# Where can I find a copy of David Letterman's opening monologue... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 19, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565 "2001-09-19T12:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Royal\_Sampler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Royal\_Sampler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Sampler)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/1 "2001-09-19T12:34:46Z")
… from his first show back after the terrorist bombings? The CBS website seems to only have the latest one, do they archive? ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Sampler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Royal\_Sampler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Sampler)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/2 "2001-09-19T12:38:17Z")
Nah, no worries guys. Found it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/3 "2001-09-19T12:40:46Z")
Care to share? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/4 "2001-09-19T12:47:12Z")
[try here](http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/#) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/5 "2001-09-19T13:11:24Z")
I can’t find anything but a summary of the show on that link. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/6 "2001-09-19T13:21:18Z")
There is a link there to an (audio) realplayer file. ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/7 "2001-09-19T14:48:48Z")
If you want to read the monologue rather than listening to an audio file, try [this](http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=9o76n10mdo%40drn.newsguy.com). I don’t vouch for the accuracy of the transcript, since it’s by a Letterman fan posting to Usenet rather than an official CBS transcript. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/8 "2001-09-19T15:25:27Z")
A transcript of the speech really does it no justice. LEtterman didn’t say anything that was, in and of itself, groundbreaking of brilliant. What made the speech (and Leno’s last night, too) worthwhile was the emotion evident in his delivery, and how sad and hurt he was at what had happened to his beloved city. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Rufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/9 "2001-09-19T15:47:29Z")
Slight hijack, and for that I apologize. I heard that Leno’s monologue was quite impressive as well. I’m having trouble locating the transcripts for that one. Anyone out there get me a link for Leno’s? thanks, Rufus ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/10 "2001-09-19T18:27:55Z")
I would be very interested in Leno’s monolouge too. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/11 "2001-09-21T10:17:53Z")
They actually do archive the monologues on the CBS site, if you wish to see it. The way the site is set up, you have to click DTV guide on the lower right corner, the on the next page click on monologues and then click on the date September 17, 2001. Or [Brad Hill’s account](http://www.bartcop.com/919dave2.htm) can also be found here also. There’s thousands of reasons why I want a video capture card in my PC. Here is one more. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-copy-of-david-lettermans-opening-monologue/82565/12 "2001-09-22T09:58:29Z")
The thought I had from the transcript was a nomination of Choteau as Greatest City (town) in the world. Remember the biblical story of the widow’s mite?