Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Special Guests
TheWrap • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Stephen Colbert's final week on "The Late Show" will feature special guests including Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, David Byrne, and Bruce Springsteen, with the series finale airing Thursday, May 21.
- Tuesday's show (May 19) will include Stewart and Spielberg, plus a musical performance by David Byrne and Colbert, while Wednesday (May 20) will feature "The Colbert Questionert" and a performance by Springsteen.
- No guests have been announced for the series finale on May 21, with anticipation high about how Colbert will conclude his final show.
- In the week prior, Colbert was visited by fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver, as well as David Letterman, who originally passed the show to Colbert in 2015.
- The final weeks have included notable guests such as Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Pedro Pascal, with the show's end announced in July 2025 and the timeslot to be taken over by Byron Allen’s "Comics Unleashed" starting May 22, 2026.