David Letterman has lastly given his opinion on the cancelation of The Late Present – the franchise that he launched.
“I don’t suppose it was cash,” Letterman says on a video on the Letterman YouTube channel hosted by Barbara Gaines, who was beforehand an exec producer on The Late Present with David Letterman. “That is pure cowardice.”
Joking that the “Ellison twins” had been shopping for Paramount – “they need to go purchase Dairy Queen or one thing and keep out of this enterprise” – and that the Skydance boss didn’t need to be “hassled by the U.S. authorities”.
“It’s all very unusual. It was a little bit of a shock,” he opened the video.
“10 years in the past, I stop and left. Then Stephen Colbert comes alongside, and fairly rapidly established himself as a exact, crisp, witty political satirist, and infrequently his goal has been the present administration. Primarily based on that and simply the general leisure quota of the present, drew an excellent viewers and other people grew to become not hooked on however at all times trying ahead to political satire from Stephen Colbert, he was superb at it. For 10 years, I feel grew to become the face of the community,” he mentioned.
Letterman posited that CBS canceled the present as a result of the brand new homeowners “don’t need any hassle from that man”.
“In the event that they had been dropping this sort of cash, you’re telling me dropping this sort of cash occurred yesterday. Yeah proper,” he mentioned. “I wager they had been dropping this sort of cash six weeks in the past, or they’ve by no means been dropping cash.”
CBS mentioned its resolution to cancel the present and the franchise was “purely monetary”.
He added that he didn’t suppose CBS did the “appropriate factor” and didn’t “deal with Stephen Colbert… in the best way he deserves to have been dealt with”.
“What the fuck is Skydance, sincere to Christ? Is it a reduction airline? Is that what it’s? I feel in the future, if not at this time, the individuals at CBS, who’ve manipulated and dealt with this are going to be embarrassed as a result of that is that is gutless. I solely want this might occur to me,” he added.
Letterman did admit that he at all times loved struggle with administration. “Combating with community tv administration was primary within the playbook,” he mentioned.
Watch the interview beneath:
