Woah. Dave is on Oprah right now!
I clearly don’t pay close enough attention. Oprah is in New York this week and right now Dave Letterman, my favorite talk show host, is her guest, and by-god is it a weird experience. Dave’s humor and general uncomfortability on any talk show, combined with what the typical Oprah audience member expects from their show mesh together like opposite greased magnets. Yet there is he is, talking about the “Oprah Log” and reading a not-that-jokey top ten list.
If you’re by a working television, it’ll probably be worth tuning in just to see it as something of an oddity. Whenever Letterman leaves his set (at least in the modern era), he is always incredibly cordial to the host, mildly funny and wholly forgetable (which I assume is intentional) — go in, get it done with, leave into the night.
Update 2: The interview is over, and it might have been the best portrait of the man since The Last Shift. Good stuff.
