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 funnyman’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 than 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 red audience chairs and pieces of Letterman’s skyline set were thrown into a Dumpster last Thursday, less than 24 hours after the last episode aired.

Letterman’s successor — Stephen Colbert — is set to start his late-night show Sept. 8 in the same theater.