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\n\tStephen Colbert showed off his shiny new Emmy on The Late Show<\/em>, earning a standing ovation and a chant of \u201cStephen, Stephen\u201d from the audience as he kicked off his show on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOn Sunday night we won our first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cMan, I\u2019m telling you, we should have gotten cancelled years ago. This award belongs to all 200 of the incredibly hard-working people who make this show.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe went on to thank the show\u2019s writers, stage crew, production staff, talent, editors, and many more staff members. He also shared his gratitude with the audience, who \u201cultimately make this show possible.\u201d \u201cSo this belong to you too, but I\u2019m going to keep it,\u201d Colbert quipped. \u201cAnd if anyone so much as touches it I will jab your eyes out with the wings right there.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tColbert continued, \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to everyone at the Academy who voted for us and to the Emmy producers for the flattering lighting that made me look so much younger on Sunday night.\u201d He then showed a photo of Owen Cooper, who won for his role on Adolescence<\/em>. <\/p>\n \n\tAfter giving a shout out to his fellow nominees, including Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert noted, \u201cSpeaking of Emmys, Donald Trump doesn\u2019t have one.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOn Sunday, The Late Show<\/em> won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series, marking the first time the late-night show has scored a trophy in the category. \u201cThank you for this honor. I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we\u2019re no longer doing this show,\u201d Colbert said during his acceptance speech. \u201cI gotta thank these people, the 200 incredible professionals. You are the pros, and I\u2019m so proud to be one of you. We gotta thank the people who supported us the last 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tCBS announced in July that the popular late-night talk show would end in May 2026, amid financial issues at the network.\u00a0Though at the time, many suggested\u00a0political pressure was a factor: Paramount was trying to merge with Skydance Media, with both companies awaiting approval from the FCC (it was eventually approved).\u00a0Paramount also settled a lawsuit brought by President\u00a0Donald Trump, who claimed\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0engaged in election interference by editing an interview with Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n \n\tSince the announcement of the\u00a0late-night show\u2019s cancellation, much of Hollywood has stood up in support of Colbert, including Kimmel, who used his Emmys FYC ad to declare, \u201cI\u2019m voting for Stephen.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen Colbert showed off his shiny new Emmy on The Late Show, earning a standing ovation and a chant of \u201cStephen, Stephen\u201d from the audience as he kicked off his show on Tuesday night. \u201cOn Sunday night we won our first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cMan, I\u2019m telling you, we should have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3879,4263,4153,3196,241,2039,1259],"class_list":{"0":"post-21902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrates","9":"tag-colbert","10":"tag-emmys","11":"tag-late","12":"tag-show","13":"tag-stephen","14":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n