The person on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman who presumably needs the least introduction is the titular host, Letterman himself. Nevertheless, in the show’s latest season, out today on Netflix, the host is reintroduced to the audience by Miley Cyrus, who brings Letterman onstage during an intimate concert she is performing at Chateau Marmont. Putting on shows for family and friends at Chateau Marmont, Cyrus explains to Letterman in the episode’s interview, is a tradition she started last November as a “birthday gift” to herself to reclaim “her love of performance and music.” Letterman is apparently “one of very few, if not the only” straight men who’s been granted entry. “It’s invite only, and it’s kinda like you’ve got to be gay to get an invite,” she tells him from the stage later.
One of the privileges of this rare exception, in Letterman’s case, is getting to see Cyrus’s interpretation of Talking Heads’s “Psycho Killer,” which she describes as “David Byrne does Johnny Cash doing Kylie Minogue.” At the song’s conclusion, Cyrus invites Letterman back onstage for his final thoughts. Letterman is wowed; he’s gobsmacked; he can’t imagine a world where this is the last time he’ll receive this prized invite. “This was so good as I’m sitting there, I’m thinking I might be gay,” he says. “We’ll do some tests and I’ll get back to you.” That he likes Cyrus interpreting Minogue is an encouraging sign. Someone play “Padam Padam” for Letterman to finalize the transformation.
