Within the very first episode of My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction with David Letterman, the late-night legend interviewed former President Barack Obama and visited essential places in civil rights historical past with the late Congressman John Lewis.
Now, in Season 6, Letterman and his writers must suppose up some softball questions concerning the Saudi Arabian theme park Beast Land.
After retiring from The Late Present in 2015, Letterman apparently determined that his subsequent venture wanted to be barely extra severe, extra pared-down and extra considerate than the nightly comedy format that made him a celebrity. When he signed on to do a chat present for Netflix, Letterman slowed down his tempo and went extra in-depth together with his conversations about politics, tradition, artwork and historical past – and, after all, comedy, at any time when he had an A-lister like Tina Fey or Howard Stern on stage.
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Nonetheless, within the newly launched teaser for My Visitor Wants No Introduction Season 6, Letterman appears to be falling into the identical lure that has ensnared practically each different late-night host within the enterprise, which is following the Jimmy Fallon mannequin of shamelessly pandering to web tradition and fishing for clicks.
Within the new season, which is ready to start on December sixteenth, Letterman will converse to film star Michael B. Jordan, comedy nice Jason Bateman and YouTube king/TV-PG Jigsaw Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson forward of the discharge of Beast Video games Season 2.
Now, in all equity to Letterman, Donaldson is, in each sense, and industry-leader and a cultural determine whose affect and affect is a minimum of equal to another My Subsequent Visitor interviewees. Donaldson’s primary YouTube channel boasts 452 million subscribers, making it the preferred account on the platform by an enormous margin, and his sweet model, his quick meals chain, his sport present and his Saudi Arabian theme park are solely engorging his already huge footprint on worldwide commerce and tradition.
However, actually, what does the 78-year-old Letterman, as soon as the zeitgeist’s prime iconoclast when it comes to tearing down cynical, opportunistic attention-seekers, have to speak about with the 27-year-old whose total model is allegedly simply being the YouTube equal of a Walmart with zero OSHA compliance? What perception will we probably want Letterman to glean from Donaldson’s maximalist workouts in overstimulation and public humiliation, a few of which prompted nine-figure lawsuits in opposition to the content material king from their contestants?
If Letterman would not ask Donaldson any severe, important questions on the way in which the multimedia magnate has handled a few of the civilians who participated in his chaotic, allegedly harmful stunts and easily spends the entire episode wandering round Donaldson’s sound stage mouth-agape like he does within the trailer, then what was the purpose of even beginning a severe Netflix discuss present?
Clearly, Donaldson is talking to Letterman a minimum of partially to advertise Beast Video games Season 2, which is slated to hit streaming lower than three weeks after the beginning of My Subsequent Visitor Season 6. If this interview finally ends up being the puff piece that it seems to be, then, actually, why will we nonetheless want Letterman after we have already got Fallon?
