Name: CBS Mailbag: The Greatest Moment In Paul Shaffer's Life | Letterman
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'CBS Mailbag: The Greatest Moment In Paul Shaffer's Life | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'CBS Mailbag: The Greatest Moment In Paul Shaffer's Life | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-18. Transcript available.

all right here's how i'm going to do it tonight paul just right here like this
yeah casual but yet poised i see casual ready to go three quarter to the camera
yeah i think
this is a good look here nice dear dave these by the way these are actual uh
letters ladies
gentlemen from actual uh viewers and you know who knows perhaps tonight we're
reading one of your
letters right 150 million people in this country we're reading four letters it's
like that power
ball thing ain't it uh dear dave i just got a new puppy what should i name him
yours through
television i like that veto richner yours through television uh veto richner i
just got a new puppy
what should i name him i guess once again it's time to bring out spencer
it's the late show intern who names animals spencer come on out
spencer we have a uh a letter here from veto richner the question is i just got
a new puppy
what should i name him so any thoughts there uh spencer taffy taffy yeah that
sounds like a good
name nice job spencer by by the way how are you enjoying your internship here
spencer taffy
spencer ladies and gentlemen the late show intern who names animals
paul how much do we pay the interns i believe they work for free that seems
about right
uh number two dear dave i was wondering if paul recommends any particular
keyboards this is a great
question and this is for paul regarding the musical equipment uh let me know if
you could michael uh paul uh
can you recommend a kid wants to know any particular type of keyboard over
there your
electronic synthesizer thing keyboard actually i have a uh i have a good story
about that oh really
yeah it was just about uh it was 1952 i was at the nebraska state fair trying
to win a prize for my girl
when a stranger in a spiffy suit tapped me on the shoulder he said he was a top
talent scout for the
new york yankees next thing i knew i was on a bus heading east to join the
legendary bronx bombers
and the new york yankees then in game seven of the world series the team needed
a healthy right hander
they called upon me the rookie
it was the greatest moment of my life heck still is and that was how i became a
true american hero
what was that pitch paul got like a split-fingered fastball or a slider or a knuckle
curve what
what was that was that your high hard one what were you throwing there let me
see what this wow
that was the girly girl yeah no no no and i noticed you played with your watch
on not a lot of players
oh no i did not play with your watch i greeted my girlfriend at the end with my
watch oh so you went
back into the clubhouse put on your watch that's what happened here's paul now
saying hello to his
girlfriend with his watch on ducked into the clubhouse quickly to put on that
watch there he is
well she threw me i'll tell you i know all right so paul anyway uh the question
uh what kind of
keyboard should this guy get yeah i use all different ones okay
uh look like you hung a slider on that one paul you know what i'm saying look
like you hung a
slider i think i think we all know how painful that can be dear date uh do
people send you a lot of free
stuff your pal paul zauzen paul zauzen milwaukee uh wisconsin milwaukee wisconsin
i'm telling you
that's the reason i'm in show business kids i love getting that free stuff come
on give it up send in
the free stuff i tell you the other day the good people at uh gillette you know
they got this brand
new razor the mock three yeah they were nice enough to send in a bunch of them
mock three razors and they
say it provides the closest cleanest shave ever so tonight to demonstrate just
how good they are those
mock three razors here's late show carpenter harold larkin harold
that's a that's a nice look with a shirt there harold where are you from trinidad
what are you doing
um okay whenever you're ready you're ready harold here we go share the new mock
three
oh yeah it feels so smooth and gentle feels like i'm not even shaving
i can't believe how well it handles precise contours to my face
i have a feeling a new era of shaving has just begun thank you gillette if you
have a product you'd like
dave to mock and misrepresent on the late show send free samples to david
letterman care of the late
show 1697 broadway new york new york new york 10019 thank you very much carol
carol you might want to put just a little styptic pencil on that just
a little yeah just to help it just to help it clot just a little styptic pencil
it'll be all right it'll be all right just keep your head between your knees
you'll be fine
uh letter number four dear dave can you program your vcr calum calum calum
column nan mahoney brisbane
australia uh very funny uh calum calum column of course uh of course i can
program uh you know the
computer videotape thing uh you know uh in fact i was able uh last weekend i
videotaped i made a copy
of that uh one time only hbo special everybody was talking about you know paul
of course yeah i was able
to tape it here take a look he's entertained audiences with his act for years
and now it's finally time to
retire it this sunday you'll have one more chance to hear all of his classic
lines before he's impeached i
do not have sexual relations with that woman bill clinton i'm lying to you for
the last time
Isabel Atika, at Central Cardinals.