{"id":14377,"date":"2025-07-22T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14377\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:39:07","slug":"letterman-supports-colbert-with-supercut-of-cbs-slagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14377\/","title":{"rendered":"Letterman supports Colbert with supercut of CBS slagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/david_letterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Letterman<\/a> let his work talk for him after CBS announced its decision to end the \u201cLate Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current \u201cLate\u201d host <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/stephen_colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/07\/17\/colberts-late-show-to-end-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced the end<\/a> of the talk show institution last week, seeming entirely caught by surprise. Letterman helmed the series from 1993 until his retirement in 2015. He responded to the news on Monday, sharing a 20-minute supercut of bits taking potshots at the Tiffany Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t spell CBS without B.S.,\u201d he shared in the caption.<\/p>\n<p>Letterman\u2019s fellow travelers of late-night have criticized the decision to wrap the series next May. Several of Colbert\u2019s current rivals shared their shock after the announcement. NBC talk show host <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/jimmy_fallon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> called Colbert \u201cone of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it.\u201d John Oliver, the host of HBO\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/last_week_tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Last Week Tonight<\/a>,\u201d called the news \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/07\/21\/colbert-late-show-canceled-reactions-john-oliver\/85305831007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incredibly sad<\/a>.\u201d No one was as direct as <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/jimmy_kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, who hosts ABC\u2019s late night offering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF**k you and all your Sheldons, CBS,\u201d Kimmel\u00a0wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Other critics suggested that Colbert\u2019s firing was politically motivated. CBS parent network Paramount settled a lawsuit out of court with President <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/donald_trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a>. The settlement comes as Paramount is seeking a massive merger.with Skydance Media. Colbert called the settlement \u201ca big, fat bribe\u201d on air just days before recieving the cancellation news. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company \u2014 but just taking a stab at it, I\u2019d say $16 million would help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letterman had a famously tense relationship with the C-suite of CBS. He sparred with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/les_moonves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Les Moonves<\/a> from the moment the former CEO took the top position at the network and Moonves admitted that Letterman \u201chated\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hated me when I walked in the door [at CBS]. He was there about a year before I got there. He just, generally speaking, didn\u2019t like management,\u201d Moonves told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/10\/les-moonves-david-letterman-feud?srsltid=AfmBOoq4B5NsVpdsKRelViebSCzxldYoMRcTBXtHUxNrj1ZnjealK4ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vanity Fair<\/a> in 2016, before sharing that Letterman mocked him on-air for six months after an early confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Moonves resigned three years after Letterman, following multiple allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Letterman\u2019s burn book-cum-clip show below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"red_box\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"white_box\">about \u201cLate Show\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Letterman let his work talk for him after CBS announced its decision to end the \u201cLate Show.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-14377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}