Red carpet rolls out for political Emmys
If this whole TV thing doesn’t work out for Stephen Colbert, he has a bright future in carpet sales.
The first-time Emmy Awards host helped roll out the show’s ceremonial red carpet Tuesday at L.A. Live alongside telecast producers, saying that while it’s an honour to host the show, “it’s even more of an honour to be installing the carpet.”
“I’m glad there are cameras here because so few people know just how much manual labour is involved with hosting the Emmys every year,” Colbert said. “If you like this, stick around because I’m going to go regrout the bathrooms right after this.”
No sooner had he finished unrolling it than a pair of workers swooped in to roll it back up and haul it away. (The real red carpet used by celebrities on Sunday will be installed several feet away, in front of the Microsoft Theater.)
Colbert, who has won multiple Emmys and is nominated again Sunday for The Late Show, described the Emmy ceremony as “an incredibly fun show to go to every year when you win.”
“If you lose, it’s an enormous waste of time,” he said. “But everyone’s going to win this year. I’ve talked with these guys and we want everyone to have fun, so everyone will win the Emmys this year. Spoiler. Spoiler alert.”
When asked how political the show could get, Colbert said the Emmys are about celebrating television, “and the biggest television star of the last year was Donald Trump.”
“The fact that he’s not nominated, it’s a crime,” Colbert said.”