On last night’s Letterman show….
…we did a reenactment of Jay Thomas’ classic “Lone Ranger” story. If you didn’t see it, it’s available on the Late Show website, along with a phenomenal 10-minute mini documentary about the making of Darlene Love’s yearly rendition of “Christmas Baby Please Come Home.”
But that’s not why we’re here. You’ll see in the reenactment that the Lone Ranger is played by Dave himself. I’m not positive, I don’t think he has worn a costume since his heart surgery in 2000. So, this was a big deal. When he walked onto the set in the complete stitch-for-stitch ensemble for the Tuesday night post-tape, one of the head writers, Justin Stangel, turned to me and said, “I am rock fucking hard now….”
The next day, I told Dave that the mayor’s office had called and while he was dressed as the Lone Ranger, not a single crime had been committed in Manhattan or the other four boroughs.
