Picking up from yesterday –
It was also sort of funny to me how much things seemed intertwined. I saw David Letterman so many times – on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, as a guest on Seth Meyers, as a panelist on Norm’s special. Maybe even more places I’m forgetting. And not just him. Conan. Jason Sudeikis. Lots of people were everywhere.
It’s nice to see some people we like working so much!
I also wonder how much people rely on what’s on our viewing platform – what the shows specifically submitted versus what we just know of them. For instance, I thought Outstanding Variety Talk Series was VERY hard to choose. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are all SO GOOD.
[Jimmy Kimmel is also very good, just in a different way.]
For me personally/my tastes, I was choosing between those 3. And I found it very hard to choose! I’ve seen all these shows, so I didn’t necessarily have to rely on the viewing platform, but in this case, I was like, “well, let me see specifically what episode they submitted, to see if that helps tip the scales…”
Seth Meyers submitted this basically perfect episode – the 40th anniversary of Late Show where he had David Letterman on to celebrate!
He did one of my very favorite bits. “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” And it was very funny.
Also, they had Hayley Brownell sitting in the band. She works with “Hit Like a Girl” to encourage more female drummers.
The interview with David Letterman was so very cute and sweet. He mentioned how wonderful it was to be in such close proximity to live music. It seemed like in that moment even Seth kinda realized ‘huh, I don’t really always take that in, do I’.
It was HILARIOUS when they started talking about all of Jack Hanna’s visits on The Late Show, and David Letterman was like, “Do you have an animal guy?” And Seth said “We don’t have an animal guy.” And David moved forward in his chair like ‘what?! You don’t have an animal guy?!’
We also got to see some little gem clips from long ago on The Late Show. It was lovely, and this is where I’ll pick up tomorrow!