To me, Letterman is at his best when he interacts with the audience during "America's fastest growing quiz sensation, Know Your Current Events." His broad knowledge of trivia means he can almost always find an interesting question to ask of any audience member.
"Will It Float" is a very strange phenomenon. Conceptually, it is a stupid idea, but it seems to be working very well. I suspect it is just the surrounding hype that makes it fun, but fun it is. However, I think the grinder girl's 15 minutes are up.
"Is This Anything" is another segment that hits more often than it misses. It is amazing what some people will do to get on television.
On the other hand, it is long past time for both "Psychic Sandwich" and "Beat The Clock" to go. "Beat The Clock" just grates on me; it isn't funny, it isn't suspenseful, and it is downright mean to the "contestants". If there were a point to it, it would be different, but it's nothing more than existential silliness. Maybe there's a Zen aspect to it that I am missing. And perhaps someone can explain to me why "Intuitive" Debra Lynn keeps coming back for more "Psychic Sandwich" abuse. It took her three or four tries before she figured out that the object of the game was to pick the NAME of the sandwich, rather than the MAKEUP of the sandwich. So much for intuition.
I miss Biff Henderson locating the viewer mail cities on his big map.
Nathan Lane and Martin Short could liven up a mortician's convention. Wouldn't you love to be stuck in an airport for a few hours with those two?
I do wish he would introduce the band once in a while. We know Paul, of course, and we've heard Anton and Felicia mentioned a few times, but the rest of the group is anonymous. I've even sent this in to "viewer mail" once or twice.
