The only web page devoted to one of the worst shows on CBS since "Central Park West"!

"Would You Like To Have Your Own Show On CBS?" The original (and very creative) show open. "I would really love a glass of milk!" "Just like our honeymoon!" Gunther: "Your Mother!" Wife: "You Bastard!" Calvert: "I hate meatloaf!! You're fired!!"

Below is an actual letter from an actual Web viewer. If this wasn't an actual letter, would you see it here? Of course not! Anyway, that's right, Constantin Papst, better known as "Gunther" decided to drop me an e-mail about his show experience! I haven't edited the letter at all execpt for HTML formatting. Enjoy! The big experience being part of the major cast of "Everybody loves Gunther" in the David Letterman Show My name is Constantin Papst. I'm 24 years old and I study economics at the university of Konstanz in Germany. In Septembre '96 I'd been on holyday with two friend visiting Big Apple. On that day one of my friends, Christian Beierle, had been at the Natural Historic Museum, and the other friend, Klaus Baehr, and I had been at Conny Island during the day. Then in the evening we came back to Broadway, and we tried to get into the show to see how it is produced and to see how David is live. But there was a big crowd and a member of the team who told us that there would be no chance to get tickets within the next two mounths. Being a bit sad about it we went into the pizza place next to the Ed Sullivan Theatre to have a little snack. And then it happened: I was driking a espresso when I noticed that there was a camera and a speaker moving into the restaurant. The speaker started talking to several people and I got nervous imagining the speaker talking to me. I realized that it was Dave, the one and only Letterman. After some smalltalk he invited me to come to the Theatre and to have my own show. While I was running onto the stage the orchestra played the Black Forest Melody. What is funny about it is that I really am from the Black Forest and that the composer, Horst Jankowsky, is a close friend of our family. Then all the things happened which have been seen all over the world. Backstage the team was very nice and friendly. I got perfect support! The helped me learning my text, teached me how I had to act and corncerning the first episode of ELG they put some jam around my mouth! The only thing that they didn't really tell me was that they would throw a whole glass of water into my face!! And then it got even more unbelievable. After the show I got the real feeling of being a star. People waiting for me to have autogramms or get photos from me. Within the next three days, before I returned to Germany, people from all stages of life were talking to me on the street, asking me how it had been on the show, how I felt, where I was from and what I was doing. Even six weeks later a guy whom I'd never seen before came to me to university telling me that he had seen me on CBS in the US. Alltogether there were 45 foreign people talking to me. Looking back to this I'm happy to have this beautiful experience. All the best to the readers and David Letterman fans! Truely yours Constantin Papst better known as Gunther If anybody wishes to write to me directly use: Constantin Papst Werner-Sombart-Strasse 21 78464 Konstanz Germany

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Updated 11/4/96 by Kevin Nagle.