Name: Dave Tries To Guess His Mom's Thanksgiving Pies, 1997 | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Tries To Guess His Mom's Thanksgiving Pies, 1997 | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-23. Transcript available.

a little bit later on the show we've done this every year for the last 15 16
years my my mother
dorothy uh you say what you will about mom she's an excellent cook and one of
the things she does
best is bake pies am i right paul and every year on the thanksgiving wherever
mom happens to be
celebrating the holiday we have a little hookup we have a camera with mom now
celebrating a
thanksgiving and i will try to psychically determine to divine to imagine to
visualize
the kind of pie that my mother has made i have not talked to her today i don't
know what she's
baking but because there is that connection yes that unspoken unseen connection
between
mother and son i will be able to identify first time out the kind of pie
exactly yes and it's a very
if you've never seen it before i mean my goodness here's an opportunity not to
see it again it's
going to be you know uh my thanks to the staff and crew here at the late show
for once again working
on a holiday we feed everybody try to do a nice job when they're celebrating
thanksgiving
away from their uh there you go yes this is a thanksgiving dinner home away
from home there's
biff henderson one of our stage managers had corn on the cob there's biff
having a little
enjoying it there's tony inky mendez our cue card man and there's biff again
look at that
tub boat of mashed potatoes kathy michael six little girl hello baby there's biff
again having some more
and then here i do what i can i dress up like a complete dork and i haven't
seen mom in weeks and
weeks and weeks and weeks and she's been you know as mom does every thanksgiving
baking her brains out
and she's got the lovely pies right there understand tonight we have two pies
and we we have mom now
live via cbs satellite and i'll try to guess the kind of pies it's pretty
exciting go ahead
turn on the old cbs satellite here we go ladies and gentlemen
wow hi mom how are you hi david happy thanksgiving hey happy thanksgiving to
you too mom i see you
there i happen to notice you're in st louis missouri yes yeah that's the
gateway city isn't it that is the
gateway city what are you doing in st louis mom we're here at granddaughter brin's
house for
thanksgiving and how do they feel about having that big sloppy tv crew in their
house all day ruining
ruining thanksgiving dinner they're they're not ruining it they're having fun
big dopey union guys
big teamsters big big truck ruts in the front lawn that kind of thing digging
holes putting up posts
bringing an ac anybody been electrocuted there yet no david no david be honest
mom it's bedlam
we've ruined their thanksgiving haven't we no you haven't everything all right
everything's perfect
why don't you introduce the folks to the folks at home i sure will all right
this is my husband hans
how you doing buddy nice to see you and please can you hold your applause till
every member of my
family has been mentioned and granddaughter brian nice to see you thank you
very much happy thanksgiving
and her husband her husband rob okay thank you well you know
all right mom um yeah so that really is not your kitchen there is it not really
no all right do me
a favor let's just take a peek in the refrigerator there and see what is going
on there if you don't
all right all right go over to the refrigerator mom's a regular martha stewart
ain't she
hey they're ready to go yes sirree
it's because the crew the crew a lot of day labor has come in there and eaten
them out of house and
home haven't they mom we have ruined their thanksgiving admit it no don't admit
it you have
not ruined our thanksgiving all right mom here's uh here's the reason as you
know uh every year you
do a lovely job baking uh delicious pies the family always eats themselves
silly uh before dinner many
of them are silly regardless you have a couple of pies in front of you is that
right that's right
all right uh anton here we go i'm now going to try to psychically divine the
kind of pie the flavor
of pile put myself into a small slight trance please while i'm under do not
approach the desk
get any little swami music paul to guess the pies here we go
all right i have it the first pie pumpkin
no pumpkin oh come on it is too what are you trying to pull oh hello
all right let me try another
the mince meat no mince meat
mom this is thanksgiving you know i ain't the fourth of july what do you got in
there
all right i'll try it again sugar cream pie sorry pecan well you're close
this one is a coconut butterscotch pecan pie no wait a minute oh oh so i get
credit for that then okay
good yes you get credit all right and the next one is um um um rhubarb
no uh-huh okay go ahead mom tell us what the pie is well it's your favorite david
oh cherry pie oh god
cherry pie
how's going mom
david now mom i'm told you have a special presentation there in the kitchen for
us what do you have yes
i made one special thing for you this year oh let's take a look
wow that's beautiful mom what is that what did you make that from it's a
stuffing head
my mom live from st louis missouri
just between you and me mom never made cherry pie for thanksgiving before she's
trying to trick me
mom's mom's got what you call media savvy oh yeah she's playing with me you
know she's jerking my chain
you know she's playing a little bit there
you