Paramount and CBS funded the production of the episode, meaning 'The Late Show' owns the copyright and had taken steps to protect it
"It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV, so I am grateful to be here"
"He was like a dead person," the President wrote of the CBS host. "You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk"
He also poignantly turned out the lights on the Ed Sullivan Theatre, 62 years after The Beatles' legendary appearance there
The actor made the joke while taking Colbert's place as interviewer
Springsteen performed his ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis' during Colbert's penultimate episode yesterday (May 20)
The long-running talk show ends this Thursday (May 21)
The host shocked the industry last summer by announcing that the show had been cancelled after 33 years
The talk show host is a J.R.R. Tolkien fanatic, and developed the script with his son
The host has had an adversarial relationship with the US President in the past
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