Bill Murray said his goodbye to David Letterman in the sweetest way possible: By jumping out of a cake!
The actor was Dave's first guest back in 1982 when he hosted NBC's Late Night, and he was his first guest again in 1993 when he became the host of CBS' Late Show. Throughout this 33-year span, Bill visited his late-night pal many times, but Tuesday's show (Dave's second-to-last one before retirement) was extra special.
The Grand Budapest Hotel star will likely return to the Late Show again when Stephen Colbert takes over, but last night marked his final visit to the Ed Sullivan Theater with Dave sitting behind the desk. Bill realized this occasion was cause for celebration, so he made a grand entrance—popping out of a super-sized cake with "Goodbye Dave" written on it in frosting—and then proceeded to smear frosting and sugary goodness all over the Late Show host's face and several audience members', too!
After Wednesday's final show, Dave and his co-workers and pals will probably get more cake at the Late Show's farewell party. That said, Dave's not really looking forward to throwing down. "I'm not looking forward to it at all," he told CBS Sunday Morning's Jane Pauley earlier this week. "I don't want to go to a party. I recognize that it's good, cathartic perhaps, for all of us to be together, because it's not been easy on anybody who has been here any length of time, for this to end. So I recognize the symbolic importance of it. But holy crap. [mimicking a waiter/waitress] 'Care for a shrimp puff?' I don't want a shrimp puff."
Admittedly, moving on to the next era of his life is daunting, but Dave's looking forward to it in many ways. "It's so cliche, but I'll share it with you anyway," he explained. "Any enormous uprooting change in my life has petrified me. Really petrified me. But once I've come through the other side, the reward has been unimaginable."
Dave's final Late Show airs tonight at 11:35 p.m. on CBS.