Monday evening’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” featured a visitor who wanted no introduction: former host David Letterman.
Letterman hosted the present for greater than 20 years, from 1993 to 2015. His look was the primary time he returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater, the place the present is filmed, since his retirement eight years in the past.
The viewers greeted Letterman with a heat welcome and applause as he sat in as a visitor with Colbert. Even after he took his seat, the group continued to chant his title.
“Stephen, management your folks!” » Letterman joked. “It’s essentially the most enthusiastic crowd I’ve been round for the reason that evening I introduced I used to be quitting.”
The comic mentioned it was a “pleasure to be again” and that so much had modified across the theater since he left.
“It is like a mall! It is superb. It is like Rodeo Drive,” he mentioned, referring to the favored purchasing road in Beverly Hills, California, and including that his dressing room was extra nicer than any lodge he had ever stayed in. “Girls and gents, that is the tv of the longer term…I believe it is scrumptious.”
Letterman, who hosted greater than 4,000 episodes of “The Late Present,” mentioned he misses “all the things” about internet hosting.
“Only a few issues in life give us the chance…For those who miss one, you possibly can attempt once more, and that is a very good device,” Letterman mentioned. “It was nice. It made issues increasingly more enjoyable. After which whenever you do one thing that you simply’re actually happy with, you assume, ‘Gosh, let’s try this once more.’ And 6 or seven years later, you relive that have.”
Letterman has appeared on a number of late-night reveals since his retirement, however as he informed “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2015, he wasn’t positive if his path would ever lead him again to “The Late Present” and at his dwelling.
“I don’t assume I’ll ever come again to this constructing, truthfully,” Letterman mentioned on the time. “I believe it will be too troublesome for me.”
On Monday night, nevertheless, he returned to the extra acquainted a part of the theater. Colbert invited Letterman behind the host’s desk so the 2 might recreate a selfie they took in 2014.
“In my day, I by no means would have let that occur,” Letterman joked. “We’re doing this as a result of my son does not imagine I had a present.”