Well, it’s over.
Thanks for the awesome 9 years, Mr. Colbert; you’ll be missed.
I hope that his liberal twin, who is curiously also named Stephen, has a similarly successful run on his new old late night talk show.
I thought that was a great ending. The show had seemed to be pointing to that he would end up dead on the last episode, and I thought it was perfect that he ended up immortal, and he’ll be back when America needs him most.
I’m glad we got to see his show when we were in NYC a few years ago. It was worth the wait in line.
Anyone have a list of who all was in the ‘choir’ at the end? It just kept growing and growing!
From here:
Loved it. Loved the very final bit especially.
I am going to miss *The Report *and SC’s brand of humor. His was a show that charmed, entertained and calmed me all at the same time. He had a way of presenting the bad stories so they really didn’t seem so bad. Watching *The Report *left me feeling like everything was going to work out in the end. Thank you, Stephen.
Oh, did you see him dressed as Prince Hawkcat at Comicon a couple of months ago? That bit about the Manana Manana had me on the floor !
Also, I’ve been searching for an old clip of him as a reporter on TDS. I seem to remember that Colbert was reporting on Tony Blair and had a banana in the scene. He and Jon lost composure and kept the cameras running. I’ll give bonus internet points if someone can find that clip.
I believe this is what you’re looking for.
I remember that bit. He was ‘in England’ reporting on the royal scandal no one could talk about directly cuz of Britain’s slander laws. The rumor was something about the prince having a homosexual encounter. While talking to Jon he takes out a banana and starts peeling it, and then crams almost the whole thing into his mouth in one go. He cracks up a few times trying to finish the story.
I still love his interview with Cookie Monster.
That sendoff (the one with Kissinger, Big Bird, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pussy Riot, George Lucas, and Elijah Wood- when will you EVER see all those names in the same sentence again?) was why Farnsworth and Zworykin invented TV. They may not have known it, but there were forces guiding them, and it was to get to that moment. (The Trebek thing was throwaway, but I was still reeling from “The Doris Kearns Goodwin, Alan Alda and Dean Kamen Singers” bit.)
I was expecting to see O’Reilly show up, but, nope. I wonder if he was invited but declined.
Who was the tall blonde guy dancing with Katie Couric?
And why the “Apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin” in the final credits?
Remember on The Daily Show when Colbert and Steve Carell (then also a correspondent) did a segment on alcohol and Carell got trashed throughout the piece.
Yea it was too bad they couldn’t talk O’Reilly into appearing, though I guess not super-surprising (he’s appeared on the show at least once, but he’s always seemed pretty annoyed with Colbert’s schtcik).
Just watched it. I’m not ashamed to admit I got a little misty.
“Jon?”
It was a recurring joke any time something disgusting or awful happened – like, if he was telling a story about someone leaving a dump in the Green Room, he would add “apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin”.
And speaking of the Green Room, I’d hate to have been the celebrity wrangler for that show. I kept thinking they had maybe taped the guests over the days, but then there they all were. Amazing.
I saw a prediction that it would end with Grimmie dragging Stephen away, and the DishNet entry for the last show had Grimmie as the guest. They did it much better.
The pundit lives!
Might be this:
(link safe for late-night TV, your workplace may vary)
Some of the guests looked superimposed to me, particularly James Franco. But I’m really bad at detecting stuff like that.
And then, this image proves pretty well that James Franco was there.
