See David Letterman’s surprise appearance at ‘The Tonight Show’

David Letterman was famously denied the chance to take over The Tonight Show When Johnny Carson retired in 1992, but he went to the show 33 years later Monday night as he crashed the stage midway through Jimmy Fallon’s opening monologue. “Oh my God, David Letterman!” Fallon said in Mock Surprise. “What are you doing here?”

“Is this the 23rd hour of The Today Show? “Letterman asked Fallon. “Jimmy?!”

Then he turned to Paul Shaffer, who served as guest musician with former members of CBS Orchestra, and asked what he was doing there. “It’s a funny story,” Shaffer said. “Have you ever taken too much ambien and you run somewhere and have no idea how you got there?”

In fact, Shafter and the band filled to the roots as they were preparing for the massive Saturday Night Live Anniversary event in Radio City Music Hall. “Paul and I used to make a show almost exactly like this,” Letterman told Fallon. “We didn’t do Chuck E. Cheese -Crap, but it’s very similar.”

Letterman then rejected the chance to tell some jokes after struggling through the cue cards, and instead agreed to film a tortilla challenge Tiktok video that involved repeatedly slammed Fallon in the face with tortillas. “I’m not promoting violence,” Letterman said. “This is just a Tiktok thing.”

The surreal LETTERMAN look lasted only four minutes. Two years ago they spent significantly more time together when Letterman appeared Strike Force FiveA limited podcast series that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver hosted under Writer’s Guide of America Strike. This gave Colbert an opportunity to finally talk about the awkward period when CBS Head Les Moonves first approached him to take over Letterman’s job at CBS.

“He starts talking about how he likes (Colbert report), and they think of 11:30 and what they want to do after you, ”Colbert told Letterman. “I said, ‘I just have to stop right here and say it’s nice, you want to talk to me. This was never in the plan for me. But if we really want this conversation, I have to know that Dave knows about it. I can’t have this conversation if Dave doesn’t know these conversations are going on. ” ‘

Letterman shared his side of the story. “I wanted conversations with Les from time to time about how much longer I would be on the network, but they were always general,” Letterman said. “I don’t remember ever talking to him about ‘Start the search, start talking to people.’ I’m sure that part didn’t happen. He probably derived from our general conversations. “

Letterman has been busy since going away from Duties in the evening of 2015, especially in its Netflix series, My next guest does not need no introduction, with David Letterman. His latest guests were Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley.