One week forward of the ultimate episode of The Late Show, David Letterman joined Stephen Colbert to commend the top of the late evening sequence.
To essentially commemorate the event, the hosts made their option to the highest of the Ed Sullivan Theater the place they threw off a couple of items of set furnishings onto none apart from CBS‘ eyemark brand.
“I thought maybe tonight’s occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart,” Letterman mentioned. “We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property.”
“This is a true story. When I first got this gig, one of the first things they told me before we even moved into the offices is that I would not be allowed to throw anything off of the roof of the Ed Sullivan building, because evidently there was a problem with a previous tenant,” Colbert added. “I never did it, but we’re at the end here, so all bets are off.”
After they threw off the 2 chairs used to seat Late Present friends and Colbert’s personal desk seat, they took flip launching watermelons and a cake from the highest of the constructing. And on the finish of the phase, Letterman shared parting phrases for the community: “I’d like to say to the audience before we go, well, not necessarily to the audience, but to the folks at CBS: In the words of the great Ed Murrow, good night and good luck motherfucker.”
Earlier, earlier than they made their option to the roof, Letterman complimented the Late Present‘s set furniture and made sure to confirm the pieces were owned by CBS. “This is nice. It’d be ashamed if one thing occurred to this,” he mentioned, earlier than a pool of individuals joined them onstage to take away the furnishings.
Letterman’s Thursday evening look was a particular one, significantly as a result of he was the unique host of The Late Present, main the sequence from 1993-2015, when Colbert took over. His characteristic on the late evening sequence, too, got here after he recently slammed CBS executives as “lying weasels” when discussing the choice to cancel this system.
“He was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, ‘Oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show. We’re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry,’” Letterman advised the New York Occasions.
When CBS announced The Late Present was ending final yr, the community mentioned it was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
Elsewhere within the episode, Letterman joked that whereas he was backstage on Thursday evening, he bumped into somebody from CBS, “and then he fired me.”
“I will say, and I have every right to be pissed off, so I’ll pissed off here a little bit, because this theater, you folks wouldn’t be in this theater if it weren’t for me, and Stephen wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for me, and we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in and look at this, it’s like the Bellagio,” the previous Late Present host mentioned. “As we all understand, you can take a man’s show, you can’t take a man’s voice, so that’s the good news in this.”
Colbert appeared on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s New York issue, the place he mirrored on his Late Present tenure and famous that he “did not expect it to end this way.”
Letterman’s look on the late evening sequence, as famous, got here precisely one week earlier than Colbert’s ultimate present Could 21. Elsewhere within the lead-up to his departure, your entire Strike Force Five (Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers) appeared on the present Monday.
