Former Late Night time host David Letterman joined Thursday’s broadcast of The Late Present in a spiteful sendoff for Stephen Colbert as the 2 took to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater to throw CBS property to the bottom.
Letterman often threw objects off the highest of the constructing throughout his run of the Late Present between 1993 and 2015. However CBS prohibited Stephen Colbert from emulating Letterman’s roof-tossing bit when he took the present over beginning in 2015. Regardless of the prohibition, although, Colbert introduced Letterman onto the present Thursday to revive his bit, this time throwing objects off the roof to destroy a CBS brand signal sitting on the road.
CBS has canceled its flagship late-night program, and there can be no successor for Colbert, whose final present is about for Could 21 as a result of his unprofitable viewership. So, to ship Colbert off into retirement, the 2 TV hosts mounted the steps to the roof of the theater the place the present has been recorded since 1993 to present their center fingers to the community.
The pair threw lounge chairs off the roof first earlier than resorting to a desk chair after which to a handful of watermelons, all geared toward crushing a mockup of the CBS brand sitting beneath.
As soon as they have been accomplished tossing objects from the roof, Colbert thanked Letterman for showing on the present, and mentioned, “Thanks a lot for creating The Late Present 33 years in the past. It’s been a pleasure having you again to destroy some stuff.”
“The pleasure is all mine. I get pleasure from destroying stuff. It’s nice, nice enjoyable. Thanks for all the things you’ve accomplished for our nation,” Letterman responded.
Earlier than the pair took to the rooftop, they surveyed a number of the objects they supposed to destroy down within the studio.
Letterman mentioned that the bit made him “just a little teary” as he ready to present Colbert an enormous sendoff. Letterman added, “I’ve each proper to be pissed off, so I’ll be pissed off right here just a little bit.”
“As a result of this theater, you of us wouldn’t be on this theater if it weren’t for me, and Stephen wouldn’t be right here if it weren’t for me,” he continued. “And we rebuilt this theater, after which Stephen got here in, and take a look at this? It’s just like the Bellagio. However, hear, as all of us perceive, you may take a person’s present, you may’t take a person’s voice, in order that’s the excellent news from me.”
Because the pair took a take a look at the lounge chairs they supposed to toss from the roof, Letterman requested, “Who owns it?” And Colbert replied, “This all belongs to the Paramount CBS Company.”
“Yeah, that is good. It’d be a disgrace if one thing occurred to this,” Letterman quipped.
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