Stephen Colbert hosted "The Late Show" for the final time Thursday night as the franchise came to an end after 33 years.

Stephen Colbert's farewell from CBS may have ended with applause and celebrity tributes, but behind the scenes, tensions at the network were reportedly boiling over, RadarOnline. com can reveal.

24 hours after CBS/Paramount pulled the plug on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, Colbert turned up guest-hosting a local public access television show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe," as reported on Boing Boing here.

Now that CBS' long-running late night franchise has wrapped, take a look back at the memorable comedic bits, interviews and raw emotional reactions to historic events from the past decade.

In what may be the last hurrah for New York’s nearly century-old Ed Sullivan Theater, the final episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” didn’t feature the most uproarious jokes. Or the most biting political takedowns.

A California-based nonprofit and leader in marine mammal science and conservation made a very public and unsolicited job offer to Stephen Colbert, whose nearly 11-year run as host of "The Late Show"

The host and his colleagues were joined by such luminaries as Anderson Cooper, Gayle King, Katie Couric, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Hamill, Tiffany Haddish, Drew Barrymore and the CBS host's final guest,