{"id":28952,"date":"2013-08-31T06:17:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28952"},"modified":"2016-10-27T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:26:05","slug":"david-letterman-first-monologue-first-showfebruary-1-1982-late-night-prem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28952","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman&#8230;First Monologue, First Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/David-Letterman...First-Monologue-First-Show-February-1-1982-Late-Night-prem\" \/><\/a><br \/>David Letterman&#8230;First Monologue, First Show<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 1982, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry &#8220;Bud&#8221; Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff&#8217;s Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers \u2013 the peacock girls. After a brief monologue, the very first comedy segment was a sarcastic tour of the studio. The first guest was Bill Murray and here is that historic segment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZNplNAjlEz8\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZNplNAjlEz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Old Late Night - Part 1 of 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNplNAjlEz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Monologue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/563522720351948\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Letterman&#8230;First Monologue, First Show February 1, 1982, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry &#8220;Bud&#8221; Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff&#8217;s Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers \u2013 the peacock girls. After a brief monologue, the very first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}