Name: David Lynch Needs Your Help To Save "Twin Peaks" | David Letterman
Uploaded: 2025-01-16T19:06:16.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Lynch Needs Your Help To Save "Twin Peaks" | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Lynch Needs Your Help To Save "Twin Peaks" | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-16. Transcript available.

how are you thank you very much for being on the program i uh for years and
years i've been
enjoyed your movies they're always entertaining really interestingly
entertaining and usually in
a different in a different sense a hair different yeah now let's oh hey how do
you get that elf to
talk backwards let me get that out of the way i heard that it's uh he talks
backwards he talked
backwards in high school uh-huh yeah and that's it that's it yeah i mean i didn't
know he talked
backwards and i asked him uh to get ready to talk backwards and uh he said no
problem
well now did he did he really say no problem or did he say that backwards
uh he said it that forwards yeah uh tell us now what is happening with the with
the show it's been
on abc now for two years and it when it came on it was like one of the most
talked about most highly
rated the shows of all time so where do we stand now well we've been uh those
popularity polls that
we've been decreasing in them uh steadily and um there may be lots of reasons
but it doesn't make
any difference now we're sort of in trouble and we think uh that we have a good
show and we can do
well on a weeknight because we feel very strongly that the people who like twin
peaks are party people
they enjoy what does that mean exactly let's they are not home on saturday
night oh i see they're out
they they make they they don't want to be home on saturday night and um and so
to have the show on
that would be wrong right so which night if you had to select one for yourself
or if you could select
one for yourself what would it be i don't uh know enough about the lineup but i've
heard that wednesday
at 10 is a is a prime uh just a hunch on your part yes uh but you know the
truth of it is if you stop
and think about it it seems like it might be the kind of show that would be you
know kind of have a
limited run and then would become a classic forever that's okay too if if it
has to end you know that's
that's all right but if it doesn't have to end that's that's even better and i'm
asking people to
write to bob eiger the president of abc and if i could i could give uh oh yes
yes please do i love
annoying these network weasels even if it's not this network let's just annoy
some network weasel here
tonight yes it's very difficult to write a letter people say okay i'll write a
letter but when it
comes down to it it's hard and i understand that but if they could write a
letter to bob eiger bob
eiger e-i-g-e-r i-g-e-r i-g-e-r bob eiger abc television 77 west 66th street
new york 10023 okay
do you have his phone number there i don't have his phone number wait do you
know this guy yes he's a
real good guy and is he on your side he is yeah okay but he needs to know uh
certain things from the
people yeah you know this is here here lately they've saved a lot of shows like
this kagney and
lacy was one um and then you know several others i can't remember right this is
true yeah uh but but
i have to believe that you're the kind of person that if this does not turn out
the way you would
like it to turn out that you have several other projects right now that you're
in the middle of
don't you i do um uh we have a new show a half hour show called on the air that
we hope will be on
the air i'm shooting a pilot for that soon and i'm going to finally be able to
do this film i've
been trying to do called ronnie rocket ronnie rocket ronnie rocket tell us of ronnie
rocket what is
that it's um the absurd mystery of the strange forces of existence and um that's
that's who might be in
that little mike uh michael anderson will be ronnie rocket and ronnie rocket is
uh three and a half feet
tall wow uh and and you uh also in a couple of episodes on the twin peaks you've
appeared yourself
haven't you i have i've had um a great uh time doing it should we show the
people this do we have
any of that footage yeah do you know rune arledge over there at abc no sir oh
man if you ever ever
meet this man ask to see his cufflink collection that's all i'm gonna say um
okay so this this is
david lynch now in his very own creation and you're playing a sheriff right i'm
playing agent uh cooper's
supervisor i'm i'm his supervisor in the federal bureau of investigation okay
here we go a couple
of seconds from twin peaks david lynch that's very funny
that's it's kind of a confident dumb guy with a little hearing uh disorder very
bad 99 hearing
loss yeah but uh what uh what were you like as a child is there anything in
your background that
would suggest what you've uh arisen to here no sir really no it's um i no uh do
you have brothers and
sisters i have a brother and a sister and then what do they do my my brother uh
is responsible for all
you're making something up now yes you are this won't be true for all the
electrical wiring of the
government buildings in the state of washington oh he is not yes he installed
all of the electrical
wiring no he um has it's been done before he was born a lot of it but he in the
new wiring he uh he's
responsible for it so if a fuse goes we call your brother yes and you said you
have a sister yeah what
does she do she's a financial planner oh well there you go that sounds pretty
good good thing yeah uh and
you're off now to what you're going back to california tomorrow oh good for you
have a great trip good
luck with the program good luck with your future projects and it was a great
thrill to meet you
finally david lynn we'll be right back here