My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman

Name: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman
Genre: Comedy, Talk & Interview, Music
Released: January 12, 2018
Rating: 70

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Netflix | Release Date: January 12, 2018

Summary: David Letterman returns to the talk show world with a monthly series and the six-episode first season will include President Barack Obama, George Clooney, Tina Fey, Jay-Z, Malala Yousafzai, and Howard Stern.

Genre(s): Comedy, Talk & Interview, Music

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David Wiegand

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: Obama’s appearance will make some viewers feel nostalgic, and others indifferent, or less. But regardless of your take on the 44th president, it sure is good to have David Letterman back. And certainly because it’s Letterman asking the questions, we should feel nostalgic for a time when candid, insightful and civil interviews played a larger role in television news and the national conversation. Read full review

Dennis Perkins

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: It’s unassuming, and uncompromisingly anti-showbiz, with the feel of Letterman holding court at his leisure (and on Netflix’s dime). It could just as easily be titled My Next Guest And I Need No Audience. As an interviewee, Obama is as smoothly engaging as ever. Read full review

Darren Franich

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: If there’s a bold idea with My Next Guest, it’s to be as un-bold as possible. I mean that as a compliment. ... My Next Guest is in no hurry, and the Clooney episode gives me a powerful foreboding. But there’s a corrective feeling to this show. The fine art of conversation has faded a bit from late night. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: Dave is late-period-Dave, wry, amused, and relatively relaxed. Here, Obama is very much the same. ... It’s not a great interview, but it’s a cozy one. The conversation has the easy intimacy that can occur when two famous, successful men have reached points in their lives when they can be slightly less guarded. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: The celebrity guests ensure that the interviews retain a bit of the fluffy sweetness of broadcast TV. It seems highly likely that there are thorny topics his high-profile guests rule out, and the fact that the episodes were taped last fall mean that the questions can feel a bit stale. ... But overall, Letterman’s new effort isn’t bad, and it’s great to see that beard getting the screentime it richly deserves. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: That the episode takes its sweet time before returning in earnest to Letterman’s conversation with Obama suggests all manner of potentially fruitful avenues for future installments. Freed not only of commercial interruption but of the need to adhere to any particular structure, the show could go wherever Letterman’s mind decides to wander. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Jan 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: [David Letterman] seems only half-engaged here and far too much in the thrall of his first guest, who left office a year ago and has avoided the talk-show circuit until now. Both men seem rusty at the art of banter. They’re off their game. The interview doesn’t produce any surprising or newsworthy statements from Obama. ... The discussion meanders along the surface, touching on Russian interference in U.S. elections and the state of discourse in American society--though never deeply. Read full review

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  Air Date: May 31, 2019
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  Air Date: January 12, 2018