief, then I showed her this video after I stopped laughing.
Good times