Colbert's feud with Trump may result in Emmy, trade reporter says

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The Hollywood Reporter speculated on Monday how Stephen Colbert’s feud with President Donald Trump after his "Late Show’s" cancellation may web him his present's first Emmy.

CBS introduced final Thursday that it might cancel "The Late Present" subsequent Could on the finish of its broadcast season. Although CBS and Paramount clarified that the selection to cancel the sequence was "purely a monetary determination," and it has been reported that the present loses CBS $40 million a 12 months, many liberal commentators have pointed to Paramount’s latest lawsuit settlement with Trump and an upcoming merger with Skydance as the explanation.

For his half, Trump celebrated the decision on Fact Social shortly after the information was introduced, claiming Colbert’s "expertise was even lower than his scores."

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Stephen Colbert's "Late Present" is nominated for Excellent Speak Collection this 12 months. (Screenshot/CBS/LateNightWithStephenColbert)

Colbert fired back against Trump on his present Monday night time.

"How dare you, sir?" Colbert responded. "Would an untalented man be capable of compose the next satirical witticism? Go f--- your self."

Hollywood Reporter editor Steven Zeitchik argued that the "Late Present" franchise ending, mixed with Trump’s jabs, may inspire academy members to lastly award Colbert’s iteration of the late-night comedy present after practically a decade.

"Whether or not the president really had a hand within the cancellation issues lower than the truth that Emmys voters see a partisan battle within the firing," Zeitchik wrote. "An Emmy gained’t change public coverage on immigration and Medicaid. But it surely’s one of many few methods liberal Hollywood can stick it to the chief they detest."

"The Late Present" is presently nominated for greatest Excellent Speak Collection in opposition to "The Every day Present" with Jon Stewart, "Jimmy Kimmel Stay" and "Late Night time with Seth Meyers." "The Late Present" below Colbert has been nominated for an Emmy 31 instances since his run as host started in 2015.

Zeitchik added that Colbert successful an Emmy may give the anti-Trump comic an excellent greater platform to assault the president on a private stage.

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Donald Trump and Stephen Colbert have traded barbs over the latter's present's cancellation. (Photograph by John Paul Filo/CBS through Getty Photos)

"In a grand irony, if Trump’s stance does give Colbert the Emmy the president could have enabled the host to win an honor that has saltily eluded him. ('The Apprentice' went 0 for 8.) And if Colbert did lastly win for this present, he would achieve an acceptance-speech platform of some 7 million TV viewers, and thousands and thousands extra on-line, all on and courtesy of the community that simply canceled him. That’s the factor about punching somebody with a TV megaphone — they will punch again," Zeitchik wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences for remark.

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