{"id":149332,"date":"2025-09-17T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:30:10","slug":"stephen-colbert-thanks-jon-stewart-jimmy-kimmel-after-emmy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149332\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Thanks Jon Stewart &#038; Jimmy Kimmel After Emmy Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> got another big round of applause, this time from The Late Show studio audience, after winning an Emmy on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-emmy-talk-series-1236531333\/#:~:text=The%20Late%20Show%20With%20Stephen,%2C%20and%20Jimmy%20Kimmel%20Live!.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a> won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series<\/a> at the awards, marking the show\u2019s first ever win in the category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Tuesday\u2019s show, he thanked his late-night peers in the category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-ending-next-year-cbs-1236461787\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which was canceled two months ago,<\/a> beat The Daily Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Interestingly, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart is also an exec producer of The Late Show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI want to toss a bouquet of admiration to the other nominees in our category, my dear friends, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel. These two fellas, old friends, unbelievably talented. [The are] just two princes. Kimmel even put up a for your consideration billboard\u2026that said I\u2019m voting for Stephen. That is so nice, so nice,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/jimmy-kimmel-emmy-support-stephen-colbert-1236477011\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kimmel had even campaigned for Colbert<\/a> after he was axed by CBS, putting up a billboard that said \u201cI\u2019m voting for Stephen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cTo pay him back next year, I\u2019m going to do the exact same thing,\u201d Colbert said before cutting to a mocked up image (see above).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tColbert also thanked his entire 200-strong staff. \u201cThis award belongs all 200 of the incredibly hard working people who make this show,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst and foremost, the writers of this show\u2026 the stage crew, production staff, talent, segment editors, the band, cold field, control and graphics, research, footage, digital, accounting, legal, wardrobe, makeup, security, maintenance, assistants and interns, and, of course, the audience department, who let in all of you gorgeous people every night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert got another big round of applause, this time from The Late Show studio audience, after winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,3869,4626,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-149332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-stephen-colbert","12":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}