NYC/Letterman Tickets

[mousey]

Anybody have any advice on how to get 2 tickets to the David Letterman show on Monday, Nov 24th??? I'm surprising my mother with a trip to NYC and would love to take her to the show.
I put my name on the email list, mailed a post card requesting tickets, and read about calling at 11:00AM the day of the show. Any suggestions??? Thanks

 

[izzy]

I don't know how CBS works it, but when he was at NBC years ago, we went early in the morning (around 7:00 a.m.) to stand in line and they could put you on a standby list and you'd get a number. You had to show back up later that afternoon, and depending on if people who already had tickets didn't show up, they'd let some of the standby's in. We made it in that evening (I think we were #7, 8, 9, and 10 on the standby list) and got to see Steve Guttenberg, Richard Petty, and Michael Caine. It was a lot of fun. It think it was around 1993 or so.

Sorry I'm not of more help!

 

[SilverLily]

I was in NY a month ago and it is still done as izzy described. My group didn't line up for standby tickets until 8:30am, and we got numbers in the 60's. We didn't get in. I think the first 10 or so people got in that night.

 

[mousey]

Thanks izzy and silverlily. Hopefully I will get called from the email list i'm on from the show. Thanks for the info.