After learning they secured nominations for this year’s Emmys, late-night hosts took a moment, on Twitter and one monologue, to enjoy the honor.
Late-night hosts were in a celebratory mood Thursday after the nominations for this year’s Emmys ceremony were announced earlier that day.
Amongst those nominated included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Week Tonight and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee in categories that include best variety talk series, variety special, writing for a variety series and directing for a variety series.
Kimmel was quick to mention his nominations during his Thursday night monologue, also poking some fun at the annual ceremony. “Thank you for joining us on what is a day of much celebration and even frustration here in Hollywood. It is Emmy Nomination day. One of our most self-important days of the year,” the host joked.
Kimmel then proceeded to joke that the series earned “46 Emmys,” before revealing that it only received two, compared to Netflix’s “112 nominations.” “You have to remember Netflix has more than two thousand shows,” he added.
Kimmel also took a moment to poke fun at ABC, the late-night show’s home network, for cancelling Roseanne, which was recognized as the network’s most successful show in ratings. “What is really impressive is that our network, ABC, got 31 nominations with almost no popular shows. Ok? We had one and we cancelled it.”
Though Corden, Meyers and Noah are on leave this week, the late-night hosts still took to Twitter to celebrate their Emmy noms. Cohen didn’t address the nomination on his show, but tweeted his celebrations for earning two noms. Bee also tweeted about her nomination: Her show normally airs on Wednesday nights.
Stephen Colbert additionally opted to celebrate the news on Twitter: “Congrats to my team at The Late Show for being nominated for 3 Emmys! It’s what we in the biz call ‘The Full Cookie Monster’: Nom, nom, nom!” he joked.
Congrats to my team at The Late Show for being nominated for 3 Emmys! It’s what we in the biz call “The Full Cookie Monster”: Nom, nom, nom!
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) July 13, 2018
Finally, some good news. Congrats to @TheDailyShow for the #Emmys nominations! pic.twitter.com/0Kd3mkgP4V
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) July 12, 2018
Wow, I visited Russia for 3 days and now The Daily Show is nominated for 3 Emmys. Next time I should stay for a week and then run for president
To all the people who voted for us and to all who watch our show I could not be more grateful. Spasibo #Emmys
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) July 12, 2018
Everyone at the @latelateshow is overwhelmed by our 11 Emmy nominations today. 11!!!! Thank you @TelevisionAcad for recognizing our Late Night show and the spin off shows it’s spawned. It truly means a great deal. Thank you also @CBSTVStudios @Fulwell73 @Snapchat @AppleMusic x
— James Corden (@JKCorden) July 12, 2018
Congratulations to the awesome #LNSM writing staff on earning another #Emmy nomination! pic.twitter.com/zGAftvOgah
— Late Night with Seth Meyers (@LateNightSeth) July 12, 2018
We’re so overwhelmed and humbled by today’s #Emmy nominations and even more delighted that @SterlingKBrown has offered to be our date.
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 12, 2018
Thank you #Emmys2018 for the nomination! #WWHL pic.twitter.com/0LgmwG0EK5
— WWHL (@BravoWWHL) July 12, 2018
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