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Colbert Report Finale: Complete List Of Celebrities Who Came To Sing Goodbye

By Joshua Waldrop
Published on: 20:29 PST, Dec 20, 2014

The Colbert Report signed off this week after ten seasons and nearly 1,500 episodes, and it seemed as if nearly every guest that has graced the Report stage returned to sing host Stephen Colbert into immortality.

Entertainment Weekly’s Hillary Busis compiled a complete list of every celebrity that appeared, be it on set or in video, to sing “We’ll Meet Again” with Colbert:

Daily Show host Jon Stewart
Musician Randy Newman
Country music legend Willie Nelson
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
NIH director Francis Collins
News anchor Tom Brokaw
Actor Mandy Patinkin
Dancer Lil’ Buck
Musician Yo-Yo Ma
Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Law & Order star Sam Waterston
Actor Jeff Daniels
80’s pop icon Cyndi Lauper
Sesame Street Muppet Big Bird
Lawyer Trevor Potter, who represented Colbert during his SuperPAC campaign
Sportscaster Keith Olbermann
British author Andrew Sullivan
Dancer David Hallberg
News anchor Katie Couric
Documentarian Ken Burns
Singer Ric Ocasek
Activist Gloria Steinem
Talk host Charlie Rose
S. Ambassador Samantha Power
E.M. frontman Michael Stipe
The Interview star James Franco
Sesame Street Muppet Cookie Monster
Country star Toby Keith
A. Laker Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Segway inventor Dean Kamen
New York City mayor Bill deBlasio
Crooner Barry Manilow
Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young
Raymond T. Odierno, who shaved Colbert bald during his Iraq remote
Acting legend Patrick Stewart
Talk host Andy Cohen
Musician Jeff Tweedy
Journalist Christiane Amanpour
Meet The Press host David Gregory
News correspondent and Colbert Report debut guest Stone Phillips
Activist Naquasia LeGran
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington
Musician Peter Frampton
Soccer legend Alexi Lalas
Musician Joe Batiste
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
M*A*S*H star Alan Alda
Star Wars creator George Lucas
Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein
Street artist Shepard Fairey
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver
Executive producer Jonathan Alter
Marvel editor Joe Quesada
Author Steven Pinker
String theorist Brian Greene
Activist Paul Rieckhoff
Author Ed Viesturs
Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood
Saturday Night Live alum Tim Meadows
Sports anchor Bob Costas
CNN anchor Jake Tapper
60 Minutesanchor Lesley Stahl
Astronaut Garrett Reisman
Sen. Clair McCaskill
Fresh Air host Terry Gross
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin
Political scientist Norm Ornstein
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer
New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt
Former Rolling Stone Magazinecolumnist Matt Taibbi
The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel
Model Paulina Porizkova
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Author Ann Patchett
Advice columnist Dan Savage
Former Asst. Scy. of Defense for International Security Affairs Bing West
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
Advocate Grover Norquist
Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Cliff Sloan
New Yorker editor David Remnick
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
Writer George Saunders
Former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Director J.J. Abrams
Breaking Bad producer Vince Gilligan
Punk protest band Pussy Riot
22 troops stationed in Afghanistan
Colbert cartoon creation Tek Jansen
Colbert Spanish-language character Esteban Colberto
Astronaut Terry Virts, from space, aboard a treadmill named in Colbert’s honor
Smaug the Dragon
Former Pres. Bill Clinton
Father Jim Martin, The Colbert Report’s official chaplain
The Colbert Report director James “Jimmy” Hoskinson
The entire Colbert Report staff
Colbert’s older son, Peter Colbert
Colbert’s youngest son, John Colbert
Colbert’s daughter, Madeleine Colbert
Colbert’s wife, Evie Colbert