Overview

• The Late Show won its first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series, topping Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Daily Show.
• CBS announced in July that the program would end in May 2026, a timing the network attributed to late-night economics.
• On his first show after the win, Stephen Colbert thanked Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, and his roughly 200-person staff.
• Kimmel had publicly backed Colbert during voting, including a billboard that read, “I’m voting for Stephen.”
• Colbert joked that President Donald Trump doesn’t have an Emmy, as John Oliver and Kimmel traded stories about the outcome, including a brief ChatGPT-fueled false alarm that Kimmel’s show had won.