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I'm Jesse Thorn. It's Bullseye.

Time now for the craziest f*** day of my entire career. A segment where we give guests of Bullseye

the chance to tell us about the craziest f*** day of their entire careers.

This one is a story about another big legendary talk show, The Late Show with David Letterman.

It's told by Matt Bronner. Matt is a great stand-up comic who's from Portland, Oregon. He's

had a handful of very funny specials and albums and has also appeared on shows like Superstore

Take My Wife and Agent Carter. One of Matt Bronner's biggest breaks came in 2008 when

he got the call to be on David Letterman's Late Show. Here's Matt.

I'm Matt Bronner and this is the craziest f*** day of my entire career.

So this story begins 11 years ago. Basically I was booked to be on the David Letterman

show probably a year before that. My date got moved and it got moved and it got moved.

And finally we had a locked-in thing and so I flew in and was put up in a hotel.

It was just there me and my manager. My now wife was the only then manager. We were

both kind of on the come-up so to speak together back in those old lean days.

And this is the thing. I wasn't living in New York then. So to get flown there to do

the show was like a big deal for me.

At the time Letterman was and always was a huge deal. It was either kind of this thing

embraced as like oh you can get on that show and be weird or when I got in there it was

like iconic to the level of you know the tonight show with Johnny Carson. I feel like

Letterman was the last thing we have in our generation that still is up to that kind

of status not only amongst your Americana you know Joe every day on the street to your

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