4 weeks ago
David Letterman has immoderate beardown opinions connected The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert being canceled.
In a caller interview, Letterman said he didn’t judge CBS‘s logic for cutting nan late-night talk show, calling nan web “lying weasels.”
“He was dumped because nan group trading nan web to Skydance said, ‘Oh no, there’s not going to beryllium immoderate problem pinch that guy. We’re going to return attraction of nan show. We’re conscionable going to propulsion that into nan deal. When will nan ink connected nan cheque dry?’ I’m conscionable going to spell connected grounds arsenic saying: They’re lying,” Letterman told The New York Times.
The comedian doubled down and added, “Let maine conscionable adhd 1 different thing. They’re lying weasels.”
CBS has maintained that nan logic for The Late Show’s cancellation was simply a “financial decision,” which Colbert addressed connected his show soon after.
Letterman said that he was successful “disbelief” erstwhile he recovered retired nan late-night show he had founded was canceled. Although he noted that CBS doesn’t “share nan books” pinch him, he thinks that “all of tv seems to person been nicked by integer connection and streaming platforms,” adding, “TV whitethorn beryllium not nan money instrumentality it erstwhile was. On nan different hand, what astir nan humanity for Stephen and nan humanity of group who emotion him and nan humanity for group who still enjoyed that 11:30 respite?”
The Stephen Colbert-hosted late-night show will extremity connected Thursday, May 21. Taking complete The Late Show will beryllium Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed starting connected Friday, May 22.
