{"id":2026658,"date":"2025-09-16T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2026658"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:55:19","slug":"john-oliver-admits-he-wanted-jimmy-kimmel-to-win-the-emmy-for-a-hilarious-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-admits-he-wanted-jimmy-kimmel-to-win-the-emmy-for-a-hilarious-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver admits he wanted Jimmy Kimmel to win the Emmy for a hilarious reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The entire late-night TV world celebrated when The Late Show<\/a> with Stephen Colbert<\/a> won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series. It ensures Stephen Colbert goes out on top with just eight months left on the air. However, John Oliver<\/a> admitted part of him wanted to hear Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>‘s name called instead.<\/p>\n

The Late Show<\/a> took home the award over fellow nominees Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> and The Daily Show<\/a>. It was the first victory for the CBS<\/a> late-night show after eight nominations in the category, which began in 2015. Meanwhile, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver won its third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series.<\/p>\n

Appearing Monday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The entire late-night TV world celebrated when The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series. It ensures Stephen Colbert goes out on top with just eight months left on the air. However, John Oliver admitted part of him wanted to hear Jimmy Kimmel‘s name called instead. The Late Show took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2026659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":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-2026658","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\/John-Oliver-admits-he-wanted-Jimmy-Kimmel-to-win-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026658","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=2026658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}