On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was obviously no way this special was going to please everyone. > Stuff was going to be left out. My chief criticism is the focus was on > highlights of people who are popular now as opposed to popular over the > past several decades. That said, Selena Gomez wasn't included despite her > being one of Dave's most frequent guests in recent years (she did make the > Late Show's official highlight package on the Steve Martin show the other > night). Also omitted was one of my favorites, Tony Randall, who was for my > money one of the top five best talk show guests ever. I suspect potential > uproar prevented the inclusion of either Bill Cosby and Brian Williams. > Cher, Howard Stern, and Julia Roberts appeared on multiple segments on the > show, and considering they only had 90 minutes to work with, a single > mention of each should have sufficed so there could have been others > included. > The producers seem to intentionally left out guests who are no longer alive. Not only was Tony Randall left out, so was Farrah Fawcett's notorious appearance, which was as well known as Madonna and Drew Barrymore, and staples of the old show like Brother Theodore and Harvey Pekar. Andy Kaufman and Warren Zevon barely got on. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
