The mood was high backstage at the Emmys after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its first Best Variety Talk Series trophy. But the win came only months after CBS cancelled that vaunted late night series.
When asked about his future plans, Stephen Colbert was focused on the short-term. Next week, in particular.
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“I love what we do, and I want to go to work on Tuesday and for the next nine months with these people and work hard but have fun,” he said, backed by the Late Show producers. “We do the show for each other every day, and then I have the privilege and the responsibility to share with the audience what we did. And I love it, and I know it’s coming to an end in May. I’m going to savor every day of it. I want to land this plane absolutely beautifully, and I have nothing else on my mind.”
The win may have been the Late Show‘s second ever, but it was Colbert’s 11th win, who previously six for his last hosting job on The Colbert Report. When asked about what was different about the most recent Emmy, Colbert discussed what being a part of the history of late night television meant to him.
“The Report was its own singular thing. It was done in a block with The Daily Show, and it came out of that DNA. In my mind, I was always doing a field report for Jon Stewart that just took ten years to finish.
“When we moved over to doing The Late Show—and I don’t mean this pejoratively—it was like going from a college newspaper to writing for the Times. I wasn’t entirely prepared for that when I got there. We had to figure out how to do the show live with a camera pointed at me.
I admired the people who did late night. They were heroes of mine. I didn’t know the kind of work it took to do one of these shows. I didn’t realize the enormity of the job before I took it.
Now, ten years later, to have added our own mark and added our own chapter to this long legacy of one of the oldest forms on television… it makes me incredibly proud to look back and say that in some small way we’re connected through Dave [Letterman] and Johnny [Carson] to Jack [Paar] and Steve Allen.
To win this and be recognized for what we managed to contribute to this form in our own way is a great testament to everybody’s work here, and I’m incredibly proud to be some small part of that legacy.”
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