Stephen Colbert kicked off the 2025 Emmys with a question for the audience.

“Is anyone hiring?” Colbert asked as he took the stage to present the first award of the night, for best actor in a comedy (which went to Seth Rogen for The Studio ). “Because I have about 200 very qualified people with me tonight.”

Colbert was referring to the pending end of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert , which CBS announced it would drop after the 2025-26 season. The network made the announcement in July, a few weeks before its parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance closed. The network said it was making a “purely financial decision” in ending the Late Show franchise, which began with David Letterman in 1993 and which Colbert has hosted since 2015. Reports suggested The Late Show

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