Name: Dave's Sheepherding Challenge | Letterman
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave's Sheepherding Challenge | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave's Sheepherding Challenge | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-27. Transcript available.

our first guest tonight is the owner of the 1989 winner of the purina award for
outstanding field
trial herding dog that's right ladies and gentlemen please welcome tom wilson
and his border collies
come on in hi hi tom nice to see you how are you thanks for being here
he's uh where are you from i'm originally from scotland but i live in virginia
now all right
and you train these animals yes and you work with them and these are these are
actual working
dogs who would look after sheep and other livestock or just sheep cows sheep
anything okay and they're
border collies and this is a family of colleagues don't you well they've got
the son and the daughter
and the here's the dad right here right his name is roy yeah he's the purina
champion that's the champion
right there okay how old is roy six-year-old nice to see you roy and and who is
this one right here
that's the daughter no son ben and this is molly molly and these animals are
trained to communicate
with you by what method um both voice and whistle yeah so they respond now they
have their own
individual signals right yes yeah yeah and what are they going to do for us
tonight well we're going
to try and take these hey no early starts come here hey wait a minute right did
you signal him no roy get
back here roy all right it looks like the sheep are enjoying candy all right
now um
uh and they'll they'll herd the sheep and what will they do tonight well we're
going to try and take
them out that pen and along a corridor and into an elevator into an elevator so
i believe okay now do
you need us to be really quiet for this no okay they won't be distracted by
anything i don't think
so and they enjoy doing this these dogs yes much so do they make really good
pets or not well i think
they could but uh they like to work better would it would it be easier if you
just taught the signals
to the sheep and kind of eliminated okay uh we saw this in rehearsal this is
just amazing now they
they won't fight there's no chance that one of these dogs will wrestle this
thing down and
have mutton is there anything could happen anything could happen okay here we
go all right are you all
set yeah i think so okay here's tom wilson and his uh champion dogs you have
roy of course and roy and ben
yes and molly yeah okay here we go walk up right here they go stand there molly
walk up stand there ben
walk up stand stand ben ben walk up watch it one of them's got a gun
these sheep are getting worried they sense a kidnapping another one of those
patty
hearse deals look out here they go oh stand stand ben here we go
walk up walk up walk up walk up walk up walk up walk up walk up walk up take
him down to the nightly news
stand stand here we go here we go there's get him elevator
walk up yeah yeah and don't come back
okay we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna see a replay of that here are the last
few minutes of uh
your dogs at work there they go they're going up to the commissary for some
coffee and bingo boy that
worked worked worked pretty good didn't it very impressive congratulations you've
got some beautiful
dogs thank you for being here
okay okay
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Thank you.