After the star-studded "We'll Meet Again" singalong and the sleigh ride into eternity with Santa, the Colbert Report rolled credits for the final time with Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland, 1945" playing in the background. It may have seemed a strange choice, but it's one with personal significance to Stephen Colbert.

Stephen Colbert is not dead, he's deathless. After 9 truthy years and 1,447 episodes, America's favorite fake conservative pundit—played by a truly smart writer, comedian and satirist—rode off into eternity on the wings of a song Thursday night, vowing to return when America needs him most.

Stephen Colbert closed out his final Colbert Report the way he began it 9 years ago, with his greatest recurring segment, "The Word," and the valuable concept of truthiness.

With the Colbert Report coming to an end, Stephen Colbert can do whatever the hell he wants, including selling the naming rights to the show to his new beverage sponsor, Dewar's Scotch. If you liked the Colbert Report, you'll love the ColbDewar's Repewars. Especially the new open, which Colbert cannot stop laughing at.

In a callback to the very beginning of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert kicked off the show's final week with Formidable Opponent, a segment where he debates the only worthy adversary available: himself.

The Colbert Report has posted its guest list for the final week of the show, and it's solid, but there are no huge surprises: Seth Rogen, Kendrick Lamar, author and Iraq vet Phil Klay, and Grimmy, the Grim Reaper.

Stephen Colbert, Middle Earth aficionado, landed the role of cover model for Entertainment Weekly's Hobbit tribute. We're coming to accept that we'll have to get used to Colbert outside of his Report persona, but who knew he made such a sexy Legolas?

It's been known since April that David Letterman would retire in 2015, with Stephen Colbert as his successor, but the date was up in the air until now: Letterman will host his final Late Show on May 20, 2015, ending his run at 6,028 episodes, reports Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times.

Stephen Colbert's farewell Colbert Report tour landed its biggest guest yet: President Obama. The leader of the free world stopped by for an interview with Colbert, but not before guest hosting "The Word" segment, rebranded for presidential dignity as "The Decree."

Stephen Colbert has some bad news about the second-to-last week of The Colbert Report: He was unable to book legendary Seattle rockers The Presidents of the United States of America to play their classic '90s jam, "Peaches." Consolation prize, though: He landed actual president Barack Obama.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are close friends who've collaborated on everything from the Daily Show to the Rally to Restore Sanity to a nerdy-as-hell lightsaber battle, but Stewart had never been a guest on the Colbert Report until last night.

The advent of Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew—Dewitos, if you will (I won't)—has created a snack-beverage singularity akin to a spiritual experience, and Stephen Colbert is totally on board. Bring it on! Drinkify everything!

A "salmon cannon" has been deployed in Washington state to launch fish safely over a hydroelectric dam, and it's giving John Oliver hope for the future. If we can use the cannon to fix the salmon-spawning process (that we broke in the first place, but whatever), who knows what else we can achieve with this wondrous…

Stephen Colbert hasn't quite jumped on the very popular "arrest climate-change deniers" bandwagon yet, but he proved last night that he's ready to go as far as "mock climate-change deniers mercilessly."

We've known for months that it was coming—Stephen Colbert's last day at the Report before he makes the jump to the Late Show—but it was easy to live in denial without a firm date. Well, that blissful bubble of ignorance just popped: Colbert's last show airs December 18.

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist video game critic and person Gamergaters insist Gamergate is definitely not about (even though they've repeatedly threatened her with death and rape), appeared on the Colbert Report last night.

Bill O'Reilly is extremely unhappy that Stephen Colbert crapped all over his terrible plan to defeat ISIS with "an anti-terror mercenary force paid for by coalition nations." The conservative host responded to the conservative host parody on Monday in a segment he called "How to Deal With Dumb People."