This was pitch perfect. I especially loved the musical number to the point that I have watched it four times just to see who all I missed. What do you all think?
shareLoved it!
I figured they'd do something, but I had no idea what, and as that unfolded, I was just in awe.
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Mrs. French's cat is missing...
I loved the final Charlene reference as well.
If she thought Stephen was bad as a stalker, just imagine what an immortal Stephen could do.
I think you're right, perfect, and not unlike the thousands of other bits & interviews of his that should be in broadcast history, with maybe a handful of totally subjective klinkers at most over 9 years!
Congrats Stephen
It was a big episode of the daily show with colbert starting directly from the segway(great decision to bring that back btw)the "end" of the daily show had no moment of zen and no credits and the end of colbert went back to jon. Perhaps the Colbert Report never really existed and it was all a report by Colbert on what things would be like if he had his own show.
shareThe killing of Grimmy and the hammy acting were the only weak spots in an otherwise near-perfect finale.
Stone Phillips must also be immortal because he hasn't aged in 9 years!
Listen, do you smell something? -Ray Stantz
Me too, I loved it. This was going to be hard, but they did themselves proud - as always.
And, thanks for the explanation of what happened with the no "moment of zen". Can anyone list all the guests who showed up?
I can't believe it's all over. I hope Comedy Central keeps it available forever.
I loved the ending. Pretty much the best way it could have gone. I wasn't expecting that musical number.
So many people, I think it is awesome that they all showed up for that. I loved the show.
Farewell, Stephen.
The guests I recognized were Jon Stuart, Randy Newman, Big Bird, Michael Stipe, Henry Kissinger, Katie Couric, Mandy Potemkin, Allen Alda, Jeff Daniels, Keith Olbermann, Willie Nelson, Gloria Steinem, Ken Burns, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Cookie Monster, Smaug, Barry Manilow, Patrick Stewart, Ariana Huffington, Bill Clinton, Peter Jackson.
Who did I miss? Some were familiar but I couldn't place them, and a lot I don't know.
Bryan Cranston, Terry Gross, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Tom Brokaw, Sam Waterston, Andrew Sullivan, Bill DiBlasio, Christiane Amanpour, Cyndi Lauper, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Norm Ornstein, Kevin Spacey, Vince Gilligan, Corey Booker, Eliot Spitzer, Paul Krugman, Ric Ocasek, Charlie Rose, Grover Norquist.
shareIt was ok right until they showed that war criminal Kissinger. Shame.
shareJames Franco, George Lucas, J.J. Abrams, Tim Meadows(P.K. Winsome), Bob Costas, Toby Keith, Ray Odierno, Trevor Potter.
shareYeah, I was hoping the rest of the crowd would stop singing and pile on Kissinger. I can't believe that most of those present would have enjoyed the prospect of sharing a stage with him.
I'll never understand why The Colbert Report was always so friendly towards Kissinger as a guest? All you have to do is Google the Chilean coup...
Mike Huckabee was there singing too, I was like wtf is he doing there?!?
https://www.youtube.com/jrandjanet
Former guest, in New York on Dec 18
shareHere is a complete list of guests, in order of appearance.
Jon Stewart
Randy Newman (on piano)
Willie Nelson, Bryan Cranston, Doris Kearns Goodwin, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins
Tom Brokaw, Mandy Patinkin, Yo-Yo Ma, Lil Buck, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sam Waterston, Jeff Daniels, Cyndi Lauper, Big Bird, Former Commissioner & Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Trevor Potter, Keith Olbermann
Blogger Andrew Sullivan, ballet dancer David Hallberg, Katie Couric, Ric Ocasek, Ken Burns
Charlie Rose, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Mark Cuban, REM's Michael Stipe, James Franco, Cookie Monster
Toby Keith, Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Gloria Steinem, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Barry Manilow, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, author George Saunders
David Gregory, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Young, Christiane Amanpour, Patrick Stewart, Andy Cohen
Stone Phillips, Peter Frampton, Naquasia Legrand, Ariana Huffington
Alan Alda, Cory Booker, George Lucas, former soccer player Alexi Lalas, Jon Batiste
Elijah Wood, Henry Kissinger, Bob Costas, Mike Huckabee, Tim Meadows
Colbert Report staff
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan
(US military) men and women in uniform
Colbert Report characters Tek Jansen and Esteban Colberto
President Bill Clinton, tweeting
An astronaut on the International Space Station
J.J. Abrams
Smaug
Jake Tapper, Senator Claire McCaskill, Ed Viesturs, Terry Gross, Jeffrey Toobin, Norman Ornstein, Emily Bazelon, David Leonhardt, Matt Taibbi, Eliot Spitzer, Nate Silver, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist, Brian Greene, Leslie Stahl, Father Jim Martin, Jonathan Alter, Paulina Porizkova, Maureen Dowd, Richard Clarke, Dan Savage, Jimmy Wales, Joe Quesada, Bradley Whitford, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ann Patchett, Tom Friedman, Cass Sunstein, Cliff Sloan, Bing West
The Colbert family: Evie, Madeleine, Peter, John
Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, Alex Trebek
source: mashable.com
Excellent, many (with exceptions) media, political, entertainment douche bags in one place on one stage. Wow, just incredible. Great show will be missed.
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