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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Geena Davis Reveals Her See-Through Dress | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-06. Transcript available.

our first guest is an academy award-winning actress she stars in her own brand
new television
program on a another network of course another network but you can see it uh
october 10th here
is the lovely the leggy gina davis looks terrific thank you as always you look
wonderful thank you
i think the uh i saw you on television uh when you were on the emmy award show
and boy you had
this dress on well you remember the dress you had on or a dress you almost had
on and the thing was
uh uh transparent you could see right through it dave i'm shocked that you
bring that up shocked
i can't believe it you know you know what it was i'll tell you dave that what
it was is the night
but i've never been to the emmys before i find that hard to believe i never had
no no way you've been
to before not to the emmys no oscars i know well you're an academy award winner
for god's sakes oh
please but the thing was i i was a little nervous about going and i had a
nightmare the night before
that i went out on stage uh in my underwear and i just wanted to make sure that
that did not happen
do you mind if i show this no by all means no i'm right you can see right
through this
i mean it's lovely and you certainly look lovely in in the dress but boy oh boy
now is that is that
an expensive item um yeah now do you own it or you just bought it from evening
and then took it back or
you probably can't take these back no i tried to do that and then seen that i
wore it but everybody
went crazy did people go nuts about this you get a lot of calls about that
dress yeah yeah i did i did
you know what i i i learned um that actually i was the victim of a plot you're
right you might be
shocked here but it's another insidious plot i know you've been following the
campaign and everything
but uh and i'm a big um supporter of of uh gore of course and um that was
actually uh a subliminal ad
for bush
those republicans what will they not do i'm i'm a victim subliminal mold it was
a limitable would it
have killed you to wear it tonight huh well enough about that enough about that
you must have been
watching the olympics because i don't know if people understand this about you
but a couple of
two and a half years ago you started to competitively taking up bow and arrow
archery three and a half
yeah three and a half and you're ranked like 13th in the in the united states
or something yeah had a
shot at getting on the united states archery team well yeah i made it to the uh
to the trials last
did the whole thing begin just as kind of like a fun thing as a hobby as kind
of a goofer where you
one day you woke up and you said this is it by god now i'm now i'm going
someplace yeah i
i was thinking what can i do with my life what can i still take up at my age
and get in the olympics
right and uh archery yeah so and now and people must say to you jesus too bad
you were on the olympic
team but but i'm guessing you you think well no it's not too bad but i mean i'm
having plenty of fun
anyway no they do that that's pretty hilarious that a lot of people recently
have said you must
be really disappointed that you're not there but at you know at the time that i
tried out i'd been
doing it just a little over two years and i think the chances of making the
team were pretty uh pretty
slim you haven't been doing this since you were three years old you're not a
dedicated young olympian
exactly right it would have been fine but it just didn't yeah now now what
events are there it's
it's uh this one i know this one and what other one do you have there's not
much else you do with
with a bow and arrow uh is it is it mostly targets yeah they don't they don't
hunt in the olympics
they don't turn a couple of guys loose all right let them go wow that'd be
something
what pound what pound bow do you use what's what's the tension on that thing 36
36 now that's a lot
isn't it well it's it's pretty average but you know over the course of a day
that's a lot and do
they have these amazing new laser sight devices that no it's not not for
competition not allowed in the
olympics and i know i've done it just fooling around when i was a kid and you
let it go and you
always get your uh you get it hurts like it just goes i mean the string wax
across it yeah very
painful yeah protective equipment i'll bet for that of course what is around
like when it when it's
time to go what do you do uh well uh you know what was interesting was that
exactly a year ago in
sydney they had test trials for all their facilities there and they invited all
the uh olympians and me
i'm not sure why to go down there and have a mock uh olympics and so i went and
it was so much fun
it was really really fun hang on right there i have to interrupt you we'll do
some things here
and then we'll come back but i want to i want to hear all about take us through
what a what an
olympic archer does all right all right now i want to hear more about the olympic
competition
or or archery competition yeah yeah i like your idea by the way about the drugs
um and the olympics
because you know what a couple of beers and the arrows you're gonna get really
more exciting and and
you can just forget about drug testing which is really the problem save a lot
of money on drug
testing you know everybody's under the influence so anyway now is there several
rounds is are there
special shoes do you have to use talc what what very special stuff you have to
use yeah no uh first
you have an uh a ranking round you shoot all day and figure out that's what you
shoot to what how many
arrows do you shoot 70 meters um 144 arrows at 70 meters how many feet of 70
meters that's like it's like
three quarters of a football field wow that's amazing yeah and the bullseye is
about that big
that's incredible and and the idea of course is to get is it consistency and
closest to the center
and and is it possible for all of your arrows you can't hit all bulls no no no
do you have your own
quiver do you use a quiver yeah but not in the back like it's on the hip you
have a guy oh on your on
your hip do i have a guy that has miss davis arrow i'm the only one it's a
little embarrassing yeah
but and i'm told now and i know very little about uh everything but i'm told
that that uh women uh
can be very they're actually better uh suited for this kind of thing than men
because of their metabolism
and their heartbeat and their blood pressure and so forth and the idea is you
you shoot between the
beat of your heart is that correct i do yeah yeah it's a very advanced skill i
just i just wait
and then i should now you're just mocking me now no no but do do women tend to
be a little
steadier at an accurate than men in this sport i don't know i thought i heard
something in the
readers digest i don't know uh and it must it must have been exciting yeah yeah
it was really fun
yeah so what they did was once you're ranked you got paired up with somebody
that you had to have a
one-on-one competition and uh what they did was you you marched into the the uh
sort of arena there and
they played like fanfare and stuff and i really was like i'm at the olympics i
was really i was
really into the fantasy um but unfortunately i was matched up with uh the um
second ranked woman in
the world um wow so she took me out yeah she took me down hard now are you
going to continue this
competitively is there a chance that you might qualify for the olympic team
next time we do it well
there's certainly a chance that i could um go to the trials again i'm going to
keep practicing
yeah yeah and and how often do you do it at your house you have a thing at your
house i have it
actually at the studio they put a target um outside the stage really yeah yeah
so tour group groups
coming by yeah yeah that's unbelievable that's unbelievable i admire this i
mean a lot of people
aren't into archery i sometimes have to flag the bus down and say hey watch but
um but uh
it's not as popular as it used to be
yeah not as big as it was in the 1600s let's talk about the uh the new show
this is just great for
you congratulations did you always want a tv show well you know i did some tv
back in the early um 80s but
it's been it's been quite a while but uh is it harder than making the feature
films or not it's it's
hard it's moved so fast as you well know and uh that's very different i mean in
movies you just
have to memorize a tiny little bit every day but um in this show it's really
challenging when i was
uh starting out in tv i did a bunch of cheesy shows like um knight rider and uh
fantasy island and
stuff yeah and uh i didn't mean to say cheesy you did say cheesy but i know
what you mean anyway uh
did you remember a show called riptide it was like on a boat yeah i think so i
was like a nymphomaniac
oceanographer on on one episode wow you'll be finding that i'm sure in your
archives well why
can't we have a show like that what's the problem there what's wrong with that
um and you had to
ride on a boat for hours to get out to the set it was just a nightmare and all
the guys had their
lines like in their coffee cups and i was like oh how unprofessional you know
but now you know i'm
i got them taped to the kids foreheads and it's because there's just so much
that you have to do
it just bang bang bang then knock the shows up yeah yeah uh we have a big party
for opening night
i thought you were gonna say did you have a big part uh uh uh yeah yeah big
party yeah it was a gina
davis show and just sort of walk through one scene and was that gina davis
right you mean the star of
the show yeah i think that was her yeah uh well i hope it's a huge success and
it's a set is it
true it's set in new york city it's set in new york so that means you probably
film it here in new
york city alas no no in l.a why don't you move it you could move it then you'd
be on the show all the
time yeah yeah that'd be fun wouldn't it yeah all right uh october 10th what
time on october 10th
9 30. tuesday 9 30 october 10th good luck to you all my best lovely gina davis
coming back with tom kavanaugh ladies and gentlemen