{"id":2023372,"date":"2025-09-15T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2023372"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:58:18","slug":"stephen-colbert-asks-is-anyone-hiring-while-presenting-at-the-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-asks-is-anyone-hiring-while-presenting-at-the-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Asks \u201cIs Anyone Hiring?\u201d While Presenting at the Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0170306\/\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> kicked off the 2025 Emmys with a question for the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs anyone hiring?\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1994637\/\">Colbert<\/a> asked as he took the stage to present the first award of the night, for best actor in a comedy (which went to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0736622\/\">Seth Rogen<\/a> for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1145573\/\">The Studio<\/a>). \u201cBecause I have about 200 very qualified people with me tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert was referring to the pending end of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076301\/\">The Late Show<\/a> With Stephen Colbert, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> announced it would drop after the 2025-26 season. The network made the announcement in July, a few weeks before its parent company <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>\u2019s merger with Skydance closed. The network said it was making a \u201cpurely financial decision\u201d in ending the Late Show franchise, which began with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001468\/\">David Letterman<\/a> in 1993 and which Colbert has hosted since 2015. Reports suggested <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076301\/\">The Late Show<\/a> is a money-loser for CBS to the tune of $40 million per year; others in the industry have disputed that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert kicked off the 2025 Emmys with a question for the audience. \u201cIs anyone hiring?\u201d Colbert asked as he took the stage to present the first award of the night, for best actor in a comedy (which went to Seth Rogen for The Studio). \u201cBecause I have about 200 very qualified people with me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2023372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stephen-Colbert-Asks-Is-Anyone-Hiring-While-Presenting-at-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}