Colbert, 62, has not appeared in a late slot since the cancelation of his eponymous CBS show, which aired its final episode in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Kimmel told the former host he looked \u201chappier\u201d and \u201chealthier\u201d at Monday\u2019s Emmy Awards<\/a> \u2014 during which Colbert won a trophy for the final season of his show<\/a> \u2014 Colbert didn\u2019t mince words about why.<\/p>\n \u201cLike, I don\u2019t drink a cup of poison every day?\u201d Colbert began. \u201cBecause part of the job is\u2026 the old gig as I remember it was to be lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day and then to be pulled out and put in front of a camera and to irradiate it back at the audience at a non-lethal rad level.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s exactly the job description,\u201d Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n Colbert added that he no longer stresses about the issues that are discussed on late night television<\/a>, saying, \u201cI have an opportunity to not think about the news every day, and I took it.\u201d <\/p>\n Kimmel went on to ask Colbert about his Emmys haul after the former host said The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won seven trophies for its final season.<\/p>\n \u201cDid anyone from CBS call to congratulate you on your seven Emmys?\u201d Kimmel asked.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not familiar with that organization. Thank you for asking. Yes,\u201d Colbert responded sarcastically.<\/p>\n CBS announced the cancelation of the late night show in July 2025, just days after Colbert criticized the network\u2019s parent company<\/a>, Paramount, for reaching a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over accusations that its newsmagazine series 60 Minutes deceptively edited a 2024 interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. CBS staffers told The Independent it was a continuation of the \u201cTrump shakedown\u201d<\/a> that began with the settlement.<\/p>\n Colbert\u2019s latest jab at the network came hours after he commented about Bari Weiss, the former conservative political commentator with no previous broadcast experience who was made editor-in-chief of CBS News in October 2025, after Paramount merged with Skydance. <\/p>\n After the Emmys, Colbert was asked about Weiss by CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister and Variety\u2019s co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, per The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n Colbert said he had \u201cnever heard of her\u201d before adding sarcastically, \u201cDo you know her? I hear great things.\u201d<\/p>\n After receiving a standing ovation for winning the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series, Colbert plugged his show\u2019s writers, urging others in the industry to hire them.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will make your show better, and they will make your day easier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to say to the audience, thank you so much for watching,\u201d Colbert continued. \u201cWe hope you enjoyed the show. We had a great time doing it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Stephen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-8-23-59-AM.png\")
Stephen Colbert visited Jimmy Kimmel on his late night show (Jimmy Kimmel Live\/ABC)<\/p>\n![\"Colbert](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-8-24-58-AM.png\")
Colbert joked about not having heard of CBS\u2019 Bari Weiss (Jimmy Kimmel Live\/ABC)<\/p>\n