This week, the question on many people's mind: Is a whole week of U2 on Letterman, too much U2? The short answer is: "Yes. Moving on." However, it started us pondering: Are there people we wouldn't mind watching five days in a row?
Here's our top ten choices:
1. Neil Patrick Harris. Segment: Five days of this...
Except he would insert our name and follow it up with, "You're a dirty little blogger."
2. Tracy Morgan. Segment: Tracy Morgan acting nuts. Dave responding with the whitest comments possible.
3. Drew Barrymore. Segment: Drew's top five zaniest moments from her lifetime in show business, followed by a strip tease on Dave's desk...
4. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Segment: Kate and Leo giving us the top five reasons that they love each other, but aren't in love with each other. Never gets old.
5. Matt Damon. Segment: Five days of Matt Damon doing impressions of his past co-stars...
6. Donald Sutherland. Segment: Donald sits there looking regal. We leer. Dave checks his watch and looks uncomfortable.
7. The Foo Fighters. Segment: Five days of performances followed by five minutes of Dave Grohl doing stand up.
8. Ellen Degeneres. Segment: Ellen sits out on the couch for all Dave's other guests and does sidekick commentary. Like Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Genius.
9. Tim Gunn. Segment: Five days of analysis on David Letterman's outfits followed by taped segments of Dave and Tim shopping at Bergdorf's.
10. The cast of 30 Rock. Segment: The cast performs the top five funniest scenes from 30 Rock in a black box theater with improvised props from the audience.
I'm afraid you got it wrong in the first place (the correct answer is "no," because one week of U2 is not too much U2), and then you got it more wrong with the list. The cast of 30 Rock or Morgan would be too much alone, but both? Are you being facetious? At least we agree on Dickens.
I would also take five days of James Lipton playing stand-in for actors in their crazy moments, a la his Christian Bale impression on Conan.
I'm so smitten by the idea of regular NPH (doing anything) and Matt Damon appearances that I can't think of anyone else to add. Oh NPH!
Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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