Oh really? Well that’s funny because I remember thinking at the time that Dave was maybe not happy. I came up with a line, didn’t tell anybody about it, and just said it when we were taping. He’s asking me a question so I should have an answer.” So I came up with the answer, “All my friends have it.” I thought of running it by the Stangels and Rothman, but I was afraid somebody would say, “Don’t do it.” And I was like, “Fuck it! I want to play.” That was the extent to which I was involved in the writing. In between that rehearsal and the taping I thought, “If he says that line again in the taping, I should have an answer. He ad-libbed the line when the phone rings and I say, “Oh that must be her,” and Dave goes, “Does she have that number?” That was his ad-lib, and everybody laughed because it was commenting on the ridiculousness of the premise.Īt the end of the rehearsal, I run into the wings as scripted and that’s it for my interaction with Dave. The way that happened was, I got there to rehearse, and because the bit starts with me in the wings and ends with me in the wings, the way we rehearsed it - nobody introduced me to Dave or anything, there was no chit chat with Dave - we just started the rehearsal with me in the wings. No, I was just there to act out the bit, but I am responsible for that one line in it. When you came on board, were you involved in the writing process or were you just there to act out the bit? I have a chance to work with David Letterman! I gotta do it.” They were understanding. And I had to call Conan’s cast director and say, “Hey, listen. As a matter of fact, I had said that I would do a Conan bit that day, the same day as Letterman. That’s how that came about.ĭid this Letterman bit come before or after Conan? I’d known both of those guys, so a few months after the Stangel brothers got there, I got a call that Rodney and Justin had collaborated on this viewer mail bit that they wanted me to do. I think they’re still affiliated with the show in some way. Rodney eventually became head writer and has gone on to all kinds of things, and the Stangel brothers were head writers for years. Then Justin and Eric got hired onto Letterman as writers. There was another guy in that orbit named Rodney Rothman, and Rodney got hired onto Letterman as a writer. When I first moved to New York, I got involved with a company called “Chicago City Limits” doing short-form improv, and some of those people were doing a sketch comedy show down in the West Village organized by Justin and Eric Stangel. You had done bits on Late Night with Conan O’Brien around the same time. We even got him to spoil the ongoing #FindForrest campaign for Review‘s second season on Comedy Central. Daly was nice enough to chat with us about the sketch and how it came about, as well as his longtime fandom for all things Letterman.
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