Chris Elliott as Paul Shaffer on Letterman, March 25, 1987

By request: Chris Elliott's impersonation of Paul. Paul Shaffer interview in Vulture, February 2022: Q: You’ve been impersonated on SNL over the years: Gary Kroeger, Mark McKinney, Chris Kattan. Anyone get you especially right or wrong? Paul: All of them capture elements of my bizarre character that I try to do. But there’s nothing like when Chris Elliott tried to do it on Letterman. He nailed me.