Workers began removing David Letterman’s the former late night king’s marquee outside the Ed Sullivan Theater early Wednesday morning — just a week after the fu𝐆nnyman’s epic final late-night show.
Using two ladders, a crew of construction workers took down♓ the “featuring Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra” hanging from the iconic sign on Broadway.
After more t♒han two decades of the “Late Show with David Letterman” calling the theater home, it only took a New York minute for the studio to be completely gutted.
Dozens of red𓆏 audience chairs and pieces of Letterman’s skyline set were thrown into a Dumpster last Thursday, less than 24 hours after the last episodꦏe aired.
Leܫtterman’s successor — Stephen Colbert — is set to start his late-night show Sept. 8 in the same theater.