NEW YORK, USA (20 / MAY / 2015) .- The influential evening program TV comedian David Letterman then concludes Wednesday 33 years of challenge, revolutionize and set standards of one of the classic forms of entertainment in the United States.
Titled “Late Show with David Letterman” (The “show” Night), the program changed the format popularized by comedian Johnny Carson from the 1960s, a series of interviews with celebrities deployment of irreverent humor and often silly, of great cultural impact.
With more than six thousand episodes, the program concludes after Letterman, 68, announced his retirement last year, at a time when the comedian still enjoys enormous popularity.
Its formula also came from interviews, although if they were away from the usual complacency that comes on TV celebrities.
His dialogues reflected his remarkable mental agility and a man at times exasperated and sometimes genuinely moved by your guests.
His interviews with the singer Cher, who insulted the air for being rude to your guests, or with socialite Paris Hilton, who persistently and cruelly asked about the season he spent in prison, are classic examples uncompromising style that developed the Letterman interviewer.
Among his guests they paraded US presidents, all the characters of American culture and even his mother, who repeatedly came to the program . Amen
interviews, Letterman popularized his style, expressionless appearance, to tell jokes with now common in digital media formats, such as lists of curious elements of the culture and institutions of the United States .
The newspaper “The New York Times” has described the influence Letterman as “substantial”. “Breathed new life into the programs of guests, taking them from traditional interviews from the desk, the couch to a number of innovative antics and often extravagant,. Gave birth to many races he became a model for generations of comedians,” the newspaper .
For Emily Nussbaum, the critique of television culture magazine “The New Yorker” Letterman comedy, himself a figure of entertainment, now seems inconsequential.
Originally, however, his style made him look like an “anarchist”, according to critics.
“His style suggested that television could pierce the culture, rather than prop,” said Nussbaum, who noted that the program was in its “lighter, free, bizarre, surreal and cerebral beginning . “what became his mature years
Other observers also point to a darker passage Letterman on television legacy. the misconduct as a tool of humor
For the critic Charles Passy, the MarketWatch site, Letterman “made our world a wretched place,” based on a sarcastic, nihilistic humor that did not point to any further social good. In any case, the influence of Letterman is not in dispute.
Its privileged position will be occupied from September by comedian Stephen Colbert, a driver whose style, socially engaged, completely separates the man who says goodbye today screen.
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