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After greater than eight years since signing off as host of The Late Present, David Letterman was welcomed again to the Ed Sullivan Theater with a grand standing ovation Monday.
“Girls and gents, my visitor tonight actually wants no introduction,” his successor Stephen Colbert introduced simply earlier than the viewers started to chant “David.” Letterman beamed as the group grew louder, and quipped “Is there going to be bother?”
Elsewhere within the interview, Colbert commented on Letterman’s comment that the late-night chair is a “unusual job that lots of people don’t perceive.” He continued, “I’m fortunate sufficient to have my pal John Stewart to speak about this bizarre job with and my mates in Strike Pressure 5… Was there anyone for you, whenever you had been within the chair, that you simply had been you possibly can do this with? Any person you possibly can name and simply discuss it. May you name Johnny [Carson]?”
Letterman replied that whereas he had “nice respect for these guys,” he was “orphaned within the discuss present world.” Whereas his reply elicited a unanimous sound of sympathy from the group, the previous host interjected: “Nicely, I don’t respect the sarcasm.”
To wrap the evening, The Nationwide delivered a heartfelt performance of “House Invader” to welcome again the late-night legend. Previous to the band’s efficiency, Letterman advised Colbert that this was the “second time in my life that that is taking place right here tonight” — referencing the Foo Fighters‘ historic look on his closing episode of the Late Present. “So these two teams, I’ll love them eternally,” stated Letterman.
Whereas Letterman has made earlier appearances on late-night tv since he departed The Late Present — he’s guested on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell and Late Evening With Seth Meyers, in addition to the ultimate episode of The Late Late Present With James Corden earlier this 12 months — Monday’s episode marked the primary time he returned to the present he launched on CBS again in 1993.