Staff Favorite Moments: Producer Barbara Sheehan | Letterman

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  @dongiller · 3 years ago

  Fun fact: The Mummenschanz cast were Late Night writers Gerard Mulligan (Fork) as either “Ingrid” or “Gretchen,” depending on the segment; Matt Wickline (in his recurring role as Hot Dog) as either “Helmut” or “Hans”; Sandy Frank (Spoon) as “Klaus”; and Chris Elliott (Toilet Paper) as “Gunther.”<br>Someone told me there’s a Late Night Mummenschanz collection on some loser’s YouTube channel.

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  @jazzjokesjalopies · 3 years ago

  The use of non-performers on the staff…it just worked. 😂

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  @dongiller · 3 years ago

  Fun Fact #2: The Larry Bud torch-lighting occurred on the 8th-Anniversary special, held at the L.A. Universal Amphitheater. Taped January 24, 1990, it aired at prime time on February 1. In that broadcast, Calvert ascended the steps but stopped two short of the top, then delivered his line nearly flawlessly.<br><br>In the regularly-scheduled Late Night that followed Carson that same evening (taped earlier that day), the show ended with the botched outtake that’s shown here. In this take, Calvert climbed all the way to the top, where evidently the newly-lit flame obstructed his view of the cue cards.<br><br>I’m guessing that the botched outtake came from the anniversary show’s afternoon taping, while the corrected take came from the evening taping, the solution for a better line-of-sight access to the cue cards lying in Calvert stopping two steps shy of the top, below the flame rather than behind it.

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  @qthelost · 3 years ago

  Barbara, please give us a part two. We like you. We actually like you.

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  @elizabethlarson9655 · 3 years ago

  Her deadpan delivery is really pretty wonderful.

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  @johnpelletier7641 · 3 years ago

  Barbara Sheehan is very charming, and also very talented. &nbsp; She doesn&apos;t give herself enough credit. &nbsp; So much legendary Dave stuff that you don&apos;t even remember because there were so many classic TV comedy moments.

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  @kstepko · 3 years ago

  The best part of this was when she starts giggling at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=893_lnGTsdk&amp;t=920">15:20</a> and can barely get the words out. Thank you for including that!

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  @DougD-h1f · 1 month ago

  The high quality of the early NBC staff moments is night and day from the zzzzz of his late stage CBS shows.

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  @madderred69 · 3 years ago

  Chris Elliott as Brando:”If I may be so bold”

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  @CoolButCloudy · 3 years ago

  What a treat to see Barbara Sheehan again! &nbsp;I always loved her appearances on the show.

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  @alewicke · 2 years ago

  The musicologist, at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=893_lnGTsdk&amp;t=104">1:44</a>, is David Fanshawe and the music is his &quot;African Sanctus&quot;. &nbsp;We did it in college. &nbsp;AMAZING!!

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  @dorklyasmr6017 · 3 years ago

  She is as adorable now as she was then. She was always SO uncomfortable on each segment; yet so seemingly game.

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