Jimmy Kimmel erects L.A. billboard endorsing “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” for Emmy as a substitute of his personal present

Jimmy Kimmel is telling everybody that he needs Stephen Colbert's Late Present to win an Emmy this 12 months, though his personal Jimmy Kimmel Live can also be nominated for a similar award.

The comic has rented a billboard, on the intersection of La Cienega and Santa Monica boulevards in West Hollywood, on which he declares, "I'm voting for Stephen."

The nominees within the class of Excellent Speak Sequence this 12 months are Colbert, Kimmel, and The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Although Colbert's present has been nominated for 33 Emmys in all, throughout numerous classes, since 2017, it's by no means received.

EW has reached out to reps for Colbert and Kimmel for remark.

Kimmel's present of assist comes two weeks after Colbert introduced on-air that CBS' Late Present franchise, which David Letterman started in 1993, will finish subsequent 12 months.

The community mentioned its determination to drag the plug on the franchise was "purely a monetary one" and that it wasn't "associated in any strategy to the present's efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount." It continued, "We’re proud that Stephen referred to as CBS dwelling," officers mentioned in an announcement. "He and the published will likely be remembered within the pantheon of greats that graced late night time tv."

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Critics, nonetheless, have referred to as out the timing of the announcement, which got here in the identical month that Paramount International, the mother or father firm of Colbert's community, agreed to pay $16 million to President Donald Trump over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that aired on 60 Minutes in November.

Trump has lengthy disliked late-night hosts' jokes about his administration and, because the cancellation, has mentioned that he's listening to "a robust phrase" that Kimmel will likely be canceled subsequent, then The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon.

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However Trump has denied that he was behind the choice to finish Colbert.

"Everyone is saying that I used to be solely liable for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, ‘Late Night time" he wrote on social media. "That isn’t true! The explanation he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the truth that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million {Dollars} a 12 months in losses — And it was solely going to get WORSE!"

On the identical time, Kimmel and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart are amongst those that have come to Colbert's protection, with their phrases and even cameos on his present.

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