Chris Weingarten, Edge Lord
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
anyone watching this?
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
Watched it last night. Liked it very much and was sad it was only an hour.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― LLAMAS ARE FOR CLOSERS (WilliamC), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
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).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
yeah I liked it, it was nice
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
right there with you Johnny
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Jay z interview was good but letterman addressing his own sexual misconduct felt weird and stilted
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
this show sucks
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
yeah it's not great. just found letterman getting a pass and then talking about it to be profoundly jarring
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
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
― del griffith, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
lol del what made you think they hated him?
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
basically just things like their faces and words and postures and lack of words
― del griffith, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
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
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a good piece
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
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 ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
the relationship between Dave and Merrill Markoe is very weird, that was a recurring theme from Jason Zinoman's Letterman bio of last year
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
the two fake musical numbers are fantastic
― na (NA), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
omg dying
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 January 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
wow. totally worth perusing that whole thread. fresh step!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFG6YdayX4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O34is5LORIGtHIExDJnkaCxFu-8ZDDWq1pyYfjT5ApOE5OCfDVWbQO18
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Dammithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFG6YdayX4
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
I've been waiting for these!
Also, Don Giller recently (well, eight months ago) posted what is probably my favorite talk show appearance by anyone, ever (now with backstory!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGt2mBHDEEo
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
I'm easy to please, but I loved this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Oqk78YpQY
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
Amazing combination of hosts and guest.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
Good interview
https://www.vulture.com/article/david-letterman-2020-election-trump-interview.html
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 November 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
great read! he was a guest on Busy Phillips’ podcast a month or so ago, and he talked about his gameshow past in more detail, ie working as a stand-in host for a show that was still casting the actual host, it was fun to think of that as his “whatif” career lol I could read/listen to him talk about literally anything these days
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah its always really interesting to hear him talk about his days as a wandering showbiz jobber. Would love a doc or a real good bio that covered that era of his life up to the late show.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
He is such a great storyteller. When he was on WTF last year, he told a long story about getting stuck in a gig opening for a Lola Falana musical revue in Denver where he bombed 2 shows a night for 10 days straight. Worth checking out
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 2 November 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54fd3T15JFg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
those "favorite moments" videos have been a real highlight of my 2022 viewing
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
Someone actually won Letterman's marquee for The Late Show in a charity raffle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM3j_s3Obk
Love how Letterman points out that the raffle was open "worldwide...and our winner is from New Jersey."
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 17:06 (four months ago) link