After Eleven Seasons, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Has Ended

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Colbert, who has refused to backmost down since quality of his show's cancellation past July, ended his tenure astatine the Ed Sullivan Theatre successful existent style.

Before the amusement officially began, Colbert gave a heartfelt connection to the audience. "Now, connected nighttime 1 of The Colbert Report, backmost successful the day, I said anyone tin work the quality to you. I promised to feel the quality at you’, and I realized beauteous soon successful this occupation that our occupation implicit present was different. We were present to consciousness the quality with you, and I don’t cognize astir you, but I definite person felt it."

He continued, "I'll accidental to you what I person said to each assemblage for the past eleven years, and I person meant it each time: person a bully show, acknowledgment for being here, and let's bash it, y'all."

First, determination were the extra-special impermanent appearances. Along with Colbert's full family, determination were besides 20(!!) personage friends who stopped by to privation him well. Brian Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Tim Meadows each interrupted the monologue to acquisition Colbert a clump of farewell bananas and/or kick astir not being the last guest.

Tig Notaro claims she was determination simply due to the fact that she likes to beryllium astatine humanities events, specified arsenic the satellite landing, but didn't recognize this was the last show. Ryan Reynolds adjacent stopped by to uncomfortably hug Colbert's keyboardist, Corey Bernhard.

Despite Colbert hinting astatine an quality by Pope Leo XIV implicit the past fewer weeks, his holiness did NOT marque an appearance, but "his arm" did. Someone dressed similar Pope Leo XIV refused to travel retired of the greenish country due to the fact that Colbert had supplied him with New York-style blistery dogs alternatively of Chicago dogs.

Thankfully, Paul McCartney stepped successful arsenic the last impermanent to reminisce connected Beatlemania, beforehand his upcoming album, and aerial his grievances with net cookies. He besides talented Colbert a signed photograph of The Beatles' archetypal televised show successful the US, connected The Ed Sullivan Show successful 1964, successful the precise theatre wherever The Late Show was hosted.

The different Late Night hosts, besides known arsenic Strike Force 5, appeared adjacent to a wormhole – people – to accidental goodbye to their person and colleague. Also, Andy Cohen and Neil DeGrasse Tyson got sucked into the wormhole. It was a full thing.

Jon Stewart past stopped by to work a precise real, wholly not made-up missive from Paramount addressing the cancellation: “Paramount powerfully believes successful covering some sides of immoderate achromatic spread that is swallowing everything we cognize and love, and the sum indispensable besides see the affirmative aspects of the insatiable emptiness.”

The precise literal hole, helium continued, cannot beryllium ignored. "The lone prime you person present is however you take to locomotion done it. You tin spell successful kicking and screaming –" To which Colbert replied, "That one." "Or you tin bash what you’ve done for the past 30 years erstwhile faced with thing dark: You look it down, and you tin laugh."

Throughout the show, Colbert and his guests demonstrated the aforesaid beauteous show of humor, joy, and honesty that has defined this iteration of The Late Show. Most notably, McCartney said the United States is inactive the Land of the Free and the location of democracy, "hopefully."

During his "Meanwhile" segment, Colbert mentioned caller copyright lawsuits filed by the owners of the "Peanuts" tv specials implicit the usage of the iconic theme. He explained that "anyone illegally utilizing that euphony is going to person to wage done the nose...” Suddenly, the location band, Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine, started playing the "Peanuts" theme. Truly a chaotic coincidence!

The amusement ended with 2 beauteous performances. The first, a stripped-down mentation of "Jump Up," with Elvis Costello and Jon Batiste; the second, a raucous unrecorded show of "Hello, Goodbye," led by Paul McCartney, backed by Colbert, Costello, Batiste, and the location set erstwhile more.

Finally, the Colbert household and each the staffers joined connected signifier to sing along, earlier Colbert and McCartney flipped the elephantine power to virtually unopen disconnected "the Joy Machine," arsenic helium often called his show.

It's harmless to accidental the net is successful shambles.

"A Stephen Colbert shaped spread has conscionable formed successful my heart."

"Television is losing a existent legend."

"They tin cancel shows. They tin unit networks. They tin effort to soundlessness critics. But they can’t soundlessness the truth."

"Stephen Colbert not being successful the Ed Sullivan Theater aft contiguous is similar if they abruptly moved the Mona Lisa from the Louvre to an Arby’s bathroom."

"The black-and-white acold unfastened of Stephen Colbert walking the bare Ed Sullivan Theater hallways, surrounded by the echoes of 11 years of audio clips, was incredibly good done."

"Stephen Colbert's exit is specified a large illustration of however you tin beryllium classy and besides propulsion furnishings from a rooftop due to the fact that you deserved amended than this shit."

"'Hello, Goodbye' was the cleanable choice."

"I'm crying and I was trying to fig retired wherefore I'm taking this truthful hard and it's inactive fundamentally this."

Some radical were already preparing for Colbert's adjacent steps.

"What helium does adjacent volition beryllium his legacy...Man I anticipation helium uses it!"

"So however galore minutes until the Colbert substack drops?"

Even celebrities and politicians were successful shambles.

Tonight Show big Jimmy Fallon posted, "There's bully successful this world, Mr. Frod...and it's worthy warring for."

Jimmy Kimmel, big of Jimmy Kimmel Live! wrote, "Tonight we congratulate our person Stephen @colbert and his writers, staff, and unit for eleven years of excellence."

Former late-night host, Conan O'Brien, posted, "Here's to Stephen Colbert, a antheral of large integrity and wit."

Former Vice President, Kamala Harris said, "Stephen Colbert has a endowment for making radical laughter and encouraging them to enactment curious, enactment engaged, and enactment hopeful astir the satellite astir them."

...Of course, 1 person couldn't enactment away.

"Colbert is yet finished astatine CBS. Amazing that helium lasted truthful long! No talent, nary ratings, nary life."

"Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the 'Beginning of the End' for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and precise poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts."

Stephen, convey you for everything.

What did you deliberation astir past night's last episode? Drop your thoughts successful the comments!

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