Stephen Colbert was the first presenter at the Emmys on CBS, the network that recently canceled his late-night talk show.
Colbert received a standing ovation and chants of “Stephen, Stephen” as he walked on stage, two months after CBS axed The Late Show.
“While I have your attention: is anyone hiring because I have 200 very qualified candidates who will be available in June,” he said. “I also brought my resume but I haven’t had the chance to update my headshot.”
Colbert then showed a really old photo before handing his “resume” to Harrison Ford and asking him to give it to Steven Spielberg.
When it emerged that Colbert would be presenting, eyebrows were raised. He didn’t go as hard as someone expected, but it was clearly a moment to open the show, after host Nate Bargatze performed an opening sketch with Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson and Mikey Day in the vein of their SNL George Washington sketches.
During that sketch, the foursome poked fun at the broadcast network, when asked if in the future there’d be a TV channel for white people. The answer was the “Caucasian Broadcast System”.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season. CBS brass said this was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night” and “is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
However, it did come days days after Colbert called Paramount Global’s $16M settlement of Donald Trump’s lawsuit a “big fat bribe.”
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