The Colbert Report's final episode wasn't particularly eventful for the first 23 minutes or so. Then, Stephen Colbert started singing "We'll Meet Again", brought out Jon Stewart, and then guest after guest, after guest joined in. Like a snowball speeding down a mountain, the number of guests singing along got bigger and bigger.

Our unofficial, possibly never to be completed guest list:

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

JJ Abrams

Alan Alda

Christiane Amanpour

Jon Batiste

Emily Bazelon

Big Bird

Cory Booker

Tom Brokaw

Ken Burns

Bill Clinton

Andy Cohen

Francis Collins

Cookie Monster

Bob Costas

Katie Couric

Bryan Cranston

Mark Cuban

Jeff Daniels

Bill DeBlasio

Maureen Dowd

James Franco

Thomas Friedman

Vince Gilligan

Doris Kearns Goodwin



David Gregory

Terry Gross

David Hallberg

Mike Huckabee

Arianna Huffington

Dean Kamen

Toby Keith

Henry Kissinger

Nicholas Kristof

Paul Krugman

Alexi Lalas

Cyndi Lauper

David Leonhardt

George Lucas

Yo Yo Ma

Barry Manilow

Senator Claire McCaskill

Tim Meadows

Willie Nelson

Randy Newman

Grover Norquist

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Ric Ocasek

General Odierno



Keith Olbermann

Norm Ornstein

Joe Quesada

Mandy Patinkin

Stone Phillips

Steve Pinker

Samantha Power

Pussy Riot

Charlie Rose

Dan Savage

Smaug

Shane Smith

Eliot Spitzer

Gloria Steinem

Jon Stewart

Patrick Stewart

Michael Stipe

Andrew Sullivan

Matt Taibbi

Jeff Tweedy

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Sam Waterston

Elijah Wood





Correction: The original version of this post misidentified Barry Manilow as Rod Stewart. We deeply regret the error.