Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, and More Stars to Grace David Letterman’s Netflix Talk Show’s Upcoming Season

Published 08/13/2026, 9:47 AM EDT

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David Letterman is clearly not running out of people worth talking to anytime soon, and his next Netflix guest list proves it. The upcoming seventh season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction will bring Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and Alex Honnold together for four long-form conversations. With careers spanning blockbuster cinema, late-night television and extraordinary feats, there is plenty to unpack.

Considering the caliber of these careers, Letterman has assembled exactly the kind of guests who make four episodes sound dangerously short.

David Letterman's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction's season 7 lineup

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David Letterman has apparently decided that four episodes deserve an Oscar winner, a Hollywood icon, a late-night survivor, and a man who voluntarily hangs off cliffs. Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and Alex Honnold will headline Season 7 of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, according to an X post by Netflix, giving Netflix four very different varieties of trouble for Letterman to politely interrogate.

Matt Damon has The Odyssey and decades of Hollywood stardom to discuss, while Jimmy Kimmel arrives carrying enough late-night drama to furnish an entire season by himself. His recent year included a brief suspension and public battles with political figures demanding his removal. Fortunately, David Letterman has never seemed frightened by an uncomfortable punchline or an awkward silence.

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Then there is Julia Roberts, whose long history with David Letterman practically comes with its own highlight reel, alongside her upcoming Panic Carefully. Alex Honnold requires fewer red carpets and considerably more altitude, having starred in Netflix’s Skyscraper Live. Add eight Emmy nominations and Letterman’s 2024 win for his John Mulaney episode, and Season 7 news already has a suspicious amount of ammunition.

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With a star from Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing movie joining the lineup, such a major guest feels right at home among the names already welcomed by My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.

David Letterman's famous guestlist

David Letterman has spent years proving that if you put a microphone near him, someone extraordinarily famous will eventually sit down. Barack Obama, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, George Clooney, Tina Fey, and Howard Stern have all taken the talk show plunge. That is not a guest list so much as a small, exceptionally well-dressed civilization.

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The parade only became stranger and more spectacular with  Ellen DeGeneres, Lewis Hamilton, Billie Eilish, Ryan Reynolds, Shah Rukh Khan,  Dave Chappelle, Lizzo, and many more renowned names. Against that history, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and Alex Honnold have arrived with an intimidatingly high bar to clear.

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Iffat Siddiqui

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