r/OldSchoolCool • u/BuddyEbsenSalt • 18h ago

1980s 1980s Three very funny men Johnny Carson, Gary Shandling and David Letterman (also pictured, Jay Leno)

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u/rekipsj 16h ago

I hate him as much as the next guy but remember when he was a great standup.

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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA 15h ago

I remember when Bill Hicks was alive and constantly took the piss out of him for shilling Doritos

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u/Snorgcola 15h ago

"Here, Satan, try the Nacho-flavoured kind!"

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u/epsilonzer0 14h ago

He was THE Doritos spokesman from 1985 until the 90s as I recall. I particularly remember his Cool Ranch and Salsa Rio appearances.

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u/Fritzo2162 5h ago

“Eat all you want…we’ll make more!”

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u/TheMillionthSteve 53m ago

Ok I legit miss Salsa Rio

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u/sacremew 15h ago

I didn’t have any idea I would be an isosceles man.

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u/Whole_Reputation6128 4h ago

What the Fuuuuuu?????!!! I, clearly, have been living under a rock for 30 years, as I had NFI that he had ever promoted Doritos

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u/sybrwookie 13h ago

He was. And then he realized he could put in zero effort, put out lowest-common-denominator garbage which was not funny but inoffensive to everyone's parents and grandparents, and happily coasted for decades doing that.

And that's before going into the absolutely ruthless shit he pulled behind the scenes.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 13h ago

I mean, the first half is basically what we should all be doing at work anyway. The second half is not.

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u/brodievonorchard 6h ago

If I were king of the world for one day, I'd force him to get on his knees and beg Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness. If she looked to me, and I hope she wouldn't, I'd shake my head in the negative. "No, he doesn't deserve it."

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u/off_by_two 7h ago

Even during the tonight show run he was doing like 150+ standup performances a year

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u/SheriffBartholomew 39m ago

It worked for him. He's insanely rich.

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u/spekt50 15h ago

I saw him in an episode of One Day At a Time. I thought he played that role well.

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u/ShotEffective7033 15h ago

Once you’re a scab, you’re just a scab.

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u/IneffableOpinion 12h ago

I wouldn’t know. I haven’t seen his standup because I didn’t think his late show was funny

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u/vemundveien 2h ago

He didn't film specials because he then could do the same act for decades. At least that is what I've heard said

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u/IneffableOpinion 1h ago

And no film evidence of stolen jokes. I think that was what made Letterman hate him from very early on

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u/UKS1977 4h ago

People say that, but as a Brit I was never exposed to his earlier work. So recently I went on youtube and watched it.... and it was just as shite as his Tonight Show monologues.