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IrelandColbert's farewell archive finds fresh company, without a new upload
The channel adds roughly two million weekly views as its musical send-off and Paul McCartney interview keep drawing audiences.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Story of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
"Jump Up / Hello Goodbye" Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert
What does a week without a new Colbert upload look like? Not an empty one: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert added roughly two million views, with daily viewing running about half above its usual pace. Subscribers held steady at 10.7 million.
The farewell material remains the most active corner of the archive. Its musical send-off begins somewhere deliberately small: Colbert steps through a green portal into a dark space furnished with a lamp and an upturned chair. Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste and Louis Cato join him for "Jump Up," gathered in a semicircle rather than spread across the familiar studio stage.
Then the scale changes. Paul McCartney leads "Hello, Goodbye" with the full band, and the sequence grows into a singalong involving staff and crew throughout the studio and balconies. Months after its upload, that performance is drawing more daily views than either the final monologue or McCartney's accompanying interview.
The interview offers a different kind of return: McCartney remembering the Beatles playing the same Ed Sullivan Theater stage in 1964. Together, the conversation and performance give the archive both the memory of an arrival and the staging of a goodbye.
Elsewhere in late night, The Daily Show gained subscribers this week, while LastWeekTonight's daily viewing was sharply above usual. Colbert's channel had the smallest weekly view gain among the listed peers, but its own viewing pace has picked up without adding anything new.
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Which instrument does Jon Batiste play in the farewell's "Jump Up" performance?
Batiste joins Colbert, Costello and Cato at the piano during the opening performance.