David Letterman

And the big business was Cloris was so upset with somebody that she threw her bridal bouquet and it hit, it hit to him in the right of the face.

And it was, Oh, Cloris.

And he went running out of the rehearsal.

Uh, it was a high drama.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

But he was very, very funny.

Yeah, that was a good experience because it confirmed everything I knew about myself, which was I have a very low threshold of embarrassment.

Very low.

And every Wednesday they would bring in the choreographer and that threshold would get lower and lower and lower.

And there would be professional dancers and it would be the cast of which I was a member.

And we...

had to, I can't even say it.

I would watch everybody in the room dance.

I couldn't even muster that I would have to be hooked up to a car battery to make that movement.

Uh, and so we did 10 shows and then I just had to get out.

I, I, they changed the format.

The show was not successful and I just excused myself.

They're the backbone of network television, that and half-hour situation comedies, but boy, you were in for something with those one-hour variety shows.

Yeah.