He then reflected more broadly on the legacy of “The Late Show,” saying he originally set out to do a late-night comedy series about “love” and then realized it was actually about “loss.”<\/p>\n
“Sometimes, you only know how much you love something when you get a sense you might be losing it. … I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America.” <\/p>\n
“Stay strong and be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor,” Colbert added, paraphrasing the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.”<\/p>\n
CBS announced in July that it would end “The Late Show” at the conclusion of its current season, which runs through May. In a statement at the time, network executives said the move was “not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”<\/p>\n
The other matters included the pending corporate tie-up between Paramount, CBS’ parent company, and Skydance. The merger required approval from the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n
In the wake of the cancellation announcement, many of Colbert\u2019s fans cried foul, arguing he was being penalized for his long history of criticizing President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n
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Stephen Colbert in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2025.Valerie Macon \/ AFP – Getty Images<\/p>\n
Colbert had also mocked Paramount for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from Trump, who alleged that CBS’ “60 Minutes” had deceptively edited a pre-election interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. <\/p>\n
CBS denied the president’s claim.<\/p>\n
Colbert, in his acceptance speech, did not criticize the network he has called home since 2015. <\/p>\n
“I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to being part of late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we\u2019re no longer doing this show,” Colbert said.<\/p>\n
The other nominees in the talk show category this year were Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” won the Emmy for outstanding talk series Sunday for the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-17264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}