Late Show with David Letterman (Part 2)

Well, off the top of my head, the recent interview with President Obama was excellent - topical, serious when needed, and humourous. Whenever an American actress/comedian called Amy Sedaris is on, it's always hysterical, and when he has a person on who's he's obviously friendly with in real life, such as Julia Roberts or Regis Philbin, it's always an entertaining watch.

Obviously, not all interviews are great, but that's the same with any talk show host.

But then again I'm quite happy to say that Letterman's an acquired taste - it's not really the interviews that make the show, it's the stuff before that. The inside references, the little running jokes that you only pick up on if you watch it nightly, that's what makes Letterman's show for me. It's a show that you can obviously dip into every now and again, but you only get the genius of it if you watch regularly.

Incidentally, the excellent Lewis Black (one of Jon Stewart's regular contributors) gives his take on recent events. This is brilliant, and sums it up far better than I ever could:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/10/05/sot.lewis.black.letterman.cnn
 
ooh Garry shandling!:)

I always hope Dave mentions Larry sanders but the subject never materialises for some reason - V.strange!:confused:

Maybe with recent "events",the BIG man will ask Garry what Larry would do?:p
 
Thanks for the links. :)

With regarRAB to Richo's point about Sky Atlantic - I've just read this is launching early 2011, and it would be ideal for the Late Show or Conan. Might be worth trying to email Sky about it. Will try and find an email address for them later.
 
Just watched the 25th September episode with Bruce Willis's interview. Hilarious as always. :D Bruce's "Scanket". :D Got to love that 5000th show billboard too. ;)

Something rather interesting to note watching the 25th Sept episode in hinRABight of the blackmail plot that came out later on - watch the monologue at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxL_KhwTR8 and skip to 3 minutes into that video for the story about Boris Yeltsin - afterwarRAB Dave comments "There's a lot of money to be made in video recreations of idiotic behavior" - a reference to the alleged screenplay?
 
Dave was mentioned on Charlie Brookers Screenwipe review of the year. Surprising for a TV show to be included that isn't even shown here any more.
 
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