--- title: Watch Tom Hanks Show David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick description: Tom Hanks goes full tourist on the "Late Show" canonical: https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-19T11:46:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:00.406Z og:title: Watch Tom Hanks Show David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick og:description: Tom Hanks goes full tourist on the 'Late Show' og:url: https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb036b02621421d8/69884dd5f887dc15d3e90339/letterman_hanks_screenshot.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Letterman_Hanks_Screenshot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Tom Hanks Show David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick twitter:description: Tom Hanks goes full tourist on the 'Late Show' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb036b02621421d8/69884dd5f887dc15d3e90339/letterman_hanks_screenshot.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Tom Hanks Teach David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 19, 2015 11:46 AM UTC  Tom Hanks stops by Letterman to teach the retiring talk show host how to use a selfie stick Tom Hanks stops by Letterman to teach the retiring talk show host how to use a selfie stickImage captured via screenshot by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 19, 2015 11:46 AM UTC Tom Hanks stopped by the _Late Show_ with David Letterman on Monday night and did something you’d expect from a tourist or a Kardashian. He took a selfie using a selfie stick. “Rita announced when these first came out that we would never ever have a selfie stick in the house,” Hanks said of his wife, actress Rita Wilson. “But they sell these selfies all over Florence, which was the birthplace of the Renaissance.” Hanks suggested Letterman, whose last show airs on May 20, purchase a selfie stick for his retirement vacation. “When you, in a couple weeks, head down to — I’m just going to guess what you’re going to be up to — Space Camp, take one of these bad boys with you.” Letterman, though initially apprehensive about the contraption, was impressed by the end result. “It’s almost as if someone else has taken the picture for you,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/"},"headline":"Watch Tom Hanks Teach David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick","datePublished":"2015-05-19T11:46:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:00.406Z","description":"The actor goes full tourist on the Late Show host","url":"https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Late Night","David Letterman","Tom Hanks","late show"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb036b02621421d8/69884dd5f887dc15d3e90339/letterman_hanks_screenshot.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb036b02621421d8/69884dd5f887dc15d3e90339/letterman_hanks_screenshot.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Letterman_Hanks_Screenshot","caption":"Tom Hanks stops by Letterman to teach the retiring talk show host how to use a selfie stick","creditText":"Image captured via screenshot","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3884643/watch-tom-hanks-david-letterman-selfie-stick/","name":"Watch Tom Hanks Teach David Letterman How to Use a Selfie Stick"}}]}] ```