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Late-night host Stephen Colbert won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series on Sunday night at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards — months after CBS announced it would cancel his show — telling the audience he had never loved his country more.

"Sometimes, you only know how much you love something when you get a sense you might be losing it," Colbert said during his acceptance speech. "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America."

Colbert, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump , revealed in July that his show was being canceled by CBS next year. "The Late Show," which Colbert took over from David Letterman in 2015, will go off the air for good in May.

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