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8.8/10   17 votes
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Director:
Hal Gurnee
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Release Date:
30 November 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Music more
User Comments:
Short films by guests more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

David Letterman ... Himself (segment "With My Own Eyes")
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charlie Drayton ... Himself (segment "Dress Cool")

Christopher Guest ... Himself (segment "The Making Of You Wouldn't Believe Our World")

Clint Howard ... Himself (segment "But I'm Happy")

Ron Howard ... Himself (segment "But I'm Happy")
Neil Jason ... Himself (segment "Dress Cool")

Peter Jurasik ... Himself

Michael Keaton ... Himself (segment "But I'm Happy")

Andrea Martin ... Himself
Sid McGinnis ... Himself (segment "Dress Cool")

Michael McKean ... Himself (segment "The Making Of You Wouldn't Believe Our World")

Bette Midler ... Himself (segment "Why Bother?")

Catherine O'Hara ... Himself
Paul Shaffer ... Himself (segment "Dress Cool")

Harry Shearer ... Himself (segment "The Making Of You Wouldn't Believe Our World")

Marcia Strassman ... Herself (segment "The Making Of You Wouldn't Believe Our World")
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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Michael Keaton's short film is about what he would possibly go through if he lost his fame and fortune. It includes a cameo of Ron Howard, who cast Keaton in his breakout role in Night Shift (1982) more
Movie Connections:
Spin off from "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982) more
Soundtrack:
You Wouldn't Believe Our World more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Short films by guests, 6 February 2006
7/10
Author: lindet-1 from Seattle, WA

Four short films in this collection are really well done - and funny. First is Letterman's own short about plot-stealing on television entitled "With My Own Eyes". The second is Michael Keaton's film "But I'm Happy" about what happens to washed up actors in Hollywood. Next is Catherine O'Hara's and Andrea Martin's take on PMS...yup, that PMS. And finally, and the best of the bunch is Harry Shearer's mockumentary on the making of an "industrial". You know, an in-house video that large companies create to tell the employees about all the wonderful products they produce and how they're just one big happy family. The name of the industrial is "You Should See Our World". This one has the sharp satire that Shearer's famous for and includes "stars" Michael McKean and Christopher Guest of Spinal Tap fame. Really good stuff.

The two clunkers of the bunch are the band "video" which is amateurish and Bette Midler's "Why Bother?", which is about 3 minutes too long. Which for a five minute film is saying something.

This should be released on DVD!!!

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