Stephen Colbert chatted with Paul McCartney and joined him on stage for a raucous performance of “Hello, Goodbye” on the final broadcast of CBS’ “The Late Show” on Thursday night, a bittersweet farewell for a canceled show that still had a few barbs left for the network that ended its 33-year run.

It’s the end of an era as ‘The Late Show’ airs for the final time, after CBS’ decision to axe the late night talk show which has run for 33 years.

Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers have rallied around Stephen Colbert ahead of the latter’s final “Late Show” episode. The five men reunited on May 11 for an episode of their limited-run “Strike Force Five” podcast — which they launched in August 2023 during the Writers Guild Strike — in honor of Colbert’s last few episodes.

The late-night host joined a supergroup, which also included current bandleader Louis Cato

"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert is marking the end of an iconic late-night franchise on CBS.

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I was so mad when Stephen Colbert got cancelled for speaking out against our current corrupt president. I still am, but initially, that mix of anger, shock, and sadness made me want revenge. I was more Chris O’Donnell in the second act of Batman Forever.