David Letterman weighed in on the “Late Present With Stephen Colbert” cancellation on Tuesday, albeit in his personal very Letterman-esque method. The previous “Late Present” host and originator of the CBS program posted a 20-minute compilation of clips from his present the place he made enjoyable of the community, captioning the YouTube video, “You may’t spell CBS with out BS.”
Titled “CBS: The Tiffany Community,” the video consists of practically a decade of zingers from Letterman towards his community, and comes on the heels of CBS’ resolution to cancel “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.”
Letterman stepped away from “The Late Present” in 2015, however as a part of the profitable deal that introduced him to CBS within the first place, maintained possession of video from his present by way of his Worldwide Pants manufacturing firm. Therefore the choice to create this new YouTube compilation slamming CBS, which you’ll watch above.
On Monday night time, late night time hosts rallied round Colbert after Thursday’s surprising announcement. Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart and John Oliver all appeared on “Late Present” as a part of a “kiss cam” bit, whereas Stewart devoted his whole “Day by day Present” section to supporting Colbert and dinging Paramount (which additionally owns “The Day by day Present”) for its resolution to scrap the late night time host’s present.
“My God, when CDs stopped promoting, they didn’t simply go, ‘Oh nicely, music, it’s been an excellent run.’ The truth that CBS didn’t attempt to save their primary rated community late night time franchise that’s been on the air for over three many years is a part of what’s making all people surprise, was his purely monetary, or perhaps the trail of least resistance on your $8 billion greenback merger?” Stewart mentioned, referring to the deliberate merger of Paramount World with David Ellison’s Skydance Media.
Colbert, in the meantime, took direct goal at his mother or father firm as nicely on Monday night time’s episode of “Late Present.”
“Over the weekend, any person at CBS adopted up their gracious press launch with a gracious nameless leak saying they pulled the plug on our present due to losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a 12 months,” he mentioned in his monologue. “$40 million is an enormous quantity. I may see us shedding $24 million however the place would Paramount have probably spent the opposite $16 million? Oh, yeah,” Colbert joked, referring after all to the quantity Paramount paid Donald Trump to settle the frivolous lawsuit he filed accusing “60 Minutes” of deceptively enhancing its Kamala Harris interview.
