An actual man (rather than a mewling sycophant) calls Letterman out for being a corporate hack, Letterman doesn't know how to take it and resorts to schoolyard bully tactics. Class. Get cancer soon, Dave.
Letterman always bullies his guests, especially Pekar. I know his joke is to poke fun, and do a humorous back and forth, but he's, at the heart of it, just kind of a bully. And the audience is on his side, which makes it work for him. Whenever Harvey would make a little jab at Letterman, the audience would chuckle. But when Letterman makes a joke at Harvey's expense, the crowd goes wild. Little GE puppet.
I never saw Harvey as being disrespected, the joke was he was a bull in a china shop working schlub that lucked into a little fame and didn’t really belong there (this we pre reality show era). He was in on the joke so you laughed with him not at him. What was Dave supposed to do? Sit and talk jazz lp’s and politics with him? Audience would be asleep inside of 30 seconds. Lay off Dave, he paved the way for more quirky offbeat late night show humor.
Anyone paying tax, buying stuff and collecting pay is a cog in the corporate gulag, so is Dave, albeit a highly paid one. We’re all corporate stooges. If Dave made a personal decision to not let Harvey back on I would think less of him but we don’t know if it was his decision. I hope Dave said “I love you on the show but can’t have you calling out my bosses, I could get fired” and maybe Harvey said I can’t do that Dave. Dave, like all of us, can't just do anything he wants.
@zettadom That's a fascinating insight into the mind of a broken serf. You've actually internalised the lack of dignity and integrity enforced by the system. You're a victim of Stockholm syndrome, just an uncle Tom workin for de massa, pathetic.
@nilbud Where the fuck did I state how I felt about our corporate enslavement? I only commented on the hypocrisy of those complicit with the system condemning others. Note: Look in mirror. You contrived up a critique in order to pose and posture as more radical than me. You're sooo much more anarchistic than me. Yeah, I'm impressed. BTW Where did you get the money to pay for the computer you are using? Unless you're living completely off the grid you're part of the system.
@nilbud I understand the inherent contradictions of living in an exploitive system and have come to terms with them. Harvey felt his media participation entitled him an opportunity to express what he felt were more important issues, maybe in a perfect world it does, but the media doesn't allow anyone to do that. I respect Harv for giving it a shot but he, like all of us, goes through life doing what he needs to do to survive. Advice: Try not being a pathetic poseur, life will be better.
Fuck you, Letterman......Thank you, Harvey. You continue to stick up for people like us. The little guy that gets kicked around, until you came around taught us to kick them right back. Rest well, Harvey.....
Wow, this isn't how they portrayed it in the movie, which was a much more intense and confrontational situation than what we see here. Also, Pekar had to be one of the least sympathetic people I've ever seen in a movie that wasn't about a murderer or criminal. Jeez.
Not gonna lie, I love Pekar and what he does, but all this aggravation is a stunt. He does it for the cameras the same way he does it for his comics. It really works for him, though.
Fuck off you idiots. The guys a fucking stoner dick. You dont come onto someones show and be a rude prick. Plus he's a weirdo who clearly has some issues with his perception of reality.
@XxXHellbringerXxX "Fuck off you idiots. The guys a fucking stoner dick. You dont come onto someones show and be a rude prick. Plus he's a weirdo who clearly has some issues with his perception of reality."
are you sure hes got the wrong perception? or is he just so open to the truth that he doesnt let shit slide. sure its rude and depressing but hes honest to the CORE with himself and everyone on his views. THATS a quality you wont find in american TV. the Plebs dare not understand him
not saying hes 100% right, but hes honestly searching for truth and doesnt care whos toes he steps on. plus he knows how the game works, just look how hes shutting letterman down, he knows the game. mans got balls, the average joe needs more of him. inspiration. just an average dude, trying to live as best he can with his depressing personality
I hate anti-trust laws, they're 4 commies. they want u 2 think corporations r big evil entitities, when in reality they provide society with jobs, goods, and services. 2 quote Craig Ferguson, I look forward 2 ur letters.
I find it astonishing people are even searching for any depth in this series of conversations. Harvey Pekar wrote some comic books and was antidisestablishment and Letterman is a talk show host. Harvey Pekar's attitude is ignorant and very boorish and he delivers nothing of any surprise. Letterman just does his job amicably in the light of an incredibly rude guest. The conversations between Michael Parkinson and Mohamed Ali are of much more rigour, emotion and genuine intellect providing a far
@kierenlythgow If you were as astute as you think you are, you would know that some comedians are indeed great philosophers. If you would listen more closely instead of trying to sound so "deep and discerning" you might learn something. You come off as ostentatious, I'm only using that word to show you how pretentious you sound. We can learn from ants, children,spilled cups of milk, and yes Harvey Pekar and Letterman. I find it astonishing that you don't know that Oh Wise One.
@opennewscast Yea, carson liked letterman, and he was pretty much why letterman was kept around. Dave was more of a tool back then, as oppose to the CBS days, the movie certainly sides with Harvey. NBC should have released it, because, letterman does his job well, and harvey does what he wanted just fine too.
@sdtech100 true at Fukushima all six reactors were designed by General Electric, I am guessing the design flaws are common amongst GE nuke plants. I'm glad i saw this video, I could see how Dave was actively trying to protect GE.
If I could be at a bar, listening to jazz and drinking away the tears.....I'd want Charles Bukowski on one side of the bar, and Harvey Pekar on the other...
@unfortunatebeam harvey exposed letterman for being the sell out jerk off that he is..at a time when most bought into letterman's bullshit I am cool persona
The appearance in the movie was more of a combination of this one and the next one. This is where he started the GE stuff, but the next (and last for awhile) was the one that Dave really left him have it in the way depicted in the movie.
These things are great because they show just how big of a dick letterman is. Especially the next one where he tells him he'll never be back, and calls him a nerd, and a gnat because he wont be the silly nothing that dances for the stage. Its reminiscent of john stewart on msnbc.
If Pekar and Bill Hicks taugh us anything, it's that Letterman's nothing but a corporate blowhard. Oh well, at least he's better than Leno (but who isn't?).
@TMAT09 You have a right to your opinion but Harvey was a smart man and had a lot of valid points to the things he said and despite what you think, Harvey did have happiness but chose not to dwell on that in his comics. He at least was honest and upfront about how he felt about things...particuarly with Letterman.
To be honest, I do not know Harvey Pekar well enough to make any valid claims about his humanity. From what I've seen, it appears as if he was a really depressed person who felt like life dealt him a crappy hand. If this is true,it's something we could all learn from. Folks, no matter how bad things get in this world, our time in it shouldn't be spent in bitterness and anger and isolation. Otherwise we will all be dead before our bodies are literally put in a grave.
@TMAT09 - Life is bullshit. That is truth. Happiness is an illusion. That is truth. It is a feeling, and feelings come and go. You can sustain this illusion for as long as you can; you should, it's a beautiful illusion, and all it does is cover the truth that life is bullshit. You must endure life, and to do this you must find sanity, not happiness. It's not giving up on yourself, it's giving up the illusion to find something real you can live with.
@EaterOfHumanFlesh lol typical emo crap. Grow up. Life is not "bullshit". That's YOU putting YOUR feelings as a label on it. Life is life. You make what you want from it.
@Eater Of Human Flesh Partially correct about happiness being a feeling that comes and goes. This is of course relative happiness. A materialistic version of happiness. We all know that matter is finite. Therefore relative happiness becomes fleeting. Material trappings cause it to come and go. To understand that the finite material universe is manifested out from the infinite spiritual universe is to understand that absolute happiness does exist.
That's why he talked about the truth and your a minion for arseholes and you have fuck all of an iner-life. Thats why he's a depressive, because of idiot morons like you- and that's why your a cunt.
@wOnderlAnd8697:Like I said before, nobody has to pay attention to LeBron James at all; if you don't want to hear about him, just change the channel when he 's mentioned on TV, or turn it off. But to be using Harvey Pekar's death to malign Lebron James is petty, spiteful, childish, immature, and mostly stupid. And being so wound win you friends, just enemies.
@Neville6000 Who the fuck is this Lebron james? I'm guessing he's black with that name?...anyway, never heard of the guy but Harvey Pekar was a genius.
@TMAT09 Expressive cunt who had the guts and balls to devour the best and worst of life in its very soulfull trenches of the mundane and extroadinary mad heaven, so go fuck yourself twice over and smell the shit of your life through your fingers and till the time you taste it, go fuck yourself two more times and chew the nails of your fingers.
@Neville6000 Ok, so I think by now everyone gets that you have some issues with Pekar. So how bout we stop trolling and scuttle along to another Letterman vid so the Pekar fans can enjoy posting about him without you ruining their fun. RIP Harvey.
I wonder if Dave realized that Harvey made his point very well about doing a network show where he can't and can't let his guests seriously talk about his moneyed overlords.
Letterman loves a good controversy on his show and usually can handle it, but he really showed the limits of his sense of humor that night. "Don't make my borderline-criminal bosses look bad, Harvey!"
After this, Harvey could leave the show with a clear conscience. He had done the right thing. He's a modern-day hero.
I wish when Dave started accusing Harvey of being rude, Harvey would have had the presence of mind to say that corporations killing people with bad policies, products and procedures is not only rude, but criminal, and should be responded to by the government with justice. maybe he did say it and Dave overrode him.
@BabylonAGoGo:Get this; to most Cleavelanders (white & black) Le Bron James was a hero-Harvey Pekar is a hero to YOU and other like you-all of whom are in the minority.
@polkafrenzy666: For white people like you into underground comics, yes. But again, you are in the minority. And using Pekar to beat up on LeBron James is just petty, racist, and uncalled for, plus it won't get you anything but insults. James simply is popular because most people love sports; that's not a negative or a positive, it simply is. And you don't have to pay any attention to him when he's on TV, either.
@AVGP40: Yeah, keep running down that river in Egypt on that one, pal. It's you and all of the fans of Harvey that need to grow up, not me. I just stated what is, is-you can either accept it, or not. But either way, leave James out of it. And don't accuse people of playing 'the race card'-if racism exists, it should be exposed, and that's what I'm doing.
@Neville6000 Not true. I really like Lebron, but he really did himself a disservice by the way he left Cleveland. I understand if he wanted to move on, but the really took a low class, f-u approach and rubbed it in the face of a city that loved him and made him very wealthy. All he had to do was forgo the BS and we would have understood. He did it to himself--it was a very immature move and bad advice from his inner circle.
@jnwestray78:Sorry, but nuclear reactors aren't THAT evil, nor is the construction of diesel-electric locomotives, light bulbs (which GE still makes) or medical systems, evil! Find another enemy to bash.
@Neville6000 GE is also a major defence contractor, they profit from war. They also defrauded the Pentagon and were fined $69 million by the U.S. government for doing so, in fact they have repeatedly violated the False Claims Act, worst record of any defence contractor.
@digimaton: So is Daewoo (when it was around), Samsung, BAE, Bombardier, Thompson/Thales, and a ton of others whose products you probably buy? What's your point, and why don't you live like a hermit in the forest, then?
@Neville6000 that's like saying "I dislike Mc Donalds; therefore I hate food." A logical fallacy. Defence technology and war corporatism are not one and the same, despite you attempting to paint such a picture.
@digimaton: You have me mixed up with somebody who gives a shit; I don't. GE is just not that biog a deal for me to be getting pissed off about-as I said, they did (and still do) great things as well as the military stuff (so do a lot of other companies mentioned.) If you don't want to use any products by them, go become a hermit. As for Pekar, he shouldn't have been on Letterman in the first place-NPR or maybe Tom Snyder would be more to his liking.
@Neville6000 let me clarify; there is no mix up, it was very clear from your initial outpouring that you are someone who does not give a shit. Let me reiterate: to state that one dislikes Mc Donalds does not imply that one hates food. Defence technology and war corporatism are not one and the same.
Poor Dave. Who's this hack?
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An actual man (rather than a mewling sycophant) calls Letterman out for being a corporate hack, Letterman doesn't know how to take it and resorts to schoolyard bully tactics. Class. Get cancer soon, Dave.
gubbbies 2 weeks ago
HE IS MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
Jezyman727 2 weeks ago
HARVEY IS MY GOD!!!
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He owned Letterman, Dave was always a prick!
Stollyify 3 weeks ago
Who is this harvey guy and why so weird?
Kangel02fly 3 weeks ago
Letterman makes me sick.
elvaelvirababe 1 month ago
this guy was a punk rocker
Wahoofuck 1 month ago
Letterman always bullies his guests, especially Pekar. I know his joke is to poke fun, and do a humorous back and forth, but he's, at the heart of it, just kind of a bully. And the audience is on his side, which makes it work for him. Whenever Harvey would make a little jab at Letterman, the audience would chuckle. But when Letterman makes a joke at Harvey's expense, the crowd goes wild. Little GE puppet.
liexcheatxnxsteal 1 month ago
R.I.P. Harvey. You earned it.
lilac2noel 3 months ago 2
I never saw Harvey as being disrespected, the joke was he was a bull in a china shop working schlub that lucked into a little fame and didn’t really belong there (this we pre reality show era). He was in on the joke so you laughed with him not at him. What was Dave supposed to do? Sit and talk jazz lp’s and politics with him? Audience would be asleep inside of 30 seconds. Lay off Dave, he paved the way for more quirky offbeat late night show humor.
zettadom 3 months ago
@zettadom You fucking dunce
nilbud 2 months ago
Anyone paying tax, buying stuff and collecting pay is a cog in the corporate gulag, so is Dave, albeit a highly paid one. We’re all corporate stooges. If Dave made a personal decision to not let Harvey back on I would think less of him but we don’t know if it was his decision. I hope Dave said “I love you on the show but can’t have you calling out my bosses, I could get fired” and maybe Harvey said I can’t do that Dave. Dave, like all of us, can't just do anything he wants.
zettadom 3 months ago
@zettadom That's a fascinating insight into the mind of a broken serf. You've actually internalised the lack of dignity and integrity enforced by the system. You're a victim of Stockholm syndrome, just an uncle Tom workin for de massa, pathetic.
nilbud 2 months ago
@nilbud Where the fuck did I state how I felt about our corporate enslavement? I only commented on the hypocrisy of those complicit with the system condemning others. Note: Look in mirror. You contrived up a critique in order to pose and posture as more radical than me. You're sooo much more anarchistic than me. Yeah, I'm impressed. BTW Where did you get the money to pay for the computer you are using? Unless you're living completely off the grid you're part of the system.
zettadom 2 months ago
@nilbud I understand the inherent contradictions of living in an exploitive system and have come to terms with them. Harvey felt his media participation entitled him an opportunity to express what he felt were more important issues, maybe in a perfect world it does, but the media doesn't allow anyone to do that. I respect Harv for giving it a shot but he, like all of us, goes through life doing what he needs to do to survive. Advice: Try not being a pathetic poseur, life will be better.
zettadom 2 months ago
play him off, keyboard cat
willC801 3 months ago
Yep that's what big entertainment does, they down play reality for cheap laughs. RIP Harvey, you were the real deal.
olDirtyPastor 3 months ago
I never heard of this guy before, but he's friggin awesome!
Hodongji 4 months ago 2
Fuck dave letterman. sheep ass dbag
Frash99 4 months ago
Fuck you, Letterman......Thank you, Harvey. You continue to stick up for people like us. The little guy that gets kicked around, until you came around taught us to kick them right back. Rest well, Harvey.....
clemenza1234 4 months ago 2
Pekar was one of his best guests.
ritter89 4 months ago
Wow, this isn't how they portrayed it in the movie, which was a much more intense and confrontational situation than what we see here. Also, Pekar had to be one of the least sympathetic people I've ever seen in a movie that wasn't about a murderer or criminal. Jeez.
KikoSavesTheDay 5 months ago
Reminiscent of Andy Kaufman...
guitarjeffmontgomery 5 months ago
folks, you don't understand...harvey pekar was just another character from andy kaufman
tripfontaines86 5 months ago
@tripfontaines86 From off the streets of Cleveland comes Andy Kaufman's American Splendor? :-P
No I don't think so
cha5 4 months ago
Letterman is such a fuking douchebag
Schizm1 5 months ago 2
Not gonna lie, I love Pekar and what he does, but all this aggravation is a stunt. He does it for the cameras the same way he does it for his comics. It really works for him, though.
masteruber12 5 months ago
@XxXHellbringerXxX The only issue he has with his perception of reality is that it is not impeded by bullshit
rpaxon 6 months ago
*THE* Letitia Baldridge?1?
teak43 6 months ago
Fuck off you idiots. The guys a fucking stoner dick. You dont come onto someones show and be a rude prick. Plus he's a weirdo who clearly has some issues with his perception of reality.
XxXHellbringerXxX 6 months ago
@XxXHellbringerXxX "Fuck off you idiots. The guys a fucking stoner dick. You dont come onto someones show and be a rude prick. Plus he's a weirdo who clearly has some issues with his perception of reality."
are you sure hes got the wrong perception? or is he just so open to the truth that he doesnt let shit slide. sure its rude and depressing but hes honest to the CORE with himself and everyone on his views. THATS a quality you wont find in american TV. the Plebs dare not understand him
djstock02 6 months ago
not saying hes 100% right, but hes honestly searching for truth and doesnt care whos toes he steps on. plus he knows how the game works, just look how hes shutting letterman down, he knows the game. mans got balls, the average joe needs more of him. inspiration. just an average dude, trying to live as best he can with his depressing personality
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yuppie freaks
spoogerification 6 months ago
I hate anti-trust laws, they're 4 commies. they want u 2 think corporations r big evil entitities, when in reality they provide society with jobs, goods, and services. 2 quote Craig Ferguson, I look forward 2 ur letters.
inrwizards 6 months ago
as odd as harvey may look he seriously is a smart man
he ousted lettermans attempts to make a joke out of him everytime... amazing
he makes letterman look like a childish cunt
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jamestargetedindiv 6 months ago
Harvey Pekar: When you're right, you're right. RIP MR P.
RobGordon35 7 months ago 2
The only thing Pekar does wrong here is not speak commandingly and clearly enough. His heart was in the right place, but his head didn't have a plan.
Inediblehulk 7 months ago 2
I find it astonishing people are even searching for any depth in this series of conversations. Harvey Pekar wrote some comic books and was antidisestablishment and Letterman is a talk show host. Harvey Pekar's attitude is ignorant and very boorish and he delivers nothing of any surprise. Letterman just does his job amicably in the light of an incredibly rude guest. The conversations between Michael Parkinson and Mohamed Ali are of much more rigour, emotion and genuine intellect providing a far
kierenlythgow 7 months ago
@kierenlythgow blah blah blah
cuntchops23 7 months ago
@kierenlythgow If you were as astute as you think you are, you would know that some comedians are indeed great philosophers. If you would listen more closely instead of trying to sound so "deep and discerning" you might learn something. You come off as ostentatious, I'm only using that word to show you how pretentious you sound. We can learn from ants, children,spilled cups of milk, and yes Harvey Pekar and Letterman. I find it astonishing that you don't know that Oh Wise One.
k2peak360 7 months ago
@k2peak360 Yeah yeah yeah
kierenlythgow 6 months ago
harvey pekar was a fucking genius. They should have offered him more money to do a talkshow.
ofcoursehesthefarmer 7 months ago
"Its a drag going on and doing simple minded bullshit!" I love it.
Skytroop 7 months ago 2
Oh wow, this is exactly 2 years before I was born.
ComradeGarcia 7 months ago
Letterman was very respectful, unlike Harvey. The movie completely twisted this. Harvey showed no class.
By the way, G.E. hated Dave. Harvey was barking up the wrong tree.
opennewscast 7 months ago
@opennewscast hard to show "class" when you bringing such a message (as harvey did), so i dont think he did anything wrong.
GE hating Dave? no sure about that. he was just another employee.
Ostee1 7 months ago 2
@opennewscast Yea, carson liked letterman, and he was pretty much why letterman was kept around. Dave was more of a tool back then, as oppose to the CBS days, the movie certainly sides with Harvey. NBC should have released it, because, letterman does his job well, and harvey does what he wanted just fine too.
shatonamime 7 months ago
Go gettem Harv. I lived an hour away from this man, wish I coulda broke bread withem
joshpk84 8 months ago
Letterman deserved every second of this.
tasman001 8 months ago 2
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unfortunatebeam 8 months ago
Fuck that cocksucker Letterman, eternal ass suck and house clown to the scumbags who control American society.
cremeofthereich 8 months ago 2
Harvey said "Number one, they're being sued in Ohio because they sold these bad nuclear reactors..."-
Look at the Fukushima reactors in meltdown 14 years later!
See fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-caused-ge-scientist/story
sdtech100 9 months ago 4
@sdtech100 true at Fukushima all six reactors were designed by General Electric, I am guessing the design flaws are common amongst GE nuke plants. I'm glad i saw this video, I could see how Dave was actively trying to protect GE.
tetranoob 6 months ago
If I could be at a bar, listening to jazz and drinking away the tears.....I'd want Charles Bukowski on one side of the bar, and Harvey Pekar on the other...
Two great men.....godbless, gentleman.
*takes a shot of Jack Daniels*
clemenza1234 9 months ago
A real hero of REALITY television.
bo12hughes 9 months ago
i bet dave really agrees with harvey now...
ennuieffect 9 months ago
definitely a man ahead of his time...
cw6983 9 months ago
@cw6983 lol yeah sure ahead of his times pfff
unfortunatebeam 8 months ago
@unfortunatebeam harvey exposed letterman for being the sell out jerk off that he is..at a time when most bought into letterman's bullshit I am cool persona
cw6983 8 months ago 2
good times...
mudball35 9 months ago
a great American, profound and gentle. the closest we have come to anyone telling Letterman what a narcissistic shallow douche-bag he truly is.
alpinorico 10 months ago 2
The appearance in the movie was more of a combination of this one and the next one. This is where he started the GE stuff, but the next (and last for awhile) was the one that Dave really left him have it in the way depicted in the movie.
knickknack07 10 months ago
whos GE
whydoihaveanaccount1 10 months ago
Funny how it was not much later that Letterman himself would be badmouthing GE.
therling 10 months ago
@therling that was in a joking matter though :)
and he did back at NBC as well. He was the host of the program.
Harvey should probably have promoted his stuff instead
leppardsnake 10 months ago
It's jarring seeing so one so real not schilling anything on tv.
amaxamon 10 months ago 2
I like Harvey but Letterman had the right to be pissed
varoneezy 10 months ago
godbless that man......only he'd tell me to take my blessing and shove it up my ass :)
we still love you, harvey....thank you for giving us the truth
clemenza1234 10 months ago
Harvey was ahead of his time in warning America to beware of GE.
TheLeroyMoon 10 months ago 22
harvey pekar is a beacon of truth
LordDracha 11 months ago
These things are great because they show just how big of a dick letterman is. Especially the next one where he tells him he'll never be back, and calls him a nerd, and a gnat because he wont be the silly nothing that dances for the stage. Its reminiscent of john stewart on msnbc.
fleanationjoe 11 months ago
@fleanationjo Which one is that? Have you got the date so I could find it.
XavierMarciano 7 months ago
HARVEY IS GHETTO
chyman 11 months ago
What a great sthick. This guy was a sick puppy. But was always funny as hell.
john9944 11 months ago
@john9944 He spoke his mind...why does that make him a sick puppy?
krelbar 10 months ago
Pekar trolled the shit out of Dave.
Damn, he died on my birthday. A bad surprise that was :(
horrorchicken 11 months ago
I don't think that's the interview from the American Splendor film.
boydegg 11 months ago
This segment wasn't nearly as inflammatory as they made it out to be in the American Splendor film.
dachaunox 1 year ago
Just watched the American Splendor movie. It's so sad, funny, and uplifting at the same time. I loved it. Wish he was still here.
BLACKMAGICMETALMAN12 1 year ago
If Pekar and Bill Hicks taugh us anything, it's that Letterman's nothing but a corporate blowhard. Oh well, at least he's better than Leno (but who isn't?).
bwc3821 1 year ago 30
@bwc3821 well said!
Ostee1 7 months ago
@bwc3821 Amen, brother . . .
sidDkid87 4 months ago
@bwc3821 Bill Hicks loved Letterman, anyone in comedy does. He wasn't happy about his set being taken out but he respected and loved the man
AWrulez 3 months ago
@AWrulez
Loved Letterman ? ... where did you get that idea from ? Bill went on the show to promote his material.
d33pS3Ad1v3r 2 months ago
@d33pS3Ad1v3r Interviews on Howard Stern and other shows
AWrulez 2 months ago
@AWrulez
interesting! ... they're not on youtube by any chance ?
d33pS3Ad1v3r 2 months ago
The Dancing Waters!
wibubba 1 year ago
Pekar was an incredible straight man, sooo funny.
f89276704 1 year ago
God I just found out he passed away. On the same shit my doctor had me on. R.I.P.
FormulaDGoSpeedGo 1 year ago
I want to know what they said in the commercial breaks, and what they said when they shook hands afterward.
BucksStudent 1 year ago
Fuck Letterman. Pekar is king.
petertranart 1 year ago 3
Pekar seems like such a dick in all his interviews.
aytches 1 year ago
"Let's go to commercial, then we'll get to some issues."
makinuptherules 1 year ago
@TMAT09 You have a right to your opinion but Harvey was a smart man and had a lot of valid points to the things he said and despite what you think, Harvey did have happiness but chose not to dwell on that in his comics. He at least was honest and upfront about how he felt about things...particuarly with Letterman.
funkybruiser 1 year ago
great character
Kars10S 1 year ago
To be honest, I do not know Harvey Pekar well enough to make any valid claims about his humanity. From what I've seen, it appears as if he was a really depressed person who felt like life dealt him a crappy hand. If this is true,it's something we could all learn from. Folks, no matter how bad things get in this world, our time in it shouldn't be spent in bitterness and anger and isolation. Otherwise we will all be dead before our bodies are literally put in a grave.
xyPERSON 1 year ago
@xyPERSON Pekar had more life in him than Letterman ever will.
ragrucza 1 year ago 2
@TMAT09 - Life is bullshit. That is truth. Happiness is an illusion. That is truth. It is a feeling, and feelings come and go. You can sustain this illusion for as long as you can; you should, it's a beautiful illusion, and all it does is cover the truth that life is bullshit. You must endure life, and to do this you must find sanity, not happiness. It's not giving up on yourself, it's giving up the illusion to find something real you can live with.
EaterOfHumanFlesh 1 year ago
@EaterOfHumanFlesh
lol
therealdooz 1 year ago
@EaterOfHumanFlesh lol typical emo crap. Grow up. Life is not "bullshit". That's YOU putting YOUR feelings as a label on it. Life is life. You make what you want from it.
blacklinedrifting 1 year ago
@Eater Of Human Flesh Partially correct about happiness being a feeling that comes and goes. This is of course relative happiness. A materialistic version of happiness. We all know that matter is finite. Therefore relative happiness becomes fleeting. Material trappings cause it to come and go. To understand that the finite material universe is manifested out from the infinite spiritual universe is to understand that absolute happiness does exist.
ALLinALLgood 1 year ago
@TMAT09 I agree with you there! But people think they're such intellectuals for sticking up with him!
loggeronline 1 year ago
Pekar was such a bitter man!
loggeronline 1 year ago
Letterman- another crass arsehole- and what a braying moronic TV audience- that might tell something about the nature of mass media TV.
captainbollocks 1 year ago
@TMAT09
That's why he talked about the truth and your a minion for arseholes and you have fuck all of an iner-life. Thats why he's a depressive, because of idiot morons like you- and that's why your a cunt.
captainbollocks 1 year ago
hes kind of just retarded, which he obviously is to some degree. Fucking child.
SENATORPAIN1 1 year ago
i like daves big girl laugh quite funny.
SENATORPAIN1 1 year ago
this reminds of the John Lydon Interview with Tom Snyder.....LOL!
Letterman was/is such a tool.
Mraquanetchris 1 year ago
First time I ever seen Letterman act like an idiot.
UntitledxBeyond 1 year ago
este tipo era de verdad, we must remember you
caosfran 1 year ago
@wOnderlAnd8697:Like I said before, nobody has to pay attention to LeBron James at all; if you don't want to hear about him, just change the channel when he 's mentioned on TV, or turn it off. But to be using Harvey Pekar's death to malign Lebron James is petty, spiteful, childish, immature, and mostly stupid. And being so wound win you friends, just enemies.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 Who the fuck is this Lebron james? I'm guessing he's black with that name?...anyway, never heard of the guy but Harvey Pekar was a genius.
anvilofcrom 1 year ago
@TMAT09 Expressive cunt who had the guts and balls to devour the best and worst of life in its very soulfull trenches of the mundane and extroadinary mad heaven, so go fuck yourself twice over and smell the shit of your life through your fingers and till the time you taste it, go fuck yourself two more times and chew the nails of your fingers.
severinxy 1 year ago
RIP, Harvey
momominnosh 1 year ago
In the 80s, Letterman was the most subversive thing on television, but Harvey was the only guest who ever really subverted him and got away with it.
nouncertainterms 1 year ago 3
david letterman is a douche
esperanza1234 1 year ago 3
@esperanza1234 no, he just doesn't kiss his guests asses.
inrwizards 6 months ago
Wow, Letterman is a douche.
R.I.P Harvey
JTunns 1 year ago
I've been reading this man's work for some time. This is the first time I ever saw his appearances. Good stuff. RIP!
Megazell 1 year ago
R.I.P. Harvey
number9films 1 year ago
just learned he died 2 wks ago, bummer :(
quaxk 1 year ago
this is GOLD!!!
crackerjohnnybravo42 1 year ago
miss you harvey.
MyMelancholyDodo 1 year ago
You were the best, Harvey. R.I.P.
Madman007 1 year ago
how totally rude of dave to call harvey impolite!
Visickle 1 year ago
huge huge loss
OOOpopularpopOOO 1 year ago
Rest in peace, Harvey. You'll be missed.
akumacornflakes 1 year ago
Like a certain other people in the entertainment Letterman has been a scumbag, he fornicated with his guests, sold his soul for money and pleasure..
perhaps he had a tough childhood.
nevertheless...God is always ready to have mercy upon those who change their heart... :-) In pace requiscat, Mr. Pekar.
LiturgicalChants 1 year ago
a hero
postyesterdayman 1 year ago 3
R.I.P Harvey :(
cha5 1 year ago 65
@cha5 Fuck. I didnt know. Shit man, this cant be possible.
bashtxus 1 year ago
He's dead?
boru25 9 months ago
@boru25 yes it was pretty recently. i think late last year.
siqwonnowqis 9 months ago
R.I.P
killr12002 1 year ago
Another person who shouldn't have been on David Letterman, going on David Letterman. Why?
He should been on Tom Snyder's show, instead.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 Ok, so I think by now everyone gets that you have some issues with Pekar. So how bout we stop trolling and scuttle along to another Letterman vid so the Pekar fans can enjoy posting about him without you ruining their fun. RIP Harvey.
rockmeistro 1 year ago
RIP Mr. Pekar. You were a great writer and human being.
zabukazar 1 year ago
I wonder if Dave realized that Harvey made his point very well about doing a network show where he can't and can't let his guests seriously talk about his moneyed overlords.
UrinationNation 1 year ago
RIP Harvey
gghani 1 year ago
Rest in peace, Harvey.
CriticalListener 1 year ago
To hell with LeBron. Pekar was Cleveland's true native son.
gezelligtexas 1 year ago 56
@gezelligtexas That's the greatest statement I've read since breakfast.
IEatGod 1 year ago
RIP Harry ..we'll miss you sir
pokorean 1 year ago
I never liked Letterman, but Pekar was a good guest.
marinesnip 1 year ago
Letterman loves a good controversy on his show and usually can handle it, but he really showed the limits of his sense of humor that night. "Don't make my borderline-criminal bosses look bad, Harvey!"
After this, Harvey could leave the show with a clear conscience. He had done the right thing. He's a modern-day hero.
xTheOxx 1 year ago 3
I've seen you here!
hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!
David Letterman is a simple minded retard.
The audience he has are all his cousins.
angryproductions1 1 year ago
I wish when Dave started accusing Harvey of being rude, Harvey would have had the presence of mind to say that corporations killing people with bad policies, products and procedures is not only rude, but criminal, and should be responded to by the government with justice. maybe he did say it and Dave overrode him.
Jeannie1844 1 year ago
Goodbye Harvey - we loved you.
planetXXX 1 year ago
Cleveland lost its real hero.
BabylonAGoGo 1 year ago
@BabylonAGoGo:Get this; to most Cleavelanders (white & black) Le Bron James was a hero-Harvey Pekar is a hero to YOU and other like you-all of whom are in the minority.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 Lebron james is boring as fuck. At least Pekar had shit to say.
polkafrenzy666 1 year ago
@polkafrenzy666: For white people like you into underground comics, yes. But again, you are in the minority. And using Pekar to beat up on LeBron James is just petty, racist, and uncalled for, plus it won't get you anything but insults. James simply is popular because most people love sports; that's not a negative or a positive, it simply is. And you don't have to pay any attention to him when he's on TV, either.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 Racist?! Because someone likes Harvey Peckar more than Lebron he is labelled a racist. Grow up.
AVGP40 1 year ago
@AVGP40: Yeah, keep running down that river in Egypt on that one, pal. It's you and all of the fans of Harvey that need to grow up, not me. I just stated what is, is-you can either accept it, or not. But either way, leave James out of it. And don't accuse people of playing 'the race card'-if racism exists, it should be exposed, and that's what I'm doing.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 Not true. I really like Lebron, but he really did himself a disservice by the way he left Cleveland. I understand if he wanted to move on, but the really took a low class, f-u approach and rubbed it in the face of a city that loved him and made him very wealthy. All he had to do was forgo the BS and we would have understood. He did it to himself--it was a very immature move and bad advice from his inner circle.
BabylonAGoGo 1 year ago
They don't make 'em like this anymore. We'll miss ya Harvey.
cnpitts 1 year ago 2
RIP Harvey, one of Lettermans all-time greatest guest.
mrbuckeye45 1 year ago 2
RIP.
ERICinCOLOUR 1 year ago
Harvey, we will miss you.
riktov 1 year ago
rest in peace, Harvey
NoExitFilms 1 year ago
RIP MR PEKAR
MundoTozz 1 year ago
WE ALL LOVE YOU HARVEY, RIP.
jimdodels 1 year ago
RIP Harvey Pekar !!
draculascoffin 1 year ago
RIP
dsatkowski 1 year ago
wow does he ever make Letterman look bad
Bananadine 1 year ago 3
This may have not been 'scripted' but it is still an 'act' he's like Andy Kaufman. People couldn't tell reality from the joke.
VIEWTUBE00000 1 year ago
This is the kind of interview that happens when someone doesn't have a handler telling them what to say or how to act.
TRE1275 1 year ago
@TRE1275 Yup and Harvey acted just fine. Letterman is the retard.
cutis1000 1 year ago 5
RIP Harvey!! You were one of a kind, and I love how unimpressed you were with this show--biz phony...
DeepSouthWrestling1 1 year ago
RIP Harvey. By the way, General Electric is still an evil corp that needs to be stopped, incase anyone of you idiots is still paying attention!
jnwestray78 1 year ago
@jnwestray78:Sorry, but nuclear reactors aren't THAT evil, nor is the construction of diesel-electric locomotives, light bulbs (which GE still makes) or medical systems, evil! Find another enemy to bash.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 GE is also a major defence contractor, they profit from war. They also defrauded the Pentagon and were fined $69 million by the U.S. government for doing so, in fact they have repeatedly violated the False Claims Act, worst record of any defence contractor.
digimaton 1 year ago
@digimaton: So is Daewoo (when it was around), Samsung, BAE, Bombardier, Thompson/Thales, and a ton of others whose products you probably buy? What's your point, and why don't you live like a hermit in the forest, then?
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 that's like saying "I dislike Mc Donalds; therefore I hate food." A logical fallacy. Defence technology and war corporatism are not one and the same, despite you attempting to paint such a picture.
digimaton 1 year ago
@digimaton: You have me mixed up with somebody who gives a shit; I don't. GE is just not that biog a deal for me to be getting pissed off about-as I said, they did (and still do) great things as well as the military stuff (so do a lot of other companies mentioned.) If you don't want to use any products by them, go become a hermit. As for Pekar, he shouldn't have been on Letterman in the first place-NPR or maybe Tom Snyder would be more to his liking.
Neville6000 1 year ago
@Neville6000 let me clarify; there is no mix up, it was very clear from your initial outpouring that you are someone who does not give a shit. Let me reiterate: to state that one dislikes Mc Donalds does not imply that one hates food. Defence technology and war corporatism are not one and the same.
digimaton 1 year ago