I’m really interested in what he’ll do with The Late Show.
Now that The Tonight Show is hip again—and back in NYC—he’s got his work cut out for him.
But I feel sure he’ll be great, because he’s got a lot of talent and a ton of friends who will clamor to be his guests.
is he our twain? or merely our chaplin?
More like a hipper Will Rogers.
Twain was a real curmudgeon—and a great novelist.
Chaplin was a different kind of artiste.
Rogers was an Everyman with a wry outlook who teased and chided, but who never made a mean comment.
Colbert is more like him than the other two.
Thank you! for giving us the names of everyone. I found out who that was being upstaged by someone named Lil Buck - Yo Yo Ma. I wonder which one will be remembered a year from now!
Unidentified in this “definitive” list is author Ann Patchett, highly visible front and center in the last two screen grabs.
Maureen Dowd and Grover Norquist in the same picture? It will never happen again. Dear god Stephen we will miss you so much…but luckily some guy named Stephen Colbert is going to take over for Letterman. Not sure who he is, but I bet we like him.
Despite being in at least three pictures Cookie Monster is not credited once and yet Big Bird is in one and is credited. This is an OUTRAGE. This kind of anti-Monsterism has got to end!
First group I think Lauper didn’t have the loudest outfit in - looking at you Olberman.
I haven’t been able to watch this yet. It is too painful to imagine no more Colbert Report.
i only now just saw the rerun of the entire program. this was a fucking amazing production… did a spit-take when they scanned doris kearns goodwin s(w)inging away with willie nelson by her side… seriously, how many others could pull together than crowd…
Fr. James Martin S.J. (Chaplain of Colbert Report) is between Jonathan Alter and Eliot Spitzer.
Why is that in the media Clinton is “Former President Clinton” but Romney is “Governor Romney” (not Former Governor Romney)?
Updated!
YES! Okay, good, I’m not the only one who got emotional. It was like having a good friend tell you he’s met the person of his dreams and they’re moving to some far away place to do what he’s always dreamed of doing. You can’t help but be so sad for yourself yet so happy for your friend.
I watched closely and I don’t think I saw half of the folks listed. Cool. Gives me another reason to rewatch.
Yep, and I do want to support Larry Wilmore’s new show. He’s funny as hell, and I think this country especially needs a black voice doing political comedy at this point in time.
I’d say he’s closer to our Will Rogers.
From Wikipedia on Will Rogers:
Rogers thought all campaigning was bunk. To prove the point he mounted a mock campaign in 1928 for the presidency. His only vehicle was the pages of Life, a weekly humor magazine. Rogers ran as the “bunkless candidate” of the Anti-Bunk Party. His only campaign promise was that, if elected, he would resign. Every week, from Memorial Day through Election Day, Rogers caricatured the farcical humors of grave campaign politics. On election day he declared victory and resigned.
Sounds a lot like a certain candidate running for President from South Carolina.
Colbert right before the end of the show thanks “Lorraine” (who turns out to be his fake wife) … was she somewhere?
That was the coolest group since Nixon’s enemies list.
Finally use of the word “epic” is actually appropriate.
Kudos, Catherine Thompson. I can now sleep tonight, no longer thinking I would never know who all was in that segment. Feel like taking a stab at all those people outside?