Since 2015, Jon Lampley has played in the house band of “The Late Show,” which CBS unceremoniously cancelled. As the final episode looms, he takes a look back.

Try imagining "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" without bandleader and music director Jon Batiste. If the young, Juilliard-educated musician hadn't been a guest on Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report," that could've been exactly what happened.

Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” will take over the timeslot held by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” following the host’s final episode on Thursday.