Biography Flash: Colbert Emmy Snub, Kimmel Love, and Life After Late Show
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Stephen Colbert discusses his recent Emmy ballot endorsement of Jimmy Kimmel amidst his post-Late Show life.
Stephen Colbert Biography Flash a weekly Biography. Stephen Colbert has spent the past few days doing something very on-brand for a man whose late-night show is over but whose influence is very much alive: turning an awards race into a character study of loyalty, ego, and retirement. According to USA Today, Colbert, now 62 and three months removed from the final episode of The Late Show in May, resurfaced on Instagram with a bearded, post–late-night look to fill out his Emmy ballot and publicly endorse Jimmy Kimmel Live for Outstanding Variety Series, even though his own now-canceled Late Show is nominated in the same category. In the video, he jokes about procrastinating on his ballot and then delivers the line that has been quoted everywhere: “I think we can all agree that Jimmy Kimmel deserves an Emmy. I don’t care if you’ve never even seen his show: you know he deserves an Emmy.” Consequence and The Daily Beast both note that Colbert framed the endorsement as coming from “the end of the world,” filmed on a dramatic cliffside coastline, a setting that doubles as visual shorthand for his post-CBS exile and his flair for theatrical self-mockery. Entertainment coverage from…
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