Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993)

David Letterman: Self - Host, Self

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• David Letterman - Host : [speaking via megaphone]  I'm not wearing pants!

• Rik Mayall : [about the trouble they had with puritanical BBC bosses when making The Young Ones]  The best case in point was when my girlfriend at the time, Lise Mayer, wrote this great scene where I find a tampon in a handbag and it's my birthday party and I think it's a present because my character is Rick, who is such a git, he didn't know. Right? Didn't know what it was. He'd go "Oh, you've brought me a present! Oh, how nice!" And he opened it up, "Oh, it's a telescope! It's a telescope with a little mousey in it!"

  [he mimes making it crawl up his arm] 

  Rik Mayall : "Tum-tee-tum-tee-tum-tee-tum!" We'd put it in the red wine and it's just disgusting.

  [laughter and groaning from the audience. Letterman cringes and squirms, possibly thinking that his own network bosses won't like this either] 

  Rik Mayall : Yeah, but we had the edge on that though, we had the edge because they said "No, you can't do that!" and we said "Yes, we can because it was written by a feminist! Ha-hah!" So they had to let in, you see. "Oh, mustn't be feminist no, no, no."

  David Letterman : Hard to believe they only made a dozen, isn't it, ladies and gentlemen?