Streaming tip: Ukraine President Selenskyj in US talk show on Netflix
Created: 12/22/2022 13:04
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman starring Volodymyr Zelenskyy © Netflix
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman has been on Netflix since 2018.
Now there was a very special episode that makes the format worth seeing a must-see: a meeting between Letterman and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
For many years, talk show host David Letterman was considered a role model of sorts for numerous comedians and comedy fans.
After being kicked off his long-running CBS talk show, which he received earlier after he was contested for hosting the legendary "Tonight Show" by Jay Leno - who later ironically repeated the whole thing on O'Brien - there was a period of silence about Letterman before Netflix brought him back in a long-form interview format dubbed My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
This has been on display at irregular intervals since January 12, 2018.
He brings together everything that has status and sometimes also (controversial) names.
Barack Obama, Jay-Z, George Clooney, Ye, Malala Yousafzai, Billie Eilish and Tina Fey have all been there.
However, one special now deserves special attention: Letterman's meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine.
There they went into a secret subway tunnel in the city, used translation options and talked about Russia's war of aggression against the country of the former actor and comedian and now incumbent president.
You can read what was discussed at Serial Junkies.de.
(Adam Arndt)