During the final episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert purposely used copyrighted music during a segment, a move that could potentially cost his former bosses at CBS a lot of dough if the mus...

Stephen Colbert's Late Show farewell was meant to be a cultural moment: a final curtain for one of late night's most recognizable voices.

Though Colbert promised his audience a regular Thursday episode full of joy to end things off, the dominant emotion of his departing show was melancholy – and the style slowly drifted into sci-fi.