Dave Letterman - c/d?

"even Jimmy Fallon" lol

http://www.pbs.org/mark-twain-prize/shows/2017-show-david-letterman/
just watched a bit of this so far but looks good. Martin Short and Steve Martin are gd treasures

I liked it, it was on last night. I read Al Franken was cut from it.

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

"Netflix has taken the wraps off David Letterman’s new six-episode talk show series. It is titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman and the debut of the one-hour talk show will stream January 12 with President Barack Obama as the first guest. A new episode will run out monthly during 2018.

The first season’s guest list is a doozy: Aside from Obama, it features George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, Howard Stern. The January 12 interview will be Obama’s first talk-show appearance since leaving office.

The show will feature Letterman and one guest in interviews that take place both inside and outside a studio setting. It will also include field segments featuring Letterman, whose Late Show run ended in 2015."

Featuring JAY

Z

I didn't watch the Late Show with any regularity for probably the last decade and a half of its existence, but this is exciting.

I love that it is only once a month.

yay!

Netflix is gonna pull this by the end of the month due to the sexual misconduct stuff

isnt that all old news?

Dave + Obama = pass

have you not been following the new news?

nope

what's the new news?

not turning up any

An industrywide reckoning for men accused of sexual misconduct?

that's old news

what's your angle, that Dave went on air and confessed all his sins but it was under the old rules and under the new rules he's a sexist fossil?

Also wasn't Dave's thing a consensual affair (with an employee admittedly, but still)

yeah i guess I never heard that anything was necessarily bad about the affair unless you think any affair is misconduct

Dave is so fucking boring

Personally, the weirdest bit for me was that I was back a home for a summer, working an intern job and crashing with my parents, and would watch Letterman with my mom. And Monty was a fixture during that time, so my reaction was very much “god damn it, Dave, wtf”

there's a letterman interview with trump from like 1984 where dave goads him into running for office

eh, Stone was pushing that on him earlier than that

a vanity fair article from 2009 by former writer nell scovell described the working environment as sexually charged and hostile.

what the hell whiney

Chris Weingarten, Edge Lord

Stern has talked about this on his show in the past couple of months. My take away was that it was a quid pro quo, Dave would finally do Howard’s show in exchange for H participating in D’s Netflix shit. Maybe an opening for H and Netflix, which he’s spoken of in a kind way before. And Netflix seems to have a bottomless wallet and their stock is flying, so yeah why not H as the fulcrum in a new audio division, where podacasters who want to make some $ could also go.

anyone watching this?

Watched it last night. Liked it very much and was sad it was only an hour.

I got tired of them congratulating/jerking each other off after 10 minutes or so. I'll watch the Malala Yousafzai episode but the others don't sound appealing.

Dave's side trip to Selma with John Lewis, cut into bits of the Obama conversation, upset the pacing a little bit but were very resonant (with me, at least...I'm not as jaded as some of yous).

yeah I liked it, it was nice

right there with you Johnny

Jay z interview was good but letterman addressing his own sexual misconduct felt weird and stilted

this show sucks

yeah it's not great. just found letterman getting a pass and then talking about it to be profoundly jarring

it was undeniably cringey to see dave declare "they hate me" as he walked around oxford with malala yousafzai and a bunch of other college girls who, as far as I could tell, actually and truly did hate him

most other moments of the show also cringey. no part of me thinks he really wants to be doing any of this

lol del what made you think they hated him?

basically just things like their faces and words and postures and lack of words

The author, Tina Fey, and Merrill Markoe all properly call BS on Dave here.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/david-letterman-netflix-tina-fey-interview.html

yeah that's a good piece

i know a couple of the original Late Night writers, and they're funny guys, but plenty of women could've been their equal

the relationship between Dave and Merrill Markoe is very weird, that was a recurring theme from Jason Zinoman's Letterman bio of last year

1) Years ago when I wrote for David Letterman we would make these fake broadway shows and put them on at the end of the show and never tell the audience they were fake. No one ever knew. https://t.co/uPQtupwycz

— rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) January 4, 2019

the two fake musical numbers are fantastic

omg dying

wow. totally worth perusing that whole thread. fresh step!

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFG6YdayX4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O34is5LORIGtHIExDJnkaCxFu-8ZDDWq1pyYfjT5ApOE5OCfDVWbQO18