David Letterman said earlier this year that his post-Late Show adventures have been so fulfilling that he wishes he had quit his CBS job much earlier, so he has unsurprisingly decided to continue what is probably the most lucrative of those post-Late Show adventures with another season of his Netflix talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. As announced in a press release, the show will be returning for a new season at some point next year with “another round of guests Letterman finds fascinating.” Naturally, we have no idea who those guests will be, since they need no introduction and will evidently not be receiving one, but last year the show got Barack Obama, JAY-Z, Malala Yousafzai, George Clooney, Tina Fey, and Howard Stern.
We’re not sure how the show could possibly find guests more fascinating than those (Howard Stern!), but we think Netflix could buy back some goodwill if it convinced Letterman to sit down with blind New York defense attorney Matt Murdock or bulletproof Harlem guy Luke Cage. Surely they’ve got more stories to tell.
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I’m not sure exactly why, but I really want to see Letterman interview Charles Barkley for a solid hour.
Have you read this story about Charles Barkley? Its fucking amazing. https://amp.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley?__twitter_impression=true
yeah, i think that might be why i’ve got barkley on my mind.
Ray Charles’ far less successful follow-up song.
WE WANT MORE NORM
I was going to say the same thing. I love Norm.
I want Letterman to interview him for an hour, and I want that show renewed too.
I’d like to see Dave do an episode with all the people he came up with at the Comedy Store in the ‘70’s. Tom Dreesen, Elaine Boosler, Jeff Altman, John Witherspoon, Merrill Markoe, and the ghost of George Miller.
Hellz to the yeah
Sure, maybe he can tell us more about how Louis CK and Rosanne are just misunderstood.
Letterman’s show was great, but Norm’s show was fantastic. I love how it really was just purely his sense of humor, and just how much that disrupts the normal interview.
Tom Waits
I remember as a young un enjoying Letterman’s Late MORNING show. It was outrageous! Then he got his late night gig; that was fine. Then all of the talk about his good old boy staff and all the sexism. THEN the late night lechery. Oh god, it was vile the way he talked to his women guests. I thought that public opinion had convinced him to retire. Now he wants more adulation. Fuck you Dave. You will never be anything but a self absorbed misogynist (and probably a closet pedo too).
Wow, I was almost totally cool with your rant up to that last part. Way to crash and burn at the end there. I dig it.
Accusing everyone you don’t like of being a pedo, indiscriminately, is a good way to prove that you don’t actually care about pedophilia as a terrible problem.
I just got through reading “The Last Days of Letterman,” an oral history of the last six weeks of “Late Night with David Letterman,” when a lot of Letterman’s favorites made their last visits — George Clooney handcuffing himself to Dave, Tina Fey taking off the supposed last dress she would ever wear on a late night talk show, etc. It’s a really fun read, even if the author didn’t get Dave or Paul.
I hear he’s bringing back his top ten lists.
I miss funny Dave. This show sucks.
God I hope it’s six interviews with Joey Buttafuoco
I dunno… with those whiskers, I think there’s a Bad Santa joke in here somewhere.
glad to hear it. i enjoyed every episode (well, except for Howard Stern, because fuck that guy).
By the final episode this show was pretty awful. Early on it seemed to want to claim it had lofty goals of introducing the audience to bigger subjects. When he interviewed Clooney, they talked a lot about the great work being done by Clooney’s wife. Gee … too bad she wasn’t invited to participate. When Letterman interviewed Jay Z, the musical segment of the episode could not have been more non-urban. It’s like they were chosen to help make sure Dave’s white audience didn’t get too uncomfortable. And the interview didn’t really go into any real depth. Tina Fey was fun, but not memorable. I suppose Howard Stern was fun if you still think his shtick is interesting. I’d hate to see this show start to suck as much as Seinfeld’s show – the show where he pretends his guests actually care about the car he rented for the episode and the guests pretend they’re talking to him because they like him.