ALBAWABA - "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" won its first Emmy for outstanding talk series, seven months before it ends.
The crowd at Los Angeles's Peacock Theater cheered and applauded as Colbert accepted the award. He then thanked the about 200 "incredible professionals" who work behind the scenes of the late-night show, which CBS is ending.
He then talked about the impact of "The Late Show" in a broader sense. He said that he had planned to make a late-night comedy show about "love" but then realized it was really about "loss."
"You don't always know how much you love something until you think you might lose it." I've never loved my country more than I do now. "God bless the United States."
In the words of the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy," Colbert said, "Stay strong and brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."
Back in July, CBS said that "The Late Show" would end at the end of its current season, which ends in May. At the time, executives from the network said in a statement that the move had "nothing to do with the performance, content, or other things going on at Paramount."
One of the other issues was the upcoming business partnership between Paramount, which owns CBS, and Skydance. The merger needed to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, which is part of the Trump government.
Once the closure was made public, a lot of Colbert's fans were angry, saying that he was being punished for criticizing President Trump for a long time.
Colbert also made fun of Paramount for having to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from Trump. Trump said that CBS's "60 Minutes" had edited an interview with Kamala Harris, who was vice president at the time, in a way that was misleading.
US comedian writer Stephen Colbert (C) (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP)
CBS denied what the president said.
In his victory speech, Colbert didn't say anything bad about the network he has worked for since 2015.
"I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege of being part of a late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we’re no longer doing this show," he said.
This year, "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on ABC were the other talk shows up for awards.
