I've just started watching the episodes of David Letterman's new interview show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and I hope when they make more of these, they consider some people who do need introductions.
Dave has always been a fine interviewer when he's genuinely interested in a guest. He did not seem all that happy to have some of them in the chair during the last decade or so of his CBS show which is one of the reasons I think it was not getting the ratings that he and the network wanted. So it's great that he's now got a program where they can be more selective of his interview subjects and I'd like to see them not always be the biggest stars they can bag. Dave was great with lesser-known folks when they were somewhat interesting and he always made them more interesting. Or at least, he was more interesting.
One thing though bothers me about the new show. There's a saying in movies that if you're conscious of the editing, it's not good editing. The cuts they're choosing for Dave's new series are arbitrary and distracting as this gent, Thomas Flight, points out. I agree with him…