A New 20-Minute Supercut of David Letterman Slamming CBS: “You Cannot Spell CBS With out BS”

The can­cel­la­tion of The Late Present with Stephen Col­bert—CBS insists it was pure­ly a “finan­cial deci­sion,” the results of declin­ing advert rev­enue in late night time tele­vi­sion. Oth­ers see it as a dif­fer­ent sort of “finan­cial deci­sion,” a deci­sion by Para­mount (the par­ent com­pa­ny of CBS) to sac­ri­fice Col­bert in order that the Amer­i­can pres­i­dent gained’t can­cel a lucra­tive $28-bil­lion merg­er. Sure­ter­day, David Let­ter­man, the pre­vi­ous host of CBS’ The Late Present, launched a 20-minute tremendous­lower fea­tur­ing the numerous instances he took CBS to process through the years. The sub­textual content? He does­n’t appear to purchase CBS’s discuss­ing factors. Nor does Jon Stew­artwork. Extra direct than Let­ter­man, Stew­artwork offers his personal tackle why CBS can­celed Col­bert: “I believe the reply is within the worry and pre-com­pli­ance that’s grip­ping all of Amer­i­ca’s insti­tu­tions at this very second, insti­tu­tions which have cho­sen to not battle the venge­ful and vin­dic­tive actions of our pubic-hair-doo­dling com­man­der-in-chief. This isn’t the second to present in. I’m not giv­ing in. I’m not going any­the place.” Notice to learn­er: Jon Stew­artwork’s The Dai­ly Present airs on Com­e­dy Cen­tral, which is owned by Para­mount.

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