Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

In 1993, Bonnie Hunt created, wrote and starred in the sitcom, The Building.  She also served as executive producer with David Letterman.  When she recently did a Naked Lunch interview for the podcast with Phil Rosenthal and David Wild, she told a story about how she asked Letterman to act in one of the episodes – he agreed, but with one caveat, he didn’t want to be seen.  So, the show had to figure out how to make that work.  They came up with an idea where Bonnie’s character, a good girl who had a somewhat high profile in town, had to go to a video porn store to pick up her brother’s wallet -- when a robber breaks in…played by Letterman in a ski mask. (All the funnier, still smoking his cigar.)  And eventually the police and TV news show up.  And…well, rather than explain more, here’s the sequence –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImK1J4ESHY