{"id":848435,"date":"2026-09-15T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:48:11","slug":"stephen-colbert-says-free-speech-is-alive-and-well-after-emmy-win-despite-cbs-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848435\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Says ‘Free Speech Is Alive and Well’ After Emmy Win Despite CBS Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u201d may have been canceled by CBS<\/a>, but after taking home the award for outstanding variety series at Monday night\u2019s Emmy Awards, Stephen Colbert is still optimistic about the state of late-night television.<\/p>\n

Speaking with CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister and Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh following the Emmy Awards, Colbert explained that he still feels that \u201cfree speech is alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if you can\u2019t say something because you go to jail, that is a violation of free speech,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think that late night is just as funny and just as vital as it ever has been, and I love watching Jimmy and Jimmy and John and John and Seth and everybody else. And I think I hope it goes on for a long time because you get to work with people like this, and that\u2019s the greatest gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u201d won the award for its final season, which ended in May after CBS announced the series\u2019 cancellation. The show was up for the Emmy against \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d (Comedy Central), \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d (ABC), \u201cLast Week Tonight With John Oliver\u201d (HBO Max) and \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d (NBC).<\/p>\n

Speaking with Wagmeister and Setoodeh, Colbert also playfully pivoted away from the topic of Donald Trump: \u201cThat\u2019s a beautiful dress. It\u2019s amazing. What? Oh, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m deaf in that ear,\u201d he said when asked if he thinks his show was canceled by the president. As for his thoughts on Bari Weiss, Colbert said he\u2019s \u201cnever heard of her. Do you know her? I hear great things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The host also noted that he feels \u201cjust lovely\u201d following the win. \u201cI\u2019m so glad that the show got recognized, and especially last week, all the people who want the creative arts, the writers and our director, our technical director, camera, lighting, and the digital team, and then tonight, all these incredible people,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst of all, just to be together after not seeing these guys for four months, it\u2019s incredible. And we couldn\u2019t be more grateful to the academy and everybody who voted for the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to Monday night\u2019s awards, \u201cThe Late Show\u201d had already won four prizes during the first weekend of the Emmys<\/a>: Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series, Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork For A Series, Outstanding Lighting Design\/Lighting Direction For A Series and Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming (Segment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d may have been canceled by CBS, but after taking home the award…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[991,10549,88,10674,10675,92],"class_list":["post-848435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cbs","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}