David Letterman returns to

Monday night time’s episode of “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” featured a visitor who wanted no introduction: former host David Letterman. 

Letterman hosted the present for over 20 years, from 1993 to 2015. His look was his first time he had 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 down as a visitor with Colbert. Even after he took a seat, the gang continued to chant his title. 

“Stephen, management your folks!” Letterman joked. “That is probably the most enthusiastic viewers I’ve been close to because the night time I introduced I used to be quitting.” 

The comic stated it was a “delight to be again” and that loads has modified across the theater since he left. 

“It is like a mall! It is unbelievable. It is like Rodeo Drive,” he stated, referencing the favored Beverly Hills, California, procuring avenue and including that his dressing room was nicer than any lodge he’d ever stayed in. “Women and gents, that is the tv of the longer term….I believe it is pleasant.” 

Letterman, who hosted over 4,000 episodes of “The Late Present,” stated he misses “all the pieces” about internet hosting.

“Only a few issues in life present one the chance…When you muck one up, you get to strive once more, and that is a fairly good system,” Letterman stated. “That was nice. That made it an increasing number of enjoyable. After which if you do one thing that you simply’re actually pleased with, you assume, ‘My God, let’s do this once more.’ And 6 or seven years later, you might have that have as soon as extra.” 

Letterman has appeared on a number of late-night reveals since his retirement, however as he instructed “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2015, he wasn’t certain if his path would ever lead again to “The Late Present” and its dwelling. 

“I do not assume I am going to ever be again on this constructing once more, actually,” Letterman stated on the time. “I believe it will be too tough for me.” 

On Monday night time, although, he returned to probably the most 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’ve let this occur,” Letterman joked. “We do that as a result of my son does not imagine I had a present.”