Anybody remember the Letterman intern from Lafayette?

You can’t give us a little more work to work with than that?

Letterman in his prime was incredible. He seems like an insufferable douche now.

Yeah, I actually watched that some time in the last 2 years doing an old 80's Letterman dive on youtube because it's still better than any late night show on right now. I think we may have talked about her on the M/TV board. He helped pay for her honeymoon with those on-screen appearances.

At around the 2:30 mark she talks about being from Louisiana and attending LSU .

I just remember the intern he was banging

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Letterman in his prime was incredible.

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Agreed .. his show was so inventive and original, i doubt we’ll see anything like it again.. he shattered all the old talk show conventions, just like the sound of glass shattering when he tossed those cards.. as a teenager in the 80s & 90s, just staying up late to watch him made you feel kinda cool, like you were part of some late night club.. i enjoyed Johnny as well, but Dave was one of a kind .

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He seems like an insufferable douche now.

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I dont know , I haven’t watched any of his new ventures.. but i did notice that when he was still doing his show, after his open heart surgery he was dramatically less funny.. this would have been in the late 90s, and the show had been on the air for almost 20 yrs, so might have become stale anyway- but i remember thinking how he so clearly had ‘lost it’ , his edge or whatever , after the heart stuff .

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He seems like an insufferable douche now.

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He had to do a serious mea culpa after getting #metooed.

Bridget went to Comeaux HS. I went to Comeaux with her younger sister Becky.

Bridget was an intern and became a staffer on LNWDL

When Bridget's younger sister Becky was up for Comeaux HS Homecoming Queen, Dave offered $5 to every student that voted for her. When she won, instead of sending the money he donated the "Prancing Fluids"

here is a write up:

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A name David Letterman gave to a fountain he had installed in front of his desk on the NBC incarnation of Late Night. Letterman had a switch behind his desk and when he flipped it, the fountain shot up several streams of water that "pranced" in time to a light show. The fountain, introduced during a viewer mail segment on March 26, 1987, was initially called "The Dancing Waters" until Letterman received a letter from "Dancing Waters Inc." informing him the name was trademarked and he was not at liberty to use it on his TV show. So, the dancing waters became the prancing fluids.

Letterman eventually donated the Prancing Fluids fountain to a high school in Lafayette, Louisiana "in lieu of cash". A Letterman staffer named Bridget Jackson had a sister (Becky) who was running for Homecoming Queen. Letterman, always eager to help staffers and their families, offered everyone in Becky's senior class $5 if Becky was voted Homecoming Queen. Becky won the title but Letterman ended up not sending the cash. Possibly he felt guilty for buying an election. So, in lieu of cash, he donated the Prancing Fluids fountain to the high school.

Although gone, the fountain does live on in reruns. However, if you ever catch pre-Prance Letterman repeats where he refers to the fountain as the dancing waters, you'll notice "not associated with Dancing Waters, Inc." flashes at the bottom of the screen.

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years later, they found the Prancing Waters in the back of an old supply closet in the main building at Comeaux High.

I remember when the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library was dedicated, in his monologue Letterman said "to commemorate the event, for an extra five dollars the hookers in Times Square will give you a Dick Nixon."

I remember her. Anyone remember Meg, the lady who worked in the building across the street? He randomly called her one night and would eventually appear on the show dozens of times.

Meg Parsont Collection on Letterman, Part 1 of 3: 1990

Meg Parsont Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 3: 1991

Meg Parsont Collection on Letterman, Part 3 of 3: 1992-93

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