Who is lettermans favorite guest

They have amazing chemistry together, and her appearances were always a treat. Hanks is hardly ever surly, though, and that combination of attributes might make him the perfect complement to Letterman. They can effortlessly play off each other without the mood ever growing too grumpy. As our TV editor Bonnie Stiernberg writes in an essay that will go up tomorrow, Murray and Letterman shared a Midwestern sensibility, a fundamental niceness that underpins their comedy no matter how sarcastic or absurd they get, and a thinly veiled sadness that deepens the older they get.

Their relationship never felt like a perfunctory meeting of host and guest—they were colleagues and friends, two of the most important and influential comedians of the last 35 years, and watching them age together into elder statesmen roles has been bittersweet.

Contact us at letters time. By Sarah Begley. Betty White. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Sharing a love of schadenfreude, their best moments come at the expense of another.

Russell Brand — March 9, David Sedaris — July 18, If he has an agenda, he cloaks it well, and his discomfort over the publicity charade endears him further. Ruffled by the mundane and yet never untethered, a quiet dignity in the face of highly surmountable odds makes him a Letterman favorite.

Bill Hader — October 2, Maybe four people in attendance knew who Hader was. Behaving as if he was plucked straight from the audience, the prodigal son plays to his strengths — local yokel lying in wait at a Tropic Thunder reading alongside an overbearing Tom Cruise, or recalling his days as a clumsy PA on the set of a Schwarzenegger movie.

He exudes more calm than the manufactured mystique of a bigger name, and Letterman encourages Hader to get even weirder. Killer Seth Rogen impression, by the way. Jimmy Kimmel has done both with wild success. They've continued to have superb on-screen chemistry, although nothing can match her on-air "confession" that she was cheating on him with Matt Damon.

Neal Justin covers the entertainment world, primarily TV and radio. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin is the founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms.

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