Charleston native Stephen Colbert’s late night talk show won two Emmy awards Sunday despite being cancelled recently by CBS.
The comedian got big laughs from the audience when he said at the opening of the show, “While I have your attention, is anyone hiring?”
The show garnered wins for outstanding talk series and outstanding directing for a variety series, both firsts since the show in the show’s 10-year history on CBS.
After receiving the award for outstanding talk series, Colbert said he originally thought the series would be about love until he realized it was about loss.
“[Loss] is related to love because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it,” Colbert said. “Ten years later, in September 2025, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!”
CBS announced cancellation of the show earlier this year as a “purely a financial decision” just days after paying a $16 million settlement over President Donald Trump’s claims of an unfairly edited interview by “60 Minutes.” The excuse has a lot of skeptics.
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