{"id":110079,"date":"2026-05-22T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/stephen-colbert-ends-show-with-paul-mccartney\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:22:20","slug":"stephen-colbert-ends-show-with-paul-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/stephen-colbert-ends-show-with-paul-mccartney\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Ends Show With Paul McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->How Stephen Colbert Ended &#8216;The Late Show&#8217; With Help From Paul McCartney, Ryan Reynolds &amp; More<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It&#8217;s the end of an era for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/stephen_colbert\"><strong>Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_late_show\"><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> host bid a final farewell to fans as the CBS talk show aired its last episode ever on May 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">However, Stephen wasn\u2019t alone for his swansong. Indeed, he welcomed Sir <\/span><strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> for his final interview and the pair chatted about <\/span><strong>The Beatles<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2019 first U.S. performance in the Ed Sullivan Theater, where <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Late Show<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> has filmed for 11 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Plus, the 62-year-old had <\/span><strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Jon Stewart<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Elijah Wood<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Bryan Cranston<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Paul Rudd<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Andy Cohen<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Tim Meadows<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u00a0and <\/span><strong>Tig Notaro <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">perform comedic bits during the episode.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Meanwhile, fellow <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Strike Force Five<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> members <\/span><strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><strong>Seth Meyers<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and <\/span><strong>John Oliver<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> showed up to give him a hilarious and moving send-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Which is exactly what Stephen gave his audience during the episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;This show has been a joy for us to do for you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We call it \u2018The Joy Machine,\u2019 because to do this many shows, it has to be a machine. But the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesn&#8217;t hurt as much when your fingers get caught in the gears.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431868\/the-late-show-last-episode-stephen-colbert-ends-show-with-paul-mccartney?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Stephen Colbert Ended &#8216;The Late Show&#8217; With Help From Paul McCartney, Ryan Reynolds &amp; More It&#8217;s the end of an era for Stephen Colbert.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}