On Feb 15, 11:04 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. My own simple theory is that Dave is the only
> > host on TV that doesn't feel any responsibility to make guests feel
> > comfortable, and this seems to spook a lot of celebrities. As Don
> > Rickles once noted on Charlie Rose, Jimmy and Jay are like eager
> > beavers with guests whereas Dave plays a different game and just sits
> > there and waits.
>
> > As noted over on the Letterman NG, you can add Harvey Pekar, Shirley
> > MacLaine and Oliver Reed to the list of genuine disaster interviews
> > (Although Dave is hardly unique in the case of Reed)
>
> I think Pekar is on the Time list.
>
> I think that is a fair point about Dave, but I also think the number
> of these kinds of interviews that he has had can easily be
> exaggerated. He has done a hell of a lot of interviews over his career
> after all, and a high fraction of the ones that are being bandied
> about as "disasters" were either nothing of the sort, or contrived.
But can you think of a single such "disaster" interview, contrived or
not, on any of the other late night show? I do think that other hosts,
unintentionally, don't let it happen. They literally smother their
guests. But they all probably wish they could have these "Letterman
disasters".
Gary
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