Stephen Colbert Wins Excellent Discuss Sequence at Emmys 2025

The Late Present With Stephen Colbert claimed the award for Excellent Discuss Sequence on the 77th Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 14.

The viewers on the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles rose to its ft when Colbert hit the stage, chanting, “Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!”

The win comes almost two months after Stephen Colbert introduced The Late Present with Stephen Colbert can be ending after 10 seasons.

“I wish to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be a part of the late night time custom, which I hope continues lengthy after we’re not doing the present,” Colbert stated in accepting the award, thanking the studio regardless of his present’s cancellation.

The Each day Present and Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! have been additionally up for the prize.

“Earlier than we begin the present, I need you to know one thing that I discovered simply final night time,” stated Colbert, 61, on the July 17 episode of his present. “Subsequent 12 months can be our final season. The community can be ending the Late Present in Might.”

In an announcement from CBS shared with PEOPLE at time, CBS stated, “That is purely a monetary determination towards a difficult backdrop in late night time. It’s not associated in any solution to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount.”

The announcement got here after Colbert criticized Paramount, the mother or father firm of CBS, throughout his July 14 episode for its $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump on July 3.

The settlement occurred whereas Paramount was within the midst of a merger with the leisure firm Skydance, a enterprise transfer that required approval from Trump’s administration. That merger was accomplished on Aug. 7.

Within the aftermath of the choice, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel have been among the many late night time hosts who voiced their help for Colbert.

On the July 21 episode of The Daily Show, Stewart, 62, fired back at Paramount over the cancellation. 

“I perceive the company worry,” Stewart stated. “I perceive the worry that you simply and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake, however perceive this, actually, the exhibits that you simply now search to cancel, censor and management, a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion worth got here from these f—— exhibits. That’s what made you that cash.”

The host additionally addressed the function politics performs in late night time tv, including, “Exhibits that say one thing, exhibits that take a stand, exhibits which are unafraid. Consider me, this isn’t a ‘We communicate fact to energy’. We don’t; we communicate opinions to tv cameras, however we attempt. We f—— attempt each night time. Should you consider as companies or as networks, you can also make yourselves so innocuous that you would be able to serve a gruel so flavorless that you’ll by no means once more be on the boy king’s radar, [firstly] why will anybody watch you and you might be f—— fallacious.”

As for Kimmel, he took to his Instagram Story, writing, “Love you Stephen. F— you and all of your Sheldons CBS.”

He later inspired Emmy voters to vote for Colbert within the Excellent Discuss Sequence class by putting up a billboard ad in L.A. 

The Tonight Present‘s Jimmy Fallon, Late Night time‘s Seth Meyers, The Each day Present‘s Jon Stewart and Final Week Tonight‘s John Oliver all made unannounced cameos on The Late Present following the information to show their support, as effectively.

In mild of the information, Trump repeatedly attacked the most prominent late-night hosts and celebrated the cancellation of Late Present With Stephen Colbert. He posted on Truth Social platform that high-profile terminations have been coming at ABC and NBC, sparking confusion about whether or not Trump has any affect on main community choices.

“The phrase is, and it’s a robust phrase at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go within the untalented Late Night time Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, [Jimmy] Fallon can be gone,” Trump, 79, claimed within the publish.

“These are folks with completely NO TALENT, who have been paid Hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} for, in all instances, destroying what was GREAT Tv,” the president continued. “It’s actually good to see them go, and I hope I performed a serious half in it!”

When Kimmel returned to his late night time present from a two-month summer time trip on Tuesday, Sept. 2, he took purpose on the President, from his viral health rumors to his controversial White House renovations, in an unfiltered monologue.

The comic responded directly to Trump’s threats that Jimmy Kimmel Dwell can be the following late-night present to be canceled.

“Oh, you delicate, chubby little teacup,” Kimmel stated. “Did we damage your emotions? You need us to be canceled as a result of we make jokes about you?”

“I believed you have been towards cancel tradition?” he continued. “I believed that was, like, their entire factor? When did you develop into so woke?”

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See PEOPLE’s full coverage of the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards as they’re broadcasting reside on CBS and Paramount+ from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.