Why ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ could finally win an Emmy
“The late show with Stephen Colbert” may have been canceled, but it might also have become a rally-cry for Emmy voters to finally give the long-running talk show the arrears.
Including two extra nominations of this year’s Emmy-Line-Up, the CBS Staple has now collected 33 Emmy nominations since the debut in 2015. Despite the impressive Tally, it is currently ranked as the second most nominated show without a victory in Primetime Emmy history, only amall.
But with frustration that the controversial decision of CBS assembles to cancel “The Late Show” for what the network called “financial reasons”, this may be the type of Underdog story that inspires Emmy voters to check the show organized by the 61-year-old comedian. It does not hurt that the category in which it has been nominated – Outstanding Talk series – is one of only 15 voted by the entire membership of the television academy.
That wider range can make a difference. With only two other nominees in the category winner “The Daily Show” last year and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” – The path to victory is clearer than normal. Colbert’s exit from the late night phase, in combination with persistent indignation about the cancellation of his show, could finally motivate voters to check his name and give “The Late Show” his long -awaited moment of glory.
Colbert, who already has 10 Emmys to his name, was previously honored for “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central and his most recent victory for his special, boldly entitled “Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand: Building Back America Great Again Better 2020.”
From 2017 to 2022 lost ‘The Late Show’, together with every other late night, repeatedly from ‘last week tonight with John Oliver’. When the HBO series was moved to the newly created script variety category, “The Daily Show” recovered his former glory as the king of the category and won over the past two years.
When David Letterman, who organized ‘The Late Show’ from 1993 to 2015, the program received a rainfall from Emmy Districts. It won nine Emmys during his term of office, including seven for Outstanding Variety Series. That streak ended in 2003 when, when ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ was called a new era of the Late-Night Dominance.
Now, with Colbert’s version of “The Late Show” at the end of his journey, Emmy -Voters have one of the last two opportunities (it will also be eligible next year) to honor a host – and a show – that helped to define the political comic landscape of the past decade.
