Charleston native Stephen Colbert’s late night talk show won two Emmy award s Sunday despite being cancelled recently by CBS.

The comedian got big laughs from the audience when he said at the opening of the show, “While I have your attention, is anyone hiring?”

The show garnered wins for outstanding talk series and outstanding directing for a variety series, both firsts since the show in the show’s 10-year history on CBS.

After receiving the award for outstanding talk series, Colbert said he originally thought the series would be about love until he realized it was about loss.

“[Loss] is related to love because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it,” Colbert said. “Ten years later, in September 2025, my friends, I h

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