That Was a Fantastic Final Montage on Letterman's Last Show Last Night (VIDEO)
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A bit like being whipped through my adulthood memories.
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And I'd love if you could find it, am sure I missed quite a few... 
And I hadn't known about that, that they'd actually cancelled their tour, just that Dave and Dave were friends. What a perfect send off! And all the memories... 
Made me cry all over again.
So many faces from the past! Brother Theodore and Harvey Pekar! Mujibur and Sirajul! However, I didn't see the giant doorknob ("it's just plain big!"
though...
I grew up with Dave.
I was 14 and at our camp on Cayuga Lake (NY) during the summer of '80. I was still a bit young for Mom to let me stay in town, Auburn (@ 14, all you want to do is be with your friends, and Mom, thinking I'd be more likely to stay out of trouble at camp than in town, made me stay there), and, in my loneliness, found a new friend... Dave on his original morning show. Short-lived, but it meant a lot to me at the time.
Fast forward to 1983. Already a huge Dave fan whose schoolwork suffered because of staying awake until 1:30a on weeknights, I'd broken up with my high school girlfriend and was very depressed about it. So much so that it was the first time in my life that I ever contemplated suicide. And, then Dave came on. I laughed... hard, and it pulled me back from the edge. I got over it, and Dave helped me do it.
Fast forward to 1994. On one of my first long trips for the company I still work for, I was in NYC (Queens) on a service call and, afterwards, I drove into Manhattan and bee-lined to the Ed Sullivan Theatre to see if I could snag a stand-by ticket. Came up empty-handed, ticket-wise, but I hung out outside the doors on W 53rd St and, during the taping, all of a sudden, out of the "Bill Murray Doors" burst Dave, to the surprise to everyone! I was like 10 feet away from him! Apparently, the bit he was taping required him to leave the theatre and go out onto the streets of Manhattan. The bit was a few minutes long, but he was only outside for about 10 seconds. Later, I was in front of the EST on a payphone - called my Mom to tell her where I was when Mujibur (or Sirajul, could never tell them apart ) came out of his store (their store was next door to Angelo's - my SO's and my favorite restaurant in midtown ) - I waved him over and asked him to say hi to my Mom... and he DID! She was also a Letterman fan and was tickled pink by it! Before I left, I walked back down W 53rd and, out of the theatre walked Biff (without headphones). I walked over and shook his hand and called him "Stage Manager Extraordinaire" - he laughed!
Ultimately, I did get tickets to see live tapings - in 2003 and 2008. Being in that theatre is an experience (given the Ed Sullivan and Dave history)!
Just a few of many Dave memories for me.
I'd almost forgotten how much of it had Dave memories tied to it.
Talking to Meg was one of his last "bits" on Late Night (before going over to CBS). 
This is hitting me harder than I anticipated...
K&R.
