I spent this last week watching every Opening Remark from 1982, looking for a specific joke. Never found it, but I'm surprised this moment made it to air. From 11-16-82.pic.twitter.com/jIo6038hKF
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Late Night was developed in conjunction with Carson so as not to make it too similar to Tonight. The edict came down from Dave Tebet that there should be no "traditional" monologue. So early on, they really were more like "remarks" than traditional monologue jokes.
They were told no more than 3 jokes. For most of the first year, Dave would tell only one, maybe two.
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Yeah. It was a minor thing. The at the desk first segment stuff became the main thing there.
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And no sidekick. Yet, for a few weeks in 1984, for some unexplained reason, Paul would sit down at homebase and engage with Dave. Maybe to mock that particular edict. Who knows.
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