{"id":797520,"date":"2026-05-15T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:56:15","slug":"david-letterman-and-stephen-colbert-get-revenge-on-cbs-by-tossing-furniture-off-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797520\/","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman and Stephen Colbert Get Revenge on CBS by Tossing Furniture Off the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tStephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s 11-year run as host of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d will end on May 21. That its untimely end was announced mere weeks before the Trump-loyalist Ellison family finalized their CBS<\/a>-Paramount takeover led many to believe it was a move to appease Trump, while the network claimed Colbert\u2019s late-night program was losing around $40 million a year \u2014 a figure that led friendly rival Jimmy Kimmel to quip<\/a>, \u201cNot a snowball\u2019s chance in hell that\u2019s accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Trump was positively giddy over Colbert\u2019s ouster, lending even more credence to the aforementioned theory, posting to Truth Social, \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, whatever the reason, Colbert is out in a week. And so, for his final weeks, the funnyman has welcomed an assortment of friends and A-listers, from his fellow late-night hosts Kimmel, Oliver, Meyers, and Fallon<\/a>, to the likes of Tom Hanks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and former president Barack Obama. And on Thursday night, Colbert welcomed his \u201cLate Show\u201d predecessor, the great David Letterman<\/a>, whose big, bushy beard now resembles Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s during his infamous performance art stunt on his show.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a lengthy standing ovation \u2014 and a killer \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d musical intro \u2014 Letterman took the stage to commiserate with Colbert.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, you know what happened backstage? I\u2019m standing backstage, a guy comes over, he says he\u2019s from CBS and he fires me. What is going on over there?!\u201d Letterman cracked.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have every right to be pissed off, so I\u2019ll be pissed off here a little bit,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis theater, you folks wouldn\u2019t be in this theater if it weren\u2019t for me, and Stephen wouldn\u2019t be here if it weren\u2019t for me, and we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in, and look at this? It\u2019s like the Bellagio. But, listen\u2026 as we all understand, you can take a man\u2019s show, you can\u2019t take a man\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then Letterman gave the punchline: \u201cWhat I\u2019m really worried about is: What will become of the Jimmys? Are they going to be alright?\u201d referring to Colbert\u2019s late-night compatriots Kimmel and Fallon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve got a plan to put them in a captive breeding program,\u201d joked Colbert.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t done. Letterman asked Colbert if Skydance owned the furniture onstage, and when Colbert told him the network did, he greased a few stagehands to have the couches removed, before the two joined the audience in seats and reminisced about their history in Manhattan\u2019s famed Ed Sullivan Theater, which for Colbert has, as Letterman put it, \u201ccome to a screeching halt by other hands.\u201d Then, they went to the roof of the Ed Sullivan theater to engage in \u201cwanton destruction of CBS property\u201d by having the stagehands toss those couches off the roof and onto a giant CBS logo, before tossing his desk chair, followed by some watermelons and a wedding cake (because why not?). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert\u2019s 11-year run as host of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d will end on May 21. That its untimely…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":797521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[15328,47407,171,49809,13895,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-797520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cbs","tag-david-letterman","tag-entertainment","tag-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116577054895099786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}