Added: 3 years ago
From: fivealex2009
Views: 178,289
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (462)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • 0:52 ''What's going on?''

  • oh my goshie gooshie he hadd a slight overbite...niice )

  • hahahah only hunter

  • Letterman seems annoyed.

  • Letterman is such a douche....

  • "it's cold behind me here, and it's hot in front of me. i wasn't sure which one would prevail" lmao epic

  • no comment. Only laughter, 1 min. 13 on.

  • I think if there is one thing you learn from hunter it should be this, DON'T GIVE A FUCK. It's hard to start but once you do, u got it fuckin made.

  • rip raoul duke

  • "let's take it from the top here and be real straight." "waHaa"

  • The useless banterings of a rhetorician hard at work, or valuable assets to a society that begs for wordsmithing? What, indeed, do we believe to be the true definition of the American Dream? Perhaps I have the answers, perhaps not. Either way, this topic is opened for discussion in my new video.

  • Its sad how the populations exploding with more people on the other side of "the system" than ever, people like Mr. Thompson are becoming increasingly rare. Also, keep in mind, the biggest tool politicians leveraged against Hunter was he that he may have been drug addled and the man want's little Thompson wanabe's to do drugs so they can fend them off easy.

  • hunter for sheriff RIP

  • David Letterman. The next best thing to China :)

  • not sure if hes high or head f'ed

  • My girlfriend always told me I talk like him. Now I see what she meant.

  • Hunter S. Thompson is a pedophile, not many people know that ...

  • @ZeroSixtyFive proof?

  • @ovechkin100 Russell "Rusty" Nelson has it.

  • @ZeroSixtyFive your proof?

  • @KeithWasHere1 Paul Bonacci & Russell "Rusty" Nelson.

  • @ZeroSixtyFive i think thats total bullshit,he was out there kind of guy and that type of person makes enemies,and if your enemies are political then of course there gonna do whatever they can to discredit and destroy you in the eyes of the public (and being called a pedo today is basically the same thing as being called a witch in the 1500's was,youd get burned quick even today.) even today if you call one of the political fuckheads a fuckhead in a national forum there will be a shit storm

  • @KeithWasHere1 if he was why didnt he do time for it?

  • lol 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stone Magazine

  • Uppers.

  • Comment removed

  • HAHA!

    The Japanese are selling al kind of things. 

  • Fuck

    I'v never realised till now, how close was Depp's portrait of Hunter in fear and loathing.

  • the last great american and a fine kentuckian.

  • Watching this makes me realise that Depp got Hunter DOWN TO A T in Fear and Loathing.

  • @JayMoo8 except he was playing Raoul Duke

  • @JayMoo8 one could make a valid argument that bill murray was even better... depp played duke.. murray played hst.

  • @dblyoi I thought duke was basically hunter. Why would depp live with him for a month to study his mannerisms? Never knew about Where the Buffalo Roam as well, so thanks for that.

  • 2:00 Classic "Universe Is In My Hand" observation.

    Hunter was tripping during this interview.

  • @stargroove4 Yep, noticed that too.

  • @stargroove4 Hahaha! I saw that too, thought the same thing.

  • He's the man RIP HST

  • 1:45 brilliant response to Dave's rather inane question... bravo Dr. Gonzo!

  • that's a pipe on the table, isn't it?

  • MMMMMMM, CARLY.

  • I have a feeling that if I dont stop asking these questions you are going to think Im a huge faggot.LOL! No but seriously you must have your reasons for saying this. I just dont know what they are. Fair enough?

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH He doesn't deliver. Ever. Therefore, giant faggot.

  • "Lets take it from the top here and be real straight, WAHAAA." LOL. We miss you Hunter.

  • Letterman is a douche. Both hunter interviews he just treats him like an idiot. Letterman is the idiot here. The only thing he could relate to was "oh you remember my morning show". WTF is that? He was talking to a legend and that's all he could say¿

  • you may ask yourself frauline nie......SPEAK! dont let the SWINE bring your life to a end with out an GUN! the terroists whom bought your breakfast have no mothers, have no spine nor have a mind! NO! this is not a mothergoosery! NO! savages will steal your life frauline nie! ask to be self induldges, than to be self told...dear.....dear ...frauline nie.

  • Hunter S Thompson is a freaky genius and letterman, a dumbass.

  • @thepersona100 Genius? Hunter would have laughed to himself over that comment. You might even have heard him say under is breath"suckers" Now Letterman is a ball-buster and Im not even sure how I feel about the man. But Im reeeaally fucking sure I cant judge having not known him. But fuck all that. Define dumbass. Dumb? Oh I see. Take shots at our hero and that makes a man a dumbass? Interesting. What was I thinking?

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH I see where your coming from........

  • "..NOW CHAMPION POSER OF THE CENTURY: DAVID LETTERMAN!"

  • Wanna be a writer? than f--king write, and stop trying to deify Hunter. Jokers. Reality check. "Hey lets do all kinds of drugs, try to be witty and that will make us like Hunter. Hes our brother, we know him." WRONG! You see the same sort of self delusion amonst so called Jim Morrison fans. Hero worship bulls--t. Hunter hated the notion of someone who claimed to know him by reading his stuff. Be your own hero. Be a man. Climb off the d--k!

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH HOW? He is a writer. People read books. It seems your talking about two different groups of people. You speak of hipsters who have seen fear and loathing once and claim to be enlightened by satirical commentary then by gosh bash them! and you bitch over a fucking letterman interview? shit, at least go to something real and not this mainstream poster boy shit 'claimer'...

  • @bigt0530 I know full well with whom I was addressing.I Know the difference, thanks. Actually I was responding to the comments of another poster, although I didnt send that message to them directly, to avoid thier embarrassment. You on the other hand, felt you wanted to share something with me directly. What that was exactly, Im not clear on. However it would seem we are both aflicted with the same contempt. LOL. I wasnt concerned about this interveiw, but rather used it as a springboard.

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH Full apologies my friend. Its hard venting to a inanimate device. I too like to argue on literature and politics and actually don't want to call someone out directly. Again sorry, i have nothing but the uppermost for anyone who values true news and that shows with this small group with have here...

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH Doesn't change the fact that Letterman is a huge faggot, regardless of how he treated Hunter or otherwise. Stop defending Letterman, he sucks donkey cock and you know it.

  • @PerfectChaosZeta Defending Letterman? What? You missed my point. But I read yours loud and clear. Was it the mittens comment? Lighten up. These two got along. Stop trying to fight battles that arent there. Real men can bust each others chops and walk away laughing about it. Like the old saying goes, if you cant take a joke,...well, you know the rest. Remember the typical fan of (fill in the blank) is a (fill in this blank) tool,sucker,moron,nobody,etcet­cetc. Hunter new that too.

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH Your mistake is that my opinion of Letterman being a giant faggot is based off this interview. It's not. He's a giant faggot here, sure, but he's also a giant faggot in every other function he has ever performed in his entire fucking life, ever. Because he's a giant faggot.

  • @PerfectChaosZeta Im sorry if I misunderstood. However, I have to be honest with you, Huge faggot doesnt seem very descriptive to me. If I take you literally I might miss it. Huge (as in larger than large-big gigantic) I get that but wasnt aware he was so big. (How tall? Whats he weigh?) Now faggot, lets see. I know you dont mean bundle of sticks. And Im sure you dont mean (unpleasant woman) so you must mean homosexual. Is that it? Is he? I didnt know that. Could you be more specific?(contabove)

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH

    What is you're comment a response to?? I don't get it. Some people don't want to write they just want to read.

  • @lichen420 Oh, I see. Well if writing doesnt apply to the reader than neither did my comment. Nothing wrong with that. Take care.

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH

    HAHA! Up on minute, screaming from the top of a mountain and then simply backing away from the keyboard. I like it, you strange, waffling sonofabitch. And I agree and disagree with your comment about the subject matter on the context of the page. Write. Yes. Be like Hunter... Well that's impossible. Understanding him through his word. That is plausible. And I would say that, because of the larger than life image he created, most laymen miss his true greatness as a writer.

  • @teheee Hey , my bad, forgive me if when one gets to the top of the mountain one finds after the journey all he can think about is how much he needs to take a piss. "Wait for the shake"

  • @teheee Heres the irony. The truth is coming from the ivory tower Im now pissing up from the gutter, and I gotta tell ya, Wilde was right. There is no better way to look at the stars. Or is that STARS?

  • How revolutionary...

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH I wholeheartedly concur. He was brilliant in literary journalism...but we all must have our own paths. Or else we never grow.

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH holy fuck...this might be the best comment i've ever read in my entire life

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH He's the post modern Jesus...

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH Nice.

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH Jesus you suck. A grammatical mistake five words into your post.

  • Hey, Lettermen was fair, and has a timeframe. Hunter rocked, but stop trying to deify him. Wake up! The reason he's going a little bit squirly, is because of Carly to his rt. LOL. Can you blame him? Some said Lettermen was a dick with Harvey Pekar as well ,but in all fairness, some of us still live in the realms of a broader reality, that exist outside our selves. This hero worship crap is something Hunter would have pissed on. Thats the irony and the reason why some clowns are still wanna'bees.

  • Letterman is always a dickhead, that's his shtick.

  • @wisterV Exactly. well said

  • I wonder if he always had this open view on things or if it was brought on by the

    drugs he did. The thing I admire most about him was how refreshingly candid he was and spoke his mind, regardless of what the popular view might have been.

  • he wasn't high I think, these are just sequels of drugs. and the people around are just plain dicks, playing as if they didn't take any stuff during the 60's 70's: hypocrits

  • David Letterman killed Bill Hicks. 'Nuff said.

  • @burgerkingmurders Whoa, and all this time I thought it was prostate cancer!

  • if thats not a coke buzz i dont know what is

  • david letterman is a dick.

  • lol at 0:51 seconds

  • Comment removed

  • hunter geed up on cake

  • Hahaha, you can so tell Hunter's fucked on coke.

  • I want what he's on.

  • Haha Hunter is fucked up 24/7

  • hunter is one strong human being

  • Hunter S Thompson snuffed himself out.

  • I hate Lettermans 'in -advance written jokes' an' his mechanical "ha ha has". Look at his face. I can imagine how The Genius did percepted that prick. :D

  • Shut your trap Letterman and fix your teeth!

  • ALL NEW 2010!

    "RED RUM MURDER"

    Hunter S. Thompson and the Conspiracy of Silence UPDATE!

    BLOW YOUR MIND Videos! Esoteric Master

    Best conspiracy researcher, 500 levels ABOVE the REST!

    MUST SEE! Warning Must be 18 or older!

    Truthiracy Films - House Of Wisdom :)

  • letterman does not let him answer a bloody question. Like presenters of today i watch them and i am not sure who it is they are trying to promote. Themsleves or the person on the show.

  • Really no offense but let me enlighten you hunter agreed to talk to lettermen because it is hard to see from now but lettermen was so fuckin brilliant and fearless he was radical and a breath of fresh air. You had to be around at the time to recognize the dry home spun wit that made him endure all these years Dont get me wrong hunter is a great literary genius but don't down david

  • Holy bananas this Letterman likes to flap his gums a little too much. It's difficult for us fans now more than ever because whatever is forever immortalized on film is all that will ever be. We are very greedy for whatever footage we can find to hear the great HST and this Letterman just bulldozes right over him.

  • I have to say Letterman grates on me. He hasent changed at all in 20 odd years, I have tried to see what the American public finds so endearing about him but it still puzzles me

  • Hunter's reaction at 1:40 is priceless, haha.

  • Letterman's living in the fog. Thompson was much to radically insightful regarding the world for most people to listen to openly. Actually, most people don't have the capability to listen "openly", meaning, they disguise their real beliefs under so many layers that the actor that the person has turned into can't help but take over. I really wish everyone could reconnect with their inner self. Maybe not in the way that HST did, but in a way that you could still understand his genius.

  • You remember the Morning show? You remember that? That was fun...

    I'm an extremely stable person...

  • key, could that fucking girl be paying more attention then trying to be moralistic all the time? fucking annoys me, letterman is acting like a showoff in this interview...

  • letterman is such a bastard hunter s thomson is the man

  • Remember your morning show? yeah, that was fun.

  • carly simon was feeling it

  • Screw you Letterman. You had a genius & a national treasure sitting right next to you & you treated him like shit. Right on.

  • haha - "Why didn't you take your jacket off before we started taping?" "Well it's cold behind me here, and hot in front of me...I wasn't sure which one was gonna prevail."

    Hunter (aptly) is a trip.

  • @panicEXcore 1:33 Between Carly looking at him like so, and the lights you bet hes nervous and hot, but it really is HOT & COLD at the same time. He is not necessarily tripping. Obviously these really were the conditions.Look at Carlys jacket drapped over her back, yet in 5:11 she is fanning herself with a book from the front. So many just assume everything Hunter does and says is drug related. Notice that not to many commenters discuss the actual topic he is addressing.Freakshow.All they want!

  • @SCORNDOGGMELACH I didn't say HST was tripping. I said he's a trip. It's an idiom. See also: "He's a character;" "He's a card;" that sort of metaphoric thing, ya know?

  • @panicEXcore Gotcha, Read you loud and clear. No worries brother. Many times my post are not necessarily addressing the commenter in particular. Thanks for clearing it up just the same though.

  • hunter was the greatest. . .LONG LIVE MR DUKE!!!!!

  • letterman is a freakin fag

  • jesus letterman is a douche

  • Letterman need to shut his face, that dick nose...

  • Who is the Bim on Hunters' right? Sort of looks like Carly Simon...

  • Hunter is ALL over the place

  • "i wasn't sure which one was goin to prevail", what a fucking legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Fakula23 THGIRLISVERY PRETTY BUTT SHEJUSTDONTREALIZE SHES JUST A PEICE OFASS

  • 'Colume nist?'

  • Letterman always interrups his guests. He's full of himself. I think the only time he doesn't interrupt people is when he's licking their ass to promote something that he probably likes. Thompson runs circles around this jackass.

  • lol why is he called dr ??? what subject did he study and what university did he receive his doctorate from??

  • @MrGforGreen I think he got an online "doctor of divinity" diploma. Pretty funny...

  • @jackalope101

    What are you, retarded?

  • @threeyears der... wut r u redarded? He obtained an honorary doctor of divinity title from the universal life church. He was not a doctor of journalism... you know about google right?

  • @jackalope101 it was obviously mail-in and not "online", as I said. It cost $5

  • @MrGforGreen Well Sir, Hunter was well qualified to prescribe medications for common ills of society

  • @MrGforGreen

    Phd. in Journalism buddy, what else?

  • @threeyears eh English, Politics, or Sociology

  • hes not being an asshole.. thats lettermans persona. hes always been like that

  • I can't help but smile when I hear this man talk. :-D

  • WASN'T IT CONVENIENT FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT HUNTER COMMITTED "SUICIDE"!!

    Hunter S. Thompson was murdered or coerced into suicide!!!!

    Prior reports strange people tresspassing on his property in the days leading up to his "suicide"!

  • @jfarris4417 fuck you he was on the phone with his wife and his kids where there you fucking dickhead stop spread your fucking lies you are disrepecting the man's death calming it's something it wasn't.

  • lol he's on something here! lol

  • Is that Carly Simon next to Thompson?

  • this was one of the few moments where letterman knew and realized he wasn't as smart and funny as the person he was interviewing

  • Encounters like these remind us that Letterman was not nearly as hip as he let on... He had nothing on Dick Cavett.

  • letterman's a douche

  • Awesome!

  • HUNTER IS D MAN ! letterman is not even cool man, hes frontin, fuck that letterman!

  • Letterman acts like a dick head through this whole interview.

  • @jtwolgamott when does letterman not act like a dick?

  • @SendInTheChickens When someone's sucking his.

  • @jtwolgamott

    Letterman IS a dickhead.

  • @jtwolgamott The whole interveiw? Lets be fair. Not when it came to the real questions. You fuckers act like this is a boxing match. These guys liked each other. Im not defending anyone but Im not going to sit here and say Hunter didnt walk into a few shots. I love Hunter, but lets not lose our minds. We would do well to remind ourselves that Hunter considered writing to be "something I could get away with." I'll drink to that. Dont be SIL you mugs.

  • @jtwolgamott Letterman acts like a dick all the time

  • david's shoes are too cool

  • Wish Letterman would let the great man speak more without butting in all the time!

  • @magoolio i think letterman knows Hunter is on something, probably knew it to begin with, and decided to try and steer and control the interview. I don't think he's butting in because he's a bad interviewer, I think he doesn't know how to handle the situation of interviewing a coked-up personality on network TV. He panics and thinks he'll keep things in control by leading the interview.

  • is anywhere version with subtitles?

    I dont understand everything, please send me link

  • his english is pretty fucked up even for native speakers

    he's pretty drunk here, which doesn't help

    I'm not knocking him, far from it, just saying, hard to accomodate non-english speakers who are having trouble following

  • @TheMikeAce hes not drunk you idiot, thats just him

  • *wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle* That's the acid folks.... Trust me, you do enough, there's no way to avoid exposing it on occasion... Hunter always had a nervous energy, and thankfully he maintained a fantastic presence of mind in terms of real events... Hunter had his own style of body language... one which really hasn't been duplicated, probably because no one has lived or tried to mimic the kind of epically psychotic hallucinogenic altered life-style Hunter did...

  • Well, Johnny Depp did a pretty good job. At one point Hunter felt uncomfortable when Depp mimicked him because he was simply too good at it. =) And Depp, would jump in and out the Hunter-character just to grind the old mans gears.. #)

  • Classic Video!

    Mr. Thompson is on one!

  • I never met him,but man do i miss him.

  • I hear you my friend.

  • we need people like hunter around. What are we left with? No artist out there is willing to take on the system. John Lennon, these guys are gone. All you have now, is people(actors,etc) ready to jump on board to whatever is said and done by Washington. I love it, no balls what so ever.

  • I love when we get nothing but shit from Bush, then it's still shit when Obama takes over, but for some reason, we are supposed to cut him slack? Good move by the power elite, throw in a black man, and then see if they complain. We all know, Obama,just like Bush, is a puppet, but we are made to feel bad for Obama and Washington by the media. Because their job is so hard. Well stop building this empire, and go back to small gov, and your job won't be hard, morons! Fuck em all folks,whos with me!!

  • The world is less weird :(

  • anyone have an idea what the commercial is at the beginning.

  • @Kl4but Paper plates called 'Chinet'. Don't know if they make them anymore?!?!

  • @ex1le ... I was a cocaine addict for years and whenever i got bugged out i would act identical to that always moving around, lighting a smoke every two seconds putting it out lighting it again. He does that because hes wasted not as a mental distraction

  • He was doing that long before he ever took Cocaine, you'll prolly say it was the Bennies! But nomatter - I still maintain it's Hunter's nervous energy, the same energy that made him write all those Books.

  • Wow. I really wish I knew hunter personally when he was alive. What an interesting guy.

    By the way, who was the girl he was with on the left? She was stunning. :)

  • carly simon...

  • "I'm an extremely stable person." Truth is, he was. In so many ways.

  • hahah "I'm an extremely stable person."

  • One of my favorite interviews with Gonzo.... he should given Dave a little Dextroamphetamine before the show too.... dude could not sit still.

  • look at Dave repping those adidas

  • @neurochris yeah, such taste in outfits! Hunter's old trick of getting undressed after he has been miked up and the interview has started, anything to make things adlib!

  • haha cool im a big fan of adlib you mean to tell me he does that in other interviews? lol i would like a link if you got one.

  • yeah, it was a little trick of his for awhile, he famously did it in a live televised interview here in Australia with disastrous affect in'77. You will notice that almost always Hunter must keep fidgeting and moving about in interviews, lighting a Cigarette, removing Clothes, looking for a Lighter/Cigs, refilling a Drink, whatever - I think he does it as a kind of mental distraction & to impose his aura of chaos which makes him feel comfortable & more at ease which helps his train of thought.

  • I gotta add, it's fairly well known that HST was terrified of appearing on Television, he got very nervous, he almost got black banned on the Hell's Angels Publicity after showing up to one too many interviews drunk and almost incoherent, he embarrassed himself severely on that tour and carried those scars the rest of his public life.

  • do u know where the footage of the hells angels publicity tour interviews are?

  • not many survive, it was 1967 & HST was an unknown first time author, but the odd one does surface at times. Keep an eye out here on youtube, I saw one not too long ago.

  • i honestly don't know why people hate on letterman and i love hst too - he obviously has dealt with guest maybe not on his but folks on different levels and this is his job to get something out of them in an interview as much as he can - i thought he was a dick but i kinda realized later that he was just doing his job

  • he's just tweaked

  • 1988. 17 years after fear n loathing in las vegas and 17 years before his suicide. weird. gotta love dr. hunter s thompson

  • Oh my, he has to be! Love him though, what a charater.