Harvey Pekar on Letterman, 7/31/87

we'll talk to James Tuesday or Wednesday you know every time our next guest is in the studio all of our lives are in serious danger a big mess is left behind and once again I'm forced to hold strange creatures here's a tape of what he used to be like watch closely oh hi buck ma'am I don't know where you get 190 now or not and that's good that's good do I have to sell books I have to do it but you tell because you like being with me deliver I don't even know you man gentlemen please welcome the new and improved comic book author Harvey Pekar Harvey and we do yeah Harvey you know Harvey first of all thank you very much for putting us on the cover of your new issue of American Splendor volume number 12 right and I I read the I read it cover-to-cover very entertaining stuff thank thank you very much and you look you look good and you sound you sound better us-- last time you sound a little hoarse now you sound very relaxed kind of a contented man you don't know what I sound like like see if I try to talk like that's how you used to say yeah yeah and I sound a little like Vaughn Monroe Yeah right you're like we want me to sing racing with the moon yeah let's early but why would what has caused the change I don't know it's cause a chair you happier now are you more relaxed now no I don't know what's causing change David the last time I saw an ENT doctor ear nose and throat death very good David I didn't know you were up on a technical jargon haha last time I you know like I saw an ENT doctor and this is the truth he said that you know like he didn't know what was wrong with me and I had his advices that I should you know like call on my inner resources he trying to heal yourself thirty-five dollars that's what I paid for you so he was gonna talk like Landman the wrong you know all the same I work in a hospital II know what good you see you see them a little more I don't lay back no I I keep it wild oh man you know I feel all right that's good how are things in Cleveland I always like to hear how things are from the city on the banks of Lake Erie that's a stupid question you know it's a stupid question you know are you trying to bait me I'm not trying to bake a different end okay now tell me about Cleveland how are things how's the summer house the ball team are they out of it now where you want to talk about baseball I asked me about the EFD straight forward good dirt yeah it looks like a bad year you go to a lot of games I haven't gone this year I'll go see oh yeah all right you know I mean I was disappointed I only pitching yeah my liver yeah always next year wait till next year yeah wait till they now Harvey I didn't call to my attention it's been called to my attention that you and I'm guessing as a result of your appearances on this program have been so they have been offered your own television show as the matter of fact is that true yet folks I want to tell you that's the truth that is I don't want to tell you what Network I mean it was maybe it was like offer to do a pilot a pilot for whom who maybe all hi I don't want to tell you because I turned it down and I don't want him derelict oh sorry tell us right what I'm gonna tell you no no was it a cable deal was all know is for another network was it like ABC but it was ABC ABC it was another network cuz they got nothing you know ABC has really hurt I don't want it CBS was at CBS look man you're gonna get it down to one no I don't want to tell you because I've plan I stir them make the offer I want to spit on them you know what I said what what kind of what kind of sure wasn't what a talk show gonna be the talk show it was a talk show and then what kind of guests would you have I didn't even consider that question is I don't want to do it now why wouldn't you want to do it well I'd seen you here yeah but don't be discouraged by one lousy example I know how give you serious big dough Harvey big money interrupted me we are new I am so I'm going to give you okay know the answers there's a variety of reasons why first of all you get co-opted you can't not the DISA serious but you can't do anything serious and it's a drag to go on night after night doing simple minor book well but you don't have to be so serious all the time I mean I you know like once in a while I wouldn't mind it you know like on this show like you know like I didn't have an aggravation for two damn days now you know like I don't want to I just have it all back Harvey whatever whatever you're feeling let it out is not all the time David discretion is the better part of valor right sometimes yeah that old adage got you huh all right but the thing is that I you know like you know like I I come up with you know I've been being aggravated and then like you know Morton your man ask me all these questions about what I'm going to talk about you're not standard procedure everybody over no and when you have your own show you'll have somebody preparing everything for us showing we're just sing on the show Harvey would they be a little high tonight I might have when you open the show with a side right I might an area I might re but you can't you can't do you know like you want meat and potatoes stuff you want issues yeah okay I'd like to have some issues and wait a minute all right way we'll do it come around and then we get the sorry shoes now is that you messed up a Segway a beautiful segue and I setup you don't stick a commercial in here yeah I know you love it alright go ahead to you all right we're back here with Harvey Pekar and again I want to mention this is a really nice piece of work that I wanted to cover yeah all right fine that doesn't be on that square anywhere to jive and yuppie magazine man you know anyway I want to tell you like are you talking about being you know I was talking about being co-opted and about ninety to me exactly co-opted what do we talk or they buy you out or something like that well that wouldn't even be compromised that's right you don't like the guy like you you'll have you know wouldn't anything to you can go to them up like that well yeah no not so much that but you don't read much and so some of the stuff don't you know me that's right I don't really - you're right how we both know that David that you know present guy right in comic books telling me I don't read much and I wanted to tell you this you always make any zone she remarks about GE but there's a reason that you know people should be you know watching gee real clothes that don't have nothing to do with you know Robert Wright's toilet habits and I want to tell you all about that stuff not waiting I'm serious no or number with standard now man don't mess with number one yeah yes number one oh they're being sued in Ohio because they sold they sold these nuclear reactors around the country are very bad manners I don't care me this is very very integral to do I come to where you're Morgan and badmouth the Veterans Administration joonyoung's got a place called cuter Peabody that they own a Wall Street firm that they just had to pay twenty five million dollar buying on ship Joe's back there was a place bring out a handful of snakes for her again a long history of antitrust violation but again Harvey let me just interrupt your no no no I just don't think not so much out of Defense of the General Electric but I just feel that this is not the forum I just kind of disgusted see he had your own talk show Harvey if you had your own club show you could talk about this stuff on your talk show right okay Marie Harvey well I'm gonna ask you something I'm doing my thing on how would you know you're engaged in my house shut up you come over to my house and you sneeze into our girls mailbox look we're doctor I'm gonna ask you happy yeah why don't you come play come on play softball with us tonight oh man I'm over I don't get something what do you win you can't play a little song you you are terribly impolite you are terribly impolite I feel like I invited you to play softball and you make a rude gesture to you he'll see your eyes oh well sure you folks can take care of them if you want my thanks to Jack Hanna and all those wonderful animals Monday it will be Leticia Baldrige and singer Carl Perkins have a good weekend folks good night you

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Keywords: david, letterman, dave, harvey, pekar, late, night, 1987, american, splendor

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 11 2009