“The Video Plays Like A Cave Painting from the Neolithic Era or, Even More Distantly, From When Late-Night Television Still Mattered: Stephen Colbert Sits in the Host Chair And Makes “I Want to Apologize to You Because i’ve Said A FEW Things About You Over The Years That Are, In Polite Company”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“I Want to Apologize to You Because I’V SAID A FEW Things About You Over The Years That Are Are Are, In Polite Company, Perhaps UnForgivable,“ The Late Show Host Tells HIM. “I HOPE YOU’LL ACCEPT My Apology.”
“Accepted,” Trump Says, As He Notes that Colbert has also said nice things.
That moment unfolded a decade ago on the set of The Late Show With Stephen ColbertBefore Trump Had Yet to Run in a Single 2016 Primary.
Last Week, A VERY DIFFERENT TRUMP-CODED SCENE UNFOLDED AT THE ED SULLIVAN Theater in New York, As Colbert Told A RESTIVE AUDIENCE OF OF. This Time, Colbert, Who’s Been Regling Us On Late Night Since He Was Hired On The Craig Kilborn-Led Daily Show in 1997, had noting to apologize for and, if anything, might have demanded an apology; The timing of smaced of a seprate cbs of accountsCence to Trump.
No One Can Say for Sure if It Played a Role, Of Course, But Colbert Had Just Called Out Parent Paramount’s Decision to Settle A Head-Scratching 60 minutes Lawsuit by the President for $ 16 Million As It Awaits Approval for a Merger with Skydance. “I DON’T KNOW IF Anything, Anything Will Repair My Trust in this Company But, Just Taking A Stab at It, I’D SAY $ 16 MILLION Wuld Help,“ Colbert Sub-TTweeted Trump in his MonoLogue Aimed at the White House Occupant. Trump Volleyed On Truth Social On Friday: “I Absolutely Love Colbert Got Fred. His Talent Was Even Les Less Than His Rathings.”
But in a Battle Between a Jokester and A Man Who Doesn’t Find Him Funny, Colbert May have the Last Laugh: He Could Win An Emmy Thanks to the Donald.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert HAS NEVER WON Any EMMY IN ITS PREVIUS Nine Seasons Despite Some Notable Streaks of Excellence. (IT has been nominated 31 Times.) For Much of that Period, It Competed In Late-Night’s Top Category Against Last Week tonight with John Oliver, WHICH EMMY VOOTERS LOVE The WAY OLIVER LOVES A Minor-League Baseball Team.
Every Year From 2017-22, Colbert Went Up Against His Fellow Daily Show ALUM AS RIVAL NOMINEES IN THE OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK CATEGORY, AND Every Year Oliver Beat Him. THEN IN 2023 COLBERT SEMED TO CATCH A BREAK WHEN OLIVER’S SHOW WAS SHUFFLED TO OUTSTANDING VARIETY Sketch Series Under Some Jerry-Rigged New Rules Designed to Fill. The Daily Show With Trevor Noah to beat him.
In 2024, Colbert Finally Seeled Poured to Break Through With Noah Gone from Tds – But Colbert’s Old Boss Jon Stewart Had Come Back For A Weekly Hosting Spot, and SO that Beat HIM. (Colbert Did Win The Top Emmy A Couple Times Back in The Days of The Colbert ReportPre-CBS and Pre-Trump.)
This year, we seized headed to a Tds-over-Late Show Outcome Once More, Even with The Nominee Field Shrunk from From Five Just A Few Years Ago Down to Three Thanks to Feber Submissions. Stewart Has Been Clicking on All Cylinders and Given Tds ITS HIGHEST RATINGS IN 10 Years As He Was Again Nominated Alongside Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. There Was Little Reason to Think Emmy Voters would Break with Precedent and Vote for Colbert. THEN CAME The TRUMP POST – Just A MONTH BEFORE FINAL VOTING BEGINS.
WHETHER The President Actual Had A Hand in the Cancellation Matters than the fact that Emmys Veters See a Partisan Battle in the Firing. An Emmy Won’t Change Public Policy on Immigration and Medicaid. But Is One of the FEW Ways Liberal Hollywood Can Stick It To The Leader They Loathe.
They have that that before, particularly in this caategory, choosing oliver, the most stridently political and anti-trump of the bunch, over all his his competitors. In Fact, Oliver’s Show Has Never Lost The Top Emmy It Was Eligible for Since Trump First Became The Republican Nominee in 2016-An Astoning Run of 9-0.
But this may be Colbert’s year too, especialyly if Stewart Gives Colbert His Props on His Own Tds platform, as he Almost Certainly will. That’s especially True if this is Colbert’s Last CHANCE FOR A TRADATIONAL EMMY. WHAT The Comic Does Now Is Anyone’s Guess, But Mainstream TV Sems An Unlikely Path (More Likely: YouTube with Maybe Some of the Tds Gang Post-Merger). Colbert Almost Certainly Won’t Retire, Like Another SixtySomething, Johnny Carson, Did After his Own 30 Years on Late-Night Came to an End. By the Way, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson won is first variety emmy in it Last year on the air.
In a Grand Irony, if Trump’s Stance Does Give Colbert the Emmy The President Will Have the Host to Win And Honor That Has Saltily Eluded Him. (The Apprentice Went 0 for 8.) and if Colbert Did Finally Win for this Show, Hew Gain An Acceptance-Speech Platform of Some Million TV Viewers, And Millios More Online, All on Andest. HIM. That’s the one about punching someone with a tv megaphone – they can punch.
Colbert and The GOP HAVE BEEN IN A BATTLE SINCE LONG BEFORE TRUMP, GOING BACK TO THE COMIC’S SATIRIZING OF BILL O’reililly and Other Fox News Personalities On Tds And then, Explosively, at WCD in 2006, WHEN COLBERT’S SKEWERING OF THEN-President George W. Bush Literally Sent Some Staffers Walking Out of the Room. In Fact, Colbert Has Been A Thorn in the Side of the GOP Longer Than Arguable Any Popular Enterner – So Long That Wen Started Out, The Leading Republican Figure Was Newt Gingrich, OPPOS.
That jabbing has gotten Colbert WHERE he is. The whcd put Colbert Report On the Map Early In Its Run and Ten His Turn to Political Barbs Fuel-Ininjeced The Sputtering Late Show with Stephen Colbert In 2017 Shortly After Colbert Jumped to Broadcast, Eventual Sanding the Host to the Top of Late Night.
SO the Trophy Trump is claiming here is a rich one, nearly 30 years in the make, on behalf of several genetations of Republican Leaders.
Of Course, The Trophy Colbert Could Wind Up Winning May Be Even Sweeter.