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uh how how many years have we done this paul many many the christmas uh
tradition oh well
you know because of your kindness it's been many it's been over 10 years 10 15
years we've done it
every year yeah you seem a little vague on this well i'm not exactly sure but i
just know it's a
long long i mean who knows how long we've been singing good king wenceslas
years you know and
this as well yeah paul does uh it's a musical uh remembrance it's a fond
remembrance something
that's very near and dear to paul's heart uh very closely associated with the
holidays yes it's a
holiday remembrance if i may and if i may take you back to the 70s when share
had her own network
series that's right the share show a variety show this is something we remember
every year
she had a lot of fun it was a comedy variety show she sang she danced did a lot
of comedy on this
particular episode william conrad was the guest he had a show called canon at
the time and they had a
lot of fun cutting up with christmas crazy things she did that old lady show in
the regular she did
her christmas episode christmas show of the share show uh-huh and at the end of
it uh it was time
for a very reverent moment and she was going to sing serious now because it had
a lot of cutting up
and fun but this was the respect and the reverence shown for a great christmas
all kidding aside yeah
all kidding aside share is going to do oh holy night right her rendition of it
and it was beautiful
it was very calm and the lighting was low and she was under a street lamp it
was snowing her hands
were in a muff i'm sorry her hands were in a muff you know which is a fur thing
a fur thing did you know share had the number one record of the of the year
last year i didn't
realize it yes but this takes you back farther beyond that back to the
beginning of time when
she had her own show and this was her christmas show it was time for her her
hands were in a muff
paul we're running out of tape and she's about to sing oh holy night and it
sounded oh holy night
here we go oh holy night yeah paul schaefer as share singing oh holy night late
show tradition
hands were in a muff yeah
thank you and uh jamie fox is here and uh andy kindler is here and it's gonna
honest to god do you hear that paul i thought you hear something yeah it sounds
lovely is that
it's like carolers or something carolers outside oh my god right outside the
door did you know anything
about this no i know it's not my uh bill dominic i think go out there and see
if those are carolers
it sure as hell sounds like carolers go out and see what you can do oh this
would be unbelievable
all right well that's what i had in the morning
thanks boys
that's clam dip
how are you oh great excellent thank you very much really good having a great
christmas
i love the whole holiday season are you out of breath what are you what's going
on are you all
right yeah i'm fine i just love uh i love hanging out on the holidays and you
get like a little like
something in your uh huh i get to go out and visit the family are you all right
honestly oh really
you're noticing something yeah yeah well it's just this no i guess i get so
excited yeah christmas
then i uh i decided to uh yeah to open one of my presents a little early today
oh you opened a
present i did this it's this abdominizer thing wow
i'm working out while we're talking i see is that uncomfortable at all yeah it's
a touch yeah it's
shocking at first you have to get used to it but it just totally works you out
it's amazing yeah
whoo and how long how long you leave that right up yeah career getting a total
crying getting this
thing will work you all day it's fantastic you can be on the subway you're
gonna be christmas shopping
you know you can you're working out while people are watching you yeah it's
fantastic yeah
and you leave it on 24 hours
you can leave it on anytime yeah and you can literally be wearing this anywhere
you go
it's fantastic it's a it's a little unpleasant to watch i'm gonna have those
washboard abs
oh my god
thank you wow
but you said it's a tremendous workout that's incredible yeah see i love it i
love the whole
christmas season i get so excited about little stupid things like this you know
no uh i guess that
was true when you were a kid right you know i had such an incredible
imagination when i was a kid i
was like i was so nuts around christmas time i had i dreamed up all kinds of
things i remember actually
thinking that i had seen santa claus i got so freaked out because the song says
sees you when
you're sleeping knows when you're awake he knows everything about you he can
get into your computer he
has the right it's the whole thing and uh and so i got all paranoid and i was
up i couldn't get to
sleep and i was freaking out i saw i looked out the window i saw santa claus
and the sleighs
going across the sky to an apartment building across the way and uh oh that's
tight now
yeah um and uh you didn't have to go to the gym or anything yeah and uh so
anyway so i freaked out
and i ran out to the living room to see my parents i was i knew that i had
blown it i was awake and i
heard this clang clang clang clang clang and uh i walked out there there was
this go-kart that i
wanted so badly it was in pieces all over the living room floor my parents were
sitting there having
a cigarette and my dad said well son santa knew that you were up so he left he
was putting it
together and so he took off and i freaked out completely i lost my mind it was
all i wanted in the
world was this go-kart and you know what i'm driving now dave mercedes slr oh
made by mclaren wow see i
took lemons and made lemonade right you know i guess that's the point of the
story that i'm trying to
is you're never you never should worry in the moment that's right and now i'm
driving this
funky car man you drive it like this it's like this
like this and you get out of it like this
so it all turned out good i can i can see now why you would need the incredible
abs
to drive that car very very active and yeah there's a very small wedge to fit
your body into
uh dear dave i was just wondering uh what you were going to ask snata clause
for for christoms
let me go back over this dear dave what are you going to ask snata clause for
for christams
this is from christy in siler city north carolina well that's a pretty good
letter christy and you know
speaking of christy speaking of christmas christy have i got a gift for you
ladies
gentlemen please welcome the late show carolers kids
the late show carolers are brought to you by webster's dictionary who remind
you to proofread your
letters to cbs mailbag because nobody wants to look like an illiterate goon on
national television
back to you thanks kid now uh continuing now with the christmas if you don't
mind do you do you uh
by way of celebrating do you and you have a wonderful uh voice um do you sing
do you carol
do you ever do any of that the christmas you come on to all your guests like
this i don't
i don't consider it to be out like that come on really i just thought it would
you know i love singing christmas songs that's the truth see that's what i was
getting here caroling one of
my favorite things because they just they open the door and they go get out of
here oh my god yeah
yeah now uh if i do like singing christmas i'm thinking about putting an album
together a christmas
album yeah yeah christmas songs i think because there aren't enough of those i
think there's a
shortage of them for christmas songs compilations by his famous stars you know
and uh so uh one of the
cuts is uh this is it's just the traditional christmas songs but it's sung by
me so one of the cuts goes uh
here comes santa claus here comes santa claus right down santa claus arena i'll
be sinning with sinning on
he's a ring there's a hurry on with a ring but that's nice
gonna be a big hit huge you're sitting on a gold mine yeah but now that's that's
elvis
well no it's me though well i know i know i know it's you but you're doing elvis
yeah but no no no
but but it's not elvis it's me so when people go to the store and they you know
maybe they their elvis
is sold out or whatever they can buy my my album right you probably think
everybody sounds like elvis
well but strictly speaking if there had been no elvis you wouldn't be singing
like that well i don't
know i don't know if there isn't sure are all the songs done like elvis no well
no well i don't know
you might think so it might cross my mind there's another one one of my
favorites uh just nuts roasting
out of the open pie jack frost nipping at your lips
like that that's that's beautiful but
that's not elvis no that's not elvis it says johnny mathis
no that's how i sound when i sing
man you're tough to please
well merry christmas well merry christmas to you because it's the holidays i
was told earlier today
that our announcer alan calter has a special musical treat for us tonight is
that right
alan absolutely tell the folks what you're going to do be glad to yeah the
holiday spirit is contagious
this time of year so my brother rick and i put a little something together to
pay tribute to the
famous bing crosby and david bowie duet that we all know and love oh my god
Our newborn king to see, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum.
Come, peace, hotter can it be, our years from now perhaps we'll see.
See the day of glory. See the day when men of goodwill, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum,
rum-pum-pum-pum, live in peace again.
Ah, mighty.
Thanks, Alan. Nice job.
Happy holidays, Dave.
Same to you.
Well, I could watch that all night and there for a second I thought we were
going to.
We were, yeah.
And as I mentioned earlier, you're doing a lot of traveling.
Yeah.
And that's sort of what we're talking about here.
It's another really a full-time project.
Tell people what this is and what you're going to do for us.
Oh, oh, well, yeah.
In addition to all the promoting I've been doing for the movie, I've also been
traveling with the Vienna Boys Choir.
And I've been performing with them throughout the country.
It's one of my entertainment bucket lists I've been able to do.
So this is something you've wanted to do for a long, long time?
For as long as I can remember.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And as a child, did you sing yourself?
Uh, nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Didn't start singing until the last six months.
Yeah.
So it's a little scary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you go around to large venues and communities?
Large venues and communities.
We do three-hour shows.
Three hours?
Three hours, yeah.
We're out there.
We're like the Bruce Springsteen of choral groups.
You leave everything on the stage.
You leave everything out on the stage.
Yeah, sure.
It might be hard on the kids, maybe, but they still...
We don't really care.
Yeah.
But this is one of the numbers.
Oh, this is from the show.
We'd like to do one of the numbers.
Oh, great.
Well, thank you very much, and happy holidays to you and your family.
Thank you, David.
Will Ferrell now, ladies and gentlemen.
The Vienna Boys Choir.
Christmas time is here.
Christmas time is here.
Happiness and cheer.
Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year.
Snowflakes in the air.
Snowflakes in the air.
Heroes everywhere.
Olden times and ancient primes.
Of love and dreams to share.
You know, as I travel the country this holiday season, I've noticed one thing.
That the holiday spirit is in all of our hearts.
So please make this time of year a special time to love friends and family and
be thankful for all of your blessings.
So please make this time of year a special time to love friends and be thankful
for all of your blessings and be thankful for all of your blessings.
You know, as we could always see such spirit through the leaves.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That was beautiful.
Thank you so much.
That was beautiful.
Great pleasure to have you on the show.
Enjoy your tour this holiday season.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm coming back.
Thank you, sir.
Great job.
Beautiful voice.
And you.
What can I say?
Will Ferrell, ladies and gentlemen, right there.
Take a bow, kid.
Everybody, take a bow.
Take a bow.
Uh, what we have for you tonight is a very special treat.
It's, uh, The List tonight.
Uh, The List tonight.
Uh, Tom O'Reilly.
Uh, Top 10 Christmas Songs for 2013.
We're just now wrapping up 2013, so we have the Top 10 Christmas Songs of 2013.
And here, uh, presenting tonight's Top 10 list, a wonderful singer.
The man has sold over 25 million albums.
Please welcome Josh Groban.
Josh Groban.
Josh.
Come on up.
Hi, Josh.
How are ya?
There we go.
Hi.
How are ya?
All right.
The category, Top 10 Christmas Songs for 2013.
Let's begin now.
Here we are.
Number 10.
You see Santa Cruz.
You see Santa Cruz.
Oh, my cousin went there.
This is the kind of holiday small talk.
I can hardly bear.
Wow.
Santa Cruz.
What a lovely, what a lovely voice, isn't it, Paul?
Isn't it?
It's dulcet.
Tremendous.
It really defines it.
It's fantastic.
Are we talking about a baritone here?
I'm a high lyric baritone, yes.
Oh, that's just lovely.
I'm digging deep for these.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
Top 10 Christmas Songs 2013.
Number 9.
I skipped out on Christmas with this simple scheme.
Claimed I got an illness from drinking out of the street.
Really?
Yummy.
Number 8.
God rescue Mary Steenburgen, and regards to your husband Ted Danson.
That's just incomplete.
Here's number 7.
Noelle, noelle, noelle, noelle, my app top keyboard is useless as hell.
That was number 7.
Here we have now number 6.
City sidewalks.
Busy sidewalks.
Get the hell out of my way!
A little acting there.
I like that.
Thank you, thank you.
That was darn good.
Number 5.
Chest bumps never made much sense to me.
Really?
Really?
Okay, let's try number 4.
That jolly fat man has quite a knack for being beloved and adored.
He carries a sack filled with beer and crack.
It's Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford.
Yeah!
That's what we were waiting for.
Nice going.
Number 3.
Whose child is this?
I'll take one guess.
I'm going to say.
Frank Sinatra.
Top 10 Christmas songs in 2013.
That was number 3.
Here we are now.
Number 2.
Up on the mouse pad.
Click, click, click.
Didn't mean to tweet a photo of my...
Self.
Whoa!
Hey!
Wait a minute.
Right.
That's embarrassing.
All right.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Number 1.
Christmas song, 2013.
Illinois State's oldest burg
Measures 50 miles square
Birthplace of Dan Vogelberg
Penicillin was discovered there
The Aria.
Hi, Josh.
How are you?
Great job.
Thank you very much.
How are you?
Same to you.
Thank you so much.
Top 10 Christmas songs in 2013.
Happy Holidays, Josh.
Happy Holidays, Josh.
Good to see you anytime, my friend.
We'll be right back with Emma Thompson, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you very much.

Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell Sing Christmas Carols | David Letterman

uh how how many years have we done this paul many many the christmas uh
tradition oh well
you know because of your kindness it's been many it's been over 10 years 10 15
years we've done it
every year yeah you seem a little vague on this well i'm not exactly sure but i
just know it's a
long long i mean who knows how long we've been singing good king wenceslas
years you know and
this as well yeah paul does uh it's a musical uh remembrance it's a fond
remembrance something
that's very near and dear to paul's heart uh very closely associated with the
holidays yes it's a
holiday remembrance if i may and if i may take you back to the 70s when share
had her own network
series that's right the share show a variety show this is something we remember
every year
she had a lot of fun it was a comedy variety show she sang she danced did a lot
of comedy on this
particular episode william conrad was the guest he had a show called canon at
the time and they had a
lot of fun cutting up with christmas crazy things she did that old lady show in
the regular she did
her christmas episode christmas show of the share show uh-huh and at the end of
it uh it was time
for a very reverent moment and she was going to sing serious now because it had
a lot of cutting up
and fun but this was the respect and the reverence shown for a great christmas
all kidding aside yeah
all kidding aside share is going to do oh holy night right her rendition of it
and it was beautiful
it was very calm and the lighting was low and she was under a street lamp it
was snowing her hands
were in a muff i'm sorry her hands were in a muff you know which is a fur thing
a fur thing did you know share had the number one record of the of the year
last year i didn't
realize it yes but this takes you back farther beyond that back to the
beginning of time when
she had her own show and this was her christmas show it was time for her her
hands were in a muff
paul we're running out of tape and she's about to sing oh holy night and it
sounded oh holy night
here we go oh holy night yeah paul schaefer as share singing oh holy night late
show tradition
hands were in a muff yeah
thank you and uh jamie fox is here and uh andy kindler is here and it's gonna
honest to god do you hear that paul i thought you hear something yeah it sounds
lovely is that
it's like carolers or something carolers outside oh my god right outside the
door did you know anything
about this no i know it's not my uh bill dominic i think go out there and see
if those are carolers
it sure as hell sounds like carolers go out and see what you can do oh this
would be unbelievable
all right well that's what i had in the morning
thanks boys
that's clam dip
how are you oh great excellent thank you very much really good having a great
christmas
i love the whole holiday season are you out of breath what are you what's going
on are you all
right yeah i'm fine i just love uh i love hanging out on the holidays and you
get like a little like
something in your uh huh i get to go out and visit the family are you all right
honestly oh really
you're noticing something yeah yeah well it's just this no i guess i get so
excited yeah christmas
then i uh i decided to uh yeah to open one of my presents a little early today
oh you opened a
present i did this it's this abdominizer thing wow
i'm working out while we're talking i see is that uncomfortable at all yeah it's
a touch yeah it's
shocking at first you have to get used to it but it just totally works you out
it's amazing yeah
whoo and how long how long you leave that right up yeah career getting a total
crying getting this
thing will work you all day it's fantastic you can be on the subway you're
gonna be christmas shopping
you know you can you're working out while people are watching you yeah it's
fantastic yeah
and you leave it on 24 hours
you can leave it on anytime yeah and you can literally be wearing this anywhere
you go
it's fantastic it's a it's a little unpleasant to watch i'm gonna have those
washboard abs
oh my god
thank you wow
but you said it's a tremendous workout that's incredible yeah see i love it i
love the whole
christmas season i get so excited about little stupid things like this you know
no uh i guess that
was true when you were a kid right you know i had such an incredible
imagination when i was a kid i
was like i was so nuts around christmas time i had i dreamed up all kinds of
things i remember actually
thinking that i had seen santa claus i got so freaked out because the song says
sees you when
you're sleeping knows when you're awake he knows everything about you he can
get into your computer he
has the right it's the whole thing and uh and so i got all paranoid and i was
up i couldn't get to
sleep and i was freaking out i saw i looked out the window i saw santa claus
and the sleighs
going across the sky to an apartment building across the way and uh oh that's
tight now
yeah um and uh you didn't have to go to the gym or anything yeah and uh so
anyway so i freaked out
and i ran out to the living room to see my parents i was i knew that i had
blown it i was awake and i
heard this clang clang clang clang clang and uh i walked out there there was
this go-kart that i
wanted so badly it was in pieces all over the living room floor my parents were
sitting there having
a cigarette and my dad said well son santa knew that you were up so he left he
was putting it
together and so he took off and i freaked out completely i lost my mind it was
all i wanted in the
world was this go-kart and you know what i'm driving now dave mercedes slr oh
made by mclaren wow see i
took lemons and made lemonade right you know i guess that's the point of the
story that i'm trying to
is you're never you never should worry in the moment that's right and now i'm
driving this
funky car man you drive it like this it's like this
like this and you get out of it like this
so it all turned out good i can i can see now why you would need the incredible
abs
to drive that car very very active and yeah there's a very small wedge to fit
your body into
uh dear dave i was just wondering uh what you were going to ask snata clause
for for christoms
let me go back over this dear dave what are you going to ask snata clause for
for christams
this is from christy in siler city north carolina well that's a pretty good
letter christy and you know
speaking of christy speaking of christmas christy have i got a gift for you
ladies
gentlemen please welcome the late show carolers kids
the late show carolers are brought to you by webster's dictionary who remind
you to proofread your
letters to cbs mailbag because nobody wants to look like an illiterate goon on
national television
back to you thanks kid now uh continuing now with the christmas if you don't
mind do you do you uh
by way of celebrating do you and you have a wonderful uh voice um do you sing
do you carol
do you ever do any of that the christmas you come on to all your guests like
this i don't
i don't consider it to be out like that come on really i just thought it would
you know i love singing christmas songs that's the truth see that's what i was
getting here caroling one of
my favorite things because they just they open the door and they go get out of
here oh my god yeah
yeah now uh if i do like singing christmas i'm thinking about putting an album
together a christmas
album yeah yeah christmas songs i think because there aren't enough of those i
think there's a
shortage of them for christmas songs compilations by his famous stars you know
and uh so uh one of the
cuts is uh this is it's just the traditional christmas songs but it's sung by
me so one of the cuts goes uh
here comes santa claus here comes santa claus right down santa claus arena i'll
be sinning with sinning on
he's a ring there's a hurry on with a ring but that's nice
gonna be a big hit huge you're sitting on a gold mine yeah but now that's that's
elvis
well no it's me though well i know i know i know it's you but you're doing elvis
yeah but no no no
but but it's not elvis it's me so when people go to the store and they you know
maybe they their elvis
is sold out or whatever they can buy my my album right you probably think
everybody sounds like elvis
well but strictly speaking if there had been no elvis you wouldn't be singing
like that well i don't
know i don't know if there isn't sure are all the songs done like elvis no well
no well i don't know
you might think so it might cross my mind there's another one one of my
favorites uh just nuts roasting
out of the open pie jack frost nipping at your lips
like that that's that's beautiful but
that's not elvis no that's not elvis it says johnny mathis
no that's how i sound when i sing
man you're tough to please
well merry christmas well merry christmas to you because it's the holidays i
was told earlier today
that our announcer alan calter has a special musical treat for us tonight is
that right
alan absolutely tell the folks what you're going to do be glad to yeah the
holiday spirit is contagious
this time of year so my brother rick and i put a little something together to
pay tribute to the
famous bing crosby and david bowie duet that we all know and love oh my god
Our newborn king to see, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum.
Come, peace, hotter can it be, our years from now perhaps we'll see.
See the day of glory. See the day when men of goodwill, rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum,
rum-pum-pum-pum, live in peace again.
Ah, mighty.
Thanks, Alan. Nice job.
Happy holidays, Dave.
Same to you.
Well, I could watch that all night and there for a second I thought we were
going to.
We were, yeah.
And as I mentioned earlier, you're doing a lot of traveling.
Yeah.
And that's sort of what we're talking about here.
It's another really a full-time project.
Tell people what this is and what you're going to do for us.
Oh, oh, well, yeah.
In addition to all the promoting I've been doing for the movie, I've also been
traveling with the Vienna Boys Choir.
And I've been performing with them throughout the country.
It's one of my entertainment bucket lists I've been able to do.
So this is something you've wanted to do for a long, long time?
For as long as I can remember.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And as a child, did you sing yourself?
Uh, nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Didn't start singing until the last six months.
Yeah.
So it's a little scary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you go around to large venues and communities?
Large venues and communities.
We do three-hour shows.
Three hours?
Three hours, yeah.
We're out there.
We're like the Bruce Springsteen of choral groups.
You leave everything on the stage.
You leave everything out on the stage.
Yeah, sure.
It might be hard on the kids, maybe, but they still...
We don't really care.
Yeah.
But this is one of the numbers.
Oh, this is from the show.
We'd like to do one of the numbers.
Oh, great.
Well, thank you very much, and happy holidays to you and your family.
Thank you, David.
Will Ferrell now, ladies and gentlemen.
The Vienna Boys Choir.
Christmas time is here.
Christmas time is here.
Happiness and cheer.
Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year.
Snowflakes in the air.
Snowflakes in the air.
Heroes everywhere.
Olden times and ancient primes.
Of love and dreams to share.
You know, as I travel the country this holiday season, I've noticed one thing.
That the holiday spirit is in all of our hearts.
So please make this time of year a special time to love friends and family and
be thankful for all of your blessings.
So please make this time of year a special time to love friends and be thankful
for all of your blessings and be thankful for all of your blessings.
You know, as we could always see such spirit through the leaves.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That was beautiful.
Thank you so much.
That was beautiful.
Great pleasure to have you on the show.
Enjoy your tour this holiday season.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm co