Comedian Stephen Colbert bid farewell on his final show Thursday night with the help of a pantheon of celebrities, including Washington notables and dignitaries.
Everyone from National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, CNN’s own Jake Tapper — and even former President Bill Clinton, tweeting — appeared during the 23-minute finale, all singing “We’ll Meet Again” along with Colbert.
Here’s our unofficial list of other members of the Washington political and pundit class that helped send off Colbert on Thursday night:
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Former President Bill Clinton — texting
UN Ambassador Samantha Power
Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington
Vice founder Shane Smith
Journalist Matt Taibbi
Commentator Andrew Sullivan
CNN anchor Jake Tapper
NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw
CBS News anchor Charlie Rose
Yahoo news anchor Katie Couric
Former NBC anchor David Gregory
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour
NPR host Terry Gross
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin
Activist Gloria Steinem
NIH Director Francis Collins
