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NEW YORK: Comedian Stephen Colbert signed off from his late-night talk show on Thursday after 11 seasons with a sentimental chat with Beatles musician Paul McCartney and pointed jokes about his forced departure from CBS.
McCartney had appeared in the same theatre in 1964, when the Beatles were introduced to Americans on The Ed Sullivan Show. Colbert asked McCartney what he remembered from that performance, what Sullivan was like and how the Beatles viewed the US at the time.
The singer said he and his young bandmates, in their early 20s at the time, saw America as “the land of the free, the greatest democracy.”
“That’s what it was, and hopefully still is,” McCartney said. The finale ended with McCartney singing the Beatles classic Hello, Goodbye with Colbert on background vocals.
