Kimmel clarified that it is his last show before heading off for a break, mirroring his move last year to take a summer hiatus, but not his swan song.
I think I stood up in the middle of the interview to take my jacket off at one point.
As part of his “bittersweet” goodbye to the long-running late night host, Colbert also brought on Brian Stack, who worked as a writer with O’Brien for 14 years, to dish some “dirt” on his former boss.
“I’ll never forget what he told me just before he filed his fingerprints off and had his face reconstructed using cadaver flesh sourced from a Chinese political prison,” Stark said.