I was a tad disappointed in the last Colbert Report but, you know, the show's batting average was still amazing over its nine year run. Folks I know seem split on how he's going to do in the time slot Mr. Letterman is vacating. I think he's a lot more talented and innovative than anyone else who's been competing in late night for quite some time. If he tries to do the same show as everyone else, he'll just disappear into the mix. I'm thinking he won't.
That finale with a zillion celebs flooding onto his stage last night was impressive, though. Here's an attempt by the folks at Talking Points Memo to identify all of them. They seem to be updating the page every so often to add in more names. One wonders how certain people there felt about sharing a stage with Henry Kissinger in that some of them have fingered him as a war criminal. (Oh, what am I saying? War criminals are getting to be socially acceptable in our country…)