Friday Morning Videos: CABIN BOY
November 7th, 2008 at 09:57am Will Pfeifer
And now, for no reason other that it always cracks me up, here’s David Letterman’s scene from the movie CABIN BOY, where he gets to interact with his old LATE NIGHT buddy, Chris Elliot. Enjoy!
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Incidentally, can anyone name — without looking it up on the all-knowing Internet — the other movie Letterman was in? To give you a few hints, it was a 1990s comedy, Letterman didn’t actually “appear” on camera and he performed under another name.Â
8 Comments Add your own
1. hokumboy | November 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Ahhhhh Yessss,
“Product Placement”
The ghosts of Nelson Knitting would be proud!
2. LD | November 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
As a high schooler, I remember repeating the “hey kid, you wanna buy a monkey line” ad nauseum.
Yes I’m a dork.
3. Mack | November 7th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I believe the other movie you are referring to is BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA. Letterman’s cameo is pretty damned amusing.
4. Will Pfeifer | November 7th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Well played, Mack. He was a big B&B fan, and lent his voice to the film. He was billed in the credits as Earl Hofert, which is apparently his uncle’s name.
5. echo4charlie | November 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Chris Elliot has always made me laugh. I never missed one episode of “Get A Life”.
6. John N | November 9th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Reminds me of when Dave hosted the Oscars (which I thought he did a terrific job at). He played the scene where he asks Chris to buy the monkey, but then played “audition scenes’ of other actors that supposedly tried out for the part. I remember Paul Newman being one of them. Hilarious stuff.
7. Jerry | November 9th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hey John,
That great Oscars bit is on YouTube here.
(The decade+ VHS grade quality tape it was encoded from is not great however…)
8. Brian M | November 10th, 2008 at 10:01 am
for some reason I always have a vivid recollection of Newman on Dave’s very first episode of The Late Show on CBS:
“Where the hell are the singing cats?!”
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