Harvey Pekar on Letterman, 7/31/87

Harvey Pekar of 'American Splendor' comes on Late Night for another appearance. This was the appearance portrayed in the film.

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  Comedy

[josh printup]

Its amazing seeing the contrast between an actual real person and a phony buyout piece of shit like letterman.

[Peter Drew]

Wow, the film really overplayed this confrontation. Letterman even had him back on the show after this. They fought ever time. That was the point. Dave played the rich asshole and harvey played the poor asshole, roles that came easily to both. Showbiz.

[Reborn8303]

well there was a film about this guy and it showed his appearances on the show. never portraid then as staged unlike kaufman

[chrisis138]

duh, It's funny seeing the comments on here about this. It's so fake and people just don't get it, funny shit.

[Reborn8303]

I could be wrong but i think this was all set up. Just like Kaufman

[Sergei Cordov]

That one is another interview man and it´s also here on utube search for the one where he wears a green shirt (or T)

[Judd Derwall]

he wasnt even being rude. he had a list and he read it. same as news

[mikehellton]

Hey Harvey was in better shape than paul giamatti. I guess he really was a vegetarian. Or was it that people in the 80's were slimmer than the present day fat fucks rolling around. Ur Fat!!

[cat thornberg]

never ceases to amaze me how people will flip out over completely innocent youtube comments. case in point, your response to KikoSavesTheDay.

[MrTexasArcane]

Notice how honest people never come across well on television.

[KikoSavesTheDay]

Who the fuck are you to determine who I have and haven't met, you fuckin' turd?! Are you saying blue collar people from the Midwest are fuckin' selfish misanthropes like Pekar? Asshole.

[Notecrusher]

I guess you find celebrity whores "sympathetic". Have you ever met an actual blue collar person from a midwestern city like Harvey? He isn't some side-show freak you stupid little twat.