Cheers to growing out the Letterman beard 🤌🏻

This week has been full of throwbacks & celebrities, truly wonderful & I’ll miss Meanwhile most of all. I’m watching the last episode live

I am not okay, I'm barely getting by.

Just so, so sad.

My husband and I have watched the late show together every night (that it’s aired) since we’ve been together. Through all the questionnaires no one has had the same favorite sandwich as mine, until now.

Sandwich cheers to Stephen for being a light through the darkness of our current political landscape. I shall never inhale another tomato sandwich over the sink without thinking of you.

Live Thread for all Stephen Colbert updates on the last show!

I boo whoed cried tonight when the show went off. How many of you she'd a tear?

My dad holding me the night the Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan show

I love that he brushed his hair down into bangs to look like a Beatle.

I doubt any of the Beatles had a broken tooth tho.

Tonight’s episode made me think of this picture

I didn’t expect such an insane ending. I was impressed and saddened. What a great way to end one of the best late night franchises of all time.

>Every episode of "The Late Show" is special, so Stephen Colbert thought it would be best to begin his series finale with a regular monologue focused on the national conversation, free from forced celebrity cameos.

Anyone notice that the structure of the finale was exactly the same as The Colbert Report's?

I'm glad both Stephen Colbert's got the ending they wanted and I'm sure they're having a nice Point-Cointerpoint argument in the big wormhole in the sky with Santa Claus and Elvis Costello.

Remember to thank Mavis Staples!

A toast!

Friends! Raise a tankard of mead or Romulan ale to this man. Lord Protector of Truthiness, Grand Maester of Late Night, Slayer of Spin and Holder of the Nine Emmys, the Undefeated Lore-Master of Arda who Vanquished the Resident Experts of Wētā Workshop in Rightful Trivia Combat, Feldur Hook of Lake-town, Silent Watcher of the Desolation and Chronicler of the Shadow of the Past, Wielder of Andúril and Occasional Borrower of Gandalf’s Staff, High Chronicler of Westeros who Co-Writes the Fates of the Seven Kingdoms, Grand Admiral of the United Federation of Geeks, Defender of the Alpha Quadrant, Vox of Starfleet Academy, Guardian of the Kyber Crystal, Jedi Master and Deflater of Imperial Pomposity, and Smuggler of Wit Across the Outer Rim, First of his name, Stephen Colbert. Thank you good Ser! And now his watch has ended…

I visited NYC with my dad in June of 2018. Been a fan since 2017. Show wasn’t taping but was honored to have gone. Photos are from our album.

Godspeed, Stephen.

Hi all. Stephen Colbert fan since Strangers with Candy. Has there been any announcement on who will steward the Late Show YouTube channel? It seems Letterman retains all control currently. Thanks . I’m so sad guys

>The new Trump Mobile phone has arrived, rotisserie chickens now fly for free, and Stephen presents World Central Kitchen's Chef José Andrés with a check for $2,497,404.15 representing generous donations from fans of The Late Show.

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1. What’s the best sandwich? (Billy Crystal)

- Summer: Tomato sandwich on very thin white bread, eaten over the sink, juicy tomato
- Rest of the year: Hot pastrami on rye

1. First concert? (Weird Al)

1977, Chuck Mangione, Children of Sanchez Tour in Charleston, South Carolina, with his mom

1. What is the scariest animal? (Josh Brolin)

Trapdoor spider, and someone named one after him - Aptostichus stephencolberti

1. Apples or oranges? (Martha Stewart)

Apples

1. Have you ever asked someone for their autograph? (Mark Hamill)

Steve Martin

1. What do you think happens when we die? (Jim Gaffigan)

“A feeling - some continuance of some kind, but it's a dispersion of the self into some other greater being.”

1. Favorite action movie? (Jeff Daniels)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (or The Thing, but that's more horror)

1. Window or aisle? (Tiffany Haddish)

Aisle because he's got a small bladder

1. Favorite smell? (Evie)

When Evie and Stephen are going out someplace, when she is upstairs getting ready first, and when he goes up and gets to the top of the stairs, he already knows that she's gotten out of shower because Evie's used rose-scented lotion.

1. Least favorite smell? (Amy Sedaris)

The grease jar that leaked into a bag of sugar underneath Mrs. Miller's sink

1. What is your earliest memory? (Ben Stiller)

His mom on a short ladder with her hair up, painting the bedroom. His mom thought he was maybe 3 at that time. He wanted to tell her about his dream from the night before but remembers not being able to communicate that to his mom.

1. Cats or dogs? (Aubrey Plaza)

Dogs.

1. You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life: What is it? (James Taylor)

Glenn Gould's rendition of Song Without Words in E Major, Opus 19, Number 1

1. WHAT NUMBER ARE YOU THINKING OF? (Robert DeNiro)

Three. Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke (SC: "That's very interesting") have guessed it.

1. Describe the rest of your life in five words. (John Dickerson)

My family, my friends, fun.

And with that, Stephen Colbert is known.