Watch Stephen Colberts final Late Show sign off

May 22, 2026

A man in a suit stands in a corridor next to a giant lever.

After 11 years, The Late Show ended on a musical note.

In the footage above, Stephen Colbert comes out of the other side of a giant late night-destroying wormhole to join in on a performance of "Jump Up" with Louis Cato, Jon Batiste and Elvis Costello, before Paul McCartney joins them for a rendition of The Beatles' "Hello, Goodbye".

As the song ends Colbert's family and the entire show staff come up to the stage, before we cut to Colbert in a corridor with McCartney, getting ready to pull a giant "Late Show" lever.

The lights go off in the building, the entire Ed Sullivan Theater is shrunk down to a tiny snow globe, and Colbert's dog Benny makes a final cameo as he gives it a sniff.

"Come on Benny, let's go," says Colbert off camera. Then we fade to black.

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