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But not in the way that one might think… Dave was rightfully mocking the orange menace in the White House, and out of the blue, compared Trump's hair to Al's.

"I mean, we elected a guy with that hair? Why don’t we investigate that? He looks like Al Jardine of the Beach Boys."

http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/david-letterman-in-conversation.html?mid=fb-share-vulture

Most bizarre item relating to this band that I've read in awhile...  :lol  I guess Al's really bad hairstyle in the mid '90s, which must've been the last time they were on his show, must've left a lasting impression on him.

Poor Al  :-\

Please keep that in the sandbox.  :bw

You might as well want to avoid reading the entire article, because Letterman does nothing but insult your hero as well.

Poor Al, indeed.

He is no hero but he is the president of the United States.

I would not be happy about that if I was Al.

Haha - Letterman used to compare his own hair to Al Jardine's on his show. It's one of his go-to lines.

Crazy. I had no idea.

That's one more funny joke from Letterman than any current late night host, and Letterman doesn't even have a show.

As most people in "the business" like to say, and the so-called POTUS seems to be trying hard to disprove: "there is no such thing as bad publicity."

OK, guys, NOW move it to the Sandbox!!!  :3d

For those that don't remember, referencing Al Jardine's name is a running gag with Letterman going back to the 90s I believe.

I forget the exact context, but it was something to the effect that Al Jardine has so little name recognition.

Letterman had the BBs on his show (more than once I believe), and has had Brian on the show. He likes Al Jardine as far as I can tell.

Awful person to be compared to, no question. But I think Letterman is actually doing it with affection for Jardine and his old references to Al back on his show in the 90s and possibly 2000s.

Seriously, I doubt all of the current late night hosts even know who Al Jardine is.

Surprisingly Al Jardine recently popped up on late night TV, as an anti environmentalist lawyer / villain character on a spoof show called Decker, on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.  Talk about a random cameo.

Al for President in 2020

I wonder if someone has any footage on tape of Letterman doing this recurring Al Jardine joke. Maybe it's on Youtube somewhere, although a cursory search turned up no results, except for the appearance in the mid '90s where Bruce wore the worst shorts I have literally ever seen in my life.

I too was surprised that Letterman was referencing Al, and I also doubt that many people even know who Al is by name.

Someone please photoshop Al with his praying hands from the cover of 20/20 into the Oval Office!

Letterman did have a running joke with references to fairly obscure celebrities. I remember him deliberately mixing up Matthew Broderick with Broderick Crawford.

That's awesome; the more obscure, the better. At least for once, surprisingly, a BB hair joke is at the expense of a member other than Mike.

Letterman is a mean spirited guy, quick to to insult others.

Every idiot has an opinion on Trump.

Every Trump is an idiot...
We can go on... Sandbox if you please

Letterman is definitely a Beach Boys fan. He had Brian on a number of times, and had the Boys on twice, once (without Brian) to sing the numbers on a top 10 list,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aivrroKurUc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aivrroKurUc)

and once with Brian as they did Little Deuce Coupe with James House to promote Stars and Stripes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe577Ff6Lqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe577Ff6Lqc)

I remember several times when he referred to a guy with blonde hair as looking like Al Jardine.

My favorite Letterman Beach Boys reference came near the end of his run. He had a band on (I don't remember the name), and at the end of the song, he came over to thank them. He shook hands with the guys up front and acknowledged the guy behind the drum kit as "Denny, the hard-working drummer."

Yes please

From memory one of those early 90s Al stories was Dave saying this unknown guy came up to him at an airport asking "when can we be on your show?". Of course it was Al, who even referenced the no invite to Shaffer at the Paramount show.

Shortly before the official start of my fandom, I remember watching a clip where Letterman went to that deli next door from the studio and made a comment about one of the patrons (who was wearing a Hawaiian shirt) having graduated from the "Al Jardine School of Fashion". Of course, when I got into the band , I got the joke.

I miss David Letterman so much! Our local TV always broadcast his Late Night Show 1/2 days after it had been done in the US. I found his monologue fabulous. Hear this elderly gentleman, elegant and white haired, say such off the wall things (some good satire, with a lot of pure farce), always made me laugh, and a lot. Ditto the interventions by Paul Shaffer, minus the white hair. :)
The interview section depended much on the interviewee, of course, but some were fantastic. And the guy with all those strange animals...
All in all, it was my fav TV show.

I was a huge Letterman fan in the 1990s.  This was around the time he went from NBC to CBS, and the 1130p timeslot made it easier for me to catch him.  I think it was E! that also showed his NBC reruns at this time too.  I even got a few of the Top Ten List books they put out. 

Over the years, I think Dave grew a little redundant, and I think his comedy got lazy at times.  That said, past his prime Letterman was still much better than what passes for late night shows today.

Didn't Mike wear Hawaiian shirts? He wore it more frequently than Al.

As to recent quip, I'm glad Al gets recognition - don't you ever call him poor. That's derogatory, he's anything but poor, being the best voice in the BBs, singing lead in their hit "Help Me Rhonda" & ultimately being in American band No. 1.

I think we may have mentioned this before, but I have pretty much the exact same story. I'm not sure if it was just different where I was but I remember the NBC Letterman's being shown on A&E. People give him a bad rap for curbing his style when he went to 11:30 but I still think those early CBS shows were pretty exciting. I also think that after his major heart surgery, Letterman quite consciously decided to dial it back a notch, which I think was great for him personally but it did make the show a bit slower and a bit less entertaining.

I used to be a huge Letterman fan in the 90's, but he got more political as he continued and I started to lose respect for him.  Also his embarrassing affair didn't help things. 

I forgot about his heart surgery.  That does seem to be around the time he toned his style down a bit. 

At the C50 concert in Aarhus, Denmark, Al pulled at his hair to convince front row disbelievers that it was his own hair!

Whoah, that's crazy! I wonder what caused that - did someone in the audience or a local paper say something to make Al want to disprove a claim?

I think he is pulling your....  ;D

https://youtu.be/VPonFcjEcIs

Aw man, and I fell for it, hook, line and sinker! Kind of how some people fall for Mr. Orange... er, nevermind.

D'oh!

 :lol  But I am impressed with the Orange One's comb-over...I view the photos and videos of when the wind catches it, and it seems to be folded over from various directions in ways that I've never seen before - an art form.  It should be left to the Smithsonian.

Al's lovable and Letterman worked with it.

I thought David Letterman was dead....

Considering he's been in the news lately, not sure why you'd think that...

One thing I can't figure out: Al never did have a great head of hair like the Wilson's; in the 70's, he sure looks to be balding. But he never went completely bald as Mike did.