Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Goes Dark With Paul McCartney, Hollywood’s Biggest Names, and an Era-Ending Goodbye to CBS

For more than three decades, the 11:35 p.m. hour on CBS belonged to one of America’s great late-night institutions. ‘The Late Show’ franchise launched in 1993 under David Letterman and, after Colbert took the reins in 2015, ran for a total of 1,800 episodes before Thursday’s curtain call. Through monologues, desk pieces, and eleven seasons...