David Letterman Sounds Off on Colbert’s CBS Replacement

BRIAN SNYDER / Brian Snyder/REUTERS Late-night legend David Letterman had some choice words to describe Stephen Colbert’s replacement on CBS. Letterman, 79, said during a conversation with Barbara Gaines and Mary Barclay on his podcast on Friday that the network’s decision to replace The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed during the late-night time slot is a financial one. “They don’t want to spend any money, so they’re going to make money,” he said. “They charge Byron Allen some reasonable price. He sells all the advertising for his Comics Unleashed , and it’ll be, I think, 90 minutes or two hours of comics talking about funny stuff.“ Read more at The Daily Beast.

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