Name: Toots Thielemans Collection on Letterman, 1982-85 Upgrade
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Toots Thielemans Collection on Letterman, 1982-85 Upgrade' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-10-07. Transcript available.

Toots Thielemans Collection on Letterman, 1982-85 Upgrade

Welcome back, folks. I think you're going to enjoy this. My next guest is a
widely respected jazz musician and composer who has played with Benny Goodman,
Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, among others. Besides this, his work is known to
millions of people who never go to jazz clubs or concerts. We'll talk about
that a little bit later. Please welcome now, Mr. Toots Thielmans.
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Very nice.
Now, you've worked with Paul and these gentlemen before, haven't you?
I've worked with Paul and these gentlemen.
I've worked with Paul and these gentlemen several times, yes.
Where about?
Oh, last memory I have of, excuse my Belgian accent.
Certainly.
When I'm...
The Paul Simon special.
That was when I really played with the four guys together.
And you also work together on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon?
Yes, that was six years ago.
I mentioned in the introduction that people who may not be jazz aficionados or
whatever,
would recognize some of your other work.
Well, I'm the man behind many scenes, I guess.
All right.
Well, let's start getting through some of these.
What about the old...
I tried to dance, but I had a stroke eight months ago.
So it's not...
But I'll get back to your comedian friend any time.
Okay.
So give us something of what people would recognize from your other areas.
Well, what else do we do?
One, two, three, four.
three, four.
In addition to playing this and many other instruments, you whistle.
Yes.
Can we have a sample of your whistling?
Is that you on the commercial?
Yeah.
Well, they forgot it.
You forgot the song?
No.
Oh, no, they didn't forget.
No, of course not.
And then other things that we would remember.
Oh.
The song I wrote?
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Tell them what this is.
We're going to pause for a commercial.
We'll be right back with more of our Cliff Spielman.
Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
Welcome back to the show.
We're done here.
I want to thank the city audience, Mr. Tuts Thielmans.
Thank you.
Tuts, you're going to play the theme from Midnight Cowboy as we leave?
Thank you, sir.
Jessica Savage, Richard Belzer, Paul Schaefer, and the band Bill Wendler are
announcer.
Tomorrow night, Meat Loaf will be here, and another film from my dog, Bob.
Thank you, folks.
Good night.
Good night.
Good night.
That's fine, yeah.
That's probably all you need, you know?
Yeah, that's fine.
That's great.
That's it, Paul.
The scene is in New York, in a studio belonging to one of America's three major
networks, NBC.
Being rehearsed on the set is the famous David Letterman show, one of the great
evening shows
on television.
And the star guest tonight is a hearty, lively little Belgian carrying his 60
years like a
man half his age.
Jean-Baptiste Tuts Thielmann, guitarist, harmonica player, and whistler.
Yes, whistler.
A jazz musician, and in fact, a great musician all round.
Yet to be on David Letterman's show is not the fulfillment of his career, just
another confirmation
which he greets with genuine joy and a sort of naive wonder at everyone else's
interest in him.
Toots is the curious nickname he adopted, or was given, in the general exhilaration
of the
post-war years, a time when you just could not go by the name of Jean-Baptiste
if you wanted
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Thank you very much Paul.
My next guest is a respected jazz performer and composer.
Whose work is also known to millions of people who are not jazz fans.
We'll talk about that later.
And ladies and gentlemen.
Please welcome back Mr. Toots Thielmans.
Toots.
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