Barbara Gaines

The legendary late-night comedy writer paid a visit to Letterman’s YouTube channel to talk SNL, Norm Macdonald, and his stint as head writer for Late Night with David Letterman in the early ’80s.

Letterman reminisces about the emergency surgery that sidelined him from his show for six weeks in a new YouTube clip, concluding “typically I’m not a fan of memory lane, but I love this.”