After 11 years as emcee, Stephen Colbert hosted the very last episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday (May 21) night, following CBS’s abrupt cancellation of the program that was handed down to him by former host David Letterman. The show’s axing has been a point of controversy since it was first announced last year, as many saw the move as politically driven, given Donald Trump‘s distaste for the show and CBS’s parent company’s (Paramount) desire for Trump’s administration to approve of a merger (with Skydance, which ultimately happened).

For his part, Colbert has declined to directly accuse the network of axing the iconic talk show for political reasons, but plenty around him have done all the talking (including Letterman and Colbert’s own penultimate show guest, Bruce Springsteen). So how did the Emmy-winning host of The Late Show say goodbye to viewers once and for all?

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