David Letterman will soon be saying goodbye to his long-running program "Late Show." Though fans may be sad to bid farewell to the host of the late night staple, a couple of big names in Hollywood are going to make the upcoming finalé episodes more memorable.

Some of the guests who will grace the show's set this coming week are Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Eddie Vedder, E! Online reported.

A Great, Long Run

Letterman proved to be an ever-enduring host of the program as he had been with it for 33 years with more than 6000 broadcasts under his name and about 20,000 guests entertained.

The online magazine also notes that two-time Oscar awardee Hanks will mark his 60th appearance as a guest on the show on May 18 with "Pearl Jam" lead vocalist and front man -- Vedder -- visiting on the same day.

Meanwhile, Murray, who was Letterman's first guest on the "Late Show" on Aug. 30, 1993, will visit the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday, People reported. The visit will be Murray's 44th appearance on the TV program.

A Touching Finale

Letterman sat down with Jane Pauley on "CNS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood" on Thursday and talked about his feelings, now that he's retiring from the show.

"I'm not looking forward to it at all. I don't want to go to a party. I recognize that it's good -- cathartic, perhaps -- for all of us to be together, because it's not been easy on anybody who's been here any length of time for this to end," Letterman told Pauley.

He has also taken his time, going around the studio to get a final feel of the place where he spent most of his time for three decades.

"So when I'm down here during band numbers or during commercial breaks, I will go to various places and try to memorize what it looks like and how I feel, and look at the audience and get the scale of things, because even though I've done it for so long, I don't ever want to be without a fairly accurate, fairly vivid impression of this experience," he said.

So, who will take over the 16-time Emmy-award winning host's desk? Another article from People indicated that the new host will be none other than the "Daily Show" alum Stephen Colbert. Letterman already had a chance to speak with Colbert.

"We chatted when the announcement was made. And that was about it. I don't think he needs - he's not a kid. He's not a beginner. He's had pretty good success," Letterman told New York Times.

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