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David Letterman was just good. The majority of US talk shows work exactly as you describe.
by Cyph0n 8y ago
David Letterman was just good.
The majority of US talk shows work exactly as you describe.
- adventured 8y agoCarson was even better than Letterman (by Letterman's admission as well). That style of late show - and I suspect the soil it requires to thrive - seems to have entirely disappeared from the culture.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoeveryone has to see the Nathan For You episode "The Anecdote", where he constructs a perfect "talk show anecdote" for his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, and then retroactively orchestrates the bizarre events of his anecdote in real life so that they "actually" happened to him. the supercut of several nearly identical, and obviously fake, stories told by "real" celebrities on late night talk shows is amazing. https://www.avclub.com/nathan-stages-the-perfect-talk-show-anecdote-on-a-stunn-1819702888 https://www.avclub.com/nathan-stages-the-perfect-talk-show-a... see also: his later appearance on Seth Myers where he explains the deal and then re-tells the anecdote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7GsGc5adk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7GsGc5adk