Stephen Colbert swung by ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to celebrate his Emmy win and to reflect back on his days as host of The Late Show. Colbert claimed to be much happier now that he is no longer hosting the show because he doesn’t have to “drink a cup of poison” every day by immersing himself in the news, but neither he nor Kimmel appeared to realize that nobody was forcing them to do that in the first place.
Kimmel began by simply wondering, “Do you think about it ever?” and Colbert answered by quipping, “Nope. I have an opportunity to not think about the news every day? And I took it.”
Stephen Colbert says that he’s feeling better not hosting a late night show because “the old gig as I remember it was that to be lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day. And then to be pulled out and put in front of a camera and to eradiate it back at the… pic.twitter.com/IhzvSmdgN1— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 16, 2026
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