i'll be back here tomorrow night with don cheadle, regina hall and music from phoebe bridgers in herests of honor. tonight, the decade-plus run of one of the funniest and most-decorated shows of the century came to an end. the family we love is assembled for one final farewell. please welcome, from "modern family," ed o'neill, sofia vergara, julie bowen, ty burrell, jesse tyler ferguson and eric stonestreet. hello, everybody, and thank you for doing this. >> hello, hello. >> hi! >> jimmy: i know this is the modern family show, but it looks more like the "brady bunch" right now. i think that makes me alice. i will start with ed, the patriarch of your television family. ed, will you ever speak to any of these people again? >> probably not. [ laughter ] >> promise? >> but we have a group text that we use. i struggle through it, but. >> jimmy: do you participate in the text chain, ed? >> i do, but i don't recognize some of the numbers. they don't come up as names. i have to guess who it is speaking. i try desperately to get a personality cue, sometimes it helps me. >> jimmy: it's interes