Hot off his Emmy win for outstanding variety series, Stephen Colbert went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday night and revealed if he ever thinks about returning to late night television.
\n\n“Late night TV. I remember it well. Many fond memories of this,” Colbert said while taking the stage. “Do you ever think about it?” Kimmel asked, to which Colbert responded: “Nope!”
\n\nThe Emmy-winner continued to remark about the fact that he no longer has to “think about the news every day,” to which Kimmel pointed out that Colbert seemed “like a different person,” “happier” and “healthier” when he saw the former host at the Emmys Monday night.
\n\n“Like I don’t drink a cup of poison every day?” Colbert responded. “A good part of the job is, as I remember it, 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 radiate it back at the audience at a nonlethal rad level.”Speaking with CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister and Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh after the Emmy Awards, Colbert said free speech in is “alive and well” and thinks late-night is still a crucial…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/