Thank you for coming on to talk to this idiot, I want you to know that you were the perfect guest. The segment went great, and I’m sorry I forgot to play your clip. But of course, there can only be one favorite guest, and that is my wife, Evie McGee.
We hope you enjoyed the show. We had a great time doing it for you. We’ll catch you all on the flip.” Colbert noted that his writing team (which won the show’s first Emmy for variety series writing last weekend) were tasked with writing Monday night’s Emmy jokes.
I want you to know I got some great news: They are all tech avail. Hire them; they will make your show better, and they will make your day easier.” “The Late Show” beat out “The Daily Show” (Comedy Central), “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO Max), “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS) and “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) in the newly remerged variety series competition, which brought together the previously separated outstanding talk series and outstanding scripted variety categories. As part of this rule change, the Academy decreed that the outstanding variety series category would now be an “area” award.
Nominees in “area” award categories aren’t actually competing against each other — they’re all independently trying to get at least 90% of Emmy voters to say “yes” when asked, “Does this nominee merit an Emmy?” Any nominated show will win an Emmy if 90% of voters agree. That means the category could have had as many as five winners. And the Emmy producers were ready for that possibility.
What if multiple, or all, of the variety series nominees had won? If multiple people win, each would get up to give their speech and it’ll be a TV moment.” But 90% is a high threshold, which is why the TV Academy decided that if no series surpassed a 90% “yes” vote, the show with the highest “yes” vote would be the sole winner. And ultimately, that may have been the case, as “The Late Show” was the only winner.
During the first weekend of the Emmys, “The Late Show” already won four prizes: 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). Those were the show’s first two wins — which now means that all of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Emmy victories came after CBS announced that it had canceled the show (despite its status at the time as the No. 1 talker in late night).
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