The Colbert Report 12/15 Recap: The Final Week, with Seth Rogen

With the end in sight for The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert has a few tricks up his sleeve before he goes.

"I love being with you," Colbert said to open the show. When he announced formally (in case anyone in his audience lives in a hole) that this is his last week of airing, the audience responded with boos of disapproval.

"I'm sorry, did someone not tell you?" he said. But wasted no more time, and jumped right in to laying into Michele Bachmann.

The Torture Report has been on the national radar lately, so didn't elude Colbert's eagle eye.

In response, Colbert entered into a debate with himself in a segment called "Formidable Opponent." In the first month of The Colbert Report, nine years ago, Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert debated torture for the first time.

Stephen Colbert won, debunking the other Stephen Colbert as an idea, like the idea of an "America that doesn't torture."

"I so dislike North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, that I'm not going to name my child after him," Colbert said, but it just so happens, the name "Kim Jong-un" is by "law" unable to be granted to any other human living, has lived, or will ever live.

Colbert urges any future "Kim Jong-un's" not to cross North Korea, because look at what happened to Sony Pictures.

The hackers dubbed themselves the "Guardians of Peace," and claim the new movie, "The Interview," is a movie of war.

Tonight's episode (Monday, December 15) is the first of the last week of episodes, and featured an interview with starring actor, director and screenwriter of upcoming movie, "The Interview," Seth Rogen.

"It upset the North Koreans," Colbert said to Rogen.

"Did you think it would upset the North Koreans? Did you picture them as a jolly regime?"
"We did not think they would love the concept of the movie, to be totally honest," Rogen said.
"But is it appropriate to make jokes about real things in the world?" Colbert asked.

We will miss you dearly, Stephen.

Besides making headlines for baring it all on a special episode of "Naked And Afraid,' Rogen and Franco have been mixed in with the notorious Sony hack.

The salaries they received for "The Interview," as well as a number of private, executive e-mails, were stolen and publicly released.

Rogen and Franco were also on The Howard Stern Show this morning to chat about their film and the recent hacker attack.

The Colbert Report is also toted to have a performance by Kendrick Lamar, former Marine and author Phil Klay, and on the very last episode, a visit from "Grimmy," better known as The Grim Reaper.

Preceding the final episode of The Colbert Report, Comedy Central will show a full day marathon featuring the show's greatest episodes and finest moments.

Stephen Colbert will step down from his late-night Comedy Central show to take over after David Letterman as host of CBS' "The Late Show." The final show of The Colbert Report will air Thursday, December 18, 2014, while Letterman's last day is scheduled for May 20, 2015.