Stephen Colbert turned his final Emmy spotlight into an emotional job pitch for his former writing team. At the 78th Emmy Awards on September 14, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won Outstanding Variety Series, giving the outgoing host a major final moment on the Emmy stage. But Colbert quickly shifted the attention to his writers, telling the audience, “If you like the comedy tonight, my old writers wrote it.” He called late-night television a “fantastic incubator” for young talent and urged the industry to protect that pipeline, declaring, “That is the future of our business that we have to look after.”
