On Thursday, Comedy Central aired the final episode of “The Colbert Report,” the 30-minute follow-up program to the network’s signature “The Daily Show” that had aired going back nine years. As part of the finale, a number of celebrities sent sang “We’ll Meet Again” as the send-off for host Stephen Colbert, who is set to take the helm of CBS’s “Late Show” in 2015.
Among the celebrities participating:
Jon Stewart
Alan Alda
Willie Nelson
Bryan Cranston
Tom Brokaw
Mandy Patinkin
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Michael Stipe
Cindi Lauper
Katie Couric
James Franco
Charlie Rose
Barry Manilow
Jeff Daniels
Patrick Stewart
Andy Cohen
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ken Burns
Cyndi Lauper
Keith Olbermann
Ariana Huffington
Sam Waterson
Paul Krugman
Grover Norquist
Mark Cuban
Mike Huckabee
Henry Kissinger
Andrew Sullivan
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Christian Amanpour
George Lucas
J.J. Abrams
Bill Clinton
Jeff Tweedy
Tim Meadows
Bob Costas
Thomas Friedman
Claire McKaskill
David Gregory
Eliot Spitzer
John Ratzenberger
Toby Keith
Gloria Steinem
Barry Manilow
…and others
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