Best finale ever. Ever. I stayed up late (for me) to watch the ending of the Colbert Report (almost) live. I keep watching it again and again and it keeps getting better. Even if you’re not a fan, or if you’ve never watched Stephen Colbert, it is worth a look. He took a dull old Sinatra song and used made it into the ultimate buddy song. The mix of people in the cameos includes people you know, people you don’t know, and people you, well, watch it, you’ll see. I found a website with a list of who was who, so here’s the cheat sheet: 1. Stephen Colbert 2. Jon Stewart *3. Randy Newman (on piano) 4. Willie Nelson 5. Bryan Cranston 6. Doris Kearns Goodwin (she’s an amazing historian and author) *7. Francis Collins (director of the National Institute of Health) 8. Tom Brokaw 9. Mandy Patinkin *10. Lil Buck (dancer) *11. Yo-Yo Ma 12. Neil deGrasse Tyson 13. Sam Waterston 14. Jeff Daniels 15. Cyndi Lauper 16. Big Bird *17. Trevor Potter (Colbert’s lawyer for his SuperPAC) 18. Keith Olbermann (what’s with the purple jacket?) 19. Andrew Sullivan (a blogger) *20. David Hallberg (ballet dancer) 21. Katie Couric *22. Ken Burns *23. Ric Ocasek (lead singer of The Cars) *24. Gloria Steinem comes on stage 25. Charlie Rose *26. Samantha Power (U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) *27. Michael Stipe (lead singer of REM) *28. James Franco 29. Cookie Monster *30. Toby Keith *31. Dean Kamen(he invented the Segway) 32. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. *33. Andrew Young (former UN Ambassador) *34. General Raymond T. Odierno 35. Barry Manilow 36. David Gregory *37. Jeff Tweedy (musician) *38. Christiane Amanpour, 39. Patrick Stewart *40. Andy Cohen (or Bravo) *41. Stone Phillips *42. Peter Frampton (he came back Alive!) 43. Arianna Huffington *44. Naquasia LeGrand (a KFC employee turned minimum wage activist) 45. Alan Alda 46 Cory Booker (Sewnator from New Jersey) *47. George Lucas *48. Alexi Lalas (soccer player) *49. Jon Batiste (musician) 50. Henry Kissinger (he used to run the world) *51. Elijah Wood (actor) 52. Mike Huckabee *53. Bob Costas (he got old) *54. Tim Meadows (didn’t recognize him in the glasses) *55. The staff of the Colbert Report *56. Pussy Riot *57. Vince Gilligan 58. Soldiers in Afghanistan 59. Tek Jansen 60. Esteban Colberto (and two chicas) 61. President Clinton *62. Terry Virts (astronaut) *63. J.J. Abrams (film producer) *64. Smaug the Dragon *65. Jake Tapper *66. Lesley Stahl *67. Garrett Reisman (astronaut) *68. Clair McCaskill (senator from Missouri) *69. Teri Gross (so that’s what she looks like!) *70. Jeffrey Toobin *71. Norm Ornstein (political scientist) *72. Emily Bazelon (Slate) *73. David Leonhardt (The New York Times) *74. Matt Taibbi 75. Eliot Spitzer *76. John Colbert (Stephen;’s son) *77. Madeline Colbert (Stephen’s daughter) *78. Evie Colbert (Stephen’s wife) *79. Katrina vanden Heuvel (of the Nation) *80. Paulina Porizkova *81. Eleanor Holmes Norton *82. Ann Patchett (author) *83. Dan Savage (he coined Santorum) *84. Cliff Sloan Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure 85. Tom Friedman *86. David Remnick (New Yorker editor) 87. Paul Krugman *88. Bing West (former Assistant Secretary of Defense) *89. Director Jim Hoskinson (the famous “Jimmy”) Also in the mix: *90. Grover Nordquist *91. Mark Cuban *92. George Saunders *93. Richard Clarke *94. Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) *95. Shepard Fairey (artist) *96. Steven Pinker (author) *97. Paul Rieckhoff (author) *98. Ed Viesturs (author) *99 Brian Greene (string theorist) *100. Father Jim Martin (the Report‘s official chaplain) *101. Jonathan Alter (formerly of Newsweek) *102. Nate Silver (blogger) *103 Maureen Dowd *104. Joe Quesada (comic book writer) *105. Bradley Whitford (actor) *106. Cass Sunstein (professor) *I could not identify the starred names
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:05:40 +0000
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