Director Jim Hoskinson picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, which was The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ’s first ever Emmy.

It’s a pretty good time to go out, as Hoskinson revealed last night on the CBS show.

Colbert had his director, who has worked on 1446 episodes of The Colbert Report and over 1600 episodes of The Late Show, as a guest on the show to thank him.

“We’ve worked together for 20 years and I’ll always certainly think of you as my director,” Colbert said before revealing that Hoskinson was the director who helmed the infamous clip of Bill O’Reilly screaming “We’ll do it live, fuck it,” on Inside Edition that regularly goes viral.

Colbert also thanked him for his “leadership, calmness under press

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