# David Letterman's new Netflix show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979 "2018-01-19T16:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/21 "2018-01-24T17:00:53Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’m 57 years old, but never caught the David Letterman craze. > > I did like this though. I am a fan of Obama. I thought it was very nice, and more like two old friends talking and enjoying each others company. Each had a few questions that they wanted to ask. I concur. The President has always been an easy guy to talk to. They did cover some serious ground on leadership, but for the most part we saw two interesting guys, both extremely well-known in their primes, relaxing and talking about interesting stuff. (I probably could have done without the lamp thing. That seemed a stretch to make Obama seem more “human”.) Looking forward to Letterman’s chat with Clooney. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/22 "2018-01-25T01:04:58Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I imagine the demands of this program are a good bit less arduous than the daily grind of his late-night shows, and he’s interviewing people he REALLY wants to talk to without having to work in the b-listers of the week. I’d call this semi-retirement. Letterman did a Paley Center-type show with Seinfeld discussing “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and expressly said he was looking for a similar project for himself - something undemanding and all his, with no one to answer to. I suspect Tim Allen will be doing something similar as well. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/23 "2018-01-25T04:49:30Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Is it on cable? I thought it was a YouTube channel “Jay Leno’s Garage”. Is it the same show? \*Jay Leno’s Garage \*is broadcast on [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/jay-lenos-garage/). ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/24 "2018-01-25T10:42:38Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > …(I probably could have done without the lamp thing. That seemed a stretch to make Obama seem more “human”.)… I can’t for the life of me remember what the lamp thing was. Anyone? mmm ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/25 "2018-01-25T14:17:12Z")
When​ Obama was talking about struggling to assemble a lamp for his daughter while Michelle just dominated the mom-ing when the moved Malia into her dorm. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979/26 "2018-01-25T14:53:11Z")
Right – it took him half an hour to assemble a lamp that had maybe four pieces to put together, while Michelle was doing all this cleaning and scrubbing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-lettermans-new-netflix-show/806979.md?page=1)