Four months after Stephen Colbert signed off for the final time, another piece of The Late Show has disappeared from its former home on Broadway.
Crews on Wednesday replaced the Late Show with Stephen Colbert marquee that had hung outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, swapping it for a more generic sign bearing the theater’s name.
A couple of large reminders of its most recent occupant remain. The Broadway-theater-inspired C-O-L-B-E-R-T letters that run vertically up the side of the building were still in place Wednesday. The north side of the marquee, which is currently blocked by scaffolding, still carries Late Show branding.
The marquee change comes after Colbert hosted the final edition of The Late Show on May 21, bringing CBS’ 33-year Late Show franchise to an end. David Letterman launched the franchise from the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1993 and remained there through his retirement in 2015. Colbert took over that September following an extensive renovation of the theater.
For the first time in more than three decades, the theater itself is now without a regular occupant.
The building has gone through more than a few identities in its nearly 100-year history.
It opened in 1927 as Hammerstein’s Theatre, a Broadway house built by producer Arthur Hammerstein in honor of his father, impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp, its elaborate Gothic interior was intended to evoke a cathedral, complete with stained glass and a domed ceiling.
CBS began using the building for radio broadcasts in 1936 and later converted it for television. Known for years as Studio 50, it became the home of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953. CBS renamed the building for Sullivan in 1967, four years before his variety show left the air.
CBS purchased the theater and the adjoining 13-story office building in 1993 as it prepared for Letterman’s arrival from NBC, beginning a run that would make the building nearly as synonymous with late-night television as it had once been with Sullivan.
What comes next remains unclear. CBS parent company Paramount has previously reviewed its real-estate holdings for possible sales, and industry and real-estate figures have floated everything from another television tenant to a return to theatrical use for the Sullivan.
CBS purchased the theater for roughly 5 million dollars in 1993. Today, it may be worth 80 to 100 million dollars. Paramount/WB could reduce some of its debt with a sale. Still, what a wonderful piece of television history and run as a cultural icon of Electronic Media.
You better watch out…there’s a chance that Donald Trump might put his own name on the Ed Sullivan Theater!
He fucking wishes!
the injustice of our elected wannabe dictator in 2024
We the people should of known better when he was elected in 2016 and voted out in 2020 and group of thugs strom the capital january 7 2020 some were convicted and then pardon by wannabe dictator felon in 2024
How damn stupid were they.
Now we are all paying the price
Amen, Sir. It’s an awful shame.
Colbert is deeply missed, daily.
Good clean job by the crew….Angelo’s is pretty good for Times Square, I hope they got bite afterwards.
Chicken Marsala – recommend.
This isn’t about Angelo’s 😒
Without Colbert, you wouldn’t be trolling around this site w/your asinine filler comments~ Seeing this makes me believe you were never a fan of late night to begin with~
Moreso, a fascist, capitalist-supporting husk of a commenter~
What’s wrong with being a capitalist? Don’t you want to support small businesses like Angelo’s with its terrific Chicken Marsala…..delicious.
Rumor has it Spirit Halloween is going there for several weeks.
But you wouldn’t know that, because you’re a fucking dumbass, Mucky Boy!🖕😈🖕
Angelo’s is still making money and isn’t losing $40 million per year, unlike Colbert.
Don’t fret about Angelo’s….rumor has it Puppet Show and Spinal Tap will be booked at the Ed Sullivan theatre to sold out shows.
But you’re nothing but fucking stupid, Mucky Boy! Now do as your old and go back to school and learn something already, pedo!
Why is it stupid? Puppet Show and Spinal Tap won’t lose $40 million per year unlike Colbert.
Try the Linguini too….fried…delicious.
You’re fucking stupid if you think puppet shows will be more popular than the Late Show! But then, you still wanna believe Colbert was losing them money instead of the fact that Drumpf got the Ellisons to cancel Colbert’s show, because your Dear Toddler is a thin skinned diaper baby that can’t handle the truth about himself!
You’re nothing but an ignorant cock wipe! And I will keep knocking you down on your far=t ass, every time you bullshit here, bitch hole!
Knocking what now? Have your silly antics got Colbert his show back? Nope….lmao
Are you calling the people who write for this website liars? For shame! Let’s go back to what Jed Rosenzweig wrote on July 18, 2025 in his article here: CBS y Lost $40 Million on Colbert’s Late Show This Year
“According to LateNighter, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert operated at an annual financial shortfall of approximately $40 million. This deficit was driven by yearly production costs of roughly $100 million against a backdrop of collapsing late-night advertising revenue. For further details, read the report at LateNighter.”
Thank you LateNighter for reporting Colbert was losing $40 million per year…thank you for reporting the truth.
Colbert would still be enjoying hosting his show, if your Dear Toddler Drumpf didn’t get the Adelsons to cancel his show if they wanted any future deals approved by him, like the Paramount/Warner merger! He tried to do the same thing with Kimmel, but Disney wouldn’t budge!
We all know you’re enjoying this! Because you’re a Drumpf licking scumhole who thinks he’s the greatest president that ever lived! Despite evidence that he’s fucking the country up with his tariffs on America’s allies and his attack on Iran, which is going to wreck the American economy with skyrocketing gas prices!
You’re a ignorant piece of shit, Mucky Boy! And I’m gonna keep getting in your ugly face whenever you smear your bullshit here! Push me, and I’ll bitchslap you, boy!
Adelsons? Who are they?
As a joke a sign with “TRUMP” should have been temp. hung, significantly askew, for a few days.
The gold lettering should have been made to resemble advanced corroding brass/bronze..
David Letterman & Stephen Colbert are scumbags of the highest order. David Letterman had begun blockading DEF LEPPARD at his start on LATE NIGHT on NBC for 11 years, maintained it on CBS for 22. Colbert took the torch in 2015 and would screw DEF LEPPARD over for 11 years as well. Ironic in a theatre named after the man who gave THE BEATLES their American television debut. For 33 years the Ed Sullivan Theatre would never welcome DEF LEPPARD on Its stages. The only takeaway from Thursday May 21st, 2026 was Craig Ferguson officially going down in history as the only host of a CBS late-night show to book DEF LEPPARD to perform.
They’re scum because they wouldn’t book your favorite band? Boo-fucking-hoo, cry me a river, bitch!🖕😠🖕
Def Leppard sucks big hairy cock and so do you. Faggot.
Deaf Leppard is not a good fit for the Colbert audience.
When one of the top repeating guests is an astrophysicist, others in elite positions in business and government, some old worn out metal band just doesn’t cut it.
Now Fallon, who never saw a celebrity butt he didn’t want to kiss*, would be a great fit. He could wear a ratty old wig and everything!
I honestly think it could work except the house band would never go along.
*Including Dump in 2016
Yet you Americans cannot remove the tarp from the Kennedy Center after tRump’s name was supposedly taken down??? How odd and cowardly.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu…,goodbye!!!!!!
Go get a fucking life!
Grow the fuck up, Wee-Wee!
Uh oh!!! There’s a name on the building now? How much you wanna bet Dump will try to slap his name on it?
Fuck CBS. All there new shows are cop cop cop cowboy cowboy cowboy. It’s the Village People all over again, except the writing is at middle school vocabulary level.
Look up ‘enshitification’ in your dictionary: it will read CBS, ABC, FOX, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, WARNER BROS….
Welcome to 1984.
Oops typo
All THE new shows….
I’m surprised it wasn’t a Spirit Halloween sign.
can they afford the rent in Manhattan for 2-3 months?
They have to fumigate first…..cockroaches and human stench from the 10+ years have to be gotten rid of along with the human stench.
But then, you live on nothing but bullshit, bitch hole!
Also, the alcohol breath if the Variety article is right, the loser that hosted a show there and got cancelled is heavily gulping it down for the past 1+ years.
Projecting your loser life onto Colbert, because your life sucks, and he’s going to have better things in his life going forward, unlike you and your Dear Toddler Drumpf, bitch hole!
Except Colbert won’t have a show so if that’s going better for him, congrats?
For starters! He’s a hot commodity, because he was martyred at the feet of your dimming dimwit star Drumpf, Mucky Boy the Fucking Stupid!
So Colbert is a DEI stooge considering the Ellisons control that project. Why is Colbert working for the same people that “fired him”?
You’re just fucking desperate to make Colbert the biggest bad guy around, that you’ll make shit up about him!
Isn’t Mucky Boy a loser, peoples?
Colbert is attached to a film that will be produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and guess who’s going to own Warner Bros. in a few weeks? That’s right, the Ellisons?
Tee-hee
Do you really fucking think Colbert would attach himself to a project the Ellisons own? If you say yes, you’re dumber than shit, which is every day of your existence, you pathetic loser scumhole!
How DOES Drumpf’s unwiped ass taste to you, bitch lips?
Doesn’t matter! You’re a fucking loser everyone points their fingers at you and laughs their fucking asses off at!
Are you saying Colbert will drop out of the project once it’s announced the merger of the Ellisons and Warner Bros. is finalized?
How much do you want to bet on that?
But you’re too big of a small bus riding mouth breather to have any success at it, Mucky Boy the Stupid!
To big of a small bus? What?
“Do you really fucking think Colbert would attach himself to a project the Ellisons own?”
Why are you able to predict Colbert’s mind?
Why can’t you answer? Could it be you’re that fucking stupid?
You’re saying that Colbert has the integrity to quit if the Ellisons take over Warner Bros. in a few weeks.
Care to bet on that?
You’re fuckin’ balls, bitch? Oh that’s right, you don’t have any! You gave them up for your lord and master Drumpf, bitchboy!
Why all the pathological hatred for Colbert? Everyone who’s come across Colbert says he’s one of the more decent human beings around. But you look at him as some great evil that has to be purged and destroyed for all mankind?
Why is that? Does he give you the sads when he righteously attacks your false god Drumpf? Or is it because you’re a loser that can never measure up to Colbert, so you need to attack him and paint him as the worst in order to make yourself feel better and not remind yourself what a fucking piece of trailer trash you are!
Whatever! It’s so much fun watching you lose your shit everytime I rightfully bitchslap that ugly Drumpf licking face of yours! If that bothers you so much, then get a fucking life already! No one that matters cares for your fucking MAGA self!
Who is losing shit now? Every time you “back slap” somebody, does that give Colbert back his late-night show? No, it doesn’t.
So, do you think Colbert will have the integrity to quit his LOTR movie when the Ellisons take over Warner Bros.?
I think he will take the paycheck from the Ellisons….but you think differently, that he will quit. Let’s see…tee hee.
You can’t accept the fact Colbert left the show with his head held up high, after your Dear Toddler and fellow pedophile Drumpf ordered the Ellisons to cancel his show, if they ever wish to have future deals approved by him, in the ultimate quid pro quo!
You want everyone to believe that he’s in a depressed state of mind – that his show was cancelled because Colbert sucked and he was losing money for the company, which was NOT the reason for the cancellation – and that he’s about to go suicidal, because he can’t face the public with that embarrassment!
That’s the mindset of a small bus riding, Drumpf licking, trailer trash, MAGAt, like you, who’s in denial of just how much trouble Drumpf and Republicans are heading into the midterms! Your idol fucked up the economy spectacularly, and he’s going to pay for it, bigly!
Who’s he gonna blame when the shit really hits the fan for him? Fuckface Fallon?
Christ, but you’re fucking pathetic, little boy!
Wait, I thought it was the Adelsons that cancelled his show and not the Ellisons…make up your mind. Whether or not it was the reason for his cancellation, at least you admit that he was losing $40 million per year.
Now, once the Ellisons take over Warner Bros, do you think Colbert has the integrity to quit his lame LOTR project or will he bend the knee and take the Ellisons paycheck?
Tee-hee
That’s how long it took Mucky Boy to respond to my latest post! Because it has no life and hangs around his mommy’s computer at his trailer park!
Don’t you ever feel shame for yourself, Mucky Boy? Is this why Colbert lives in your head, rent free, while you try and act like the king of the LateNighter posters?
My god, but you’re a fucking pathetic small bus riding loser, Mucky Boy! Seek professional help, instead of waiting for me to respond to you, “boy!”
Please stop deflecting if you can….do you think Colbert will quit his lame LOTR project once the Ellisons take over? Stop deflecting already….sad….tee hee
Why do you worship their sleazy selves? Is it because you want them to brainwash people into becoming Drumpf licking Republicans? Doesn’t matter, you’re a fucking small bus riding loser carrying their water around, boy!
You hate democracy because white people can’t rule over minorities, so you want Drumpf and the Ellisons to end it for you!
Your life is so pathetic, boy!
Ellisons are Jewish unless you don’t consider Jew to be minorities, right Adolph? Again answer whether or not Colbert quits once they acquire Warner Bros….stop being a coward and answer directly. BTW, why did you confuse the Ellisons with the Adelsons…oh right, you’re Adolph…lmao.
Unlike you, Mucky Boy, that loves to look down on people that aren’t white and Christian!
And as for me answering you, fuck off child! I don’t play stupid games with stupid MAGAts, like you! Because YOU want to believe the Ellison cancelled Colbert’s show because they were losing money on it, and not the real reason, which was Drumpf commanding them to cancel it because Colbert gave him a sad! The whole world knows that, but MAGAts like you refuse to, because the idea of liberals being put in their places makes your thimble sized dick hard, bitch!
Why don’t YOU fucking admit THAT, boy? You love to push people around with your nonsense! Time you got pushed to the ground, bitch!
Who’s going to push me to the ground, you? LOL…keyboard chickenhawk. BTW, the Adelsons and Ellisons are two different Jewish families….or do they all look alike to you, Adolph?
If you believe the Ellisons are responsible for cancelling Colbert’s $40 million dollar per-year losing show, then surely Colbert will have the integrity to quit once the Ellisons take over Warner Bros?
Tee Hee…lol
Why tf do you hang around your mommy’s computer all day, flinging your shit at everyone that criticizes your love of Drumpf and your hatred of Colbert? Are you under house arrest for skullfucking little boys? It would certainly explain why you weren’t around during the summer, being in prison and getting beaten up daily for being a pedophile!
You can’t rattle me, because I see right through you! You’re a pathetic loser that clings to Drumpf and MAGA because you’re so fucking scared of black people replacing you! No matter how many times you cling to the notion that Colbert’s show was cancelled because he was losing money, the truth will always circle back to the fact that your racist hero Drumpf ordered the Ellisons to cancel the Lats Show because they were making fun of him!
We know you love you some Drumpf! You kept on posting it here, ad nauseum! You refuse to accept that truth and instead make up your own narrative that gives you the warm fuzzies all over! Won’t work, bitch!You filth are going down in November!🖕😈🖕
Now how quickly will this no life loser respond to me? Last time, it was eight minutes! Isn’t Mucky Boy the most pathetic loser you’ve ever come across, peoples?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If the Ellisons cancelled Colbert like you claim, then surely Colbert will cancel his project with them over his crappy LOTR project….right? Surely Colbert has principles like you said…or maybe he doesn’t….care to bet.
BTW, the Ellisons are Adelsons are two different Jewish families…please understand that, Adolph CrabKKK
Nine fucking minutes! That’s the time difference between our posts, Mucky Boy!
My God, but you’re so fucking pathetic! Waiting around your mommy’s computer hoping I would respond so that you can respond! You probably were waiting for me all night to respond, weren’t you, ya fucking loser!
But what did one expect from a small bus riding stupidfuck that constantly lies about the reason why Colbert’s show was cancelled, and why a spelling mistake automatically makes one an anti Semite!
Go back to school already, Mucky Boy! Maybe this time, you’ll fucking learn something!
I’m through talking to you on this thread, you slimy bitch! Go get a fucking life already!🖕😠🖕
Again, stop deflecting and grow a spine before you run away from another thread.
Will Colbert quit his dumb LOTR project once the Ellisons take over Warner Bros.? Y/N question.
Also, Adolph, the Ellisons and the Adelsons are two different Jewish families….geez, I liked it better when Democrats punched Nazis rather than become Nazis.
Good riddance to that smug, arrogant jerk.
Colbert’s a class act and a devout Catholic! The people that got his show cancelled are the smug arrogant jerks with the thinnest of skins!
You’re so fucking welcome, bitch hole!
He always seems to be hanging around his mommy’s computer waiting for me to respond, in order to shitpost with tears flowing through his eyes, for he’s a sad, pathetic loser!
You’re such a ducking loser, Mucky Boy! Get a fucking life already, bitch, before your mommy kicks you out of your trailer!