>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY, WELCOME BACK TO THE LATE SHOW.
FOLKS, (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TONIGHT, TONIGHT I'M
PROUD TO SAY WE HAVE THE SCARS FROM THE BIGGEST, BANGIEST
COMEDY ON TELEVISION, THEIR SERIES FINALE AIRED TONIGHT
AFTER 12 SEASONS.
PLEASE WELCOME THE CAST OF THE BIGG OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY,"
JIM PAR SONS, JOHNNY GALECKI, KALEY COCOA, MAYIM BIALIK,
MELISSA ROWCH, KUNAL NAYYAR AN SIMON HELBERG.
♪ PLEAS, PLEASE HAVE A SEAT.
MY IMOODNESS.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) I, I, FIRST OF ALL I JUST WANT
TO START OFF WITH AN ENTHUSIASTIC AND PROPER
CONGRATULATIONS FOR WHAT YOU GUYS ACHIEVED OVER THE LAST 12
YEARS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: I SAW YOU ALL LAST NIGHT BACKSTAGE AT THE CBS UP
FRONTER WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE UPCOMING SEASON AND
ADVERTISED YOU OVER AT CARNEGIE HALL.
AND I SAW YOU, HEY, HEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING.
WAIT A SECRETARY, WHY IS EVERYONE SO CAVALIER, THESE GUYS
ARE ABOUT TOO GO OUT AND ESSENTIALLY TAKE A■ BOW FOR THE
YEARS,-- 12 YEARS, THE SIGNATURE CULTURAL ARTIFACT THAT THEY
CREATED FOR AMERICAN AND WORLDVIEWERS.
SO CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: IT IS HARD T IS REALLY RARE.
>> YEAH.
(APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: IT IS EXTRAORDINARILY RARE WHAT YOU
CREATED SO CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANKS.
>> YOU HEARD WE ARE FINISHED RIGHT NOW.
>> Stephen: THE AUDIENCE HERE AND BY THE TIME THIS AIRS,
AMERICA HAS SEEN THE FINAL EVER EPISODE OF "THE BIG BANG
THEORY."
>> DID YOU LIKE IT.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: YOU GUYS, DO YOU LIKE, YOU LIKE WHERE WE LEFT THE
CHARACTERS?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> YES.
>> THOUGHT THE WRITERS DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB.
>> THAT WAS NOT AN EASY FEAT.
>> I WAS WORRIED ONE OF US WAS GOING TO BE KILLED OFF IN THE
FINALE.
>> RIGHT.
BEING THE INDIAN IMIE I WAS REALLY HAPPY I MADE IT IT.
(LAUGHTER) >> WE TRIED TO SEND TO YOU
SPACE.
>> Stephen: ONE OF YOU GO INSANE AND BURN THE ENTIRE CITY.
>> NO IT'S HARD, WE HAD A LOT OF ANXIETIES ABOUT HOW THIS WAS
GOING TO GO, US AS ACTORS, THE WRITERS, THERE IS ALOT OF
PRESSURE ON HOW TO END THIS.
FANS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO WHAT.
IT WAS TOUGH AND I THINK THEY DID IT BRILLIANTLY.
>> I THINK THEY DID DID TOO.
WE WERE TALKING TO THE WRITERS A LOT, WE ARE NERVOUS.
WELL, YOU CAN'T GET IT WRONG, BECAUSE IT IS YOURS, YOU HAVE
BEEN WRITING IT, BUT, BUT WE LOOK AT IT IT THIS WAY, YOU
CAN'T GET IT RIGHT T IS A SERIES FINALE, SOMEONE IS GOING TO HATE
IT IT, THEY ARE ALL DIVISIVE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BUT I THINK THIS
ONE REALLY-- I CAN'T IMAGINE IT IT BEING THAT DIVISIVE,
ACTUALLY.
>> I AGREE.
>> BUT WE'LL FIND OUT TOMORROW.
>> CHECK YOUR INSTA FEED.
>> Stephen: WELL, AFTER 12 SEASONS AND A RECORD 279 EPISODE
RUNS, IT IS THE LONGEST RUNNING SITCOM, STUDIO SITCOM IN
HISTORY.
(APPLAUSE) >> DID IT FEEL LIKE THE LONGEST
ONE.
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY NO, I'M SURPRISED EVERY TIME THAT COMES
UP.
IT KIND OF WENT BY PRETTY QUICK.
>> I JUST WANTED TO BEAT "CHEERS."
I HATE "CHEERS," HAVE ALWAYS HATED "CHEERS."
TAKE THAT, "CHEERS."
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS THE LAST DAY OF FILMING LIKE, AFTER 12
YEARS TOGETHER.
>> VERY BIZARRE EVEN DRIVING INTO WORK.
BECAUSE WE SHOT MOST OF THE SHOW.
MOST OF IT WE SHOT A FEW DAYS PRIOR.
SO ALMOST DRIVING IN IT IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THE LAST DAY OF
SCHOOL IN A WEIRD WAY.
YOU DON'T GET A LOT OF WORK DONE.
YOU ARE KIND OF TAKING PICTURES WITH PEOPLE AND CRYING.
>> YEAH.
>> IT WAS WEIRD.
>> WE HAD SUCH, WHO PUT TOGETHER THE YEAR BOOK.
>> I THINK IT IT WAS -- THE STAFF.
>> SOME OF THE UP AND UPS, I FEEL LIKE SOME PRODUCERS AND
SOME EVEN OF OUR PA'S PUT TOGETHER ACTUALLY A YEAR BOOK.
>> A HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK OR WHATEVER IT WAS SO
BEAUTIFULFULLY DONE BUT BECAUSE OF THAT, THE LAST WEEK OF WORK
WAS-- SIGN MY YEAR BOOK.
>> SIGN MY YEAR BOOK.
I WAS LIKE OH MY GOD.
>> IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCENES, CUT, THEY WILL REWRITE SOMETHING
AND THE CREW WOULD COME, WHILE WE ARE WAITING COULD YOU SIGN MY
YEAR BOOK.
>> Stephen: WHAT YOU WOULD SAY WITHIN KEEP IN TOWMP.
>> SEE YOU ON THE NECK LONGEST RUNNING SHOW.
>> Stephen: WERE THERE SENIOR SEUR LATIFS LIKE WHO WAS MOST
LIKELY TO SUCCEED.
>> NO, THEY DID SOME OF THOSE, I THOUGHT.
>> DID HE HAD.
>> IN A FUNNY WAY BUT WE ALSO DID SCL PORTRAITS.
SO EVERY SINGLE CREW MEMBER, WE DID PORTRAIT, WHICH WAS
HYSTERICAL TRK WAS REALLY CUTE, IT REALLY AS FROM THE
BEGINNING, A FULL 12 YEARS OF THE BOOK.
>> I REMEMBER WHEN THEY YELLED CUT AFTER THE FINAL SCEEB AND I
HAD REALIZED THOSE WERE THE LAST WORDS I EVER SAID AS RAJ, THAT
IS WHEN I BEGAN TO FEEL IT REMEMBER THAT LAST SCENE.
I WAS IN THE LAST SCENE WERE YOU IN, BUT WHEN I REALIZED THOSE
WERE THE LAST WORDS I EVER SAID AS THAT CHARACTER WAS WHEN I
REALLY FELT IT.
>> I THINK WHEN WE ENDED THE SCENE IN THE LIVING ROOM AS A
GROUP AND WE ALL WERE BEING TO, BECAUSE WE USUALLY START OFF AND
DO OUR THING AND WE LOOKED AT EACH ORE AND GO THAT'S OUR LAST
GROUP SCENE AND WE ALL CAME IN FOR THIS BIG HUG AND IT IT WAS
JUST WE HAD DONE SO MANY SCENES IN THAT LIVING ROOM, EATING A
LOT OF FOOD.
A LOT OF FOOD.
>> Stephen: LET'S GO BACK A LITTLE BIT HERE.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THEIR AUDITION FOR THIS?
>> OH GOSH YES.
>> YEAH, DOESN'T EVERYBODY.
>> I REMEMBER MAY-- WELL, I HAD A JOB AND WE WERE DOING A
CHEMISTRY READ ONCE THEY FOUND JIM, I WENT TO LOOK FOR HIM.
>> Stephen: A CHEMISTRY READ MEANS HOW PEOPLE RELATE TO
EACHER OTHER WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT "THE BIG BANG THEORY" IT COULD
BE ABOUT CHEMISTRY.
>> THAT IS POINT.
I'M THINKING IT IS NOT ABOUT CHEMISTRY WITHIN THAT IS MINE
AND I REMEMBER FINDING JIM THINKING OH, HE MIGHT, YOU KNOW,
DO YOU WANT TO READ IT IT THRAW A COUPLE TIMES.
DO YOU WANT TO REHEARSE.
HE SAID NO.
AND I SAID WE'RE GOING TO GET ALONG GREAT.
>> Stephen: PURE PROFESSIONAL.
>> I AM, I AM.
>> I WAS AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE THE DAY THAT I GOT THE
AUDITION.
>> IS THAT TRUE?
>> YEAH.
AND I WAS SO OVER THE MOON.
>> A IMREAT PLACE TO BE, BY THE WAY.
>> I WAS DOING ALL THESE MOCK INTERVIEWS AND SEMINARS TO
QUALIFY NOR MY CHECK AND GOT THE AUDITION AND WAS OVER THE MOON
BUT I WAS LIKE THERE IS NO CHANCE I WILL GET.
THIS AND I GOT A CALL SAYING I WOULD HAVE A CALLBACK AND I WAS
THINKING I HAVE ANOTHER SEMINAR THE NEXT DAY.
IT IS HIGH STAKES POKER, DO I ROLL THE DICE AND I ENDED
UPPINGS GOING TO THE CALLBACKK I'M ACTUALLY HEADED THERE AFTER
THIS.
BACK TO THE SEMINARS.
>> Stephen: WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EACH OTHER?
>> EVERYONE WAS VERY GOOD LOOKING.
>> Stephen: THAT IS TRUE.
>> WAIT S THAT YOUR REAL ANSWER?
NO, BECAUSE THEY ASKED ME IN THE PREINTERVIEW, WHAT WAS YOUR
IMPRESSIONS OF PEOPLE AND I TOLD THEM THINGS.
THE ONE YOU HAVE TO SAY THIS OUT OUT LOUD.
I WAS LIKE SO AND SO WAS REALLY FUNNY, SO AND SO WAS JUST
WHATEVER BUT KUNAL I THOUGHT WAS THE MOST HANDSOME MAN.
>> YOU ARE.
>> I HAVE A THING-- (APPLAUSE)
>> I WAS JUST JOKING.
>> HAVE I A THING FOR BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES.
YOU REALLY CHECKED OFF MY BOXES.
AND THEN LATER I SAW YOU AS PRETTY TALENTED TOO BUT IT IT
TOOK AWHILE.
>> WE ALL THOUSAND CAYLY WAS-- KALEY WAS TOO COOL FOR
SCHOOL.
>> I JUST TURNED 21 WHEN WE STARTED THE SHOW.
AND THEY AT THE BEGINNING, YOU KNOW T WAS THE GUYS AND THEY
WOULD ALL HANG OUT A LOT.
YOU IMIES HUNG OUT MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK AND I WOULD LEAVE
AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ALL THESE RAGERS WERE GOING ON.
I'M LIKE MONTHS LATER, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
>> YOU DRANK MORE THAN I DID THAT DAY.
I WAS NOT DRINKING AT ALL.
>> THEN HE THOUGHT EVENTUALLY WE TALKED ABOUT IT, WHY DON'T YOU
EVER COME OUT WITH US, I AM LIKE YOU GUYS GO OUT?
LIKE WE THOUGHT WERE YOU TOO COOL.
YOU NEVER INVITED ME.
>> WE WERE ACTUALLY ALL IN SANTA BARBARA RIGHT NOW AND YOU GOT IN
YOUR CAR AND DROVE THERE IMMEDIATELY.
>> I THINK THAT IS TRUE.
I DID DRIVE THERE BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE COOL.
>> WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET A SENSE THAT THIS SHOW WAS A
GLOBAL PHENOMENAL?
>> WE WENT TO MEXICO CITY.
>> OH YEAH.
>> SECOND SEASON.
>> IN THE SECOND SEASON.
YEAH.
AND THEY SAID WE WERE GOING TO HAVE ARMED GAWSHEDS WHICH FOR
SOME REASON DIDN'T SET ME OFF.
I THOUGHT YEAH, WE ALL GOT ON THE PLANE, SURE, SOUNDS GREAT.
NEVER TOO CAUTIOUS.
AND THEN WE LANDED AND PEOPLE WERE RUNNING AFTER US IN THE
AIRPORT.
>> LIKE THE BEATLES.
>> THE BEATLES-- OH, LIKE THE BEATLES.
>> PAUL IS RIGHT THERE.
>> OH MY GOD, PAUL MCCARTNEY, I AM SUCH A FAN OF YOURS.
THANK YOU, YOU HAVE AN ARMED GUARD.
YEAH, WE WERE ON THE COVER OF THE PAPER I THINK THE NEXT DAY
AND I THINK IT SAID, I SAW THE WORDS EL NERDO AND I DON'T SPEAK
SPANISH.
(LAUGHTER) BUT I THINK IT MEANS HUNK, YOU
KNOW.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH
SOME OF THE CAST OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY," QUESTIONS FOR EACH
OTHER AND THEY DON'T KNOW IT.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.