Stephen Colbert’s triumphant first-time victory for The Late Show was a major highlight of Sunday night’s Emmy Awards. But if it had been up to his fellow Daily Show alum John Oliver, things would have played out a little differently.

During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night, Oliver said that “we were all very happy” for Colbert, who received a huge ovation from a Hollywood crowd that rallied around him after his show’s Trump-induced cancellation.

But then he told the host, “I will say this, we all wanted him to win. The right thing to happen was for him to win. The funniest thing to happen would have been if you had won,”

“Most of me wanted him to win,” Oliver continued. “A part of me, the part of me that I like more, just wanted to see your face go, ‘Oh, no. Not like

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