{"id":2155,"date":"2026-05-22T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/22\/stephen-colbert-danced-the-night-away-with-bette-midler-cbs-staff-at-late-show-wrap-party\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:00","slug":"stephen-colbert-danced-the-night-away-with-bette-midler-cbs-staff-at-late-show-wrap-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/22\/stephen-colbert-danced-the-night-away-with-bette-midler-cbs-staff-at-late-show-wrap-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Danced the Night Away With Bette Midler, CBS Staff at \u2018Late Show\u2019 Wrap Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tFor months people have been wondering what Stephen Colbert<\/a> would do when his time as host of CBS\u2019 Late Show<\/em> came to an end.<\/p>\n

\tApparently his immediate plans were to dance the night away with his staff, loved ones and stars like Bette Midler<\/a> at the Late Show<\/em> wrap party Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\tIn videos shared by Gayle King<\/a> and her CBS Mornings<\/em> producer Gisela Margarita P\u00e9rez, Colbert could be seen enthusiastically cutting a rug to House of Pain\u2019s \u201cJump Around,\u201d taking the lyrics to heart and singing along as he was surrounded by a group of people doing the same. \t<\/p>\n

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\tHe also could be seen dancing to Outkast\u2019s \u201cHey Ya\u201d with Bette Midler and his wife, Evie Colbert. There again Colbert was singing along and shaking his body \u201clike a Polaroid picture\u201d as commanded by the lyrics.<\/p>\n

\tAlong with a carousel of photos of King with Jon Batiste, Evie Colbert and Lin-Manuel Miranda at the celebration, the CBS Mornings<\/em> host wrote on Instagram, \u201cI can\u2019t imagine late night without Stephen @colbert and yet here we are. I\u2019m not the only one that feels that way and the people turned out for his wrap party in NYC. They hit the dance floor with Stephen who is clearly ready for things to come\u2014and I can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tEarlier this month, King sung Colbert\u2019s praises to \u30cf\u30ea\u30a6\u30c3\u30c9\u30fb\u30ea\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc<\/em> on the red carpet at THR<\/em>\u2018s Most Powerful People in New York Media party<\/a>, saying: \u201cI love everything about him. I\u2019ve been on his show a couple of times. The wit that he has, the intelligence that he has, there\u2019s nobody like him. And I can\u2019t wait to see what he does in his next chapter because we all know Stephen ain\u2019t done.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tOther stars spotted by photographers at the afterparty included Anderson Cooper, Dick Cavett, Katie Couric, Mark Hamill, Tiffany Haddish, Drew Barrymore, Ewan McGregor, Padma Lakshmi, Bernadette Peters, Keegan-Michael Key, Patton Oswalt, Steve Buscemi and \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, who memorably appeared on the first Late Show<\/em> after Colbert announced his show had been canceled and Thursday night was the guest on The Daily Show<\/em>, where Colbert obviously got his start in late night.<\/p>\n

\tHe was also joined by a number of the stars who made appearances on the final Late Show<\/em> including Paul McCartney<\/a>, as well as John Oliver and Paul Rudd.<\/p>\n

\tThe afterparty kicked off at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the New York events space, Second, according to an invitation reviewed by Page Six<\/em><\/a>. The invite, according to Page Six<\/em> and other outlets, said, \u201cThat\u2019s a Wrap! (Party)\u201d and asked people to wear \u201cFired & Festive!\u201d attire.<\/p>\n

\tColbert wrapped up his 11-year run on The Late Show<\/a><\/em> Thursday night<\/a> with what the host called a \u201cnormal,\u201d final episode that featured a slew of celebrity cameos and an interdimensional wormhole that swallowed the Ed Sullivan Theater. The largely politics-free finale didn\u2019t include a single reference to President Donald Trump and there was another star who didn\u2019t make the show: Colbert\u2019s \u201cwhite whale\u201d guest, the pope, who, the show joked, canceled at the last minute.<\/p>\n

\tColbert\u2019s next endeavor is taking the avid J.R.R. Tolkien fan to Middle-earth as he co-writes an upcoming installment of the Lord of the Rings<\/em> franchise<\/a>. Beyond that, the host has insisted he wanted to remain focused on finishing out The Late Show<\/em> to the best of his ability before he considered other future moves. Still, he told Meyers in January<\/a> that he and his longtime collaborators, many of whom work with him at The Late Show<\/em>, will \u201cdo something else together.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tAnd Colbert recently told THR<\/em><\/a> he began fielding scripts immediately after he announced the end of The Late Show<\/em> and that he could see \u201ccreating another show\u201d and still has the desire to perform.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cGot to stay in front of the lens, baby,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

\tThis weekend, though, Colbert and his family, all of whom were at the Ed Sullivan Theater for his final episode, will head down to D.C. for his brother\u2019s wedding. He celebrated his son\u2019s college graduation this past Monday as well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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