Stephen Colbert salvaged the 2025 Emmy Awards, on a night when nobody else could. He was the show’s big winner, in terms of actual memorable moments. Colbert’s always had a knack for rising to the big occasion, but he turned this Emmy Night into a total humiliation for CBS, the network trying to censor him by killing off his show . On a night when the official host, first-and-last-timer Nate Bargatze , looked like a terrified rookie blinking “help” in Morse code at the camera, Colbert came to the rescue — the grown-up in the room, turning a painfully inept award ceremony into a night to remember.

Colbert stole the show right from the start, as the first presenter. After the crowd gave him an explosive standing ovation and a “Stephen! Stephen!” chant, he asked, “While I have your atte

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