jenosborn wrote:

looks like only half of it is online,  on the CBS site,  also on youtube:

http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/2312581871/david-letterman-martin-freeman-s-hobbit-journey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWZ5LA9R9E

Thank you, but that's what I found, too. But that can't be the whole interview!? Well we'll have to see if something longer will be up at yt.

By the way, usually I'm not a fan of Letterman interviews, he is ill-informed and ill-prepared. The age?!  He should stay home then.

I like Conan and Jimmy Fallon (although he giggles a lot ).

The interview with Stevie Colbert was brilliant a expected, he was out-character a lot. 

Last edited by Ivy (December 6, 2012 9:12 am)

A good 15 minute interview with Martin on Opie and Anthony

Not as good as the Stephen Colbert interview imo, but definitely better than a lot of the others.

Ivy wrote:

Thank you, but that's what I found, too. But that can't be the whole interview!? Well we'll have to see if something longer will be up at yt.

That's not the whole interview and I wouldn't count on it showing up fully on youtube as CBS keeps a close watch on things.  Sadly, not much is missing from that clip though.  The interview was really short and not very good.

I am also not a fan of Letterman's.  He's my least favorite late night person apart from Leno.  Unfortunately, now that Conan's in Los Angeles Letterman is the only one left in NYC and that's where Martin's doing all of his Hobbit press.    Logistics has screwed us over.

Ivy wrote:

Oh I forgot Craig Ferguson, he's great, too. But also not in NY.

Craig is probably my favorite late night talk show guy. It's a shame Martin isn't able to make his way out to the west coast, I think they have better chat shows out there.

Colbert Report with Peter Jackson

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-december-6-2012-peter-jackson

Today I went to a bookshop and there they had the "Tolkien Times", a sort of free newspaper published by the German Tolkien publishers. Of course it was full of "The Hobbit" and they even mentioned Smaug with the following words:

"Spectacular: Dominic Cumberbatch as Smaug the dragon". 

I know it happened before but the names aren't exactly similar, are they?  Apart from sounding fairly Catholic. 

Last edited by SusiGo (December 8, 2012 5:08 pm)

I see. In Germany the name isn't so very rare but we spell it Benedikt.

Ha!

Here's the link to the entire interview of Martin on Letterman; it's the official CBS broadcast of the show:

http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/u4wUITZQs0g9W_1kKTlzpNozShlxY_Sb/the-late-show-12-4-2012

Martin appears at 32:47 (right after a commercial break following Matt Damon) and the interview lasts until 40:23.

For all the German members who want to get used to the dubbed version before cinema start 

http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,,30220,00.html