David Letterman may need no introduction, but it’s rare you’ll catch him in a room with a traditional outlet doing a traditional interview these days. The former late night host and current Netflix host did speak out around the time of Stephen Colbert’s big exit from CBS, and with good reason: Both men were tied to the Eye Network for years before breaking free to do new projects. So, I get why there would be curiosity around what Letterman thinks. Yet, I did not see his “adult bookstore” reference coming.
Here’s what happened. Not only did the New York Times snag an interview with the former host, they also caught him in time to talk about his feelings about Colbert’s show getting axed on the 2026 TV schedule. He didn’t hold back, which is where the adult bookstore analogy came in.
