Desi Lydic, a rotating host on The Every day Present, weighed in on the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert and the way forward for late-night TV proper after profitable an Emmy Award.
On Saturday, Sept. 6, Lydic snagged a win within the Performer in a Brief Kind Comedy class on the Inventive Arts Emmys. She opened as much as reporters afterward about CBS axing Stephen Colbert‘s present and whether or not it has affected how they run issues at The Every day Present on Comedy Central — which, like CBS, is owned by Paramount Skydance Company.
“We’re form of discovering issues out like everybody else. However we now have not been requested to alter something,” Lydic mentioned. “We aren’t holding again, so we don’t intend to.”
When requested if there’s a future for late-night tv within the subsequent 10 years, she advised reporters, “I certain hope so.”
Lydic continued, “I believe that there’s actually a necessity for catharsis proper now and for laughter. I do know all of us want it. I’m hopeful that that continues. I believe the way in which that persons are consuming it’s evolving and as that occurs, we attempt to evolve with it.”
To conclude her ideas on the state of late-night TV, the comic shared, “We’re residing in difficult occasions, that’s for certain. I really feel so grateful that The Every day Present has been on for so long as it has — 26, roughly, years, I consider. I certain hope that we get to maintain doing it as a result of we find it irresistible. And I really feel that the work is actually necessary a technique or one other. And so long as we’re allowed to, we’ll simply preserve doing what we do.”
Her statements got here after CBS introduced in July that The Late Present would finish after its 2025-26 season after Paramount World’s merger with Skydance Media.
“Earlier than we begin the present, I need to let you already know one thing that I came upon simply final night time. Subsequent yr might be our final season. The community might be ending The Late Present in Might,” Colbert mentioned in a video posted on Instagram, to which the dwell viewers booed. “Yeah, I share your emotions.”
Colbert added, “It’s not simply the tip of our present, however it’s the tip of The Late Present on CBS. I’m not being changed. That is all simply going away. And I do need to say that the parents at CBS have been nice companions.”
Since then, many huge names in late-night TV have publicly reacted to the information, together with former Late Present bandleader Paul Shaffer, Jimmy Kimmel Stay! host Jimmy Kimmel, former The Every day Present host Jon Stewart, and extra.
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