{"id":22970,"date":"2025-09-15T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:10:07","slug":"stephen-colbert-on-end-of-late-night-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22970\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert on End of Late Night Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/stephen_colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s remaining time on his late night talk show will absolutely be a laughing matter.<\/p>\n<p>As the TV host, who is nominated for Outstanding Talk Series at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emmys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2025 Emmys<\/a>, heads into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420025\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert-canceled-ends-may-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">his final season helming The Late Show<\/a>, he emphasized he and his staff are doing do with high spirits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got nine more months of the show and we\u2019re going to have a really good time doing it,\u201d Stephen told Zuri Hall on the red carpet on Live From E!: 2025 Emmys in a joint interview with his wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert. \u201cThis show is all consuming\u2014every day. So that\u2019s it for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the energy, the 61-year-old\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1419858\/emmy-nominations-2025-complete-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">who is up against his former series<\/a> The Daily Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! In the category\u2014admitted he would love to see his team take home the coveted statue at the Sept. 14 ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who do the show teach me what it\u2019s like to be a professional,\u201d he explained, \u201cand I would be very grateful if we could win for them because they deserve all the recognition they can get. Two hundred people do the show, not just me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert\u2019s remaining time on his late night talk show will absolutely be a laughing matter. As the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-22970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}