Name: How Much Gas Is In Smokin' Joe Frazier's Car? | Letterman
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Much Gas Is In Smokin' Joe Frazier's Car? | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Much Gas Is In Smokin' Joe Frazier's Car? | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-06. Transcript available.

i'm very excited we're going to do this is the uh the first time we're starting
a brand new feature
on the program and this is now this takes a little bit of explaining but uh
just take it
for me i'm terribly excited about this and i think you folks will be as well
tonight begins a segment we call find out how much gas joe frazier has in his
car
all right okay fine now of course as you know joe frazier or as we call him
here smoking joe frazier
was the world heavyweight champion from 1968 to 1973 27 wins by knockout five
wins by decision one
draw three losses and one loss by decision 1964 olympic heavyweight gold medalist
elected to
boxing's hall of fame in 1980 and tonight ladies and gentlemen we're going to
kick off this is the
premiere installment of find out how much gas joe frazier has in his car i know
i can i can sense
the collective puzzlement on the part of the audience but trust me you'll grow
to know and love this
all right we're going to call joe at home all right dialing music poll
okay smoking joe frazier we'll find out how much gas he has in his car i can
hardly wait
boy i got a crown coming loose i gotta have fixed it's very annoying good
afternoon smoking joe
frazier's office smoking joe frazier's office yes hi who am i talking to this
is marla hi marla how
are you i'm fine thank you how are you good my name is dave letterman we're phoning
from new york
new york the town so nice they named it twice uh and and marla where are you i
am in the office right
now i see but geographically where in the office i mean where where is that you're
in philadelphia
yes okay you're getting a big hand here uh marla that's great how long have you
been with the smoking
joe not very long almost a month now does he does he want you to call him
smoking joe well uh yes well
i choose to call him that he doesn't mind let him call him smoke or joe or mr
frazier but everyone's
pretty much informal around here so smoking joe and mr frazier are interchangeable
yes they are
now is it smoking or smoking no no g just s-m-o-k-i-n apostrophe so it is it's
smoking okay good
all right marla is is a smoking there now yes he is all right put him on for a
moment thank you very
much marla okay you're welcome ladies and gentlemen the next voice you hear
will be that of smoking
joe frazier former world heavyweight champion we'll find out how much gas he
has in his car
yeah so anyway two years ago i had this crown put in and it was it was fine
until uh like a week ago
it started to get loose and i thought it was a filling coming loose it's the
whole damn crown
crowns aren't supposed to come out are they they're supposed to be permanent it's
like a lifetime
application unless you eat taffy or no wait a minute hello hey hey how you been
good is this smoking joe
frazier yeah you got me this is dave letterman uh joe good how are you doing
uh by the way uh joe if you're smart you'll fire marla
no never mind listen uh joe you know what we're gonna do we want to know how
much well i'll get to
that in a minute what kind of car do you have joe i got a mercedes i got a cadillac
i gotta
keep on going
you have a lot of cars yes sir but one of them is a cadillac is it a convertible
uh no yeah we have a 70
convertible we have a uh 76 mercedes do you have any low mileage uh one owner
wagons that i might uh
no no all my cars got a lot of mileage because i don't fly but so much so you
do a lot of driving
yes sir did you do a lot of driving this weekend uh yeah i just left new york
last night okay so now uh
uh uh uh and and what when was the last time you got gas in the cadillac uh i
filled it in new york uh
this morning this morning did you fill it up yes sir okay and have you driven
it since you filled it
up all the way from new york okay here we go joe tell us now how much gas do
you have in the tank of
the caddy uh no mercedes huh joe did you hear about that guy who was flying to
north carolina yeah it
didn't make it yeah it went right to sleep okay so it's the mercedes the mercedes
yeah that's over
this morning oh okay so so from now on just pretend the mercedes is the cadillac
because we get the
artwork all printed up and stuff oh yeah yeah and it's a cadillac okay okay so
how much joe how much gas
do you have in the tank of the caddy okay it should be full by now okay so here
it is
what it's full this is how much gas joe has in his tank was he it's full was he
filling it as he was
speaking i don't know i don't know but see you see how much fun that's gonna be
after nine or ten months
we're gonna do this every damn night we're gonna find out every night how how
full his tank is that's
right in the caddy or the mercedes we don't know it don't make any difference
in the riding mower we
have no idea what joe's doing gotta do a commercial okay we'll do the
commercial we'll be right back here
with rob reiner