Jimmy Kimmel rented a large billboard in Los Angeles supporting Stephen Colbert to win the Emmy for Excellent Discuss Collection amid the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.
Within the wake of Paramount axing Colbert’s present throughout its merger with Skydance Media, the Jimmy Kimmel Stay! host paid for an advert on the nook of Santa Monica Boulevard and La Cienega in West Hollywood, Selection reported. The billboard incorporates a picture of Kimmel, 57, subsequent to an announcement that his present was nominated for the Emmy. Nevertheless, massive, white lettering reads, “I’m voting Stephen.”
The Day by day Present with Jon Stewart can also be nominated for an Emmy in the identical class.
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Though Colbert’s present has been nominated for 33 Emmys since 2017, it has by no means snagged a win. The 77th Emmy Awards on September 14 can be its final likelihood, as Colbert introduced in July that The Late Present would finish in 2026.
“Earlier than we begin the present, I wish to let you recognize one thing that I discovered simply final evening. Subsequent yr can be our final season. The community can be ending The Late Present in Might,” Colbert, 61, revealed in a video posted to Instagram on July 17.
Because the studio viewers booed emphatically, he quipped, “Yeah, I share your emotions.”
“It’s not simply the top of our present, nevertheless it’s the top of The Late Present on CBS. I’m not being changed. That is all simply going away,” Colbert clarified. “And I do wish to say that the oldsters at CBS have been nice companions.”
Based on a press release launched by CBS, the choice to cancel The Late Present was “purely monetary” and “not associated in any option to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount.”
This yr, Nate Bargatze will host the Emmy Awards, which kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 14, on CBS.
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