--- --- # Watch Seth Meyers Redo Letterman's _Late Night_ Opening by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 20, 2015 3:32 PM UTC by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 20, 2015 3:32 PM UTC Seth Meyers is currently the steward of NBC’s _Late Night_ franchise, making him inexorably tied to the legacy of David Letterman, who hosted the show at its inception and is now concluding his late night tenure over at CBS. So, as Meyers’ nod to the outgoing _Late Show_ host, _Late Night_‘s opening credits Tuesday night were re-imagined in the style of, well, _Late Night_‘s opening credits—from 1982. So what changed over the years in New York City? According to Meyers, there are now “so many fewer pornography theaters.” Letterman’s final show airs Wednesday night. Watch Seth Meyers Redo David Letterman's 'Late Night' Opening ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3890647/seth-meyers-david-letterman-late-night-opening/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3890647/seth-meyers-david-letterman-late-night-opening/"},"headline":"Watch Seth Meyers Redo Letterman's Late Night Opening","datePublished":"2015-05-20T15:32:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:05.209Z","description":"\"And now a man who knows that it's Letterman's show and he's just borrowing it: Seth Meyers\"","url":"https://time.com/3890647/seth-meyers-david-letterman-late-night-opening/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night","David Letterman","Late Night with Seth Meyers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman","jobTitle":"Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3890647/seth-meyers-david-letterman-late-night-opening/","name":"Watch Seth Meyers Redo Letterman's Late Night Opening"}}]}] ```