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A week before the last episode of Late ShowDavid Letterman joined Stephen Colbert to praise the late-night series finale.
To truly mark the occasion, the two hosts made their way to the top of the Ed Sullivan Theater where they tossed a few pieces of furniture onto the CBS eye sign logo.
“I thought tonight might be a little sad, being the end of your career here, but this brings true joy to my heart,” Letterman said. “We are 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 moved into the offices was that I wouldn’t be allowed to throw anything off the roof of the Ed Sullivan Building, because apparently there had been an issue with a previous tenant,” Colbert added. “I never did, but we’re at the end here, so all bets are off.”
After they got rid of the two chairs that were used for sitting Late show Guests, and Colbert’s private office chair, took turns shooting watermelons and cupcakes from the top of the building. At the end of the segment, Letterman shared parting words to the network: “I’d like to say to the audience before we go, well, not necessarily to the audience, but to the people at CBS: In the words of the great Ed Murrow, good night and good luck, you bastard.”
Earlier, before they made their way to the surface, Sullivan complimented me Late showFurniture set, and confirmed that the pieces belonged to CBS. “This is beautiful. It would be a shame if something happened to this,” he said, before a group of people joined them on stage to remove the furniture.
Letterman’s appearance Thursday night was special, especially because he was the show’s original host Late Showhe led the series from 1993 to 2015, when Colbert became his successor. His feature on the late-night series also came after he recently criticized CBS executives as a “lying weasel” when discussing the decision to cancel the program.
“It was eliminated because the people selling the network to Skydance said, ‘Oh no, there won’t be any problem with this guy. We’ll take care of the offer. We’ll just include that in the deal. “When will the ink on the check dry,” Letterman said? New York Times.
When CBS announced Late Show It was ending last year, and the network said it “was purely a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of late night. It is in no way related to the show’s performance, content, or other matters occurring at Paramount.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Letterman joked that while he was backstage Thursday night, he met someone from CBS, “and then he fired me.”
“I will say, and I have every right to be angry, so I’m going to get a little angry here, because this theater, you guys, you 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 comes in and look at this, it’s like the Bellagio,” the former Late show said the host. “As we all understand, you can take a man’s bid, you can’t take a man’s vote, so that’s the good news about this.”
Colbert appeared on the cover of a magazine Hollywood ReporterNew York case, where he thought about his book Late show He noted that he “did not expect things to end this way.”
Letterman’s appearance on the late-night series, as stated, arrived exactly one week before Colbert’s final show on May 21. Elsewhere in the lead-up to his departure, the entire Strike Force Five ensemble (Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers) appeared on the show on Monday.
