2 weeks ago
Stephen Colbert and David Letterman blew disconnected immoderate web steam and smashed immoderate web worldly past nighttime successful a funny and oddly poignant call-back to 1 of Letterman’s signature late-night bits: Throwing things from nan tile of nan Ed Sullivan Theater.
With nan CBS oculus logo providing a adjuvant sidewalk target, nan 2 Late Show hosts tossed – or, rather, supervised nan stagehand tossing – immoderate workplace chairs (it only took 2 earlier nan target was smashed, releasing tons of colorful balls into nan street) and, inevitably watermelons, nan dropping of which was 1 of nan favourite stunts from nan old Late Show pinch David Letterman years.
The brace vanished up pinch Colbert sending a congratulatory barroom from nan web – a multi-layered wedding-style beast – sailing downward.
Actually, nan brace vanished up pinch Letterman’s parting words for CBS: “In nan words of nan awesome Ed Murrow, bully nighttime and bully luck, motherf*ckers!”
Before their rooftop adventure, Letterman took to nan sofa to chat pinch his successor – he arrived to a opinionated ovation from nan assemblage and nan location band’s rendition of nan White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.”
“How astir Paul and nan band,” Letterman joked successful reference to his aged sidekick. Turning to nan audience, Letterman said astir nan ovation, “I came very adjacent to being teary astir that, truthful convey you everybody.”
Letterman past sewage to nan point: “I person each correct to beryllium pissed off, truthful I’ll beryllium pissed disconnected present a small bit. Because you folks wouldn’t beryllium astatine this theatre if it weren’t for me, and Stephen wouldn’t beryllium present if it weren’t for me. We rebuilt this theatre and past Stephen came successful present and, look astatine this, it’s for illustration nan Bellagio. As we each all understand, you tin return a man’s show, you can’t return a man’s voice. So that’s nan bully news.”
Letterman kept going. “You cognize what I’m really worried about? What I’m really worried astir is what will go of nan Jimmys? Are they going to beryllium each right?”
Responded Colbert, “We’ve sewage a scheme to put them successful a captive breeding program.”
Watch nan rooftop clip above, and nan question and reply conception below.
