letterman, trump, and the war room

Back in the 1980s

David Let­ter­man had an in­ter­view with then most­ly-only New York-known Don­ald Trump.
 

 

From what I remember

The Don­ald (first time I ever saw this guy) was talk­ing about how if he be­came Pres­i­dent he’d fix up this coun­try and run it like a busi­ness. And he was the only one who could do it, he’d get rid of gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion, etc. etc.

Letterman’s typ­i­cal­ly sar­cas­tic re­sponse was he’d help out, but he wants his own of­fice with a map of the earth on the wall. With blinky lights all over it.
 

 

And Let­ter­man kept go­ing, kept talk­ing about the map, Trump kept talk­ing about himself.

And I be­lieve they shook hands on it, Trump be­comes Pres­i­dent, Let­ter­man gets Bond vil­lain lair with gi­ant map. 

With blinky lights.
 

 

Un­for­tu­nate­ly

Un­less some­one has em on VHS, most of Late Night with David Let­ter­man (1982–93) on NBC is in the vault.

No re­runs, most­ly cause to re-broad­cast a talk show like that, rights have to be se­cured for mu­si­cal guests AND guests were paid scale – it’s a whole le­gal mess.

Which is un­for­tu­nate. Let­ter­man on NBC in the 1980s was THE THING to stay up late for. Cause no one knew what he was go­ing to do.

By the time he set­tled on CBS (1993–2015), he was more stout John­ny Car­son than the trub­ble­mak­er that made him famous.
 

 

Be­hind

Let­ter­man was his then girl­friend Mer­rill Markoe – who was the show’s head writer. And it was her hu­mor that made it all work. I re­mem­ber when she left the show, it felt like some­thing was to­tal­ly miss­ing. Years lat­er, she was asked if she would ever work on a talk show like this again, and she re­spond­ed some­thing along the lines of, I al­ready made one ass­hole fa­mous, why would I want to do it again? (to­tal­ly para­phrased; but do check out the links in this para­graph ^ I found some cool stuff here)
 

 

MOR vin­tage Let­ter­man info?

Read this and this, find this, see if there’s any­thing here and pret­ty much you’re not go­ing to find any­thing at all.

Be­cause there are al­ways oth­er things to do.
 

 
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Pic­tured: Pro­duc­tion de­sign by Sir Ken Adam.

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