Stephen Colbert bid farewell to his mortality on Thursday's final episode of The Colbert Report -- seriously, he killed death. This man can do anything.
But, apparently, that wasn't enough for the comedian and host. He also gathered a few hundred of his closest celebrity friends for an eight-minute musical sendoff to the tune of "We’ll Meet Again” by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles.
While the star-studded musical finale has become a tradition of sorts in late-night television, Colbert, never one to be outdone, took it to the next level.
Here is a complete list of guests, in order of appearance.
Jon Stewart
Randy Newman (on piano)
Willie Nelson, Bryan Cranston, Doris Kearns Goodwin, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins
Tom Brokaw, Mandy Patinkin, Yo-Yo Ma, Lil Buck, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sam Waterston, Jeff Daniels, Cyndi Lauper, Big Bird, Former Commissioner & Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Trevor Potter, Keith Olbermann
Blogger Andrew Sullivan, ballet dancer David Hallberg, Katie Couric, Ric Ocasek, Ken Burns
Charlie Rose, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Mark Cuban, REM's Michael Stipe, James Franco, Cookie Monster
Toby Keith, Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Gloria Steinem, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Barry Manilow, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (background), author George Saunders (background)
David Gregory, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Young, Christiane Amanpour, Patrick Stewart, Andy Cohen
Stone Phillips, Peter Frampton, Naquasia Legrand, Ariana Huffington
Alan Alda, Cory Booker, George Lucas, former soccer player Alexi Lalas, Jon Batiste
Elijah Wood, Henry Kissinger, Bob Costas, Mike Huckabee, Tim Meadows
Colbert Report staff
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina (we think)
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan
Men and women in uniform
Colbert Report characters Tek Jansen and Esteban Colberto
President Bill Clinton, tweeting:
#Farewell @StephenAtHome...But I know we'll meet again some sunny day. Your friend, PrezBillyJeff— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) December 19, 2014
An astronaut on the International Space Station
J.J. Abrams
Smaug
Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, Alex Trebek
Also: Jake Tapper, Lesley Stahl, Senator Claire McCaskill, Ed Viesturs, Terry Gross, Jeffrey Toobin, Norman Ornstein, Emily Bazelon, David Leonhardt, Matt Taibbi, Eliot Spitzer, Nate Silver, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist, Brian Greene, Leslie Stahl, Father Jim Martin, Jonathan Alter, Paulina Porizkova, Maureen Dowd, Richard Clarke, Dan Savage, Jimmy Wales, Joe Quesada, Bradley Whitford, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ann Patchett, Tom Friedman, Cass Sunstein, Cliff Sloan, Bing West
The Colbert family: Evie, Madeleine, Peter, John