Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic U2’s Bono and the Edge and David Letterman joined forces again at the Wednesday night premiere of the Disney+ special “A Sort of Homecoming,” with the band members explaining that they needed the former late-night host to add some irreverence to the Morgan Neville-directed documentary, set to begin streaming March 17.
Said Bono to the audience at downtown L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre, “The thing that Dave brought — I don’t know if you agree, Edge — is that he brought the comedy to the tragedy.
And you know, there’s a reason why Willie Shakespeare wrote that form. And our music is just better with him around, I thought.
Musically, it was better just by him being in the room, kind of taking the piss out of it.” The Edge tried to beat Letterman at his own game at the post-premiere Q&A.
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